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Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour & Tasting

Absinthe Tasting Experience at Devil’s Botany Distillery

THE ABSINTHE TASTING EXPERIENCE

The UK’s first absinthe distillery is opening its doors! Visitors are invited to an absinthe tasting experience at Devil’s Botany Distillery with co-founder and head distiller, Rhys Everett. Discover how the botanical spirit is made, explore the elixir’s notorious past and celebrate its unique connection to London!

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • Welcome Devil’s Botany London Dry Gin & Tonic on arrival
  • Introduction to Devil’s Botany and what drove us to open the UK’s first absinthe distillery
  • A look at absinthe’s distillation & botanicals – Meet Pepper, our 150L copper pot still, and learn about the basic principles of absinthe distillation. Get to know the botanicals that go into making quality absinthes. Explore the flavours and aromas of absinthe’s holy trinity plus the other botanicals that make Devil’s Botany absinthes stand out.
  • Guided tasting of 3 absinthes – Enjoy the award-winning Devil’s Botany London Absinthe, Absinthe Regalis and Chocolate Absinthe Liqueur.

HOSTED AT D EVIL’S BOTANY DISTILLERY: 16A HEYBRIDGE WAY LONDON E10 7NQ

Event is suitable for those aged 18+ only. ID will be required.

For any questions or to book a private absinthe tasting for large groups, please email [email protected]

DEVIL’S BOTANY

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery proudly based in East London. Founded in 2021 by two of the UK’s leading absinthe experts and Directors of The Last Tuesday Society, the Devil’s Botany range is copper pot distilled with botanicals that can be found growing wild across Britain and handcrafted for cocktails.

Devil’s Botany is pushing the boundaries of the spirit category to unleash the future of absinthe. By disrupting century-old traditions, Devil’s Botany is creating bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

https://devilsbotany.com/

Devil's Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour
Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour

 

Devil's Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour
Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour

 

Devil's Botany Absinthe

 

Devil's Botany London Absinthe
Devil’s Botany London Absinthe

Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour & Tasting

Absinthe Tasting Experience at Devil’s Botany Distillery

THE ABSINTHE TASTING EXPERIENCE

The UK’s first absinthe distillery is opening its doors! Visitors are invited to an absinthe tasting experience at Devil’s Botany Distillery with co-founder and head distiller, Rhys Everett. Discover how the botanical spirit is made, explore the elixir’s notorious past and celebrate its unique connection to London!

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • Welcome Devil’s Botany London Dry Gin & Tonic on arrival
  • Introduction to Devil’s Botany and what drove us to open the UK’s first absinthe distillery
  • A look at absinthe’s distillation & botanicals – Meet Pepper, our 150L copper pot still, and learn about the basic principles of absinthe distillation. Get to know the botanicals that go into making quality absinthes. Explore the flavours and aromas of absinthe’s holy trinity plus the other botanicals that make Devil’s Botany absinthes stand out.
  • Guided tasting of 3 absinthes – Enjoy the award-winning Devil’s Botany London Absinthe, Absinthe Regalis and Chocolate Absinthe Liqueur.

HOSTED AT D EVIL’S BOTANY DISTILLERY: 16A HEYBRIDGE WAY LONDON E10 7NQ

Event is suitable for those aged 18+ only. ID will be required.

For any questions or to book a private absinthe tasting for large groups, please email [email protected]

DEVIL’S BOTANY

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery proudly based in East London. Founded in 2021 by two of the UK’s leading absinthe experts and Directors of The Last Tuesday Society, the Devil’s Botany range is copper pot distilled with botanicals that can be found growing wild across Britain and handcrafted for cocktails.

Devil’s Botany is pushing the boundaries of the spirit category to unleash the future of absinthe. By disrupting century-old traditions, Devil’s Botany is creating bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

https://devilsbotany.com/

Devil's Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour
Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour

 

Devil's Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour
Devil’s Botany Absinthe Distillery Tour

 

Devil's Botany Absinthe

 

Devil's Botany London Absinthe
Devil’s Botany London Absinthe

The Witch as Psychopomp with Sharon Day – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture at our museum – tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe

Bar open at 6:30pm and lecture starts at 7pm

The Witch as Psychopomp

The contemplation of mortality is an intrinsic aspect of the human experience, prompting deep reflection on what, if anything, lies beyond the final threshold of death.

This talk by Sharon Day will take a profound journey into the themes explored in her book, The Witch as Psychopomp: Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross meets Dion Fortune at Maxine Sanders’ Temple of the Mother, which originated from her presentation at the Death, Dying, and Disposal Conference 13 at the University of Central Lancashire in 2017.

In addition to focusing on the contributions of these three remarkable women, this talk will use their work as a foundation for a broader discussion on the dying process and the role of the witch as psychopomp. These figures, two of whom were and are occult luminaries, offer unique perspectives on guiding souls through death, comforting the dying, and supporting the bereaved.

Her discussion will explore how Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s pioneering work in the 1950s on the dying process and her development of the Five Stages of Grief has shaped contemporary end-of-life care and inspired others, from hospice care professionals to occultists, to embrace the role of a psychopomp.

In her work, Through the Gates of Death, occult luminary Dion Fortune provides a spiritual framework for understanding the Soul’s final journey.

The insights of Dr Kübler-Ross and Dion Fortune influenced Maxine Sanders, a prominent figure in contemporary witchcraft and one of the founders of the Alexandrian Witchcraft tradition, and it is this nexus that dovetails her more than forty years discreetly serving as a psychopomp and counsellor to the dying and bereaved.

Through these discussions, the talk will illuminate the enduring and evolving role of the psychopomp in human society, exploring how the act of guiding souls and supporting the dying process continues to be a vital, though often hidden, part of spiritual and end-of-life practices.

THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

This event is part of The Last Tuesday Society’s Season of the Witch series of lectures & workshops running in conjunction with our autumn/winter exhibition: Four Witches and a Warlock. For a full list of events in The Season of the Witch series, please see https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-season-of-the-witch-3426299

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sharon Day is an initiated Alexandrian priestess who has led the Coven of the Stag King in London since its inception at the Summer Solstice 2015.

The Coven, established in collaboration with Maxine Sanders, one of the founders of Alexandrian witchcraft, focuses on the teaching and training of both new initiates and experienced high priesthood, many of whom hail from multiple countries.

Beyond her role within the Coven, Sharon is the founder of Rose Ankh Publishing Ltd www.roseankhpublishing.com, a niche occult publishing house dedicated to the preservation of the legacies of magical luminaries. She has also curated an online historical archive www.alexandrianwitchcraft.org, which serves as a research resource on the Alexandrian witchcraft tradition.

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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

We are unable to give refunds for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances

 

Madge Gill: A Mystical Marvel with Vivienne Roberts – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture at our museum – tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe

Bar open at 6:30pm and lecture starts at 7pm

Madge Gill: A Mystical Marvel by Vivienne Roberts

Join Vivienne for a captivating, richly illustrated talk as she shares her research into the extraordinary life and legacy of Madge Gill, a self-taught mediumistic artist whose visionary journey began in the wake of profound personal tragedies. At nearly 40, after enduring illness, bereavement, and war, Madge experienced a life-altering spiritual awakening that ignited an unstoppable compulsion to create. This talk will explore the unseen forces that guided her hand, the people and events that shaped her path, and the remarkable body of work she produced—culminating in her celebrated inclusion in this year’s Venice Biennale.

About the Speaker

Vivienne Roberts is a London-based art historian specialising in the history of mediumistic art, with a focus on women practitioners. She curated her first exhibition on Madge Gill in 2009 and later founded madgegill.com, followed by mediumisticart.com and georgianahoughton.com, to showcase spirit-inspired artists. Vivienne’s extensive independent research has led to the rediscovery of several overlooked mediumistic artists and the publication of many articles and contributions to exhibition catalogues. As the former curator and archivist from 2016 to 2024 at The College of Psychic Studies in London, she managed a large collection of spirit-inspired art, photographs, and artefacts. Her expertise has shaped several major exhibitions, including Strange Things Among Us (2021) and Creative Spirits (2022). Vivienne is also a member of the Visionary Women Research Group and the British Art Network.

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

We are unable to give refunds for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances

 

Cowgirls, coupes and saloon spirits: Cowgirl cultures and the drinks that represent them with Millie Milliken x Wet Ink

Cowgirls, coupes and saloon spirits: Cowgirl cultures and the drinks that represent them, presented by Millie Milliken x Wet Ink

Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Star: three names that may immediately spring to mind when it comes to the subject of cowgirls. But there are myriad forgotten groups whose stories have remained largely untold. Over the course of this evening, spirits and cocktail writer Millie Milliken will take you through a guided tasting that will celebrate women of the Wild West from all sides of its history of the spirits that represent them. From the ranch to the saloon, and the rodeo to boot, cowgirls have often sat in the shadows – this tasting will be your chance to toast them.

Tickets: £25 (to include welcome cocktail, talk, tasting of 5 spirits and museum admission)

When: Monday 16 September, 6.30pm-9pm

TASTING INCLUDES

  • Yelllowstone Bourbon
  • SirDavis Rye
  • High West Campfire Whiskey
  • Abasolo Mexican Corn Whisky
  • Casa Dragones Tequila

EVENT SCHEDULE

  • Doors open: 6:30pm bar opens with special themed cocktail menu
  • Talk & Tasting: 7pm – 8pm including a Q&A
  • Cocktails & Curiosities: 8pm-9pm bar reopens for cocktails and guests are invited to visit the museum during this time.

Wet Ink x The Last Tuesday Society

To mark the launch of her new content, event and tastings company, Wet Ink, spirits and cocktail writer Millie Milliken has joined forces with home of Devil’s Botany, The Last Tuesday Society, for a series of talks that combine her love of drinks with their sometimes offbeat and unusual cultural histories.

From July, she will be hosting three talks:

15 July – Mermaids, usquaebach & other spirits of the sea: How maritime myths and drinks collide

16 September – Cowgirls, country and Calamity Jane: How cowgirl culture has been interwoven with drinks

18 November – Witchcraft, whisky and magical drinks: How whisky, drinks and witchcraft have had a murky relationship

There’ll be welcome drinks and themed cocktails from the team at The Last Tuesday Society, themed playlist links too and a chance to discover some of the spirits linked to the topics.

Grab your ticket to Cowgirls, coupes and saloon spirits: Cowgirl cultures and the drinks that represent them now!

Millie Milliken x Wet Ink

Millie Milliken is an award-winning spirits and cocktail writer whose work has been published in the likes of the Evening Standard, Club Oenologique and Wallpaper*. Through her new content, events and tasting company Wet Ink, Milliken wants to tell more stories about spirits and cocktails that don’t normally ever get told. From mermaids, to cowgirls, tarot to witchcraft, she takes a different angle to educating consumers about the magical world of drinks.

 

City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley, with Phil Baker – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture, tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe.

Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

The Beastly Prophet: Aleister Crowley and Thelemic Magick with Julian Vayne

Join Julian Vayne for this informed and accessible deep dive into the story of the most notorious occultist of the 20th century. Discover the backstory of Crowley the man, his role as prophet of a new age, and how his approach to ‘magick’ continues to influence occulture today. Ground breaking and maddening in equal measure, Crowley was an accomplished mounteer, poet, chess player as well as philosopher, prolific writer and founder of a new religion. This lecture will set Crowley in his historical context, trace his influences through later 20th century popular culture and beyond, as well as providing a clear introduction to his esoteric teachings.

THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

This event is part of The Last Tuesday Society’s Season of the Witch series of lectures & workshops running in conjunction with our autumn/winter exhibition. For a full list of events in The Season of the Witch, please see https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-season-of-the-witch-3426299

Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft.

Growing up in the Britain of punk and then rave culture Julian immersed himself in the philosophy and techniques of magic. His journey into group ritual practice began within the Western Esoteric Tradition when he was 16. Since then he has worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lands and lineages. Julian is a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain’s leading occultists.

julianvayne.com

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.

Mary Magdalene: From the New Testament to the New Age – Prof Philip Almond

Mary Magdalene: From the New Testament to the New Age

Mary Magdalene is a key figure in the history of Christianity. After Mary, the mother of Jesus, she remains the most important female saint in her guise as the first witness of the resurrection of Jesus and ‘the apostle to the apostles’.

This lecture focuses on the many ‘lives’ of Mary as these have been imagined and reimagined within the Christian tradition. It explores the ‘idea’ of the Magdalene in the New Testament, her cult and her relics in the Medieval East and West, and her legacy in the modern West.

In so doing, it illuminates the many different Marys across the centuries: penitent prostitute, demoniac, miracle worker, symbol of the ascetic and the erotic, feminist icon, the wife and lover of Jesus in The Da Vinci Code, and most recently in the ‘Gospel of Jesus’s wife’ hoax. The story of Mary Magdalene leads to some reflections on the relationship between myth and history within the history of religion.

Bio

Philip C. Almond is Emeritus Professor in the History of Western Religious Thought at The University of Queensland. Among his most recent works are The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Antichrist: A New Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), God: A New Biography (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018), and Afterlife: A History of Life After Death (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2016).

Curated & Hosted by

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Mary_Magdalene_01.jpg

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The Almanac of an Australian Cunning Man – Dr David Waldron

The Almanac of an Australian Cunning Man

This talk explores the fragmentary records of Cunning men and Women in colonial Australia with a focus on the surviving records of charms, curses, and magical cures in the 1840s almanac of Tasmanian publican William Allison recording the practices of Tasmanian Cunning man, Benjamin Noakes.

Bio

Dr David Waldron is a Senior Lecturer in History at Federation University Australia with a research focus on folklore and community heritage. He is the author of “Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival” (Carolina Academic Press 2008), “Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay – a Case Study in Local Folklore” (Hidden Press 2010) and “Snarls from the Tea-Tree: Victoria’s Big Cat Folklore” (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2013), editor/contributor of “Goldfields and the Gothic: a Hidden Heritage and Folklore” (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2016) and author of “Aradale: the Making of a Haunted Asylum (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2020). He is regularly involved in public engagements, festivals, and multi-media displays, including the Ballarat Heritage Festival, and is the co-writer and researcher for the 2019 National Trust of Australia People’s Choice award and 2023 Victorian Community History Award-winning podcast series “Tales from Rat City”

Curated & Hosted by

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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The History of Tarot – Lena Heide Brennand

The History of Tarot – Lena Heide Brennand

Have you ever wondered about the origin and the history behind the Tarot cards? Join us for an enlightening talk on the origin and history of Tarot, where we go on a fascinating journey of these mystical cards from their medieval beginnings to their modern-day significance.

Explore the Tarot’s mysterious roots in 15th-century Europe, uncover the rich symbolism embedded within the cards and learn how Tarot has evolved over centuries, influencing and reflecting cultural, spiritual, and psychological landscapes. Whether you’re a reader or just find it historically interesting this online talk will provide an illustrated and entertaining overview of Tarot’s intriguing past and its neverending allure.

Bio:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

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Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories – Brice Stratford – Zoom

Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories

Halloween. The night when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. When ghosts walk and corpses writhe, and innocent souls had best beware.

Let award winning storyteller Brice Stratford take you on a wild and witchy ride, fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, through the twists and turns of Allhallowstide, and the forgotten history of Halloween and the wider Hallowmas season.  With ghost stories, ancestor worship, bone fires, otherworld pixies, Pagan belief and archaic, Christian mythology along the way, Stratford shares for the first time the deeper tales and stranger lore that lurk beneath the tricks and treats we know so well, and the ancient flame that keeps the Jack O’Lantern lit.  Light the candles, lock the doors, and prepare to be unsettled. Are you sitting comfortably? Then let’s begin.

Bio

Brice Stratford is an actor, storyteller, theatre director, folklorist, historian and former stuntman. Born and raised in the New Forest, he’s a regular fixture at folk, fringe and fright events across the country with his award-winning theatre company, the Owle Schreame. He currently sits on the board of the New Forest National Park Authority, and writes regularly on culture, heritage, architecture and the arts for a range of periodicals. In 2024 he launched the Finding Folklore podcast, an expansive storytelling and research project designed to unearth the hidden lore beneath the humdrum veneer of modern England. This talk accompanies the release of Brice’s third book on mythology and folklore, Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories.

Curated & Hosted by

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day