past events

Friday 30 July; Communication Masterclass with Gerrie Marsh at The College of Psychic Studies 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm - 9pm. Cost: £8/£12. Advance booking essential. Tel: 020 - 7589 3292. http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/index.html

Saturday 31 July & Sunday 1 August: Lammas Festival. Folk music, parade with giants, beer tent and stalls selling lovely stuff. Venue: Western Lawns, the Promenade, Eastbourne. E Sussex. For more details call 01323 735364 or visit http://www.lammasfest.org/

Saturday 31 July & Sunday 1 August: Lughnasa at Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton Lane, Chalton, Hants. For more details, call 02392 598838 or visit http://www.butser.org.uk/

Saturday 31 July; Free & Open Gorsedd Lughnasadh Rite at Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire. An open Druidic style rite to celebrate Lughnasadh and the first harvest. Meet at the Red Lion pub around noon for a ceremony about 1.30pm. Offerings of song, poetry, mead, bread and cake welcome.

Monday 2 August; Interactive divination session at Secret Chiefs. Feel free to bring Tarot cards, Runes, Astrological charts, etc. The Secret Chiefs meet on alternate Monday evenings upstairs at the Devereux Public House, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, The Strand, London WC2R 3JJ. The doors open at 7.30pm, the lecture starts 8.30pm. Admission is £2 (£1 concs). All are welcome. http://secretchiefslondon.wordpress.com/

Wednesday 5 August; Siberian Shamanism. Psychic Cafe event with Kim Arnold at The Moot with No Name, upstairs at the Devereux Public House, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, The Strand, London WC2R 3JJ. Price £8. Time 7.30pm. http://www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com/page2.htm

Thursday 5 August; Book Launch: Precious - The Memoir of Precious Williams, published by Bloomsbury. Precious: A True Storyis a memoir of childhood - a West African girl who believed in magic and was obsessed with fairies and esoterica, growing up on an all-white council estate with white private foster parents. Venue: Treadwell's, 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. Price: free but reply required: precious@preciouswilliams.com. Time: 7pm to 9.30pm. For more details call 020 7240 8906 or email info@treadwells-london.com

Friday 6 August; Open House at The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. A chance to find out what the college has to offer. Time: 4.30pm - 9pm. Cost: £10. Advance booking essential. Tel: 020 - 7589 3292. http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/index.html

Saturday, 7 August; Otherworld Child. Third workshop in a series of four, called Pwyll, Rhiannon and the Spirits of the Land, by Deertracks. The workshops take place in Harrow & Wealdstone, which is just north of London, 15 minutes by train from Euston. For more information, and to book tickets, visit http://www.firetree.net/wheel/Deertracks/Workshops/rhiannon.html