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Tuesday 1 August 2023

Lucky For Some: Gypsies and the Supernatural
Jeremy Harte

 

*** CHANGE OF DATE ***


Because of the Tube strike we can't meet on our planned date, Tuesday 25th July. Instead, both our speaker Jeremy Harte and the manager at the Bell have kindly agreed that we can move to the following week

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST

NOTE: there will be Aslef action on the trains on the new date, but most trains will still be running -- and most important, the Tube will be running normally. So book your tickets to hear brilliant folklorist Jeremy Harte speak on "Lucky For Some: Gypsies and the Supernatural". Let's have a great turnout!
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Some peoples achieve magical status, some have it thrust upon them: the Gypsies have done both. Arriving in Europe as an unprotected minority, the Romany turned their alien status into an art (prophecy is the trade that needs no tools) and an armour (who would mess with a people with such occult powers?). Fortune-telling was a seduction, a charming into shared intimacy about the future, and a way to deploy the intuitive cunning cultivated by all subaltern groups.
Folklorist Jeremy Harte has spent many years with English Gypsies and was commissioned to write a history of the community. He’ll be reflecting on two themes that run through Romany culture – plaited threads of truth and lies which entwine when people sense the supernatural suffusing family and identity, yet make a living from the huckster arts of the fairground.

Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX

Date:  Tuesday 1 August 2023

8pm (doors open 7.30)

Tickets £5/£3  www.wegottickets.com/event/586084/

 

 

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