Skip to main content

Sarah Sparkes: Ghost Stories and Spirit of Place

Image
By

Sarah Sparkes: Ghost Stories and Spirit of Place
Saturday 14 September 1pm-2pm
The Senate Room, Senate House  Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU. 

 A short talk on ghost history, London ghosts and the ghosts of Senate House by GHost artist and London Fortean Society speaker Sarah Sparkes, with some assistance from LFS host Scott Wood. 


Why does London, and England, have so many ghosts, what are their stories and how many are we sharing the building with during the talk? 

 This is a free event is hosted by the GHost and the London Fortean Society. It is part of a documentary on ghosts by a film crew and filming will be taking place during the talk.

 The talk will take place in the Senate Room, Senate House  Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU. 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

By
  *** TUBE STRIKE *** Although the tube strike has been called off, we'd already shifted the date of our next meeting at the Bell, Jeremy Harte speaking on Gypsies and the Supernatural , from Tuesday July 25 to Tuesday August 1 . Please note that we're sticking with this new date.
83 comments
Read more

Art / Magic / Lore

By
Magical Art, Radical Folk Dance, Sacred Landscapes, and Women's Stories. Saturday 29 June 2024 Doors, coffee from 10.30 am Talks: 11 am - 6 pm (inc. breaks) £18 / £14 cons  Advance tickets Conway Hall , 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions London Fortean's Mailing List Facebook event Art, magic, and folklore cross over and over again making new forms of creativity and lore. Join us at Conway Hall on 29 June 2024, for talks and discussions on making new traditions, art and magic, lost woman artists, radical Morris Dance, and much more. Talks and performance timings: 10:30 There should be coffee 11:00 Doors 11:15 Thomas Sharp, Marc Spicer & Rosey Trickett: Circling the Square Mile 11:45 Break 12:00 Jennifer Higgie: A Journey into Women, Art, and the Spirit World 12:30 Amy Hale - “This current drew you”: Ithell Colquhoun’s erotic energies and sacred landscapes 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Site-Specific Performance: Aliki Karveli 14:30 Break 14:...
3 comments
Read more

Time-Slips

By
  Time-Slips 26 November 2024 In the early years of the 20th century, two ladies visited the gardens of Versailles. Whilst there, they apparently slipped back in time to the late 18th century. They published a book describing their experience, which in later years was debunked as misperception and hallucination. Case closed. Or is it? There are a plethora of similar contemporary reports of apparent slips through time, from brief glimpses to full interactive experiences. Most reports describe features from the past, but a few describe possible slips forward in time. Dr Ann Winspe r has been researching people apparently travelling through time for the last 20 years. She describes some of these fascinating cases and looks at possible explanations, as well as how not all can be explained through misperception and psychology. Venue: The Bell 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East) Date: 26 November 2024 Doors: 7.30pm Start: 8pm Tickets: £5/£...
Post a Comment
Read more