London Fortean Society

£5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Monday 4 September 2017 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions Facebook event page My Life with the Alpine Time Travellers – or – Sun Ra, Damanhur and the search for new myths In 2006 David Bramwell went to visit a community called Damanhur, living in the Italian Alps. It was to be the first of many visits and the start of a lifelong fascination with the place. Damanhur, a 600-strong community, had built the world’s most extraordinary piece of outsider art: an underground temple the size of St Paul’s Cathedral, one of the great architectural wonders of the modern world. The Damanhurians also named themselves after plants and animals, claimed to have taught a rubber plant how to sing and even built a fully-functioning ‘time machine’. Another case of a deluded cult? David didn’t think so. After many visits (and a Radio 3 documentary), David finally thinks he’s figured Damanhur out. He believes