The 12th International Halloween Festival

Queen Mary College in Mile End hosts the largest Pagan festival in Europe to celebrate Halloween. This two-day festival is packed with weird and wonderful events including an elaborate Halloween ritual, witchcraft, folk and rock music, free lectures and workshops concentrating on the dark and earthy arts, information about Paganism and a craft market.

One of the main highlights of the weekend is the Morris dancing. This is not the familiar skipping, jangling and leaping to be seen on village greens in the summertime, but an altogether darker affair featuring the Wild Hunt, Wolfs Head and Vixen Morris dancers, "when the magic flows dark, secretly in the dead of night, with tatters flying and staves clashing".

Money will be raised to maintain Raven Wood.

Email:jeanette@paganfestivals.com
Phone:+44 (0) 20 8539 3569

Directions
By Tube: Mile End (Central Line).

Opening Ritual by The Tribe of Avalon, Rigantonia, Wigmunke Oyate, Ancient Music, North American sound & dance, Peter Nash The Vikings! Frankinfurter Fashion Show, Cord Magic, Life and Times Workshop, Strangeworld, Pete Jennings, Wild Hunt Morris, Ways to kill people with Norse Magic! Workshop – OUTSIDE on the green, The Vikings! Philip Heselton, Rufus Harrington, The Wheel, New Light on Old Gerald, Melissa Harrington, Khantara and Lara, Circulus