Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
The 12th International Halloween Festival
Cost: GBP13; 2-day ticket GBP20
Opening Hours:12pm-8pm
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.
Contact Details
Email:jeanette@paganfestivals.com
Phone:+44 (0) 20 8539 3569
Directions
By Tube: Mile End (Central Line).
DAY 2 - Sunday, 21st October 2007
Drum Out! Wolf's Head and Vixen Morris, Maxine Sanders, Torn Asunder, Katy Noura Butler, Epping Forest Hawk & Owl Sanctuary, Honest Rock for the new Millenia, Egyptian Path of Love, OUTSIDE on the green, Wolf's Head and Vixen Morris, Kit Perry, Rigantona, Badra Egyptian Dance Group, Pagan Writing, Ancient Music, The Dolman, Thorskegga Thorn, Baldric, Heathen Goddesses, Dealing Drum Workshop, Karen Cater, Peter Nighteagle, Ogham Sketch Book, Shamanic Workshop, Samhain Ritual & Lantern Lit Parade by The Raven and The Rose