The Bibliomancer's Ball

I am organising a function on Saturday 14th June at the Oddfellows Hall in Ipswich, partly as one of a series of events marking the 20th anniversary of the Ipswich Pagan Council, and partly to help promote local pagan authors. Tickets are £4, with any profits going towards the Ipswich Hospital CCU (contact me for tickets). My publishers, Moon Books, will be having a stall there.
I'll be talking on some of the issues facing pagan storytellers and poets, plus telling some stories towards the end of the day. Not completely decided which stories yet, and am open to requests! I shall be selling and signing my own books, if anyone wants a copy.

The programme is as follows (subject to revision):


10.00am - Welcome 
10.15am - Beverley Price, "Poetry of Darkness" (Main Hall)
10.15am - Joanna Van Der Hoeven, " Nemetona, Goddess of Sacred Space" (Garden)
11.15am - Robin Herne, "Word Weaving and Tale Spinning" (Main Hall)
11.15am - Silvia Rahmani, "Magic in Germany" (Garden)
12.15pm - Lunch break
1.15pm - Devilwood drummers (Hall)
1.15pm - Open session for aspiring authors/poets
2.15pm - Lorna Smithers, "Voicing Place" (Hall)
2.15pm - Drumming workshop (Garden)
3.15pm - Storytelling with Robin Herne (Hall)
3.15pm - Sheena Cundy, "Oracle of Nature" (Garden) 
4.15pm - Raffle, finish & thanks 

Comments

  1. Lorna Smithers19 April 2014 at 02:15

    Sounds awesome, would love to see this kind of event in the North :)

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  2. Robin27 April 2014 at 02:59

    It's fairly straightforward to organise one ~ when you come down, we can chat about the practicalities. I imagine that Moon Books would be more than happy to see comparable events promoting authors around the country.

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