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Halloween at the Crossbones Graveyard, SE1

 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:49 / 28.10.05
The Halloween of Cross Bones VIII
Southwark Mysteries presents the eighth annual ritual to honour the outcast dead of Cross Bones graveyard Halloween Night, Monday 31st October 2005 from 6pm upstairs @ The Ship, corner of Borough Road and Borough High Street, SE1 (5 minutes walk from Borough or Elephant and Castle tubes)

admission: £7 (after 7pm); £5 members (anyone attending the AGM: 6-7pm) Numbers limited to 70. Please come early to avoid disappointment. No admission after 7.30. Those arriving later are welcome to have a drink downstairs at the bar and then join us for the procession at 8.30.

6pm Southwark Mysteries AGM ­ become a member of Southwark Mysteries, hear the full story of Cross Bones graveyard and join the campaign to reclaim part of the site as a memorial garden and people¹s park. 7pm Southwark Mysteries Network ­ meet old friends, make new ones, make your offerings at the altar to the ancestors, and enjoy a drink or a bowl of soup. 7.30 The Halloween of Cross Bones ­ performance of The Southwark Mysteries by John Constable aka John Crow, with Niall McDevitt and friends. Samhain ritual blessing by Priestess Jacqui. Tantric blessing by Jahnet de Light. 8.30 Procession to Cross Bones graveyard - to honour the outcast dead with blessings, songs, candles, flowers, ribbons and other totemic offerings.

On admission, you will be given a ribbon bearing the name of someone buried in Cross Bones graveyard. Please take care of their spirit for the evening, releasing it when you tie the ribbon to the gates of Cross Bones graveyard.

You are also invited to bring your own totems and offerings, including mementoes of loved ones you¹d like to remember, for the altar to the ancestors and for the people¹s shrine at the gates to Cross Bones. Halloween dress encouraged!
 
 
Bill Posters
16:50 / 28.10.05
may be there, for the procession bit... i'm assuming there's no charge for that (£7 seems a little steep tbh).
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:36 / 28.10.05
True dat.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:50 / 31.10.05
Aye, procession is free...

Its already completely oversubscribed anyway, so may not be any places left for the performance, regardless...

Might try and get there myself for the procession and drink or two.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
05:40 / 01.11.05
This sounds very interesting, wish I'd known in advance. Was it good? Are there any events there otherwise from Halloween? I'll just go look that up, shall I?
 
 
ThePirateKing
11:19 / 01.11.05
It was very dramatic walking down to the graveyard; some youths threw things at the procession and a French person (who later told me that he had thought it was the French Revolution!) decided that the answer to that was to run at them screaming! Eventually a nice person tried to calm it down and was punched on the nose! That's what comes of having Samhain, Cross Bones and Dark Moon all at the same time!
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
14:32 / 01.11.05
I missed it, my son got a bit gnarly and I had to take him home dagnabbit.

There are regular vigils and wotnot at the CrossBones, and you can look up the Southwark Mysteries for more with them. John's a really good friend, I can highly recommend having a good chat with him if nothing else. Nutter!
 
  
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