Via Scott Wood of <a href="http://www.selfs.org.uk" target="new">SELFS</a>

We have put on a program of talks on Magic, Mystery and Hidden History for the Brockley Max Festival. Those taking part either live in or around Brockley or have something to say about this part of south-east London. This set of talks will run from 3pm to 8pm on Saturday June 11th at the Brockley Jack Theatre, above the Brockley Jack pub, Brockley Road, Brockley, SE4 2DH.
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11th June:
Brockley Max Festival: http://www.brockleymax.co.uk/

Brockley Jack: http://www.brockleyjack.co.uk/

Magic Mystery and Hidden History is also part of the excellent festival of mapping 'YOUR ARE HERE but why?'  Web: http://www.mdx.org.uk/mapfestival.html

The event is free. The running order below is, like all things, subject to change. Please contact SELFS with any questions or to reserve yourself a place.

3.00pm: Doors Open
 
3.10: Alex Hodson: Down With the Fences: The Battles against the Enclosure of Sydenham Common and One Tree Hill.
Local people have a 400 year history of fighting to preserve open space against development and destruction. Some they lost... but some they won!
 
3.30: Neil Gordon-Orr: Brockley Footpath - an ancient track-way?
South-east London Historian Neil Gordon-Orr traces a possible sacred path to and through Brockley.
 
4.00: Break 

4.15: Scott Wood: Ghosts and Monsters of Brockley and Surrounds.
SELFS organiser combines two of his favourite things in a talk on supernatural beasties in south-east London.

4.35: Steve Wilson: The Brockley Thing.
In the mid 1920s The Woodcraft Folk broke away from the Kibbo Kift, Britain's first modern working class pagan group - over "The Brockley Thing". What was this thing? What sort of thing was it?
 
5.10: Break
 
5.30: Chris Woods: Merriton and Brockley - The town in the marsh and the clearing in the wood.
A possible prehistory of the landscape of Brockley and Deptford Bridge from the Iron age to the Middle ages, "common greene" to Brockley Common.
 
6.00: Andy Worthington: The Battle of the Beanfield.
The local author of "Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion" remembers, twenty years on, the events of the Battle of the Beanfield, the bloody end of the Stonehenge Free Festival.
 
6.30: Break
 
6.45: Kate Waterfield: Runa Megin.
Kate Waterfield discusses and performs pieces from the Runa Megin; an evocative exploration of the musical possibilities of ancient runes is rich with echoes of an Eastern European folk heritage and an experimental "extended technique" vocal approach. A "musical delight to the ears": Pentagram Magazine

The Brockley Jack is served by Brockley Station, Honor Oak Park Station and Crofton Park Station.
 
From Honor Oak Park Station turn left and walk to end of the road. Turn left at the traffic lights into Brockley Road. The theatre is situated 500 yards on your left. (Approx 10 minutes walk).
 
From Crofton Park Station turn left out of the station, then cross the road at the pedestrian crossing. The Jack is 200 yards on your right. (Approx 2 minutes walk).
 
Buses: 171, 172, 122 and P4 (stop in front of the theatre
Map: http://www.brockleyjack.co.uk/brockley_jack_theatre_map.htm

And on the Monday:
13th June: Panel Discussion: Paganism & the Counter-Culture
 
Is another world possible? What place does paganism, magic and the supernatural have in the struggle for a better, greener, fairer future? Does it have any place there?
 
Steve Ash of the Dionysian Underground & Wyrd Walks, Adrian Harris of the Dragon Environmental Network, author, writer,  speaker Jocelyn Chaplin and Andy Worthington, author of 'Stonehenge: Celebration & Subversion' will be taking questions from the floor and joining in the discussion.

SELFS meets every second Monday of the month (except this August) upstairs at The Spanish Galleon, 48 Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9BL. Talks start at 8.00pm and costs £2.50 / £1.50 concessions. 

A map is here: http://tinyurl.com/9l7ul
Web: www.selfs.org.uk