Stone Club returns for an evening celebrating and exploring the rich neolithic history and stories around our henges and monoliths, our folk horror legacies, occult artist Ithell Colquhoun and the mystical camping movement that was the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift .
Jeremy Deller
In conversation with Matthew Shaw, Jeremy shares his passion for Britain’s neolithic monuments and counterculture, and how they helped shape his work, from films exploring Acid House and the Battle of the Beanfield to a Stone Henge bouncy castle!
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, Anti-Establishment Antiquarians with Annebella Pollen
Who were those mysterious green-clad hooded figures of the 1920s, performing ritual gestures in the nude on Silbury Hill, and casting strange shadows at Stonehenge? Annebella Pollen, the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians, guides us through the ancient English landscape with the help of some curious caped crusaders.
The Dark Heart of Wicker Land David Bramwell
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man. For nearly 20 years David has played Lord Summerisle for a Wicker Man singalong, performing to countless fans across the UK. David shares the colourful history of a film he’s seen over 200 times and explores the processes that drove western culture to demonise a way of life – paganism – that honours nature and gave us our seasonal rituals and festivals of Mayday, Halloween and Yule.
Sometimes I have an interesting dream, inspired by Ithell Colquhoun Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw
Using the animate landscape of the Lamorna Valley in Cornwall as a backdrop – where the artist, occultist and fellow dreamer, Ithell Colquhoun lived and worked – Stone Club’s Lally and Matthew explore the legacy of Colquhoun before taking a poetic journey to the heart of the unconscious where magic and reality coalesce.
Zakia Sewell
Stone Club continues until midnight with broadcaster, DJ and pagan DJ Zakia Sewell