November 18, 2023

Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, London CR9 1DG

Witchfest International the largest Witchcraft festival held in the World, returns to Fairfield Halls, Croydon on the 18th of November 2023. Witchfest features up to five talks/workshops each hour with subjects on a wide range of Witchcraft, Wiccan, Pagan, Heathenry, Occult and Mythological subjects. The topics of the workshops, or talks range from popular Pagan fiction to Aleister Crowley and everything in between.

The entertainment is first-rate, featuring live bands, DJ, and the Pentacle Drummers. There are more talks and workshops than ever before given by the most famous Witchcraft/Wiccan, Pagan Druid, Heathen, Magickal and Shamanic authors and experts in the world. This year we will have a room dedicated to networking where you can take your photos, record videos and chat with other like-minded people! As requested we have also launched a Supporters Ticket, in case you can afford to pay a little more for your Witchfest ticket and show how much you love the event! Supporters ticket holders names will be added to the programme as a thank you.

The venue is very easy to reach by car or public transport, it is a few minutes walk from East Croydon Station which is on the main line from most London stations including Victoria, London Bridge, Waterloo and the south coast. A large car park is positioned near the venue, with several more nearby. For hotels make sure you research your choices online so you get the best deal possible. The closest budget hotel is Travelodge Central Croydon.

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Date

10:00am – 18th Nov 2023

Venue

Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, London CR9 1DG

Live Music.

Damh the Bard

A modern-day Bard whose spirituality and love of folk tradition is expressed through his music, storytelling and poetry. Drawing on the Bardic tradition, his performances are both entertaining and educational, speaking directly to the heart, and never without a good splash of humour

Green Diesel

Hailing from Faversham in Kent, the folk-rock band Green Diesel first emerged in 2009 and take their inspiration from the depths of English folklore and legend and the classic folk-rock sound of their predecessors Fairport Convention and The Albion Band.

Folk-rock in grand style with energy to light up the crowd. Green Diesel features songs inspired by the darker side of folklore. Sinister spirits and bloodstained tales weave their way through many of their songs backed by the signature Green Diesel sound. English folk, red in tooth and claw.

Shindig! – ‘a band with roots deep in the native soil, playing their own electric interpretations of ancient English music and crafting originals that fit seamlessly alongside the traditional tracks’

Inkubus Sukkubus

Inkubus Sukkubus are a British goth and pagan band, formed in 1989 who have been described as one of the most enduringly popular underground Goth and Pagan bands in the UK

The Witching Tale

The Witching Tale are Katharine Blake (Mediaeval Baebes, Miranda Sex Garden) and Michael J York (Coil, Current 93). Blake and York meld ethereal vocals and traditional instrumentation with analogue electronics and field recordings. Their eponymous debut album, a black celebration of the magical power of eroticism, was met with critical acclaim.

The 23 Enigma

The ultimate rock band, that if talent and music was directly linked to success would be a household name, a worthy successor for Zepp in the 2020s

The 23 Enigma is the result of their reformation and financial chaos… and so our story starts. From within the void, Mummiai that of discord and chaos, came the idea of our Enigma. Nonsuch Park (of all places) in Sarf Laandan set an epic scene for two young pioneers. From under a whirl of Van Gough skies and beside a sundial came a great delusion of granduer, so great that syncratic events followed its spawning 23 fold.

Dave Sears and Chris Hancox were on the verge of World fame that never came. (Do you remember Flight 16? No? It’s ok. Neither does anyone else). An uncanny yet erie psychedelic haze that wasn’t really there engulfed the park. “Look how down the moon go!” Time had ebbed away in Dalian style and a great electric flash struck away a decade. A death, a rebirth. The 23 Enigma, double 1 and half of 6. Julain Eccelston had crossed the peripheries and now stood inside. Ceremony concluded, everyone shake off the excess.

Molch

This band delivers noisy heathen metal you will love.

Using an ancient method inconceivable to the modern mind, Molch were transported from an unknown age through the fog of aeons to this pitiful year of our Lord 2023. Adherents to a long-forgotten apiary cult, Molch produce ritual noise invocations known to disrupt time, derange the senses and obliterate the ego. Few have communicated successfully with these entities but survivors of their ceremonies report psychic degradation, chronic insomnia, and sudden and total contempt for the so-called counterculture of the 21st century. Submit to them

Entertainment

Pentacle Drummers

The Pentacle Drummers have grown into the premiere drumming troupe in England, and have performed all over the country at events small and huge. Often imitated, but never equaled.

The Pentacle Drummers’ main livery is green and red and our tatter coats and face paint and kilts help lend a theatrical touch to events. At medieval festivals we enter into the spirit of the events by adopting full medieval attire. At the Sussex bonfires however we adopt a much darker look. You will recognise us by our more sombre costumes and make-u

Witching Hour Rock Club

The traditional Witching Hour Rock club runs from 10pm to 2am in the morning, with the Amazing DJ Rem. There are tables around the edge of the dance floor to chill out and chat with friends and a full bar that even sells Mead.

Speakers

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Ronald Hutton is both the senior Professor of History at Bristol University and the Gresham Professor of Divinity at London. Author of eighteen books, and eighty-six essays in academic journals and collections.

This talk is designed to show what is currently known about the builders of the world’s most famous prehistoric monument, and about their methods and original purpose. It also tries to show what we cannot know about it, and the different ways in which it has moved the human imagination over the past millennium.

Best selling author of over twenty books on Witchcraft. High Priestess and Elder of the Kitchen Witch Coven and online School of Witchcraft. Known as The Kitchen Witch she also loves cake.

Let me take you beyond the sabbats and into folk lore and festival. Journey with me to discover how to celebrate the year in your own way, connecting with your local area and how you practice. Come on and re-invent the Wheel with me!

Pete Jennings – a legend in his own lunchtime: so Heathen he can’t pass a quietly sleeping innocent village without visiting it to rescue the gold, silver, women and mead.

As Pagans and Witches we sometimes get ourselves into peculiar situations, which are frequently misunderstood by other people. It is just as well most of us have a good sense of humour! Pete Jennings recalls some anecdotes from both his own and other peoples experiences. The Gods and Goddesses like a good laugh at our expense sometimes.

Author and Priestess whose published work includes Circle for Hekate (2017) and Hekate: Liminal Rites (2009), Artemis: Virgin Goddess (2006) and Visions of the Cailleach (2009). She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally for both private groups, as well as pagan, occult and general audiences. When not engaged in writing, or publishing books as the director of Avalonia, Sorita can be found creating a forest garden on a hill in Glastonbury, where she shares a home with her partner, son and a fluffy white cat.

The Torchbearing Goddess Hekate was worshipped at crossroads and entrance ways in the ancient world, as well as in temples and sanctuaries. Join me in an exploration of devotional and magical practices you can use to deepen your experience of Hekate’s magic.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are authors and contributors to TV series such as Forbidden History and The UnXplained with Wiliam Shatner. Their book, The Templar Revelation – now celebrating its 26^th year – inspired The Da Vinci Code.

Lynn and Clive will be talking about their latest book, When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in Judaism and Christianity, showing how the ancient goddesses and their priestesses have won through against the patriarchy’s oppression in the two great religions..

Christina is the founder and guiding light of Treadwell’s Books. A scholar historian by training, she has written a book of poetry from the beginnings of the craft “Dreams of Witchcraft” and The Treadwells book of Plant Magic

Wicca coalesced in the 1930s / 1040s, with friends coming together and sharing imagery, poetry and feelings about the divine. Christina Oakley Harrington talks about the earliest attested concepts of the two deities, and promises a few surprises along the way. Christina Oakley Harrington PhD FRSA is the founder and managing director of Treadwell’s Books in London.