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THE RED BOOK CLUB

The Red Book Club is a free online bookclub  and speaker program with a focus on the unconscious. Books include those on Jungian depth psychology, mythology, alchemy, art and the imagination. After reading each book there is opportunity to meet for a group online zoom discussion. As part of the program guest authors, academics and artists are invited to speak about a particular book or subject.

 

Guest speakers to date have included Jennifer Higgie (author of The Other Side), Amy Hale (author of Ithell Colquhoun - Genius of the Fern Loved Gulley), Stephen Ellcock (author of UnderWorlds and the Cosmic Dance), Cary Mountain (author of Descent and Rising), Gary Bobroff (Jungian speaker, author and founder of Jungian Online), Patrick Harpur (author of books including Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld), New York sculptor, painter and art critic Ann McCoy, and Danny Scopelliti (scholar and founder of Curio Esoterica). 

The book club is open to anyone interested in the subject areas - no obligation to read every month, just join in when a book or speaker grabs your interest. If you would like to join click the link below.

 

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UPCOMING BOOKS & MEETINGS

 

​BOOK 

The Medium of Leonora Carrington 

By Catriona McAra

Following on form our last novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵 by Leonora Carrington we now turn to The Medium of Leonoata Carrington by Catriona McAra

 

Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased.

Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It explores the work of a remarkable variety of individuals and organisations, including the artists Lucy Skaer, Samantha Sweeting and Lynn Lu, the actress Tilda Swinton, the novelists Chloe Aridjis and Heidi Sopinka and the ensemble Double Edge Theatre.

This long-awaited study provides essential reading for both new and established members of the burgeoning Carrington fan club.

Zoom meeting date

Wednesday16th April

8pm UK time 

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PAST BOOKS & SPEAKERS

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The Hearing Trumpet
Nadja
Descent and Rising
The Second Body
Lovebug
Trickster Makes This World
Sex Magic
The Thought Of The Heart - James Hillman
Underworlds
Thought Forms
The Sacred and the Profane
Black Mirror 1 - Embodiment
The Other Side
Homeric Hymns
Strangers
The Chemical Wedding
Smokehole
Hermann Hesse
Chasm
Kandinsky
The Philosophers' Secret Fire
Element
Dream  Marie Louise Von Franz
Alchemical Manuscripts with Danny Scopelliti
Foxfire, Wolfskin - Sharon Blackie
Carl Jung - Knowledge in a Nutshell
Ann McCoy
Alchemical Imagination
Ithell Colquhoun
Christmas meet
Demian
Down Below
Egyptian Mythology
Fairy Tales - Marie LVF
Man and His Symbols
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