Your favorite online cabaret for fancy necromancers is back!
Our next Speakeasy is planned for
Sunday, Dec 29th, 2024 • 7pm Eastern
Tickets are now available! Purchase tickets HERE!
Come join us in several 20 minute talks, curated art, poetry, star-talk, herb-lore and more, all exploring a general theme of:
“END TIMES”
Contributors:
Professor Charles Porterfield • Dr Alexander Cummins • Jesse Hathaway Diaz • Dr. Jenn Zahrt
with sky omens by JM Hamade
and curated art by Sarah Jezebel Wood
and poetry by Vincent V Saint-Roch
and necro-gardens tended by John Magnusson
and practical magic by Phoebe Hildegard Finch
and as always, hosted by
The Good Doctor and Goat of Radio Free Golgotha
The Speakeasy proper will be recorded and available to all ticket holders for one week via online streaming media. The Live Event will be followed by a live hangout & happy hour.
Price of Entry: $7
All proceeds of these ticket sales are being donated to Advocates for Trans Equality: “A4TE was founded in 2024 as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), two long-time champions for the trans community, merged together as one organization. A4TE builds on their successes to boldly imagine a world where trans people live our lives joyfully and without barriers.”
Tickets are now available! Purchase tickets HERE!
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If not Speakeasy, why shaped like Dead?
The Speakeasy of the Dead is-was-shall be ‘an online cabaret for fancy necromancers’, a gathering of fellow Golgothites putting together a small virtual salon of like-minds and spirts to talk necro-fancies amongst friends and friends of friends.
Various papers and presentations of varying lengths, poetry and art curations, the ‘Dead Weather’ a necro-astrological weather report, talks of plant allies and necromantic herbalism, (and more! and less!) all meeting in the night to follow each other through the labyrinths of each other’s extended metaphors and enthusiastic community. All hosted by Al & Jesse of Radio Free Golgotha. (And there’s an after party.)
We have currently held six of these, from 2020-2023, and intend to hold more. Tickets were sold for the live broadcast, the recording of which was viewable for one week following. All proceeds went to a specific charity each time.
I
The Mighty Dead
30 October 2020
The First Speakeasy centered around the theme ‘The Mighty Dead’, featuring three 20 minute presentations with Kadmus Herschel, Katarina Pejovic, and Langston Kahn. Ten minutes segments on Plants of the Dead with Rebecca Beyer, and the Dead Weather Report with Sasha Ravitch. JM Hamade curated the art galleries. This inaugural Speakeasy was dedicated to the memory of Naomi Kashinsky, a dear friend and amazing human who passed the month of the Speakeasy. All proceeds were dedicated to the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Shelter in Brooklyn, New York.
II
The Long Night
13 December 2020
Our sophomore Speakeasy centered around ‘The Long Night’ on the Feast of Saint Lucy. Our second coming featured three 20 minutes talks by Alexander Van Beber, Aerinn Hodges, and JM Hamade, and our now regular segments with Sasha Ravitch and the Dead Weather Report, and Rebecca Beyer with Plants of the Dead. Art galleries curated by Troy Chambers. All proceeds were donated to CAMBA, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that provides social services to New Yorkers in need.
III
From the Ashes
5 February 2020
Our third Speakeasy was inspired by the prompt ‘From the Ashes’, featuring 20 minute presentations by Sarah Jezebel Wood, Dr Jenn Zahrt, and Jesse Hathaway Diaz, with Sasha Ravitch with the Dead Weather Report, and Rebecca Beyer with Plants of the Dead, and guest poet Copper Wilhelm. All proceeds were donated to the Phoenix Society, serving ‘burn survivors, loved ones, burn care professionals, researchers, and anyone else committed to empowering the burn community and building a safer world.’
IV
Execration
5 May 2022
The fourth Speakeasy explored the prompt ‘Execration’, featuring the following presentations :
•Maddened, Immolated, Broken, Rebuked by Katarina Pejovic
- an execration miscellany of Balkan folk magic
• Strategic and Tactical Operations for Sorcerous Conflagrations by Joshua Sharp
- examining strategies for laying curses using military theory and conflict analysis
• Bad Star Rising by Sasha Ravitch
- exploring "curse stars" through the lens of witchcraft and folklore
• Tristitia Is An Open Grave by Dr Alexander Cummins
- on ‘crosses’ and the dead in geomantic divination and sorcery
PLUS!
• J.M. Hamade with the Dead Weather Report
- offering some inklings on the starry dynamos of night
• Matthew Venus with Plants of the Dead
- celebrating the nigromancies of the Greening
• and curated art from Sarah Jezebel Wood
All hosted by the Good Doctor and Goat of Radio Free Golgotha with proceeds being donated to Doctors Without Borders.
V
Night Flight
30 April 2023
On Walpurgisnacht, our fifth Speakeasy featured several twenty minute talks, curated art, poetry, star-talk, herb-lore and more, all exploring a general theme of NIGHT FLIGHT. Presentations included Matthew Venus with “On the Backs of Beasts”, Katarina Pejovic with “Not About the Thorn, Not About the Bush: Night Flight in Serbian Traditions of Folk Magic and Witchcraft”, Sasha Ravitch with “Mother! Mother! The Dead Are Coming After Me” with intercalary histories by Dr Alexander Cummins. JM Hamade joined us with the ever popular Dead Weather Report, Cooper Wilhelm with another Dread Poetry segment, curated art by Sarah Jezebel Wood, and an exploration of Night Flight and plant-lore by Jesse Hathaway Diaz.
All hosted by the Good Doctor and Goat of Radio Free Golgotha with proceeds being donated to E-Romnja, a Roma feminist, a-political and non-profit organization that fights for the rights of Roma women and girls.
VI
WHERE’S THE LIE? Pop Culture, Fiction, Storytelling and the Occult
14 Jul 2023
Diving into the intersection of mythmaking, media and praxis, our sixth Speakeasy featured talks by Al Cummins, Joshua Madara, Katarina Pejovic, Professor Charles Porterfield, & Sasha Ravitch, with The Dead Weather Report with Sasha “Double Feature” Ravitch, with art curated by Sarah Wood, and poetry by Cooper Wilhelm, and necro-gardens tended by Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and as always hosted by
All hosted by the Good Doctor and Goat of Radio Free Golgotha with proceeds being donated to Community Word Project, whose mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills in the Greater New York City metropolitan area.
We have greatly enjoyed the camaraderie and amazing knowledge and wisdom so wonderfully shared during these events, and we look forward to more!
Stay tuned, dear ones~