Kahn and Selesnick and fellow traveler Sarah Falkner will be joined by a troupe of fascinating, erudite, and adept colleagues as professional cartomancer Laetitia Ante Delictum hosts an afternoon in NYC/evening in Europe/morning in Australia featuring a Tarot demonstration reading with Damon Stang; a mini-symposium exploring art history, ancient history, ecocriticism, and divinatory, magical, and sorcerous practice with presentations from Caroline J. Tully, Maura Coughlin, Una Maria Blyth, and Sasha Ravitch; documentary film insight into Kahn & Selesnick and collaborators' process during the making of the cards with @david sater, and a guided meditation by Erik Jampa Andersson.
https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/cabaret-of-the-drowning-world-a-variety-spectacle-with-the-truppe-fledermaus-and-very-special-guests
Mother of the field she has coined "Stellar Witchcraft”, Sasha Ravitch spends her days as a consultant-practitioner and professional author. She regularly presents at conferences, having previously been a keynote speaker for AstroMagia, as well as a regular lecturer for the Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, and most recently in academic conferences on the subject of Salome. Her ongoing research at this time is very much caught up within the study of the witchbody in relationship to transgressive erotism, Desire, the libidinal and sexual nature of Deep Space and its Spirits, sensual embodiment of the strange and unusual in Witchcraft, and ongoing praxis work for her in-process grimoire (Revelore Press), which chronicles her interaction, observation, and sorcery with the strange and haunting spirits that live in the world of the Stars. Ravitch spends her free time spinning starlight and constellating desire from the floor of the ocean or a sunny rock in the river.
Damon Stang is a cartomancer, ritual event producer , and performance artist residing in Brooklyn, New York . Born and raised in South Africa , Damon has had a life long passion for folklore, contemporary and historical magical practice , comparative religious studies , and the practice of divination in all its forms . As a professional reader Damon’s career has spanned 25 years and he is available for both in person and remote readings . Damon has been featured in The New York Times , Cosmopolitan Magazine , News Week , and The New York Post . His writing has appeared in Venefica Magazine .
Caroline J. Tully is a Pagan and Witch who is also an archaeologist. She has many areas of interest including ancient Mediterranean religions, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema and contemporary Paganisms, particularly Witchcraft and Pagan Reconstructionism. Caroline is an expert on tree worship in the Bronze Age Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus, and has strong interests in the Environmental Humanities, nature, landscape, animism, ecology, ecofeminism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism. Caroline is also an antiquities curator, magical workshop presenter, and a professional tarot reader at Muses of Mystery in Melbourne, Australia.
Una Maria Blyth is an occult writer, researcher and student of peatbog folk magic. Una lives on a small croft in the Shetland Islands, a subarctic archipelago between Scotland and Norway. Her first book, Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women is forthcoming with Hexen Press. Una’s written for a range of publications including Folklore for Resistance, Sabat Magazine, Rituals & Declarations, Cunning Folk Magazine, Doggerland, Fire & Knives, and Reframing Immersive Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan). She particularly interested in queer, feminist explorations of magical history, as well as the fine line between magic and madness. https://www.mariablyth.info/
Erik Jampa Andersson, founder and director of Shrimala, is a London-based practitioner, teacher, and scholar of Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa), Tibetan Buddhism, and Environmental History. He is a graduate of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine, and is currently completing an MA in History at Goldsmiths University. He is the author of Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human (Hay House, May 2023).
Maura Coughlin is an art historian who writes about ecology and landscape and is fascinated by fens, swamps and bogs and other biologically diverse wetlands. She was a co-curator of a Kahn and Selesnick retrospective in 2020 and is co-curator of an exhibition devoted to the Cultures of Seaweed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 2023. She will be speaking on the watery worlds of Kahn and Selesnick as ecological spaces of transformation, possibility and survival.
