Day 1, Saturday 19th May

8:30am - Arrivals and registration 

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9:00am - Benjamin Turale, Conference Director.​

Official Welcome

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9:20 - Billy the Celt, Current Bard of Glastonbury.

Official Opening, poetry and music

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9:45 - Dr. Robert Plimer

"The Graeco-Egyptian and Hermetic Background to Alchemy"

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11:15 - Short break

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11:30 - Gary Nottingham
"Basil Valentine & His Five Considerations"

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1:00pm - 2:00pm - Lunch

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2:05pm  - David Cypher
"The Pauline Arte"

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3:05pm - Short break

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3:15pm - Sian Humphries

"The Plant Sigils of Charubel"

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5:00pm end of Day 1

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Day 2, Sunday 20th May

9:00am - 12:00pm - Gary Nottingham

Workshop
"The Arte of Talismanic Magic: Their Care, Construction and Enchantment"

This workshop includes an enchantment of an alchemical tincture that will be distributed on Day 3.

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12:00 - 1pm Lunch

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1:05pm Dr.  Robert Plimer 
Lecture

"John Dee, Sir Edward Kelley's Alchemy & Count Rosemberg's Bohemia"

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2:35 - Short break

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2:45pm  - David Cypher 
Workshop 
"Renaissance Geomancy"  (All who wish to participate should bring a dice, paper and a pen)

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4:45pm - Short break

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4:55pm - Open Panel Discussion ​
"Q & A from the Audience"

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6pm end of Day 2, networking and stalls continue until 6.30pm

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Day 3, Monday 21st May
Full Day Workshop

10:00am - Benjamin Turale

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Day workshop - "Introduction to Herbal Alchemy"

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Includes:

- How to make an Alchemical Herbal Tincture (spagyric) from start to finish

- The Emerald Tablet

- Alchemical Meditation

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All participants will take away a free tincture of their own, that has also been enchanted in the ritual on the morning of Day 2.

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Day session includes breaks and practical demonstrations of basic lab equipment. 
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a notepad and pen.
 

If participants wish to start their own tincture they can also optionally bring

- a canning jar
- 25 grams of a dried herb they wish to use medicinally or magically

- 500mls of brandy.

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5pm - Harp performance by Ashton Turale
Tincture is coagulated

6.00 pm - Conference Concludes