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Hekate's Grove - Panel Discussion

  • FiveMyles 558 St Johns Place Crown Heights, Brooklyn USA (map)

"Goddess Help Us: Why Art and the Goddess Matter Now".
Thursday, November 3, 6:30-8:30pm
A panel discussion and Q&A with audience engagement. Panelists include Leah DeVun, Amy Hale, Elizabeth Insogna, Karen Heagle, and Kay Turner.

More details on Hekate’s Grove here

Leah DeVun is a Professor at Rutgers University in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. DeVun is the author of three books and edited volumes including, most recently, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021). DeVun’s essays and reviews have appeared in Wired, Spot, Radical History Review, GLQ, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), Osiris, ASAP/Journal, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and elsewhere. DeVun has been interviewed or featured in The New York TimesArtforumHuffington Post, People Magazine, Hyperallergic, LA Review of Books, Out, Art PapersFeature  Shoot, Redbook, and Slate, among others, and has participated in exhibitions and programs at universities and arts venues that include Baxter Street Camera Club, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Blanton Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYU's Tracey-Barry Gallery, the ONE Archives Gallery and Museum at the University of Southern California, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, and Yale University School of Art.  DeVun has lectured internationally and received grants and residential fellowships from the National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center, among others. www.leahdevun.com

Dr. Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer, curator, and critic, ethnographer and folklorist, speaking and writing about esoteric history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has addressed topics as diverse as psychogeography, Cornish ethnonationalism, Pagan religious tourism, color theory, and extremist politics in modern Paganism. Co-edited collections include New Directions in Celtic Studies, Inside Merlin’s Cave: A Cornish Arthurian Reader, and The Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5. Most recently she is the author of Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully(2020) and the editor of Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (2022). She has contributed essays for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, Correspondences Journal, Camden Arts Centre, Art UK, Arusha Galleries, Heavenly Records and Spike Island, Bristol. She is currently a curator and host for the internationally loved Viktor Wynd’s Last Tuesday Society lecture series and a 2022 Transatlantic Artist in Residence for Eston Arts Centre in Eston, England. www.amyhale.me


Program Schedule:

Saturday, Oct. 22, 6-8pm: Opening Reception. The artists offer a brief ritual at 7pm to open the Grove.

Sunday October 30, 3-5pm: "A Hekate Supper," Part 1 (Abjection/Separation). Kay Turner activates the Grove, performing with invited artists and welcoming audience participation.

Thursday, Nov. 3, 6:30-8:30pm: "Goddess Help Us: Why Art and the Goddess Matter Now". A panel discussion and Q&A with audience engagement. Panelists include Leah DeVun, Amy Hale, Elizabeth Insogna, Karen Heagle, and Kay Turner.

Sunday Nov. 6, 3-5pm: "A Hekate Supper," Part 2 (Ecstasy/Return). Kay Turner celebrates the Grove by performing with invited artists and welcomes audience participation.

Sunday Nov. 20, 3-5pm: Closing Reception. The artists offer a brief ritual at 5pm to close the Grove.