Sunday August 7,  12 – 5 PM:
Lammas Faire for All Ages

Fee: $5 – will include $5 worth of raffle or bake-off tickets for you to use or share!

Saturday February 27
Annual Meeting 5 – 6 PM
Snacks and Chat 6 – 7 PM
Then at 7 PM Conjure Cinema presents:
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
[aka Adèle: The Rise of the Mummy]

Fee:      Admission is FREE!
Refreshments will be available for sale to help defray costs.
(No potluck :D)  Alcohol is not allowed at the venue.

Our brief, entertaining Annual Meeting is FREE and OPEN to ALL!  It’s a great way to meet and catch up with old and new friends, and find out what the SEF has been up to this year.  Renew your membership, or get information about joining SEF.

From Sarah Rainey’s review of the film in The Telegraph (UK): “If you want a movie that combines the thrills of Tomb Raider with the fashions of La Boheme, then look no further. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec has it all: dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies and a female adventurer with a spectacular collection of hats.

Based on the comic strip by Jacques Tardi, the film traces the journey of madcap novelist Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) – “dry white, like the wine” – who spends her days travelling to perilous and far-flung corners of the world in search of material for her next book.

We meet her in Egypt, 1911, where she has trekked into the desert to the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses II. The intrepid explorer enlists the help of oddball Professor Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian), who claims he can raise the pharaoh’s doctor from the dead to cure Blanc-Sec’s dying sister, who was impaled on a hat pin in a freak tennis accident.

Meanwhile, in Paris, the nutty professor has proven his powers by hatching a baby pterodactyl from a 136 million-year-old egg in the natural history museum.

Tasked with ridding the city of the winged beast, Clouseau-like Inspector Caponi (Gilles Lellouche), turns to Blanc-Sec, who has returned to Paris with a shrivelled mummy in tow. Cue much hilarity, glamorous costume changes and a series of close scrapes as she fends off arch-nemesis Dieuleveult (Mathieu Amalric) and the advances of a besotted botanical scientist.”

This film, like our last feature shown (Solomon Kane) is a wonderful, little-known film, which is a shame, as it is a delight for young and old. The second of three films we had originally intended to show for Conjure Cinema’s last season (before it was cut short), we will be showing the uncut European Blu-ray release, with extra footage not seen in the American DVD release. Take a look at the original trailer below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6djPGS3RCA

Saturday October 3, doors open 7:00  PM:
Conjure Cinema presents Solomon Kane (2009)

Fee:      Admission is FREE!
Refreshments will be available for sale to help defray costs.
(No potluck :D)  Alcohol is not allowed at the YMCA.

Cynthia has been a practicing Wiccan for over 30 years and finds her deepest spirituality in the natural world. She joined the SEF in 2007 and was initiated into the Chthonioi Alexandrian tradition in 2013.

As clergy and a board member for the SEF, she has assisted with the creation and coordination of numerous public and private Sabbats and Pagan events for over 7 years. She currently serves as the Pagan Family Coordinator, offering family-accessible programs and rituals focused around the Pagan Sabbats.

 Cynthia is available as Pagan clergy for spiritual events and support. She offers assistance with Pagan and non-denominational services, rituals, and life transitions including Weddings, Handfastings & Civil Unions; Funerals, Memorials & Deathing; Naming Ceremonies; Coming of Age Rituals; Wiccanings; and Custom Rituals.

For more information about clergy services you can contact her at: cynthia@inkwoodtarot.com

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