I could not be more delighted to be part of the Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible conference wrangled by Heather D. Freeman for The Department of Art + Art History and The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in co-sponsorship with The Center for Advanced Studies – Erlangen, The University of Exeter’s Centre for Magic and Esotericism, Societas Magica, and RENSEP. It features both scholars and practitioners (and of course those who are both!) and covers a wide range of subjects. Best of all, it is free to attend and online. Amazing to have such accessibility.

I’ll have a nice long session on the Saturday to talk about magic and ritual in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet and Leonor Fini’s L’Oneiropompe. It will be a joy not to have to shoehorn discussion of two such rich texts into the usual 15 or 20 minute slot. I’ll still struggle to fit in all the things I want to say, but ha! I will have a lot of fun trying. But wait, there’s more!

This conference will follow the exhibition Holding a Bright, Untroubled Sky: Visioning a Better World through Magic held in the Rowe Galleries in August, 2026 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, curated by Dr. Amy Hale. Bridging the Invisible also precedes RENSEP’s conference Magic and Consciousness, which will also be online from November 25 – 27th, 2026.

Hope you can enjoy some of these experiences, too!