Mythical Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore with Lena Brennan - LIVE

The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is an award-winning cocktail bar offering a range of tastings, lectures, and workshops blending the worlds of magick & mixology.The Viktor Wynd Musem of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary Wunderkabinnet stuffed with natural and unnatural wonders, from Dodo Bones & Extinct Bird Feathers to Two Headed Lambs, Piglets & Kittens;  Old Master Etchings, Occult Paintings, Taxidermy, Magical Soap, Giant Crabs, Strange Creatures of the Deep, Broken Children's Toys, Entomology, Fairies, Mermaids, Unicorns, Giants, Human Hair, Erotica and more.   Please note this museum will not appeal to all and some may find the contents disturbing or even  upsetting.  We are a very small museum, we are not for everyone.

The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum

A Talk &amp; Book launch for Lena Heide-Brennand's Mythical creatures in Scandinavian Folklore

The Last Tuesday Society / Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities

The Absinthe Parlour

A curious series of talks, workshops & tastings hosted in The Last Tuesday Society's Absinthe Parlour. Sponsored by Devil's Botany, the UK's first absinthe distillery, the series celebrates  absinthe's connection to art, literature, music & mixology.

The Season of The Witch

Join us for a spirited talk and book launch exploring Mythical Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore with Lena Heide-BrennandMythical Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore by Lena Heide-Brennand -Hardback signed copy - £50 (or included with £60 event ticket) Books ordered online can be collected on the night onlyLena Heide-Brennand’s lecture series on the fascinating and spellbinding tales about the many mythical creatures of Scandinavian folklore have been very popular at the Last Tuesday Society and sold hundreds of tickets to the different events online and in house talks. Lena decided to turn her lectures into a book and this book is now a reality.629 pages filled with legends, tales, spine-chilling illustrations and traditional artwork in the shape of a beautiful coffee table book is what we are celebrating this evening.The warmest of welcome to this special book launch where the author herself will be in attendance to sing the traditional folksongs from Scandinavia that are included in the book and treat you to stories of these legendary creatures.This is a book launch event to enjoy drinks &amp; meet-and-greet with author.About the authorLena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience