Norwich Pagan Moot logo: a Green Man or foliate head on a green background, by Vix Valentine.

Norwich Pagan Moot

Events

Our face-to-face events are the PAN Coffee Moot (fourth Saturday of the month), talks and workshops at the Silver Road Community Centre (second Sunday of the month), special events, especially Boudica's Brocante in October, and, in the summer part of the year, walks. Our summer 2026 'Norwich Pilgrimages' Ickeny walks programme, courtesy of Chris Wood, can be downloaded here and individual walks are promoted in the events list too. Unfortunately We are having another rest in our on-line talks, but we will be restarting them. Indeed, the silver lining to lockdown was the people who have joined us on-line that couldn't do so in person. We have been joined by people from distant parts of England, Wales, Canada, France and the USA!

If you join our Facebook group you will automatically get notifications of our events. If you’re not a Facebook person, don’t worry, the links will be given here for each event. Alternatively, contact us using the following e-mail address and we can put you on our e-mail list to get the links (please copy out the e-mail address to avoid spam).

Chris' e-mail address, not given as a link to avoid spam; it can be typed in as thecatscradle at btinternet dot com

We are (still) currently investigating mailing list service options. Once we have chosen one, people will be invited to sign up afresh.

Our next events

Image promoting the Norwich Moot talk on Sunday 12th July 2026 at 7 p.m.: Cauldron of Inspiration: The Gundestrup Cauldron and the Imagination, with Chris Wood, with a detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron from the National Museum of Denmark, CC-BY-SA, and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

In-person talk

'Cauldron of Inspiration: The Gundestrup Cauldron and the Imagination'

with Chris Wood

Sunday 12th July 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Admission £5 cash

At the Silver Road Community Centre, 34 Silver Road, Norwich NR3 4TB
(Easily walkable from the city, but if driving, use QD’s car park, through arch immediately north of zebra crossing.)

Flier for a walk by Chris Wood: 'Hathor Temple - a tour of Thorpe Hamlet, including also Kett's Rebellion', showing a painting of 'Hathor of the Broads' (with a wherry mast and sail, Hathor cow and a heron amongst reeds) by Susan Kerridge-Crick and an 18th century print offRobert Kett at the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath, together with the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'Hathor Temple: A tour of Thorpe Hamlet, also including Kett's Rebellion'

Sunday 19th July, 2 p.m., meet outside Norwich Railway Station.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be about three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Sorry, no dogs in Rosary Cemetery. Participation is at your own risk.

Image promoting the Norwich Pagan Coffee Moot, with dates and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

Face-to-face

Coffee Moot

Cafe Bar Marzano at the Forum in Norwich

Saturday 25th July 2026, from 10:30 a.m.

Flier for a walk by Chris Wood: 'Dragons and Lions', showing one of the City Hall bronze lions, with a heart-shaped sign,

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'Dragons and Lions'

Tuesday 4th August, 6 p.m., meet outside the Forum.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be two to three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Participation is at your own risk.

Image promoting the Norwich Moot talk on Sunday 9th August 2026 at 7 p.m.: East Anglia's Fierce Lineage, with East Anglian Kage, with a picture of the carved oak statue, 'Baying Wolf', of the wolf which guarded Edmund's head, by Jean Mulligan, 2011, in Old Hunstanton, and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

In-person talk

'East Anglia's Fierce Lineage'

Join East Anglian Kage as she uncovers the history and myths behind East Anglia's wolfen heritage!

Sunday 9th August 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Admission £5 cash

At the Silver Road Community Centre, 34 Silver Road, Norwich NR3 4TB
(Easily walkable from the city, but if driving, use QD’s car park, through arch immediately north of zebra crossing.)

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'The Overlooked Strange'

Sunday 16th August, 2 p.m., meet outside the Forum.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be about three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Participation is at your own risk.

Image promoting the Norwich Pagan Coffee Moot, with dates and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

Face-to-face

Coffee Moot

Cafe Bar Marzano at the Forum in Norwich

Saturday 22nd August 2026, from 10:30 a.m.

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'The Strangers'

Monday 31st August, 2 p.m., meet outside the Forum.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be two to three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Participation is at your own risk.

In-person talk

'East Anglian Buried Treasure'

with Jeremy Harte, renowned folklorist and author of Treasures on Earth !

Sunday 13th September 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Admission £TBC cash

At the Silver Road Community Centre, 34 Silver Road, Norwich NR3 4TB
(Easily walkable from the city, but if driving, use QD’s car park, through arch immediately north of zebra crossing.)

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'The Exotic on Our Doorstep'

Wednesday 16th September, 6 p.m., meet outside the Forum.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be two to three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Participation is at your own risk.

Image promoting the Norwich Pagan Coffee Moot, with dates and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

Face-to-face

Coffee Moot

Cafe Bar Marzano at the Forum in Norwich

Saturday 26th September 2026, from 10:30 a.m.

Face-to-face

An Ickeny Walk with Chris Wood

'Sir Thomas Browne and His World'

Sunday 4th October, 2 p.m., meet outside the Forum.

Free, but donations welcome!

The walk will be two to three miles, on street and on off-road paths, with steps. Participation is at your own risk.

In-person talk

'TBC'

with TBC

Sunday 11th October 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Admission £TBC cash

At the Silver Road Community Centre, 34 Silver Road, Norwich NR3 4TB
(Easily walkable from the city, but if driving, use QD’s car park, through arch immediately north of zebra crossing.)

Image promoting the Norwich Pagan Coffee Moot, with dates and the Norwich Moot logo of a foliate head on green by Vix Valentine.

Face-to-face

Coffee Moot

Cafe Bar Marzano at the Forum in Norwich

Saturday 24th October 2026, from 10:30 a.m.

Face-to-face

Save the date!

The Tenth Annual Boudica's Brocante

At the Silver Road Community Centre, 34 Silver Road, Norwich NR3 4TB
(Easily walkable from the city, but if driving, use QD’s car park, through arch immediately north of zebra crossing.)

Sunday 25th October 2026, times TBC

A Sample of Past Events

Video Links

Image promoting the Norwich Moot talk on Sunday 14th December 2025 at 7 p.m.: The Return of the Son, with Rijusiddha, with a light shining through a hole in stone., forming a link to the video of the ritual on YouTube.     Image promoting the Norwich Moot on-line talk by Chris Wood on 24th November 2024, with a picture of a pair of carved wooden livestock amulets from the Swat Valley in Pakistan, in the Ickeny Collection, taken by Chris Wood, forming a link to a video of a shorter version of the talk on YouTube, as given to the International Conference on Amulets on 15th November, entitled 'Recognising Amulets'.     Image promoting the Norwich Moot virtual herb walk with Val Thomas, 13th June 2021, with a close-up of a Cleavers plant, taken by Chris Wood, forming a link to the video of the ritual on YouTube.

Image promoting the Norwich Moot on-line talk by Pete Jennings, 14th March 2021, with illustration of a carved stone woodwose on St. Mary the Virgin church, Burwell, Cambridgeshire, taken by Chris Wood, forming a link to the video of the talk on YouTube.     Image for the Living Norfolk Magic and Norwich Moot on-line ritual for Imbolc 31st January 2021, forming a link to the video of the ritual on YouTube.     Image promoting the Norwich Moot on-line ritual for the Spring Equinox showing crocuses blooming, forming a link to the video of the ritual on YouTube.

Downloads

Some of our speakers have kindly provided texts or presentations from their talks which you can download here.

Advert for Chris Wood's talk on magical collections March 2026 forming a link to the notes from the evening as a PDF.    

Advert for Chris Wood's talk on the Ickeny and His kin from February 2025 forming a link to the handout from the evening as a PDF.     Advert for Michael Clarke's talk on cunning folk from April 2022 forming a link to his slide show as a PDF.     Image promoting the Stone Circle Pagan Moot on-line talk by Chris Wood, 22nd February 2022, with a foliate head and extra mugwort leaves, forming a link to download the talk write-up.

Advert for Anna McKerrow's talk on the occult in fiction from October 2021 forming a link to her slide show as a PDF.     Advert for Chris Wood's talk on Paganism for Norwich InterFaith Link from May 2021 forming a link to download the presentation slides.     Image promoting the Norwich Moot on-line talk on 10th January 2021, by Chris Wood, on the Wild Hunt, forming a link to download the talk write-up. The background is a detail from 'Wodan's Wild Hunt' by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine, 1882, from Wilhelm Wägner (1882) Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin. Design by Chris Wood.

Advert for Chris Wood's Boudica talk from September 2020 forming a link to an article by Chris covering the same ground.     Advert for Chris Wood's Statues and Heroes talk from July 2020 forming a link to download the talk write-up.     Advert for Hazel's talk on Japanese Elementals from July 2020, forming a link to download the presentation.

Images

Labyrinth workshop with Tina Hampton, 10th May 2026

(Pictures: Chris Wood)

Labyrinth making in progress: two people using their fingers to make the circuits.     A finished four-course labyrinth in clay, still wet and resting on plastic and newspaper

The labyrinth 'work bench: tables with newspaper and plastic, with tubs of water, where people made their labyrinths from air-drying clay.     Finishing off a labyrinth - making a smooth channel in the clay with a finger.

Dowsing workshop with Hazel, 12th April 2026

(Pictures: Padmajyoti Lisa Hyde)

Participants in the dowsing workshop in the field!     Participants in the dowsing workshop in the field!

Twelfth Night Wild Hunt Ritual, 7th January 2023

The Ickeny, with horse's skull glistening from the rain, stands in the centre of the circle, with officers standing behind with lit posts, at the end of the rite.

The Ickeny glistens in the rain at the end of the rite. (Picture: Claire Bullion)

Lammas, 1st August 2021

The Lammas altar with (left to right) Hazel as the Lady of Norfolk, the Ickeny and Flint, as Lord of Norfolk.

The Lammas altar with (left to right) Hazel as the Lady of Norfolk, the Ickeny and Flint, as Lord of Norfolk. (Picture: Val Thomas)

Twelfth Night 2021

The Ickeny on Mousehold for Twelfth Night 2021     Ickeny charm with bells and bones.

The Ickeny was on Mousehold, along with His support bubble, at Twelfth Night 2021, so that dark forces could be expelled and the energy of new life be welcomed (left).
Ritual preparations for the event (right). (Pictures: Annette Dewgarde)

Brocante page.       Image of a head of Goat's Beard seeds forming a link to the Moot home page       Image of books forming a link to the Resources page


view over Norwich from St. James' Hill forming a link to the Norwich & Norfolk page       Image of barley, a favour of wheat and a sickle on a Lammas altar forming a link to the About Paganism page       Image of the Ickeny forming a link to the Ickeny page

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