VGS 2023 SCHEDULE
IN PERSON EVENT
NOTE: YOU MUST PURCHASE A TICKET BY OUR DEADLINE IN ORDER TO ATTEND THE EVENT!
TICKETING DEADLINE ++ MONDAY JULY 10th ++ at Midnight PST
EVENT LOCATION – Olympia, WA
The Viridis Genii Symposium is taking place in person this year. Ticket holders were sent location and address. If for any reason you did not receive an email w/ the name of the event space and address please email catamara@viridisgenii.com for details.
If you haven’t purchased tickets to the event yet, click here to register and add on workshop intensives (if you wish). This is a weekend retreat. You may not show up for individual lectures or workshops. You must purchase a ticket to the event and hang out with all of us esoteric and occult plant lovers for the entire weekend! You won’t regret it! I promise!
Friday July 21st, 2023
1:00 – 2:30 pm – Event Check-In
1:00 – 3:00 pm – Vendors Open
3:00- 5:00 pm – Opening Ceremony
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Break
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 – 7:30 pm – Break
7:30 – 9:30 pm – Keynote Lecture w/ Jesse Hathaway Diaz – Green Blood and the Light Reflected- Herbals Metrics, Correspondences, and the Fixed Stars
Saturday July 22nd, 2023
8:00 – 9:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 am – Break
9:30 – 10:30 am – Corinne Boyer – Plants of the Devil
10:30 – 11:00 am – Break/Vendors Open
11:00 – 12:00 pm – Phoebe Hildegard Finch – From Carbuncles to Basilisks to Unicorns; On the “Fantastical” in Von Bingen
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm – Workshop Session A (Optional – Vendors Open)
3:00 – 3:30 pm – Break/Vendors Open
3:30 – 4:30 pm – Kim Schwenk – Untimely Ripped: The Ontology of Paper
4:30 – 5:00 pm – Break/Vendors Open
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Sean Croke – The Medicinal Qualities of the Mother of Poison: Magical Uses of Tobacco
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 pm – Workshop Session B
8:30 – 9:30 pm – Break
9:30 – 11:00 pm – Social Event
1:00 – 3:00 pm Jesse Hathaway Diaz – Milking the Crown of Heaven, Drawing from the Well of Light: A Discussion and Workshop on Stellar Witchcraft Rebecca Beyer – Invisible Missiles: Witch Bullets Phoebe Hildegard Finch – Working the Living Light: Devotional Charms from Hildegard’s Herbs and Script Talismans in her Lingua Ignota (her constructed language)
7:00 – 8:30 pm Sean Croke – Working with Tobacco Kim Schwenk – From Plant to Paper
Sunday July 23rd, 2023
8:00 – 9:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 am – Break
9:30 – 10:30 am – Jennifer Gerriy & David Bacoo –The Occult & Alchemical Significance of The Grape: Vitis Vinifera
10:30 – 11:00 am – Break/Vendors Open
11:00 – 12:00 am – Katarina Pejovic – Not Even Elijah Can Strike My Nettle-Crown: Traditions of Herbal Magic with Saints in the Serbian Orthodox Folk Context
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 pm – Break/Vendors Open
1:30 – 4:30 pm – Workshop Session C -(Optional Vendors Open)
4:30 – 5:00 pm – Break/Vendors Open
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 pm – Rebecca Beyer – Invisible Missiles: Herb Magic to Cure Elf Shot
8:00 – 9:30 pm – Break
9:30 – 11:00 pm – Closing Toast Reception
WORKSHOP SESSION C 1:30 – 4:30 pm Corinne Boyer- Painful & Baneful Charms Katarina Pejovic- In The Burning Hands of Saint Friday: A Communal Feast to Paraskeva of the Balkans, Weaver of Fate and Mother of the Forest Jennifer Gerrity & David Bacco – Alchemical use of the Grape in Practical Laboratory Alchemy