Crossbones

This Sunday 21st June at 2.30pm I'm conducting a ritual in the 'Sunrise ' gallery at this exhibition. If you're in London and fancy a trip to the sun, moon, stars... see you in Space! 🙂 ❤
https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/the-sun-and-the-moon-summer-solstice-festival

This exhibition looks pretty amazing in itself - with work by contemporary artists like our friend Ben Edge exhibiting alongside modern masters like Barbara Hepworth and Joan Miró. On now until 8th September.
https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/the-sun-and-the-moon-art-inspired-by-the-celestial

The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial » Saatchi Gallery Saatchi Gallery » The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial 5 June - 8 September 2026 » The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial is a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout human hist...

Michael Travis's short film contains footage of our first rituals performed on the graveyard to reclaim it as land sacred to s*x workers and outcasts. Friends of Crossbones, this is our Herstory!

The People of the Crossbones Graveyard Cross Bones is a disused burial ground in the heart of London, orig...

Back from Derry, after an amazing weekend at the World Ritual Arts Symposium. Checked in at Ulster University Friday evening, and all through Saturday and Sunday it was a non-stop immersive experience, with academic presentations and mind-blowing ritual performances – including a meditative Chinese tea ceremony, Keralan and Balinese trance rituals and a Turkish Sufi dramatisation of ‘The Conference of the Birds’. My talk / performance on our ritual works at Crossbones Graveyard got standing ovations - with two foreign professors kissing my hand and saying: ‘You are our Master!’ (Haha! Don’t worry! Crow has The Goose, Katy Kaos and the Friends of Crossbones to remind him that he's not the Messiah. He's just a very naughty crow having the time of his sweet short life! 😉 ) After that the Armagh Rhymers took us out with their indescribable pagan music theatre thing.

The highlight of the whole weekend was Saturday night on a beach at sunset, where the Candomblé priestesses waded into the sea to present our flower offerings to Yemanja – followed by an extraordinary fire ritual conducted by Mark and Mandy (Mork and Mindy as my friend Paddy Bloomer calls them) and their Irish crew. As I was walking back to the bus, completely entranced, one of the astonished locals who'd chanced upon it pulled up in her car to ask: ‘WHAT was THAT!’ She told me she was going through a crisis with her family and that witnessing this had given her hope for the future: ‘But I don’t know if I can move on.’ ‘You will.’ I said. ‘How do you know?’ ‘Because you’re here, now.’ We laughed. ‘You’re right’ she said. Squeezed my hand and drove off. It’s at moments like this I know why I’m here...

text and photos by John Constable aka John Crow