Baphomet's Book Club & The London School of Solar Punk
with The Covent Garden Minuet Company
present

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖘

🃏 𝔞 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔱 🎭

📅 Date: April Fools Day - 1st April 2026

📍 Location: The Post Bar, Tottenham

💰 Entry: Your Best Pound (Starting at £1)

Too Long to Read?

♦️ Tickets are a Quid, definitely pay MORE if you can, it's a BIG show
♠️ You'll be sent a Tarot Card - Come Dressed Up!
♣️ We'll make masks, then watch a little play, then play a Tarot Game
♥️ Then we'll Dance to Baroque Music and Weird Clown tunes, yay

❤️‍🔥

As always our events are open and inclusive to diversity and as queer as you like,
bigotry will not be tolerated, bring more weirdness, if you think we can do better let us know!

⏳ The Timeline ⏳

5:00 PM: 🕯️ Booked Personal Readings & Mask-Making Workshop Opens

7:00 PM: 🎴 Roundtable Discussion: The Tarot as a Tool for Social Change

8:00 PM: 🎭 Mask Finalisation

8:30 PM: 🃏The Court of Cards Performance & Group Ritual (The Court grows quiet🤫)

10:00 PM: 💃 Baroque Masquerade Ball

10:45 PM: 🤡 ClownTown DJ Set & Impromptu Readings by you and other Courtiers for fun

Welcome to The Court of Cards , an immersive theatrical ritual - pageant & pantomime, baroque-dance & non-sense, readings & revelry; an experiment in building a new toolbox for community health and wellbeing ⚙️

Fusing the Solar Punk ethos of organic community-driven change with High Masquerade& Explorations of the Esoteric!

✨ It begins like so…✨

🎴 Your Assignment Upon securing your place at court you will be allocated a card from the Tarot deck. This is your identity for the night. You will receive a guide to the symbols and meanings associated with your card to help you prepare, should you wish.

Don't fret… you don't have to act or pretend or improvise at this event, by coming dressed as the card, or just wearing the simple half mask we provide, and just being yourself you are doing all that is required. If you want to lean in then please do, but don't be nervous about your ‘role’, you are already everything you need to be… also…

Don't fret… if it seems like you have a ‘negative’ card, the card is not a diagnosis or judgement of you personally, it's a theatrical role you are to play at Court by simply being there and doing whatever you do or say, job done!

🎭 The Costume We strongly invite you to arrive in a costume that reflects your assigned card. Whether you embody the airy intellect of a Sword or the emotional depth of a Cup, how you present yourself is your contribution to the ritual. The Court is a space of transformation; be foolish, be fun, be deep, be dark, be delightful, it is your playground to enjoy!

🕯️ Personal Readings (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) There's an option to begin your journey with a pre-booked 30-minute private session with our professional readers. You can choose your reader and time when buying a ticket.

Our Readers…

🎭 Mask Making (5:00 PM – 8:30 PM) Join our mask-making arts table to finalise your theatrical alter-ego for the ritual and masquerade ball. We'll have blank masks and art materials on hand, or bring your own trinkets, foliage, magazines or more (no glitter allowed folx 🌍)

🗣️ The Roundtable (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM) Join a live discussion exploring The Tarot as a Tool for Social Change. We move from the personal to the political, asking how these ancient symbols can guide us toward a more connected future.

🎭 The Performance & The Ritual (8:30 PM) As silence falls over the Court, we shall witness the physicalisation of the first five Major Arcana — A PageantPlayPanto for giggles and wiggles and secrets revealed, prepare to be active observers at the big gangbang at the start of the multiverse! (Like, really, it's mad)

♥️♣️🃏♠️♦️ 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖘 (9:00 PM) Following the performance, the room becomes the deck from which we shall draw. We will choose community questions through the oracle of _ The Tarota Wheel _ and conduct a Group Reading. Three cards will be drawn from the communal deck for each question — if your assigned card is called, you will step forward to speak the truth of your card to the room, on the day whatever you have to say is what the card has to say, you don't need any knowledge beyond that which you choose to seek out. if any.

💃 The Masquerade (10:00 PM) The esoteric shifts to the euphoric where we'll learn simple and fun Baroque dances with _ **The Covent Garden Minuet Company** _, dressed in the finest of fettle and bringing their airs and graces to the court, the Minuetters will lead us in group dances where you can flirt with your fancies behind the flick of a fan, or flirt with the fates to find a new date!

🤡 Clowntown (10:45 – Late) Once the Masquerade is done we'll transition into a night of weird, wonky, and wiggly tunes from _ **ZEE HAMMER** _, a Magus of excellently foolish fuckery on those other Decks 💃🏾🎧🕺🏼 it's now time to dance with abandon, have those 4am kitchen chats a bit earlier that usual, and get your own decks out to read for one another here, there, and everywhere!

🎭 Theatre Rules for Ritual Space ❣️

During the performance and the Group Reading we will be operating the house under theatre rules, no phones, no chatter at the bar, no cheeky smokes in the yard, this is the show you've come to _ see _ , and this is the show you've come to _ be _.
Expect our Ushers to be Hushers too, you'll still be able to order a drink, but only by the Beverage Book, shhhhhh!

⚖️ The Economy of 'Your Best Pound' 💸

We believe that energy is the true currency and money is simply the conduit 🪙
To ensure this space remains accessible, a space of agency and consent, we reject standard ticket pricing models.

Your Best Pound is an evolving system being Championed by the Vibe Fairy over at Art is Hungry, Baphomet's Book Club, and a growing cabal of folx who want to change the way we value… value! Be that artistry, products, skills, time, or anything else we exchange!

Check out the manifesto over at Art is Hungry!

Entry is £1. How much you contribute beyond that is your personal choice, based on:

The value you feel you receive at the event
What you can honestly give without impacting your own livelihood
The magic that happens when people invest in something and have the high expectations that go with that

Some of us can pay £30, £50, £100 quid at the moment without worrying, is that you? If so then give a bit when buying your ticket, 'how much?' you say….what you'd normally pay for a night at the theatre, the cinema, the opera; it's your Best Pound! And then if the show is really amazing… buy plenty of raffle tickets on the night to give homage to the artists that have created the spectacle for you… and with you!

And tip at the bar too, there's more than just pulling a pint that goes into hosting a bar!

Some people haven't got a quid at the moment, no stress, grab a free ticket with Your Best Intent , please only book this free ticket when you are CERTAIN of your attendance, out of respect to the work and artists. As you probably know people often don't value that which they don't pay for. If you can manage a quid then spend that quid with the intention of it being the Best Pound you have to give, the one that represents the love and care you have for the community that is co-creating this event for you and with you, and dress up as best you can to create the best experience for all, effort and intention are energy just as much as money is, if not more!

This is our commitment to a better world. By holding this space for your "Best Pound," we prioritize community over capitalism. F*CK CAPITALISM. ✊

The Court Of Cards - A Theatre of Tarot