The Equinox Festival was a media arts festival dedicated to contemporary spiritual discovery and mystical traditions. Founded by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon is an American media artist, painter, and filmmaker. As a graffiti artist Harmon has used the tags BETA and RSH...

 the festival provided a platform for the discussion of transcendental thought, expanded consciousness, and alternate thinking about the role of spirituality and mysticism in the creative arts.

The festival takes its name from Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...

's publication The Equinox

The Equinox

The Equinox is a series of publications in book form that serves as the official organ of the A.'.A.'., a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley...

, from which the festival derives its subtitle "A Festival of Scientific Illuminism".

The inaugural year of the festival took place from 12–14 June 2009 at Conway Hall and Camden Centre in London. The festival received coverage in Wire Magazine, BoingBoing, Flux Magazine, Timeout London, Fortean Times, among many others.

2009 lineup

Music performance:


The Threshold HouseBoys Choir (Peter Christopherson solo project)

Comus

Comus

In Greek mythology, Comus or Komos is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Bacchus. Comus represents anarchy and chaos. His mythology occurs in the later times of antiquity. During his festivals in Ancient Greece, men and women exchanged...

John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

Æthenor

T.A.G.C

Z'EV

Z'EV

Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...

Rob Mazurek

Rob Mazurek

Rob Mazurek is an American composer, jazz musician, and visual artist originally from Chicago, Illinois. Mazurek now resides in São Paulo Brazil.-Biography:...

Dieter Muh

Pietro Riparbelli

Pestrepeller

Hati

Kinit Her

Burial Hex

Yan-gant-y-tan

James Ferraro (Skaters)

Chaos Majik (aka Todd Pendu)



Ritual Performance:



Arktau Eos

Barry William Hale's NOKO

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon is an American media artist, painter, and filmmaker. As a graffiti artist Harmon has used the tags BETA and RSH...

Lecture/Presentations:



Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner Ph.D. , is an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert . Dr...

Erik Davis

Erik Davis

Erik Davis is a North American writer, social historian, cultural critic and lecturer.He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era...

David Beth

David Beth

David Beth is a German esoteric philosopher and occultist. He is a close friend and collaborator of Michael Bertiaux.-Profile:Beth was born and raised in Africa by German parents. He has lived in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, the United States and Europe...

Edwin Pouncey

Paola Igliori

Paola Igliori

Paola Igliori, born in Rome, Italy, is a poet, writer, photographer, essayist and publisher. She became a resident of New York City from the 1980s, when she first moved there, until 2003 when she returned to her home country. Paola Igliori has a son Filippo, who is a photographer and film maker...

Masamba Fall

James Curcio

Carl Abrahamsson

Kendall Geers

Philip Farber

Aaron Gach

Matt Wiley

Robert Ansell

Stephan Grasso

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule


Cinema program:



DeZ Vylenz

Mindscape of Alan Moore

Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life...

Kings with Straw Mats



Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

 and Ram Dass

8 Circuit Model of Conscious



James Ferraro

Diminishing Shrine Recycles



Massamba Fall (with Paola Igliori)

The Seed of Joy

Paola Igliori

Paola Igliori

Paola Igliori, born in Rome, Italy, is a poet, writer, photographer, essayist and publisher. She became a resident of New York City from the 1980s, when she first moved there, until 2003 when she returned to her home country. Paola Igliori has a son Filippo, who is a photographer and film maker...

American Magus & The Seed of Joy

Craig Baldwin

Mock Up On Mu

Harry Smith

Harry Everett Smith

Harry Everett Smith was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic...

Heaven and Earth Magic

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...

The Holy Mountain

Maya Deren

Maya Deren

Maya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Raymond Salvatore Harmon is an American media artist, painter, and filmmaker. As a graffiti artist Harmon has used the tags BETA and RSH...

YHVH & Tree of Knowledge/Tree of Life