[Event] the White Lily Society presents... "the Gothic Heroine's Journey: a Descent into Rebirth"
Mark your calendars, for on June 17th, we shall all descend into ourselves~
Every girl follows their fears into a dark forest, a grand tour of rebirth... All the greatest destinations involve love and violence... “A woman will return looking for the girl she was” (Louise Glück)...
You are invited to join the White Lily Society in the flesh, for one night only…
The White Lily Society presents... “the Gothic Heroine’s Journey: a Descent into Rebirth”.
Come and join a descent through bliss and betrayal, awakening and reckoning, and finally, rebirth… marching through all forms of song, spoken word, dance, performance, and even psychoanalysis. The evening will adapt the classic hero’s journey into a three act tapestry honouring the endurance, friendship, and agency we, as gothic maidens ourselves, have found while discovering what it means to be a girl today... when Hades is no longer a place but a twisting ribbon deep in our guts~
Where do we source our most potent endurance? What does agency look like; do we cast ourselves as Persephone the maiden, or Persephone the queen? How do we weave our own tapestry of identity through this life of constant death and rebirth?
All of these questions (and so many more) will be explored in the heart of haunted Stoke Newington, within gothic church walls, and with a truly magnificent gathering of doomed maidens…
Confirmed Performer Line-Up ˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆｡☆
Sabrina Angelina1… as the guide [POETRY]
Emily Izen Row2… as the blissful maiden [SONG]
Nette Taylor3… as the awakening maiden [DANCE]
Malina Rusu4… as the psychoanalyst [PSYCHOANALYSIS]
Anna de Waal5… as the reckoning maiden [POETRY]
Stephanie Ritzema6… as the witness [SONG]
Charlie Jimenez7… as the rebirth maiden [PERFORMANCE]
and Savannah Willits8… as co-curator
See you there, my dear…
The White Lily Society... is a space for everything about the Intersection of Love and Violence(tm), Romanticism, Gothicism, the esoteric, and the strange. A space for courtesans and vampires to mingle, hosted by Lady Sabrina Angelina (@sleepwalkingbeauty), and co-curated by Savannah Willits for one night only.
[FAQ]
☆ What Can I Expect?
A diverse night of performance art, poetry, and other creative arts exploring girlhood and rebirth, set in a gloriously Gothic space (with bar!)~
☆ What Time Should I Be There?
Doors will open at 7, performances start at 7:30! No admission past 7:30~
☆ Will There Be Audience Participation?
Yes and no! While the night is designed around a certain amount of reciprocity and participation, this is absolutely NOT fixed. You can take and leave as much as you want and need of the night~
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
With love (and violence),
x Sabrina Angelina, the White Lily Society 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯
White Lily Society links // Sabrina Angelina links
Come on, you know you want to see inside the eye of the storm…
Sabrina Angelina is a poetess, sleepwalking beauty, and the founder of the White Lily Society. She spends her time balancing between being vampire bait and a full-time courtesan.
Emily Izen Row is a multi instrumentalist and composer experimenting in balancing and atomising confessions through sound. Harnessing primordial elements through ancient instruments such as the lyre and using vocal chants to play with intuition, she is most intrigued by stretching and blending sounds that both unsettle and enchant. Her work is a venture into blind spots, channelling experiences that feel on the edge of a memory.
Nette Taylor is an artist, dancer, and mountain mermaid exploring the body through movement.
Malina Rusu (malina) is a Romanian-American teacher, comparativist, feminist psychoanalyst, and former Cool Girl. Based in London, she is currently Director of Strategy, Communications & Operations for Institute 17 and editor of the academic journal Aphanasis. Her work features post-Lacanian theory, (quasi-)ironic misandry, performative transgression, religion, and the erotic. Ask her anything, especially if in front of a whiteboard.
ANNA DE WAAL (Anna de Waal) is a London-based writer, researcher and editor. She received her English BA from Cambridge University, specialising in the dream diary and ‘night-time language’. Her Substack blog & arts magazine lunulae’ is a repository for the uncanny symbolisms of girlhood, as well as an ongoing archive of dream writings. Her debut pamphlet Bindweed’ was published by Hazel Press.
Stephanie Ritzema is a folk musician and writer living in London. Her work focuses on women’s history, storytelling and memory. Her new collection “On Small Losing” is out now with Femmesocial Press.
Charlie Jimenez is an image-maker, and creative director working across choreography, movement, and theatre. Their practice is rooted in an enduring fascination with the human body—as vessel of transformation—where mythology, memory, and ritual fuse. Charlie creates visionary and ritualistic tableaus in which the ethereal and the grotesque merge, collapsing boundaries between the surreal and the visceral. Their work is characterised by abject figures inhabiting liminal, dreamlike environments, where identity is unstable and the body is in a constant state of becoming. Drawing from personal experience, folklore, and symbolism, Charlie approaches image-making as both invocation and excavation.
Savannah Willits is a longtime contributor of the White Lily Society, patron, and ardent orbiter of the arts.
