How can meditating on a goddess who has cut off, and is now holding, her own head, which is feeding on a stream of her own blood, whilst standing on the bodies of a young couple as they make love on a funeral pyre, lead us to the path of ultimate wisdom?

Mashing up performance, lecture and storytelling, Dr Seema Anand, journeys through cremation grounds, yogic practices, and death rituals, to decode the mysteries of the most fierce and most feared of Hindu goddesses - the Mahavidyas.

Expect life, death, creation, destruction and sacrifice, all in search of cosmic truth...

SEEMA ANAND

Seema Anand is a performance storyteller, a mythologist specialising in women’s narratives, and an award winning author. She lectures on several ancient Indian texts, including the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, and Tantric philosophy. She is also an acknowledged authority on Eastern Erotology, and a qualified master of tantric meditation traditions.

Seema's research on ancient Indian folklore, bringing ancient Indian texts back into the public space, is affiliated to the UNESCO initiative for preserving endangered oral traditions.

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Founded in 1987 by world-class performance storyteller and sector pioneer, Ben Haggarty, today Crick Crack Club is the UK's busiest and boldest performance storytelling programmer and promoter. It creates exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful events in London, Bristol, Dorset, and across the UK, that draw people from all walks of life into a shared experience and the stunning content of international fairytale, folktale, myth and epic. Featuring outstanding performance storytellers and the very best new talent, its annual public programme of shows and residencies can be found in theatres, at festivals, in castles, caves, village halls, rose gardens and derelict warehouses.

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Every month, Crick Crack Club brings its wild haven of fairytale, myth and epic to the awesome red velvet surroundings of Bristol's finest independent cinema, theatre and place of happenings, The CUBE Microplex; THE place in Bristol for unusual events, performance art, spoken word and live storytelling for grown-ups.