November
Devised: Kate Southworth, Patrick Simons (Glorious Ninth), 2006
First performed: October 2006 with Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (Furtherfield)

Ritual
Samhain
Networked
Eat garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum)
Sow late autumn / early winter
Full sun, fertile soil
Plant cloves below surface
Fertilise before planting
Weed often
Harvest when leaves yellow

Prepare
Fire
Myrrh, patchouli
Garlic, share
Texts on death, decay, darkness.

Host
Friends gather
Begin after 60 seconds silence
Read texts and talk:darknes, liminality, otherworlds.
Read, speak, listen simultaneously with some pauses
When not reading and talking eat some raw garlic
End with 60 seconds silence after last person speaks.

Enactment

Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Patrick Simons, Kate Southworth
Cornwall / London
Networked, recorded
Launch: 31 October 2006, 23:51:19 GMT