Samhain: Procession, Ritual & Rave

🗓️ Friday, 31st October 2025
📍 Bar Nothing, Beach, Margate, Kent
⏰ 7:00pm – Late

Step into the dark and luminous threshold of Samhain — the Witches’ New Year — with an unforgettable night of ritual, procession, and revelry.

At 7:00pm, gather at Bar Nothing in Margate,  in your finest witch or wizard regalia. High Priestess Tree Carr and wizard Paul Buckingham will open the evening with a grounding ritual at the altar, offering smoke cleansing, sacred resins to prepare us for the journey ahead. Guests are invited to bring written ancestor names or devoted ribbons for the community altar.

At 8:00pm, we’ll move together in a torchlit procession to the beach, where Tree and Paul will lead a Samhain ritual and ancestor invocation. Through circle casting, intention-setting, and offerings of remembrance, we’ll honour our beloved dead and connect with the unseen. 

From 9:00pm until late, the magical procession becomes a magical party as we return to Bar Nothing for The Witches New Year with DJs Lo Barnes & Joanna Kerwood , potion-inspired cocktails, and dancing into the witching hours. Expect sonic sorcery, communal toasts to the ancestors, and magical awards for the most enchanting costumes.

Come to honour, to celebrate, and to dance between the worlds.

Tree is a published author and TEDx speaker who works in the field of Transpersonal Psychology with a focus on dreams, death, altered states of consciousness, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is a graduate of the Alef Trust in their programme for Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology and is a CPD Crossfields Institute Certified Death Doula. Her other studies include Ecology, Spirituality and the Paranormal with Dr. Jack Hunter at The Sophia Centre of the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Mediumship & Creativity at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science. 

Tree is a teacher at the acclaimed College of Psychic Studies in London, a faculty member at The Magickal Path School of Witchcraft in New York and teacher at The Psychedelic Society UK. Tree has also tutored students at the Royal College of Art (RCA), guiding them through lucid dreaming practices for creativity and inspiration. She also teaches a wide variety of esoteric courses on her own platform. 

As a High Priestess witch, Tree facilitates moon rituals, pagan funerals, handfastings, ancestral veneration ceremonies, and other sacred rites of passage that honour the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Her work holds space for grief, celebration, and transformation, guiding communities in marking the thresholds that shape human experience. Alongside her ceremonial work, Tree co-runs the bestselling retreat WITCH with singer Charlotte Church at The Dreaming in Wales — a gathering that blends ritual, song, and deep soul connection in the wild landscape of the valleys.

Paul Buckingham is an artist, dreamworker, and ceremonial magician with deep roots in Rune Magic. His practice bridges the seen and unseen, with expertise in the realms of dreams, shadow work, spellcasting, and ritual. As an artist, Paul captures the landscapes of his dreams, meditations, and trance states, weaving threads of magic into his visionary paintings. His work offers portals into the imaginal, where art becomes both a record of inner journeys and a living act of enchantment.