Darker Days and the Hastings Weird

I mentioned back on the very first day of this year that my friend Scott Wood and I were planning on setting up something around the “Hastings Weird”: There are some existing loose local networks/communities that I’d like to get involved with or am already getting involved with—both for the joy of being part of a community and with an eye towards Prefiguration—and there is also a gap that Scott Wood (of Reweirding, the London Fortean Society, and the Londonist) and I have identified for a practitioner-led “Hastings (and nearby areas) Weird” community, for which we’re planning on setting up informal meet-ups every couple of months over the course of 2026. We held a couple of small meet-ups, but they were mostly false starts. Then Scott, being far more organised than me, jumped into turbo-mode and has formed it into a new and better thing. Darker Days is a collective of folkloric, magical, fortean folk exploring Hastings and the world beyond with events, happenings, writing and more.…