LY DE ANGELES
Author, seer, educator, linguist, mystic
My writing is inspired by the gritty, dark city and north-country peat, heather and clansmen mix of heathenism and indigenous credence. From sitting in a pub, at a craic, with local folk, listening to the tales of that massive brae storm that drowned Raurie Douglas-Byrne and all aboard his lobster boat, while the heart of New Rathmore froze under a cloud of ice as harsh as a pregnant woman’s final push.
REWILDING CONSCIOUSNESS
Ly de Angeles was first published under the guiding hand of Nevill Drury (author/anthropologist/editor) in 1987. She has, to date, been in print since, tallying up 18 books across genres. She also writes for Medium and has been published in short story, poetry and essay form. Her memoir, INITIATION, a history of the occult, women’s movement, protest and music, published in 2016, to a wild and unapologetic release attended by some of Australia’s most distinguished Burlesque performers, ska musicians and aerial artists. See HERE.
Her most recent offering is a series of 5 audiobooks, genre mythic realism, self-narrated,
CROW MAGIC THE QUICKENING THE SHINING ISLE UNDER SNOW THE CHANGELING
PERSONAL
Ly de Angeles is an interspecies rights activist, deep ecologist and anti-religion, animism advocate. An adept interpreter of tarot and a sensei of a Japanese martial art she has also directed for street, stage and screen.
ACADEMIA
De Angeles is an alumni with Deakin University, Australia. As a semantic linguist with a degree in professional writing her speciality is the effect on human consciousness of language, it’s beauty and its deceits. Ultimately teaching techniques to rewire outmoded brain plasicity.
CURRENT WORK (extant)
See BOOKS & CURRENT WRITING
OTHER BOOKS
Savage | Bodywork 2022
Brave | For the Unclaimed People, 2021
Witch |For Those Who Are, 2018
Genesis | The Future. Science fiction, re-released 2017
The Skellig | Shapeshifting. Dystopian Fantasy (with Melaine Knight), 2017
Initiation | a Memoir, 2016
Priteni | the Decimation of the Indigenous Celtic Britons, 2015
Tarot Theory and Practice, 2007
La Fulgurance, (Canada)
Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future, 2005
When I See the Wild God | Celtic Mysticism, 2004
The Feast of Flesh and Spirit, Interstitial Poetry/Prose 2002
Witchcraft |Theory and Practice, USA, 2000 (also printed as Bruxaria Teoria e Pratica, Brazil)
The Way of Merlyn, UK, 1991
The Way of the Goddess, UK, 1987
FILM
WINGS—Short Film Genre: Black Comedy / Supernatural Themes / Art House.
Writer/Director – Ly de Angeles. Official Selection BBIFF
THE REDEMPTION OF JOE FRAME—Short Film Genre: Drama / Supernatural Themes. Writer / Director / Co-producer – Ly de Angeles
January 2010 – winner of the Jury Prize: Byron All Shorts
February 2010 – Official Selection Byron Bay International Film Festival
June 2010 – Toronto, Canada, Worldwide Short Film Festival Marketplace
Oct 2010 – Courts des Iles Film Festival, Tahiti
STAGE & STREET PRODUCTIONS
1992 – Wild and Wise Women’s Festival – Director, Producer
1996 – Wearing of the Green Pageant (Celtic Festival) – Director, Producer
2000 – Jesus Christ Superstar – Director
2001 – Romeo and Juliet, a Contemporary Version – Co-Director
2002 – Jesus Christ Superstar II – Director/Performer
2002 – Vertical (Youth Activity Centre Production) – Producer, Director
2003 – Moulin Rouge Does Byron Bay – Director
MEDIA
ABC Compass – New Age Journey, 2000
Byron Shire Echo – The Art of the Sword in Full Bloom, 2001
Herald/Age – Sarah Wilson, Article/Interview with Ly de Angeles, September 2011
Byron Shire Echo – When the Truth is a Powerful Ly April 2016
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Rivers in the Skin (previously known as Blue People), a trance/initiatory experience, based on Priteni |The Decimation of the Indigenous Celtic Britons (sonant edition)
Presented at–
Byron Bay Spirit Festival, NSW, Australia, 2016
Blue Flame Dreaming Indigenous Festival, NSW, Australia, 2016
Worldwide Facetime Livestream, 2016
Piyura Kitina (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre), The Conjure Tour, 2019
TOURS
Ireland, Launch for The Quickening, 2005
New Zealand, 2018: Evolve Festival, Nelson
Tasmania, 2019: The Conjure Tour:
Rivers in the Skin
Roadkill in a Once Upon a Time Forest