LABC Presents: The Joseph Campbell Foundation's John Bucher
Wed, Apr 24
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Apr 24, 2024, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: Magic mirrors hold a storied place in mythology and folklore, acting as doorways to mystical realms, enchanted devices for seeing the unseen, and icons representing veracity and delusion. They seem to transcend their ordinary reflective purpose, serving as mediums for divination, peepholes into the innermost self, and grand facilitators for illusion. Mythologist John Bucher will tell stories of mystic mirrors ranging from the Japanese legend of Yata no Kagami, a sacred mirror representing wisdom and honesty, to the smoking mirror of the Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca, who used his obsidian mirror as a tool of prophecy.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: John Bucher is a mythologist and storyteller that serves as Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation. He has worked with government and cultural leaders around the world as well as organizations such as HBO, Paramount Pictures, DC Comics, The History Channel, Nickelodeon, A24 Films, and Atlas Obscura. He…