Night of the Witches

April 30, 2017 2:00PM - 7:00PM at Phantom Carriage Brewery

Details in Summary:
(2pm-7pm) April 30th, 2017
(2pm-5pm) Food + drink specials will be available from our taproom.
(3pm-4pm) Meet your host for the night, mortician Amber Carvaly. She runs a funeral home that focuses on hands on deathcare. While this is meant to be a fun and casual social hour she encourages you to feel free to engage and ask as many questions as your heart desires.
(3:30pm) Illustrated talk: Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night): Halfway to Halloween with Sarah Chavez
(4pm-6pm) Screening 'The Love Witch" (2016)
(6:30pm) Last call!

Join us on Sunday, April 30th and for Walpurgisnacht [valˈpʊʁɡɪsˌnaχt] Also known as "Witches’ Night". This day is always exactly 6 months after Samhain and it is believed that on these two nights the veil between the worlds separating the living and the dead - the seen and the unseen thins; allowing devils, demons and witches to mingle openly among us as they travel to their meeting places.

Our objective for this event is to raise money for Death and The Maiden (a group devoted to examining the relationship between women & death by sharing ideas & creating a platform for discussion and feminist narratives. They hope to create a supportive and inclusive community, and to amplify the voices of those actively creating the future of death) and Planned Parenthood. All generous donators will receive a raffle ticket that we will hold at the end of the movie.

Sarah is a museum curator and writes and recreates historical and cultural recipes for Nourishing Death; which examines the relationship between food and death in rituals, culture, religion and society. Sarah also co-founded Death & the Maiden with death scholar and author, Lucy Coleman Talbot. She has been featured in Vibe, Dazed, Mic, and Marie Claire.

A big shout out to our sponsors:
Creeping Museum: creepingmuseum.bigcartel.com
Mountain Rose Herbs: mountainroseherbs.com
Laundry Bear Games: laundrybear.com/a-morticians-tale/
Origins Digital Curio: etsy.me/2pup1ol
Larkspur: larkspurla.com
Ludlow Luna: ludlowluna.com
Robie Eisenberg:robineisenberg.com/shop

Want to learn more about Amber & Sarah?

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/33617/1/why-women-are-leading-the-death-positive-movement
https://deadmaidens.com
http://www.refinery29.com/mortician-embalming-makeup-process

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