Thursday, 6 October 2016

The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum - All Hallows Ball & Dark Taxidermy

Halloween Taxidermy Classes
Costume Awards
&
Pumpkins

 
 
 
The Last Tuesday Society: La Danse Macabre
 
The Clapham Grand
28th October 2016
20:00 – 03:00
 
 
 

Halloween Taxidermy Classes
Join Us This Halloween For A Week of Classes in the Dark Art of Taxidermy
 
Stuff Your Mouse & Dress Him Up as Death or The Devil, Carve a Pumpkin, Make an Evil Krampus Squirrel, Pickle a Heart in a Jar or Articulate a Bat Skeleton in a Dome 

At the British Academy of Taxidermy 


La Danse Macabre
 
 
On the darkest night of the year, the veil between this world and the next hangs fine and futile as a cobweb. On this night, when the air quivers with lascivious laughter and wicked whispers, the Last Tuesday Society most ceremoniously invites you to be tricked, treated, tantalised and tempted at our magnificently mischievous Dance Macabre. Join us for the most opulent, most extravagant, most nefarious of Halloween Balls, in the spectacular surrounds of the Clapham Grand.
 
 
As always we expect and entreat our guests to don your finest attire, adorn yourself in your most magnificent garb and garm. And as is customary, those with the liveliest imaginations and most impressive creations will be richly rewarded. We are thrilled to announce this year’s categories for the...
 
 
Last Tuesday Society Halloween Costume Competition:
 
Hopkins award for Most Convivial Cannibal
Caspar/Lennox award for The Whitest Shade of Pale
Byrne Baby Byrne award for the Most Pan-continental Psychokiller
Most Stuffable Roadkill
The Oh My Gourd award for the Ripest Midnight Pumpkin
The Oh My Gourd award for Most Inappropriate Use of Squashes
Tallulah award for Most Flippant Floozy
Lupine award for Best Hirsute and Tailcoat
Burke and Hare award for Most Marvellous Medical Mutilation
Jack the Ripper award for the Dandiest Fop and Fopette
The Rumpsteppers award for The Rumpiest Rump
The Most Convincing Zombie
Best Use of Death by Kitchen Implement
The Sassiest Spider
The Creepiest Clown
The Vilest Villain
The Djanan Turan & Dila Vardar award for the Deadliest of Brides

         
The winners in each category will be judged and prizes awarded throughout the evening. 
 
We’re also delighted to announce that this year’s ball is held in association with Crisis.
 
Crisis are a UK charity dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change. Ten percent of every ticket purchase will be donated to this brilliant and vital cause.       
 
 
 
...But Back to the Ball

Finally, as the days lengthen and we find ourselves now hurtling towards the closing act of the year, we invite you to join us in celebrating its passing at our New Year’s Eve Eve Masked Ball. With our signature selection of irreverent revelries and sumptuous spectacle, there is no finer, more spectacular way to usher in the delights of the new year’s bright new dawn.
Line-up
Rumpsteppers  - Esteemed maestros of the decks, these gentlemen spin tunes from a vast array of styles and eras, all mixed deftly and astonishingly adorned with a maelstrom of vocal gymnastics. Never was a dance floor so dastardly delectable.

Feral and Frolic - Everybody knows that theatregoers of old paid top dollar for the boxes due to the privacy such an enclave affords, and therefore the misdemeanors to be enjoyed therein. In a return to tradition the enchantresses of Feral and Frolic bring you the most invigorating of installations, the most tantalising temptations for your sinful satisfaction.

Chivaree Circus - The bizarre and the beautiful; the profound and the confounding; Chivaree Circus presents a freakish fĂȘte of feats to astonish and amaze.
 

Sarah Olivier - If all the world's oceans were champagne, and the stars were a million winking eyes all vying to take you home - that's the vast and ravishing sound of Sarah Olivier and her formidable band. Operatic rhythm and blues with a streak of cabaret and all the passion and pathos of the chanson of their native land. Sarah is a captivating and unpredictable storm of sensuality over impossibly and irresistibly driving bass, hypnotic drums, and seductively swaggering guitar and sax. Rip-roaring rock 'n' roll has never been sexier.

The Celestial Salon - High above the roaring thorough and whirling crowds, up in the gods where the smoke gathers and the stars seem almost within reach you may discover that some said stars have fallen and oh, how enticingly their sounds and song shall play upon your unsuspecting ears. Featuring:

Dila Vardar and Djanan Turan - Formidable figures from London's folk scene, these two bring traditional Turkish music onto festival stages with all the shimmer and sass of the rock goddesses they invoke. East meets West, old meets new, and these queenly frontwomen join forces for one magical evening of magnificent music.

Leonie Evans and Garance Louis - Blues and jazz maestro, and multi-instrumentalist Leonie Evans, alongside virtuosic accordionist and cosmic musette Garance Louis. Their combined repertoires whirl you around the world with all the smokey shadows of faraway speakeasies, the glamour and heartbreak of Parisian summer nights, and feral romance of every starlit dancefloor from Havana to New Orleans.