It’s that time of year again! Romancing the Gothic is running it’s charity teachathon!
A whole day of Gothic and horror classes and workshops.
Choose your price.
Come and go as often as you please.
Talks recorded and sent out so you can catch up on any you missed!
You can even sign up if you can’t come on the day and you’ll get the videos!
Sign up here
R omancing the Gothic is running a charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them.
The event is a day of online classes and workshops with academics, experts and writers. You can come in and out as often or as infrequently as you like through the day.
You can choose your ticket price at £5, £10 or £20 for the day. At Magic Breakfast £5 buys a month of breakfasts and support for one child. £14 can give 50 children breakfast for a day. £42 can get a whole class breakfast for a week!
T he programme is as follows and will be updated to as the final classes are confirmed. Sessions will be recorded and sent out so you won’t miss anything whatever time zone you’re in! You can join us from anywhere in the world.
All times are GMT (British time)
9.30am – Welcome!
10am – Carmilla Voiez (author) – Writing Workshop – ‘Modern Prometheus: Breathing Life into Characters’
11am – Johannes Evans – ‘Crimson Peak: A Modern Gothic Romance’
12 noon – Madeline Dyer – ‘The Land of Death: Prehistoric Gothic Environments’
1pm – Allie Pino and Sam Hirst – Cooking Class and Talk – ‘Byron for Lunch’
2pm – Icy Sedgwick – Writing Workshop
3pm – David Southwell (creator of Hookland) – Ploughing Ghostsoil in the 21st century: Hookland, Folklore and the English Gothic
4pm – Evan Hayles Gledhill – ‘Fandom and Friendship: Girls and the First-Wave Gothic’
5pm – Kate Harvey – ‘Beauty and the Beast: Ballet as a Horror Motif’
6pm – Melissa Julian Jones – ‘Haunted by the Welsh Past: Use of History in Welsh Horror’
7pm – Leanna Renee Hieber – ‘The Misunderstood Mrs. Winchester and Her Mysterious Mansion’
8pm – Bronte Schiltz – ‘Exploration, Manipulation and Meditation in Britain’s Televisual Gothic’
9pm – Dan O’Brien – ‘Don’t carry your lights like a moon-curser’: The Nocturnal World of the Eighteenth-Century Undertaker’
*No Goths were harmed in the making of this event. They are strictly off the menu.
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