Romancing the Gothic is running an online 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, £20 or £50 for the day. We want to make sure everyone can come so support at the level you can 🙂 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!
Buy your tickets here
The 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.
PROGRAMME
All times are GMT
9 – 10 am – ‘The Tudor Gothic’ with Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
10 – 11am – ‘It’s the End of the World As She Knows It – Women Writing the End of the World’ with Roxanne Douglas
11 – 12 noon – ‘Folklore and the Landscape: Telling Stories About Space and Place’ – Writing workshop with Icy Sedgwick, host of Fabulous Folklore and author of Rebel Folklore, The Black Dog and Other Stories, The Necromancer’s Apprentice and many more!
12 – 1 pm – ‘The Art of the Kill: Dancing, Death and Dangerous Dames’ with Kate Harvey
1pm – 2pm – ‘Making Horror Movies with No Money’ with Pat Higgins, owner of Jinx Media and director of films including Powertool Cheerleaders vs. The Boyband of the Shrieking Dead, Killerkiller and Hellbride
2 – 3 pm – ‘I climbed into the coffin of my own freewill’: Monster-f**king and Reclaimed Agency with Evan Hayles Gledhill
3 – 4 pm – ‘Doubles, Doppelgangers, and Parallel Selves’ – Writing workshop with Lindz McLeod, author of Sunbathers, Turdurken and The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennett
4 – 5 pm – ‘Horror Theatre from the 18th century to today’ – Alexia Mandla Ainsworth
5 – 6 pm – ‘Watch Your Back for the Men in Black: a comparative history of thematic dark tourism in Washington, DC (The Exorcist), Point Pleasant, West Virginia (The Mothman), and Burkittsville, Maryland (The Blair Witch)’ with Rebecca Stone Gordon
6 – 7 pm – ‘Faces that Shouldn’t Be There: Pareidolia Writing Workshop’ with B. Rae Grosz, author of ‘Inconsequent’, ‘Clair de Lune’ and many more
7 – 8 pm – ‘Shock after Shock after Shock: David Demchuk on Long-Form Horror’ with David Demchuck, author of Bone Mother and Red X
8 – 9 pm – ‘Night of the Leaving Dead: The Impermanent World of the Eighteenth Century Grave’ with Dan O’ Brien
9 – 10 pm – ‘Poe vs. Mesmerism’ with Leanna Renee Hieber
* No Goths were harmed in the making of this event. Although they are delicious.
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