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Memento Mori and the Macabre: Creating Monsters – Mary Shelley & Clive Barker

October 28, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

🖋️ Unleash the Darkness Within: The Long Beach Creative Group and Bunny King Productions extend a chilling invitation, beckoning you to step into the abyss of “Creating Monsters: Shelley & Parker.” As dusk descends, the Rod Briggs Gallery transforms into a sinister realm where the lines between reality and the macabre blur. 📚🎨

📅 Date: Saturday, October 28th, 2023
🕒 Time: 4pm to 6pm
📍 Location: Rod Briggs Gallery, 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803

📖 Summoning the Unholy: Brace yourself for an evening of unearthly tales as the words of Mary Shelley and Clive Parker reverberate through the gallery’s shadowed corridors. The readings, dripping with the essence of dread, will claw at your mind, birthing nightmares that shall linger long after the event’s end.

🎨 Gallery of Monstrous Visions: Traverse the dimly lit gallery, where monstrous canvases and sculptures stand as chilling tributes to the literary creations. Each stroke of the brush and sculptor’s touch breathes life into the unnatural, allowing you to witness firsthand the birth of creatures that haunt the realms of imagination.

🪞 Reflections of the Damned: “Creating Monsters: Shelley & Parker” is not merely an event; it’s a descent into the abyss of the human psyche. As you wander through the gallery’s cursed depths, confront your own inner monsters and the darkness that lurks within, all while surrounded by the eerie ambiance of the Rod Briggs Gallery.

🕯️ Don the Mask of the Uncanny: Attire yourself in garments befitting this night of literary horror, where the boundaries of imagination are shattered. Let the darkness within you resonate with the authors’ creations, as you partake in an event that defies convention.

To seize your place amidst the chosen few and to learn more about this forbidden gathering, visit longbeachcreativegroup.com. As the night beckons, heed the call to immerse yourself in a world where the monstrous holds sway—a night that will leave you forever questioning the limits of human creation.

This is sponsored in part by the Briggs Family Trust, the Port of Long Beach, the Arts Council for Long Beach, and the City of Long Beach.

Venue

LBCG / Rod Briggs Memorial Gallery
2221 E Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803 United States
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(562) 400-5166
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