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Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curious-histories-a-strange-christmas-special-tickets-1031046767637Our Christmas Food & Friendship fundraiser whips up an unusual and humorous confection of vampires, carols, and historical strangeness.
All profits from the night will go to Food and Friendship. Twice a week, at their lunch clubs, they take leftover and unwanted food donations and cook them up into tasty hot lunches for elderly and learning disabled adults in the city, hosted at the Hove Methodist Church Hall, just around the corner from the pub where we're holding the show.
Our talks:
Before Dracula: How Vampire Fiction Cut Its Teeth
Vampires were rampaging through literature long before Dracula washed up at Whitby Abbey. The Count’s colourful ancestors include slavery abolitionists, female vampire hunters, suave aristocrats and soul-searching suburbanites. Vampires have been lurking on the fringes of literature for hundreds of years. They have a lot to tell us about the world that created them. Isla MacFarlane's talk follows these smart-talking blood suckers from forest folklore to horror staple.
Washing Socks By Night Since 1796:
The Weird History of ‘While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night’
Steve Bustin reveals the social and musical history of the well-known carol - for several years in the nineteenth century the only Christmas carol legally permitted to be sung in church. On the way, we'll take in pub carolling (and why every pub had its own tune for While Shepherds Watched), wassailing, the Puritan Christmas, and why the terrible poet who wrote the song perhaps didn’t really write it. And maybe end with a weird singalong?
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Poets Ale & Smoke House, 33 Montgomery Street,Brighton and Hove, Brighton, United Kingdom
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