About this Event
WHO'S READY FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STIFF DRINKS?!!
We heard you! By popular demand: Our last Stiff Drinks of 2026 is devoted to the space between the grotesque and the gastronomic by way of our new lecture - EATING MUMMIES!
JOIN US and our fabled FALSE PROPHET for a post-Thanksgiving feast for the senses! For starters we’re dishing out an appetizer of mid-19th century Egyptomania, followed by a main course of curious culinary tales about CORPSE MEDICINE and curative CANNIBALISM – mainly in the form of collecting and eating the remains of Egyptian mummies or using their ground up parts to make paint! The cherry on top: learn the juicy story of how one of the largest TOMB RAIDING enterprises on earth traces back to Philadelphia by way of The Academy of Natural Sciences and Laurel Hill Cemetery! We're talking a global network of mummy thieves, skull collectors, federal employees, and misguided scientists working in tandem to disover the origins of mankind. We don't want to spoil the surprise but it's one hell of a story that many Philadelphians (and cultural institutions) wish would stay dead and buried!
Don’t fill up on bread though, because you’re going to want dessert! Stick around after the talk and sink your teeth into our cannibalism meets holiday “horror-days” edition of our popular HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA! Prizes awarded to the top three teams!
It’s going to be a good old-fashioned stomach churning party to close out the year!
LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE AND TICKETS WILL GO FAST!
$10 per ticket. 2 tickets for $15. At check out you have the option of a single ticket (for $10) or double ticket (for $15).
We promise last call never tasted so good!
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STIFF DRINKS is a spirited community gathering focused on exploring themes related to the history of cemeteries, mortality, funerary customs, and all things, well…dead.
JOIN US bimonthly for a variety of scholarly, accessible, and respectful public dialogues: including informal lectures, activities, charitable events, and more. Think of it as an inclusive community for taphophiles by taphophiles!!
REMEMBER: Nothing’s too arcane, gruesome, or taboo - so long as you’re among good friends and have a couple of STIFF DRINKS!!
See you there!!
Sponsored by the Six Feet Under Society and the Friends of Mt. Vernon Cemetery.
Event venue & nearby stays
Strangelove's, 216 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, United States
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