About this Event
📚Lecture: "Trick, Treats & Turnips: The Origins of Halloween Traditions"
⏱️Time: Doors: 6pm Lecture: 7pm
🎤Speaker: Tish Black (Fairy Tale Author & Film Programmer)
A day to honour the dead or a day to TP your neighbour’s house? From Christian and Celtic origins, All Hallows’ Eve has changed its meaning, traditions, and symbols over the centuries. Our pillowcases full of candy would confuse the ancient Romans honouring their martyrs, but might delight the Celts who would offer it to the fairies.
Exploring traditions of harvests, death, mischief, and monsters, folklore scholar and fairy tale author Tish Black brings the past and present together to help us understand Halloween’s spooky origins, from turnip lanterns and trick-or-treating to black cats, movie monsters, Spirit Halloween, and 12-foot skeletons.
Tish Black is a fairy tale author and film programmer. Her debut book, Ebony, Blood, and Snow, is for fans of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: thirteen stories, inspired by fairy tales, of heroines who follow their gut, stand up for what they believe is right, and sometimes just get revenge. She has been studying fairy tales and folklore for many years and turning what she learns into content like that one TikTok video with 1.6M views and her video essays on fairy tale film adaptations. You may find Tish online at TishBlack.com, physically in Ottawa, and spiritually in the local cemetery. Her next book is inspired by winter folklore.
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Agenda
6:00pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.
6:55pm - Host Introduction
7:00pm - Lecture starts
7:45pm - Q&A with Audience
8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks
Event venue & nearby stays
Lowertown Brewery, ByWard Market, 73 York Street, Ottawa, Canada
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