On Saturday, October 29, join us for a day long symposium featuring illustrated talks on macabre Catholic relics, 1960s televangalist Miss Velma, and books bound in human skin; films devoted to Victorian taxidermy tableaux of kitten weddings and tearful cemetery pilgrimages; a multimedia spoken-word performance devoted to Kraftwerk; and much more! Speakers will include Megan Rosenbloom of the Norris Medical Library of the USC, The Morbid Anatomy Muyseum’s Tracy Hurley Martin (cofounder and board chair) and Joanna Ebenstein (cofounder and creative director), MAM founding board member and New York Times best selling author Tonya Hurley, Morbid Anatomy Museum scholar in residence Elizabeth Harper, Gross America author Richard Faulk, and many more!
Date: | 10/29/2016 |
Time: | 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
Location: | La Luz de Jesus 4633 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, California 90027 United States |
Website: | http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/save-the-date-morbid-anatomy-in-los-angeles-for-our-first-california-pop-up/ |
Tomás Prower is the award-winning Latinx author of books on multicultural magic and mysticism, including Queer Magic and Morbid Magic. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, he previously served as the cultural ...