The Beautiful and Damned: A Halloween Costume Party
Event Information
Description
Trick or treat yourself on the 3rd November for The Beautiful & Damned costume party, in the aptly decadent Vout-O-Reenees arts members club, housed in the crypt of a gothic church. Join us for an evening of art, cocktails, spooky performance and storytelling, live music and a sweet treat gory banquet!
The event runs alongside our exhibition, running over the Halloween period, and serving up some of Sweet ‘Art’s most decadently debauched arty offerings! No tombstone has been left unturned in selecting artists whose works explore the glamorous and grotesque, disturbed and diabolical, surreal and supernatural, merciless and macabre and uncanny and undead!
Start the evening with a gnawing feeling of anxiety as you lean in and listen to spooky tales by candlelight, courtesy of the talented Vanessa Woolf. Nibble on gory edibles as the feeling of impending doom rises, and then celebrate the witching hour in abject terror under the spell of avant- garde rock- cabaret band SLapPer! Very fancy dress will be mandatory at pain of death. Think frightening flapper. Think gory Gatsby. Be beautiful, be damned, be art!
Organiser Sweet 'Art
Organiser of The Beautiful and Damned: A Halloween Costume Party
How do you take your art?…drinking Crystal Head vodka shots while kneeling at a future ritual alter? Wandering through a magical Narnia style wardrobe to discover a digital, interactive snowstorm? Listening to artists beginning to slur their words while giving art talks at London’s first Art Bar Crawl fueled by Sailor Jerry Rum? With a vagina cupcake? While smashing a Donald Trump piñata filled with feminist badges? Or while getting involved in a Halloween Gore Draw?!
Born from a frustration with the lack of art exhibitions and events in London in aid of International Women’s Day back in 2012, Sweet ‘Art began life with Show #1 which was planned to be a stand-alone exhibition in support of IWD, curated from an intersectional feminist perspective. The success of this event led to a series of exhibitions and the eventual formation of Sweet ‘Art as a company in 2014, operating from a feminist ethos, focusing on privileging the voices of women and marginalized groups through the arts.
To date, Sweet ‘Art has hosted 16 large multi-discipline art exhibitions in collaboration with many high profile partners and sponsors, along with aiding artists in their own creative projects with curating, events management and mentoring support.
In hosting events that focus on creating a fun, inclusive and a participatory atmospheres for visiting guests, Sweet ‘Art aims to create spaces that expand ideas on what art can be, on what demographics it can be for or created by, challenging art norms, welcoming those who feel excluded and forging change.
