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Concrete Atlantis and Odditorium present: Ghosts of the Medicine Show
Dec
7
7:00 pm19:00

Concrete Atlantis and Odditorium present: Ghosts of the Medicine Show

A seasonally spooky outing from Concrete Atlantis and the Odditorium. Expect tales of the unexpected and out of this world glitchy TV signals and ethereal music. Words & pictures from Jak Hutchcraft and David Bramwell on the sounds of the afterlife and the shaman in showbiz, and a live set from Emma Tricca.

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Beyond Failure
Oct
8
7:00 pm19:00

Beyond Failure

15 years ago, Failed Architecture launched. Through articles, podcasts, and events, FA reconnects architecture with the real world. Expect: poetry with Edwina Attlee; panel discussion with Charlie Clemoes, Shumi Bose, Phineas Harper, Abiba Coulibaly and Kitya Mark; DJ set with Lay Kus.

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Either Ore Launch:  Harry Hill | Beau Flies | Paul Morley | Kelly Wu | Jo Ackerley | Olie Brice | Dorothy Spencer
Jul
21
7:30 pm19:30

Either Ore Launch: Harry Hill | Beau Flies | Paul Morley | Kelly Wu | Jo Ackerley | Olie Brice | Dorothy Spencer

Harry Hill, one of Britain’s best loved comedians, contributes a 20 minute club set and a musical collaboration for the ages. With performances from metaphysical power-trio Beau Flies, a solo double bass set from Olie Brice, Paul Morley reading from his acclaimed book about Yoko Ono, and a set of poetry by Dorothy Spencer.

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Miskatonic: The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film
Jun
9
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film

Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.

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Miskatonic: Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema
May
12
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema

Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.

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MINDWARCINEMA: The Arrival | Tanner F. Boyle & Mark Pilkington in converstaion
Apr
23
7:00 pm19:00

MINDWARCINEMA: The Arrival | Tanner F. Boyle & Mark Pilkington in converstaion

Mindwarcinema present a screening of the cult classic The Arrival (1980), directed by Ruth Norman of The Unarius Academy of Science. The screening will be accompanied by an in conversation between Tanner F Boyle, author of Getting Spooked and The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction) and Mark Pilkington (author of Mirage Men and publisher of Stranger Attractor Press).

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Miskatonic: Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings
Apr
14
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings

His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.

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Miskatonic: Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)
Mar
10
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)

From Greed (1924) to post-apocalyptic cinema, the desert has served as one of horror’s most unforgiving landscapes. This lecture, presented by Ken Hollings for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, traces how the American desert became a site of monsters, mutations, and moral collapse, shaped by atomic testing, exploitation cinema, and low-budget genre filmmaking.

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