Odd Salon NYC: HALLOW
Join us for six stories of lost arks and spooky relics, sacred sites and sanctified people, worshipped bones and the forgotten dead, join us for Odd Salon NYC: HALLOW
Curated by Odd Salon NYC Co-Producer
Christian Cagigal
Kraine Theater
$25 In Person
$20 Watch From Home
Sliding Scale
available for both
Doors at 6:30PM EDT
Show and Stream at 7:00PM
EDT
Stories and speakers
Rain Wiegartner
Hell: A World Tour
We all know the basics: lots of
circles, maybe a rebellion against heaven, and ironic torments. But the
idea of a bad afterlife has a lot of traction outside the traditional
Western conception, and it can get pretty frightening.
Theresa Handwerk
City of the Dead: Hidden and Forgotten Gravesites of
NYC
We go about our days in New York City with about 8.3 million
other living souls, but what of those who populated the Big Apple in
centuries past? Many of them lie quietly in hidden corners, but
thousands are laid to rest beneath our very feet. Where in NYC are these
hallowed remains spending eternity...and is there any room left for YOU?
Casey Selden
Witches’ Sabbath: St Walpurgis Eve
Can an 8th
century Catholic Saint protect you from the witchiest night of the year,
when evil powers are at their strongest? Or would you rather join the
witches at their annual mountaintop conference and soirée? Either way,
St. Walpurga is here to bless you with an extra bonus Halloween season
each year.
Ily Squirrel Collins
37 Ghosts: The Ichthyosaurs Residents of a
Mining Town
During the gold rush, dead miners were buried steps away
from where they pulled gold from the ground. Little did they know, they
were also a short donkey ride from the largest death assemblage of
ichthyosaurs found to date. It remains a mystery, to this day, how those
prehistoric reptiles died…
Leonard Apeltsin
Edward and the Lost Ark of the Covenant
In 1941,
amidst the ravages of war in Ethiopia, - Scholar and soldier, Edward
Ullendorf steps into a secluded church, searching for an elusive prize:
the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Having vanished in 586 BC, this sacred
relic housed the Ten Commandments and supposedly possessed the power to
smite anyone who dared disrespect it. We delve into the mystic history
of the Ark, the various theories swirling around its secret location,
and Professor Ullendorf's efforts to unveil its resting place.
JR Pepper
Blood, Bones and Body Parts: Weird Christian Relics
The
idea of a religious relic is something found in most religions. However
the ones found in Christianity can be particularly macabre. Sometimes
they’re only a piece of fabric. Other times, an ampule of human blood,
or a piece of foreskin. Come hear what other artifacts ancient
Christianity holds…
Odd Salon curates cocktail hour lectures highlighting strange-but-true stories from history, science, art, and adventure, live on stage, over cocktails. We bring experts and enthusiastic amateurs together to explore history’s overlooked and under-told stories, from legends of lost cities to masters of art forgery, engineering failures to murderous sideshow performers, daring heists, questionable taxidermy, and tales of epic revenge. Sometimes with stick figures.
Founded in San Francisco, in 2014 by Annetta Black, Tre Balchowsky, and Rachel James, Odd Salon is inspired by the salonnières of the Enlightenment, the illustrated lectures of the Victorian period, and a strong desire to tell weird stories in good company. After several years of hosting salons in San Francisco, in 2018 we expanded to add a new chapter in New York City.
We are a community project, centered around a Fellowship of speakers and an extended family of Members, and we have partnered with amazing organizations including the California Historical Society, the Long Now Foundation, the California Academy of Sciences, the tall ships of the Grey’s Harbor Historical Seaport, and the Exploratorium science museum.
As a community-focused and mission-driven organization dedicated to the diffusion of unusual knowledge, we are proud to be a membership supported, fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.
