Lovecraft's Birthday Celebration in Victoria, Canada
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Victoria, British Columbia's Solstice Cafe will be holding a birthday bash for H.P. Lovecraft later this year on...well, his birthday. This commemoration celebrating the 120 years since Lovecraft's birth will feature gobs of entertainment. Here's a prospective activity list from an official press release via Unfilmable.com:Friday August 20th is the 120th birthday of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. What's that you say? The paranoid, xenophobic old bastard has been dead since 1937, from a combination of cancer and Bright's Disease? Well of course he has, but why let a little thing like that get in the way of a birthday party?! Have a little vision!
We have. We've had visions aplenty. Appalling visions! Visions of a Cthulhu-riffic cabaret the likes of which this town has never seen! After all, Lovecraft IS the father of modern horror; he deserves no less, we think you'll agree. Yes, a hideous spectacle of spoken word, a phantasmagoria of poetry, music and comedy to drive you mad with glee! A loathsome yet hilarious parade of shambling horrors and general yog-sothery before your very eyes!
Also, birthday cake.
Performances by:
the diabolical Dave Morris
Plutonian Warlock Skawt Chonzz
the malevolent Missie Peters
Tindlosi Hound Wrangler GLuke Maynard
the khaotic Kimberleigh Roseblade
and many other diverse and terrible entities!
And if you haven't fled gibbering from the building after so much cosmic awesomeness, we will present an exclusive screening of director David Prior's award-winning Lovecraftian short film "AM1200" in the second half of the show!
Door prizes!
A thoroughly abominable HPL Trivia Contest!
Prizes for Best Costume!
FEEL THE CALL...
August 20th -- Solstice Cafe -- 529 Pandora Ave, Victoria
Doors Yawn Wide @ 7:30, Show @ 8
$10 at the door, $5 with costume
Canadians and Northwestern US citizens with a clear calendar on August 20th should consider attending.
-Grim Blogger
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H.P. Lovecraft is in the August Issue of Providence Monthly
Did you manage to get your hands on a copy of the August issue of Providence Monthly?
It contains a piece on H. P. Lovecraft in "The Last Detail" section on the back page; and it includes one of my H.P.L. headstone photos from my Flickr collections at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/ .
I've just confirmed by a quick call to the Providence Online office in Providence, that they did give me a photo credit; but I have not received a copy of the issue yet. It's "in the mail."
In early July, I began promoting the idea for an August piece on "120 Years of H.P. Lovecraft and Providence" to a large number of newspapers and magazines, and Providence Monthly is the only one that responded with a desire to run with it.
Get your hands on a copy of the issue to see what they actually printed; and your comments are welcome!
The Providence Monthly is the free, oversized magazine that profiles the people, places and things that make Providence a great city; and that can be found in bars, restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, art galleries, or any place around town where people congregate and interesting things happen.
Eighteen thousand copies are distributed each month.
http://www.providenceonline.com/providencemonthly/
Will Hart
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