HELL ÉPOQUE: Death-Themed Cabarets & Other morbid entertainments of 19th Century Paris

Name: HELL ÉPOQUE: Death-Themed Cabarets & Other morbid entertainments of 19th Century Paris
Start: 2025-02-17T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-17T22:30:00+00:00
Location: Helgi's

Schedule

Mon Feb 17 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Helgi's | London, EN

Monday 17th February, Helgi's + The Moon Temple Presents:
Hell Époque: Death-Themed Cabarets & Other morbid entertainments of 19th Century Paris, with Vadim Kosmos
A talk to illuminate the origins & fates of Fin de Siecle Paris’ craze for morbid drinking dens
Many may have seen Robert Doisneau’s famous 1952 photograph of Cabaret de L’Enfer’s (Cabaret of Hell) façade at 53 boulevard de Clichy, with its malevolent maw threatening to devour all who dared to step within its damnable interior. But how did this most macabre of cabarets originate and what went on within?
Tonight’s talk will illuminate the origins & fates of Fin de Siecle Paris’ craze for morbid drinking dens including L’Enfer’s less well known, but no less sinister, sister establishments; Le Ciel, Neants & Truands.
Tickets £15 at https://link.dice.fm/y7a9af6fcbea
Talk begins 8.45pm
Bar open 8pm - 1am
Vadim Kosmos, Emeritus Director of the Viktor Wynd Museum, is a DJ, writer & Aesthetic Consultant with a particular interest in post-war Italian & French popular culture.
For five years Vadim ran the highly popular ‘World of Kane’ blog – exploring the world of psychedelic-era fashion, art, film and music and has made many broadcast appearances on these subjects and on Italian & French Pop music and soundtrack composers.