Nocturna "Graveyard Garden" Spring Ball w/ DJ Scary Lady Sarah

Saturday 5th of April 2025: The Nocturna “Graveyard Garden” Spring Ball w/ DJ Scary Lady Sarah

𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀 now in our 36th year is an 18+ dark alternative dance night held once every other month or so in Chicago. DJ Scary Lady Sarah spins a highly request-driven mix of current & classic goth darkwave industrial post-punk deathrock ethereal new wave ebm & more. It's a lot of fun & you should go! Come DANCE UNTIL DAWN amidst a 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 decor theme and amongst Chicago's denizens of the dark!

Featuring:

• Live free photo booth by the fantastic GlitterGuts Photobooth

• GIVEAWAYS

• VENDORS

Also:

• The Candy Cauldron will be on stage (help yourself!)

• Complimentary Nocturna buttons while they last!

• Coat check will be open ($4 per item)

• Dress up or down! All black encouraged or your interpretation of “𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧” attire (flowers or other foliage perhaps?)

10pm - 5am / 18+ welcome

$15. in advance; $20. at the door

Advance tickets on sale NOW:

https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/79444708

at Metro 3730 N. Clark Street Chicago

꧁ᬊᬁSpecial early feature:ᬊ᭄꧂ツ

And What About the Bells: The Poetry of Rozz Williams

Rozz Williams is best known as the founder of the death rock band Christian Death but he was also a performance collage and film artist who experimented with numerous musical genres and considered himself primarily a poet.

Nocturna will be opening an hour earlier than usual to present a special celebration of Rozz Williams’ poetry which will feature live readings of his poems from the book And What About the Bells from foreword author Zach Shaw and William Faith of Christian Death and Shadow Project.

The reading will include poems from the book that were used for Christian Death’s “Ashes” and “Catastrophe Ballet” albums as well as a second set of other poems picked by Shaw and Faith.

There will be a small number of the hardcover book And What About the Bells (signed by the editor) as well as a small amount of other limited edition related items available for purchase during Nocturna.

Arrive early for the readings and video at 10:30

❀𖤣𖥧𖡼⊱✿⊰𖡼𖥧𖤣❀

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An American Gothic Productions Event

Host or Publisher Scary Lady Sarah