Qweird Cinema: Bargain Witch Book Tour ft. a Screening of Cat People (1942)
BlobCo is thrilled to present QWEIRD CINEMA: BARGAIN WITCH BOOK TOUR
Join us on Saturday, October 25th at the Community Theater in Catskill to celebrate the release of Bargain Witch, a new book of essays by Brooke Palmieri about magic, monstrosity, roleplaying as a wolf on the early internet, and queer and trans witches! And what better way to celebrate than with one of our favorite films about a supernaturally sex-driven femme fatale?
We’ll kick off the evening with a meet and greet at Sleepover Trading Co. at 7pm, followed by a snappy Q&A with the author about the folklore of shapeshifting and animal familiars–both themes of the book that Peaches Christ calls “a spellbinding triumph…like a séance with your smartest, sassiest coven.”
The Q&A will be followed by a screening of Cat People (1942) at 8:30.
Special $30 ticket includes admission plus a signed copy of Bargain Witch.
BlobCo presents:
QWEIRD CINEMA: BARGAIN WITCH BOOK TOUR
Saturday, October 25th
Meet & Greet at Sleepover Trading Co.: 7pm
Doors open at the Community Theater: 7:30pm
Cat-filled preshow from Sleepover Trading Co.: 7:45pm
Q&A: 8pm
Cat People Screening: 8:30pm
About Brooke Palmieri:
Brooke Palmieri is a writer and artist working at the intersection of memory, history, and transsexual alternate realities. His writing spans hundreds of years of queer and trans history; the magic, mystery and deep emotion of working in archives; and the past as a supernatural encounter. Brooke has trained as a historian at the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford, and in 2017 completed a PhD in radical 17th century printing history at University College London. In 2018, Brooke founded CAMP BOOKS to promote access to queer and trans history through rare archival materials, cheap zines, and sculptural installations. Brooke has lectured and given workshops on queer and trans history widely, from institutions like Harvard, Smith, and NYU, to galleries like Kettle’s Yard, Chelsea Space, and Tate Modern, and most importantly, community spaces like Queercircle and the LGBTQ+ Community Center in London. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he spent fourteen years in London and currently lives in the Mojave Desert.
About Bargain Witch:
An occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life.
In these essays by scholar and self-initiated witch Brooke Palmieri, occult history, the eternal now, and our magickal queer futures align, connecting us to an enchantment both contemporary and classic. Drawing upon the knowledge and influence of practitioners from Rachel Pollack to Tituba, Palmieri grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life, whether exploring the gossip of feuding Salem witches, paying the rent by playing “wizard” for news cameras, or detailing the psychic ups and downs of working in an occult bookshop. Written in a voice electrified with love for the craft and its lineage of eccentrics, Bargain Witch shows us witch life in all its quotidian humor and splendor, taking its place amongst the magickal classics that inspired it, a literary ouroboros.
