My Crazy Sample Event
Monday, November 15, 2021
TBD
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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A warning: Hapless Children is populated with a menagerie of youngsters who come to bad ends, and for that reason it’s suggested that you avoid establishing any emotional attachment to them—empathy is not to be served at this meal. In the surreal universe assembled from Gorey’s 116 books and miscellaneous illustrations published from 1953 until his death in 2000, children rarely fare well. Likewise, the families from which these children emerge consistently rate low on the functionality scale. Your standard-issue Gorey family is riddled with secrets, amnesia, vanishings, and death, and if a nourishing family is encountered in one of his books, it’s a safe bet that disaster lies a page away.Gorey is not interested in heroes or transformative ascendancies nor happy endings. He likes victims, and while almost everyone in Gorey’s books ends up a victim, we tend to remember the children most. Nothing dispenses with decorum faster than the involvement of a child. Dickens certainly played this card, and he wasn’t alone in doing so. Drawing from a broad and well-established tradition of 19th Century penny-dreadful publications and children’s cautionary tales, Gorey rarely hesitates to use children to bring home a poignant message in his taut little tales.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://edwardgoreyhouse.org/pages/hapless-children-drawings-from-mr-gorey-s-neighborhood.
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: TBD