Cosmic Culture Club: MUTATION

Step inside Cosmic Culture Club, a strange and seductive collision of film, performance, music, costumes, and queerdos this spooky season! PARAPRONOIA Presents... A spooky season celebration of art and all things weird. Mutation is mandatory. Costumes are heavily encouraged!! COSMIC CULTURE CLUB is a queer prioritized space. We’re taking over Tin Roof for a night of horror, absurdity, experimentation, transformation, and dancing deep into spooky season. Come early for the films. Stay for the performances. Mutate on the dance floor. Bring your friends. Bring your creatures. Bring whatever version of yourself is trying to emerge. FILM SCREENING + LIVE PERFORMANCES + DANCE PARTY Friday, October 23 | Tin Roof | Charleston, SC 7:30 PM Doors 8:15 PM Screening 9:30 PM Live Performances 10 PM to Late Dance Party HOSTED BY Venus Alexander + Vasilios Papapitsios PERFORMANCES BY Queen Conch, Venus Alexander, & Sil (PARAPRONOIA) MUSIC BY Web Hollow + DJ Leo Lynx THE SHOW Prioritizing local and Southern LGBTQ artists and filmmakers, we’ve curated an evening of horror, experimental film, absurdity, music videos, animation, video art, and performance for your spooky season pleasure. This first gathering is themed MUTATION, exploring change, survival, transformation, and what comes next. Strange. Surreal. Queer. Dark. Funny. Psychedelic. Unclassifiable. WHY WE’RE GATHERING This inaugural Cosmic Culture Club is a fundraiser for PARAPRONOIA: Lucid Nightmare, an experimental science fiction film by Charleston based writer, filmmaker, and activist Vasilios Papapitsios. Born from Vasilios’s experiences with addiction, psychosis, chronic illness, disability, recovery, and survival, Lucid Nightmare transforms hitting rock bottom into a surreal story about mutation, connection, and choosing to change. Funds raised will help complete the film’s final edit, animation, visual effects, sound, and color so this deeply personal project can finally make its way into the world. Cosmic Culture Club will continue beyond this first night, with future gatherings supporting different artists, projects, and organizations from across the region. ENTRY $20 suggested donation Sliding scale available. NOTAFLOF: No one turned away for lack of funds. If you have the means to give more, your support directly helps us finish Lucid Nightmare and build the future of Cosmic Culture Club. NOTES FROM THE PRODUCERS ACCESSIBILITY: Tin Roof is wheelchair accessible. COSMIC CULTURE CLUB puts queer people, people of color, trans and nonbinary people, underprivileged people, disabled people, POZ people, and our trusted family and friends first. Anyone who polices female, trans, fat, POZ, Brown, or Black people’s right to exist in this space will be removed and hexed. Be weird. Be kind. Respect each other. Mutation is mandatory. Costumes are encouraged!! <3 Big THANK YOU to Tin Roof and Charleston Film Network for their support!!