Memento Mori Fest: New York City
We hope to see you in New York City on May 2-4 as we partner with two of our favorite New York cultural institutions—ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism), devoted to Jungian image research), and The Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the finest 19th century garden cemeteries in the nation—to celebrate the release of Morbid Anatomy Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein’s new book Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life!
We will launch the book in style, with a weekend of talks, performances, parties, cemetery tours, rare book viewings and experiences all revolving around the theme of memento mori—Latin for “remember you will die.” We very much hope you can join us for this exciting, enlightening—and, perhaps paradoxically, life-affirming!—event.
Schedule Overview
Friday, May 2: 7pm - 9pm Screening at ARAS, Manhattan
Saturday, May 3: 12pm - 5pm Symposium at ARAS
Saturday, May 3: 5pm - 6:30pm VIP Afterparty at ARAS with wine, live performance, library tour, and rare book viewing
Sunday, May 4: 10am - 10pm Events at Morbid Anatomy Library, Industry City & The Green-Wood Cemetery (see here for details on ticketed and free Sunday events)
Ticketing Options:
$100: BIBLIOPHILE VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing as well as a signed copy of Memento Mori, plus Morbid Anatomy tote and pen
$75: VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing
$45: General Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium
$35: Member Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium (for both Morbid Anatomy and ARAS members)
FRIDAY, MAY 2
We will begin with an intimate Friday evening film screening of La Santa Muerte—a documentary film devoted to a popular Mexican skeletal folk saint—with its filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes. Participants will be invited to record their dreams for further analysis throughout the weekend.
SATURDAY, MAY 3
On Saturday, we’ll explore all things Memento Mori with a daylong symposium at the newly renovated ARAS auditorium. Speakers will include Asti Hustvedt, Joanna Ebenstein, Tiffany Hopkins, and Evan Michelson, with a full lineup to be released shortly. We will also have an opportunity to explore ARAS’s rich holdings, and will end the day with an afterparty for VIP ticketholders complete with complimentary drinks, a live performance of musician Kelley Swindall’s Memento Mori Sessions, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing.
SUNDAY, MAY 4
The festivities will continue Sunday in Brooklyn, when The Green-Wood Cemetery opens their gates during their Sunday in the Cemetery celebration, with two special Morbid Anatomy walking tours exploring their catacombs and Memento Mori gravestone imagery.
Following a reading by Joanna Ebenstein, the Green-Wood Trolley will take us to Industry City for a Morbid Anatomy Library open house. The Morbid Anatomy Library will be free and open to the public throughout the afternoon with special guest show-and-tells and tarot readings.
Our Industry City neighbors will help celebrate the theme of Memento Mori with special themed tattoo flash at White Ghost Studios, personalized Memento Mori portraits at Rusty Zimmerman Studio, and death-themed board games at Brooklyn Game Night. We’ll close out the weekend with drinks and tunes at Barrows Intense Tasting Room (open to all 21+), a few doors down from the Morbid Anatomy Library.
Full Sunday schedule can be found at this link with ticketing info.
Images: Vanitas, Herman Henstenburgh, 17th or 18th century; Joanna Ebenstein at last fall’s symposium; the ARAS building on 39th street; an ARAS Book of Symbols; Promotional Image for La Santa Muerte film; and an interior of the ARAS building.
We hope to see you in New York City on May 2-4 as we partner with two of our favorite New York cultural institutions—ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism), devoted to Jungian image research), and The Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the finest 19th century garden cemeteries in the nation—to celebrate the release of Morbid Anatomy Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein’s new book Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life!
We will launch the book in style, with a weekend of talks, performances, parties, cemetery tours, rare book viewings and experiences all revolving around the theme of memento mori—Latin for “remember you will die.” We very much hope you can join us for this exciting, enlightening—and, perhaps paradoxically, life-affirming!—event.
Schedule Overview
Friday, May 2: 7pm - 9pm Screening at ARAS, Manhattan
Saturday, May 3: 12pm - 5pm Symposium at ARAS
Saturday, May 3: 5pm - 6:30pm VIP Afterparty at ARAS with wine, live performance, library tour, and rare book viewing
Sunday, May 4: 10am - 10pm Events at Morbid Anatomy Library, Industry City & The Green-Wood Cemetery (see here for details on ticketed and free Sunday events)
Ticketing Options:
$100: BIBLIOPHILE VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing as well as a signed copy of Memento Mori, plus Morbid Anatomy tote and pen
$75: VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing
$45: General Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium
$35: Member Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium (for both Morbid Anatomy and ARAS members)
FRIDAY, MAY 2
We will begin with an intimate Friday evening film screening of La Santa Muerte—a documentary film devoted to a popular Mexican skeletal folk saint—with its filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes. Participants will be invited to record their dreams for further analysis throughout the weekend.
SATURDAY, MAY 3
On Saturday, we’ll explore all things Memento Mori with a daylong symposium at the newly renovated ARAS auditorium. Speakers will include Asti Hustvedt, Joanna Ebenstein, Tiffany Hopkins, and Evan Michelson, with a full lineup to be released shortly. We will also have an opportunity to explore ARAS’s rich holdings, and will end the day with an afterparty for VIP ticketholders complete with complimentary drinks, a live performance of musician Kelley Swindall’s Memento Mori Sessions, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing.
SUNDAY, MAY 4
The festivities will continue Sunday in Brooklyn, when The Green-Wood Cemetery opens their gates during their Sunday in the Cemetery celebration, with two special Morbid Anatomy walking tours exploring their catacombs and Memento Mori gravestone imagery.
Following a reading by Joanna Ebenstein, the Green-Wood Trolley will take us to Industry City for a Morbid Anatomy Library open house. The Morbid Anatomy Library will be free and open to the public throughout the afternoon with special guest show-and-tells and tarot readings.
Our Industry City neighbors will help celebrate the theme of Memento Mori with special themed tattoo flash at White Ghost Studios, personalized Memento Mori portraits at Rusty Zimmerman Studio, and death-themed board games at Brooklyn Game Night. We’ll close out the weekend with drinks and tunes at Barrows Intense Tasting Room (open to all 21+), a few doors down from the Morbid Anatomy Library.
Full Sunday schedule can be found at this link with ticketing info.
Images: Vanitas, Herman Henstenburgh, 17th or 18th century; Joanna Ebenstein at last fall’s symposium; the ARAS building on 39th street; an ARAS Book of Symbols; Promotional Image for La Santa Muerte film; and an interior of the ARAS building.
We hope to see you in New York City on May 2-4 as we partner with two of our favorite New York cultural institutions—ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism), devoted to Jungian image research), and The Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the finest 19th century garden cemeteries in the nation—to celebrate the release of Morbid Anatomy Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein’s new book Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life!
We will launch the book in style, with a weekend of talks, performances, parties, cemetery tours, rare book viewings and experiences all revolving around the theme of memento mori—Latin for “remember you will die.” We very much hope you can join us for this exciting, enlightening—and, perhaps paradoxically, life-affirming!—event.
Schedule Overview
Friday, May 2: 7pm - 9pm Screening at ARAS, Manhattan
Saturday, May 3: 12pm - 5pm Symposium at ARAS
Saturday, May 3: 5pm - 6:30pm VIP Afterparty at ARAS with wine, live performance, library tour, and rare book viewing
Sunday, May 4: 10am - 10pm Events at Morbid Anatomy Library, Industry City & The Green-Wood Cemetery (see here for details on ticketed and free Sunday events)
Ticketing Options:
$100: BIBLIOPHILE VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing as well as a signed copy of Memento Mori, plus Morbid Anatomy tote and pen
$75: VIP Package including Friday night screening, Saturday symposium followed by an afterparty with complimentary drinks, live entertainment, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing
$45: General Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium
$35: Member Admission to Friday night and Saturday afternoon Symposium (for both Morbid Anatomy and ARAS members)
FRIDAY, MAY 2
We will begin with an intimate Friday evening film screening of La Santa Muerte—a documentary film devoted to a popular Mexican skeletal folk saint—with its filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes. Participants will be invited to record their dreams for further analysis throughout the weekend.
SATURDAY, MAY 3
On Saturday, we’ll explore all things Memento Mori with a daylong symposium at the newly renovated ARAS auditorium. Speakers will include Asti Hustvedt, Joanna Ebenstein, Tiffany Hopkins, and Evan Michelson, with a full lineup to be released shortly. We will also have an opportunity to explore ARAS’s rich holdings, and will end the day with an afterparty for VIP ticketholders complete with complimentary drinks, a live performance of musician Kelley Swindall’s Memento Mori Sessions, and an ARAS library tour and rare book viewing.
SUNDAY, MAY 4
The festivities will continue Sunday in Brooklyn, when The Green-Wood Cemetery opens their gates during their Sunday in the Cemetery celebration, with two special Morbid Anatomy walking tours exploring their catacombs and Memento Mori gravestone imagery.
Following a reading by Joanna Ebenstein, the Green-Wood Trolley will take us to Industry City for a Morbid Anatomy Library open house. The Morbid Anatomy Library will be free and open to the public throughout the afternoon with special guest show-and-tells and tarot readings.
Our Industry City neighbors will help celebrate the theme of Memento Mori with special themed tattoo flash at White Ghost Studios, personalized Memento Mori portraits at Rusty Zimmerman Studio, and death-themed board games at Brooklyn Game Night. We’ll close out the weekend with drinks and tunes at Barrows Intense Tasting Room (open to all 21+), a few doors down from the Morbid Anatomy Library.
Full Sunday schedule can be found at this link with ticketing info.
Images: Vanitas, Herman Henstenburgh, 17th or 18th century; Joanna Ebenstein at last fall’s symposium; the ARAS building on 39th street; an ARAS Book of Symbols; Promotional Image for La Santa Muerte film; and an interior of the ARAS building.