Friday 8th & Saturday 9th April
Hosting this time will be stern Teutonic mistress Eva Von Schnippisch, so in her honour we’ll be turning our gaze to 1920s Berlin—where the chaotic Weimar republic is tearing itself apart as Nazis and Communists vie for the people's hearts, and the currency devalues so quickly that banknotes must be over-printed at 1,000 times their original worth. Where does one go to drown one's sorrows? Why, the Candlelight Club, of course (or Klub Kerzenlicht, I should say).
It’s a decadent, desperate world where economic collapse and political mayhem waltz drunkenly with bold new art and bolder social abandon—the crossroads between an elegant feudal past and the thrilling modern world, where monocled aristocrats share tables with revolutionaries and women dressed as men, an artistic melting pot that produces the madness of Dada, George Grosz's satirical grotesques and the futuristic dystopian movie Metropolis.
Grosz captures the chaotic, decadent modernity of Berlin in ‘Tempo der Strasse’
Forget the gloom outside: here you can sway to the new "jazz" music from America, learn to dance the Charleston, flirt with our cabaret singers, and quaff Champagne and cocktails like there's no tomorrow—there probably isn't.
Live music will come from jazz troubadours the Swing Ninjas, and there will be tarot readings from our resident mystic Lucius and a pop-up vintage jewellery shop from Michelle Krausz.
The Swing Ninjas at the Candlelight Club
