Last Tuesday Society

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The Last Tuesday Society is a London-based organization founded by William James at Harvard and run by artist Viktor Wynd[1] with directors Allison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett, putting on literary and artistic events monthly.[2]

Today, The Last Tuesday Society is active in many fields, from expeditions to Papua New Guinea, lectures, seances, a taxidermy academy, curiosity museum and home to [3] serving traditional Absinthes[4]in the true Belle Époque fashion.

The Society has put on a large array of parties over the last eight years or so, including Halloween Balls,[5] Wyndstock, a festival at Houghton Hall in Norfolk,[6] The Animal Party,[7] From The Beast To The Blond – a Fairy Tale Masked Ball with Marina Warner[8] The Orphanage Masked Ball,[9] a Danse Macabre[10] and 'Loss; an Evening of Exquisite Misery' and modern day version of Gunter Grass's Fictional onion cellar nightclub from The Tin Drum where guests dress in decaying beauty, chop onions and cry.[11]

Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors was located in Mare Street Hackney and dealt in taxidermy, shrunken heads and all things odd.[12] Viktor Wynd Fine Art was a commercial gallery where over 50 shows were curated including on Mervyn Peake[13] Tessa Farmer[14] Leonora Carrington[15] and Stephen Tennant[16] In 2014 the shop and art gallery were converted into The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History[17] and a bar[18] following a kickstarter campaign[19] The Society has a long association with Hendricks Gin who have sponsored 'The Hendrick's Quarterly Seance'[20] and seem to currently be sponsoring the exhibitions program on Alasdair Gray, Gunter Grass & Mervyn Peake.[21]

The Society also has put on what it claims to be London's longest running lecture series with over 500 lectures in the last ten years.[22]

Collectors, researchers and absintheurs Allison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett joined the Society's Cocktail Bar in 2016.[23] Together, they have curated the UK's most extensive list of premium quality, traditional absinthes and curious cocktails to pair.[24] The Last Tuesday Society was voted the Best Bar in London by 180,000 public voters for the DMN Awards 2018/2019.[25]

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  2. ^ "London Underground : At Home With Vintage Design". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. ^ "The Last Tuesday Society - London's Most Bizarre Bar". 1 December 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. ^ Lipp, Sophia E (3 April 2018). "Five places to try absinthe in London". Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Halloween horror: Celebrate All Hallow's Eve with The Last Tuesday Society, The Halloween Masked Ball or at Eat Your Heart Out in London". TNT Magazine.
  6. ^ "Wyndstock – A Midsummer Night's Ball & Garden Party – Wild Card – Run Riot". Run Riot.
  7. ^ "The Animal Party". LondonTown.
  8. ^ "Marina Warner, From The Beast To The Blonde, Fairy Tale Masked Ball, Last Tuesday Society". remotegoat.com.
  9. ^ "The Orphanage Masked Ball". Time Out London. 10 November 2012.
  10. ^ "last tuesday society – London Particulars". wordpress.com.
  11. ^ "Loss – An evening of exquisite misery at the Arts Theatre". Run Riot.
  12. ^ "Little Shop of Horrors". How To Spend It.
  13. ^ "Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Art Opening Saturday 9th July 2011". fadmagazine.com.
  14. ^ "The Fairies Are Coming – Tessa Farmer". tumblr.com.
  15. ^ "Leonora Carrington show!". Phantasmaphile.
  16. ^ Murgatroyd. "Serge & Tweed: Stephen Tennant at Viktor Wynd Fine Art". sergeandtweed.blogspot.co.uk.
  17. ^ Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent (7 November 2014). "Museum of creepy curiosities opens in London". Evening Standard.
  18. ^ "N.B.: Horizon and the CIA". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  19. ^ "Hackney's Little Shop of Horrors will become a museum". Hackney Post.
  20. ^ "Gin Lane: Spirit forces at work at the Hendrick's Quarterly Seance". ginlanebar.blogspot.co.uk.
  21. ^ SarahAStewart (29 September 2015). "Three Authors And Their Art At Museum Of Curiosities". Londonist.
  22. ^ JE. "Morbid Anatomy: The Viktor Wynd Museum: A New Museum of Curiosities in London Needs Your Help!". morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk.
  23. ^ "The Last Tuesday Society". DesignMyNight.
  24. ^ "The Last Tuesday Society | Hackney's Most Curious Cocktail Bar". www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org.
  25. ^ Splarn, Dan. "The Last Tuesday Society: Hackney cocktail bar voted best in London". Hackney Gazette.
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