Valerie and Her Week of Wonders + Beverly Ketch!
Sat, Jun 14
|Epsilon Spires
A dreamy and gothic coming-of-age fairytale overflowing with bucolic beauty and macabre menace, this 1970 Czech New-Wave Masterpiece offers a lushly stylized phantasmagoric realm of vampires, black magic, and pagan sexuality. Our evening begins with ethereal music and poetry by Beverly Ketch!
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
A dark fairy-tale evocation of adolescent anxiety, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970, Dir. Jaromil JireÅ¡, 77 mins). takes its place alongside Daisies as one of the major works of the Czechoslovak New Wave to center female subjectivity. In a gothic storybook universe, 13-year-old Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) tumbles through the subconscious looking glass into a phantasmagoric realm of vampires, black magic, and pagan sexuality where fanged grandmothers feast on children and lascivious priests transform into weasels. Adapted from a novel by surrealist writer VÃtÄ›zslav Nezval, this lushly stylized cinematic fantasia overflows with dreamlike visions of beauty and horror.
Beverly Ketch is a poet, singer & lyricist known for her work as vocalist and songwriter with the groups Stella Kola and The Bunwinkies. She is a co-creator of The Lovelights, a multimedia collective investigating joy & magic which began as a children's television program and evolved into a series of all…
Tickets
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
$20.00
Sliding-Scale Ticket
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