Winter Solstice Celebration

Name: Winter Solstice Celebration
Start: 2022-12-21T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-12-21T22:00:00-05:00
Location: The Weeping Glass

Schedule

Wed Dec 21 2022 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Weeping Glass | Pittsburgh, PA

It's the darkest, longest night of the year....and we're having a party! Wednesday, December 21st from 6-10pm, we'll be celebrating the legends, traditions, and strange creatures of holiday folklore and legend.
Joseph Wyman Photography will be joining us at Black Forge Coffee Atown for tintypes with Krampus while the Black Forge Dark Elves warm your bones with their seasonal winter drink menu.
Tintypes are FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE and you will sign up upon arrival to Black Forge. There is limited space, there may be a wait...so get there early to secure your timed spot.
4x5 tintypes are $75 and 5x7 are $95, cash or card accepted.
The Re360 Warehouse on Manton Way will be host to a curated winter art market, and Yule Goat petting zoo.
You will also be able to feast and make merry with Fitzgibbons mead & wines, as well as Steel City Chimneys Hungarian Chimney Cakes (Kürtőskalács).
The Weeping Glass will house our Solstice/Yule Altar, so be sure to stop by and put your 2023 wishes and intentions into the altar's vessel in the weeks leading up to the event. We will tie them to the wheel of the Sun chariot to be carried along on the yearly journey through the sky. They will come into fruition when the Sun is victorious and the light returns. We will send them off at 9:30pm the night of the event in the 819 Community Space next to the shop.
The 819 Community Space will host fireside ghost stories woven by our own Baba Yaga. Telling ghost stories around a fire on the eve of Christmas was a long standing tradition and one of the most famous Chistmas stories ever told...was a ghost story. Charles Dickins wasn't the only once weaving tales of the super natural on the holiday and Baba has rounded up a nice little collection of tales for you. So pull up a chair to warm fire and escape into the night by way of story.
Readings will be at 7:00 and 9:00pm.
Been waiting for an opportunity to wear that Yule Lad costume? Do you have a Mari Lwyd of your own? Have you been anxiously awaiting an excuse to dress up as Jolukotturinn? Want another reason to pull that Krampus suit out again??
WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN A MONSTER PARADE? AND POSSIBLY WIN NEFARIOUS PRIZES FOR BEING A TOTAL NIGHTMARE?
Meet us in front of the warehouse on Manton Way at 8:00pm to join the Monster Cavalcade lead by Colonel Eagleburger's Band.