Something wicked this way comes…
An adventure in celebrating the changing seasons through art and culinary workshops, great food and dancing.
Join us to mark the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark with a celebration of the cycles of the natural world. We are offering four spook-tacular events. Join us for one or two events or spend the entire evening with us!
Costumes are encouraged but not mandatory.
LIKE DISCOUNTS? REGISTER FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS AND RECEIVE 20% OFF THE SECOND WORKSHOP AND THEN RECEIVE 20% OFF THE BUFFET!
3:30pm-5pm Paint-a-Pagan-Mask & Sip Workshop: Create your own expression of the spirit of the season by painting and embellishing your own paper masks to wear and take home. Nosh and sips included. It’s another “Paint and Sip” but this time our artist, Nadine Allan, will guide you through an exploration of the significance of this seasonal transition to our ancestors with a story-telling history lesson about the rituals and art from around the world that marked the end of the harvest, the end of the summer and the earth’s movement from light to dark. $55 per person.
REMEMBER: REGISTER FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS AND RECEIVE 20% OFF THE SECOND WORKSHOP AND GET 20% OFF THE BUFFET.
5pm-6pm The Magic of the Garden Cocktail Workshop (Adults only 21+): Explore the Garden-to-Glass cocktail movement guided by our expert mixologist through the creation (and sipping) of produce-driven cocktails and mocktails. Nosh included. Our guest instructor, Mixologist, Andrew Oliveri, of Generous Pour Bartenders will get your creative juices flowing by demonstrating how to use garden-fresh ingredients to make extraordinary cocktails at home. For this event he is partnering with Raicilla Imports and showcasing this distilled agave spirit. Raicilla is rooted in 400 year history and folklore perfect for this holiday!
Cocktails to be demonstrated and sipped:
Bell pepper and cilantro raicilla margarita
Halloween negroni
You will embrace the magic of this workshop as we take you on a unique journey that will fill your soul and feed all your senses! $65 per person
REMEMBER: REGISTER FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS AND RECEIVE 20% OFF THE SECOND WORKSHOP AND 20% OFF THE BUFFET.
6-7:30pm Dios de los Muertos Buffet catered by Casablanca Restaurant in Venice. All the classics you love: taco bar (shrimp, carne asada, carnitas), fresh handmade tortillas, Mexican rice, beans, caesar salad, chips, guacamole, salsa, flan, beverages and margarita bar. $39 per person
ARE YOU REGISTERED FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS? RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT ON THE TICKET PRICE OF THE BUFFET.
Casablanca Restaurant Venice
DELICIOUS MEXICAN & SEAFOOD CUISINE
Over 40 years ago, Casablanca introduced a new type of Mexican cuisine to the Venice community. Our menu contains many of the traditional Mexican entrées but also lesser known Mexican cuisine including one of our specialties, the Calamari steak, which is pounded into a filet and served with your choice of sauces
7-10pm Dancing: DJ - Miller Music
Playing a diverse range of music, Miller Music specializes in high-energy sets from world to deep house and everything in between. Working closely with each client, MM is skilled at designing sets that resonate with each individual crowd and shifting the music and beat as the party demands keeping the room jumping.
Surrounded by music throughout his life, he has been influenced by his latin musician grandfather and audiophile father allowing him to draw from a broad knowledge base of musical styles and “of-the-moment” trends.
Admission to the dance portion of the evening is included with your paid ticket to either workshop or the buffet. If you’d like to attend dancing only, click the button below to purchase tickets. $15 per person includes a beverage.
About the Artist
Nadine Allan is a visual artist who focuses on themes of ethnobotany, migration and semiotics. Growing up with a multi-cultural background, she is inspired by the universal power of plants to be our aids in daily life. She experienced the healing powers of herbs through family members who practiced Chinese medicine and learned about self-reliance from her American family who tended edible gardens. At age ten, her grandfather, a botanist, gave her a flower press that he had built. This sparked her very first plant-based entrepreneurship, creating and selling artwork created out of pressed flowers. She has a degree in Fine Arts from UCLA and continues to combine her passions for art and nature. Visit her shop at Feral Botanics.
About the Instructor
Andrew’s cocktails are heavily influenced by the wide variety of hyper-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic fruits and herbs sold at our Los Angeles Farmers markets. His is a culinary approach to bartending. Classic cocktails are reimagined and beautifully presented by pairing them with fresh fruits and herbs - a produce-driven approach which reflects the Californian palate.
You can find him behind the bar at Roosterfish on Abbot Kinney. Visit his website at generouspourbartenders.com