Persephone Goes Down

Yep, it's that glorious time! We shall celebrate the season change heralded by the bride of Hades, Persephone, in surrealistic style.

Join us at the gallery, in costume, for cake, punch, apple bobbing, music, and a tarot reading. Bring your shadow selves and your seance skills as we bury summer and raise our spirits!

The gallery will be open from 11am - 9pm.

Persephone, Falling Rita Dove - 1952-

One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful flowers, one unlike all the others! She pulled, stooped to pull harder— when, sprung out of the earth on his glittering terrible carriage, he claimed his due. It is finished. No one heard her. No one! She had strayed from the herd.

(Remember: go straight to school. This is important, stop fooling around! Don't answer to strangers. Stick with your playmates. Keep your eyes down.) This is how easily the pit opens. This is how one foot sinks into the ground. “Persephone, Falling,” from Mother Love by Rita Dove. Copyright © 1995 by Rita Dove.