Goth Collective Pumpkin Carving Party at Manor Coffee

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Carving a pumpkin alone in your kitchen at thirty-one is a slightly sad activity, and carving one in a room full of strangers who also own too much black clothing is somehow not. The Goth Collective worked this out before anyone else did. They take over a darkly romantic little coffee bar off Washington Street for two hours on a Sunday evening, hand out knives and newspaper, and let a crowd that mostly met online do something aggressively wholesome together. Nobody is performing. People are hunched over gourds comparing technique, arguing about whether a Nosferatu silhouette is too obvious, drinking coffee at an hour that guarantees none of them sleep tonight. The venue does real work here: it was built to look like a Victorian parlor, so the atmosphere never has to be imported, it is already in the wallpaper. Two hours, one pumpkin, a handful of new numbers in your phone. The seeds are your problem to take home.