This Halloween, audiences are invited to experience The Haunted Glass — an immersive, sensory performance by regional artist Gabrielle Bates, presented for two nights only at Kandos Kitchen.
Once a wine bar and now a beloved venue for dining, cabaret, and intimate performance, Kandos Kitchen provides a spooky setting for this uncanny, atmospheric work about wine over the Halloween weekend. Its history as a social gathering place makes it an ideal setting for a performance that blurs the line between storytelling, ritual, and shared sensory experience.
The Haunted Glass invites participants to encounter wine as a living being — an entity composed of deep time, microbial activity, colonial histories, and future ecologies. Through guided tasting, collective listening, and seance-like summonings, audiences become “mediums” for the stories held within their glasses. The work has been noted for its originality, playfulness, and its ability to transform familiar experiences into something otherworldly.
The Haunted Glass is part of a growing wave of contemporary art emerging from regional NSW, bringing experimental performance into unexpected community spaces. Its presentation at Kandos Kitchen highlights the town’s evolving cultural identity and the role of small venues in hosting ambitious, place-based artistic work.
Friday 30 October & Saturday 31 October – Kandos Kitchen, 79 Angus Avenue, Kandos. Tickets are strictly limited and available now through Humanitix. Search for “The Haunted Glass” to secure your place at the table: https://events.humanitix.com/the-haunted-glass
