'Sleepy' With Added Creepy

Dedicating a festival to taxes would be rather unlikely to land you a spot in ICB. Over a fortnight talking about life's other certainty has however properly piqued our interest. This year's Matter of Life and Death Festival includes death cafes, crema-tour-iums (geddit?), a guided exploration of death from the Barber Institute and all sorts of things you can go to, with the end as their beginning. Tickets are now on sale to an absolutely-will-sell-out movie-eat-along by that dark, clever, really really dark, Annabel de Vetten's Conjurer's Kitchen. Did we mention she's dark? On May 10, nibble along to Tim Burton’s cult gothic horror Sleepy Hollow while working out what horrors de Vetton is serving up. She always leaves her precise menu as a surprise to event-goers but above is a chocolate skull (or twenty) she made earlier.