GOTH PICNIC: VORTEX TOUCHES GRASS AGAIN - Sat. Aug. 15 - Philly

VORTEX TOUCHES GRASS AGAIN Outdoor Day Goth Gathering • Sat. Aug. 15 • 1PM–7PM • 21+ Philly Saturday, August 15, 2026 1PM–7PM 21+ With Valid ID Rain Date: Sunday, August 16 • 1PM–7PM (If Mother Nature refuses to cooperate, we'll simply bloom one day later.) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SECOND BLOOM Warehouse on Watts is still undergoing its summer transformation, so once again the bats leave the warehouse and return to the gardens... After an unforgettable first gathering, VORTEX returns to the breathtaking grounds of historic Grumblethorpe in Germantown for one more strange summer afternoon. Gather beneath towering old trees, centuries-old stone walls, and Grumblethorpe's legendary historic ginkgo tree as we celebrate another day of dark music, beautiful weirdness, and community in one of Philadelphia's most unique outdoor settings. Apparently touching grass wasn't so bad after all... • Darkwave • Industrial • Post-Punk • Strange Vendors • Good Company • Fresh Air (Still Slightly Terrifying.) Licensed bar service provided by Warehouse on Watts. Warehouse on Watts returns this September. Until then... The bats bloom once more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DAY WORSHIP GOTH • DARKWAVE • INDUSTRIAL • AGGROTECH • EBM FUTUREPOP • SYNTHPOP • POST-PUNK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DJS IN THE GARDEN OF THE SECOND BLOOM mighty MIKE SAGA PANZERMENSCH Special Guest The Return of Shadowland's DJ DAVE GHOUL GRAVERSLANE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE BAZAAR OF STRANGE DELIGHTS Featuring: Vendors TBA More Curious Merchants To Be Announced ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROOF WE TOUCHED GRASS... AGAIN Photography by Stephen Roselli ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ APOTHECARY SPIRITS Beer, Wine & Other Mystical Potions Provided by Warehouse on Watts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT TO BRING Pack a Victorian mourning picnic. Pack a vampire picnic. Pack a goblin picnic. Or simply pack whatever keeps you alive until sunset. Blanket or Lawn Chair Parasol / Umbrella Flow Toys Hoops Sunblock Water Picnic Basket, Snacks & Food Your Weird Friends Please Note Outside alcohol is not permitted. All alcoholic beverages must be purchased through the venue's licensed bar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PLEASE DON'T BRING ✘ Outside Alcohol ✘ Litter ✘ Bad Vibes Please help us protect and preserve this beautiful historic property so we can continue gathering in this magical space. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ADMISSION TO THE GARDEN Early Bat — $15 (First 25 Tickets Only) Advance Admission — $20 Gate Admission — $25 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHERE WE TOUCH GRASS... AGAIN Grumblethorpe Historic House & Garden 5267 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19144 Rain Date: Sunday, August 16 • 1PM–7PM Any weather-related announcement will be made through the official VORTEX social media pages if the rain date becomes necessary. 1PM–7PM • 21+ DAYWALKERS ONLY