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Night of Dread is Clay & Paper Theatre’s invitation to the community to help us build images of our private and collective fears and to parade through the darkened streets of Toronto, then to mock them in Dufferin Grove Park.
We need your help to make this year's Night of Dread the most dreadful yet!
All are welcome to participate and to help us build imagery, masks, giant puppets and shrines for the event. We need many hands and many volunteers.
Learn new skills, meet new people, and make amazing things!
Drop by or contact us for other ways to get involved!
Be a part of the creative process!
•Help us create this year's Big Fear, and make new puppets, masks, images & costumes
•Repair pre-existing Night of Dread puppets, masks and costumes
•Make a new image of your fears with us
•Make a shrine (honouring people, concepts, or things)
Animate the Night of Dread as a performer with us! We need:
•Death Dancers (experienced dancers only, please)
•Money Catchers (people with big personalities!)
•Wildman
•Parade Marshals on bikes
•Big Fear puppet wearers/ carriers
Help us set up, run, and clean up the event!
•Puppet & Mask sign in/ sign out attendants
•Big Fear puppet dressers/ assistants
•Bird Mask Sellers
•Pan de Muerta/ Bread of the Dead Givers
•Technical Assistants (lighting, sound, technical experience)
•Set-Up Helpers (12noon - 5:00pm)
•Media Coordinator (comfortable approaching & interacting with community members)
•Volunteer Room Guardians (set up/ clean up snacks & ensure security of room)
Drop-In Community Workshop Information:
October 3rd—21st
at the Clay & Paper Theatre Studio
35 Strachan Ave.
(@ Ordnance St., 3 blocks south of King St. W.
between Bathurst & Dufferin)
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays
1:00pm—8:00pm
Sundays (October 13th & 20th only)
12:00pm—5:00pm
October 22nd—26th
in Dufferin Grove Park
Dufferin St., south of Bloor St. W.
(across from the Dufferin Mall parking lot)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
1:00pm—8:00pm
Friday
10:00am—10:00pm
www.clayandpapertheatre.org · clayandpaper@sympatico.ca
416.708.3332
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Night of Dread is Clay & Paper Theatre's invitation to the community to parade our private and collective fears through the darkened streets of Toronto. The hour-long procession returns to Dufferin Grove Park for an evening of ceremonial festivities that compel us to call on, mock and banish the fears that unite and divide us in these times. Night of Dread is an unforgettable evening of pageantry, music and masquerade, towering puppets, stilt dancers, fire-spinners and fearful masks in a daring exploration of dread.
This much-loved community celebration incorporates international folk and theatrical traditions, drawing inspiration from festivals of death and remembrance around the world. Come dance in the streets with our city's finest musicians, puppeteers, dancers and stilt walkers; together we'll laugh at our fears, waltz with death, eat the bread of the dead, and remember those who have gone from our midst.
Clay & Paper has many costumes and puppets available for the public to wear in the parade; come early to the Dufferin Grove Park Clubhouse to avoid disappointment!
4:00 pm: Parade begins assembling in Dufferin Grove Park
6:00 pm: Parade departs
7:00pm: Return to Pageantry in the Park
Dress Code: Black & White & Dreadful
Pay-What-You-Can / $10 Suggested
www.clayandpapertheatre.org · clayandpaper@sympatico.ca · 416.708.3332
2012-10-11
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