Limerick: Hallowe’en for all Ages – Day and Night in the People’s Park Posted on October 21st, 2011
This Hallowe’en, the Limerick art collective Gothicise have teamed up with the Limerick City Council to present ‘A Haunting’ – a day and night-long celebration of the Victorian past of the People’s Park for all ages on Saturday the 29th of October.
The free events will start with a Children’s Treasure Hunt from 1pm to 3pm with lots of treats. Everyone is invited to wear fancy dress for a Hallowe’en parade at 2pm. There will be a special prize for the best Victorian themed costume based on the history of promenades in the park to show off new clothes in Victorian times! There will be Victorian music and a range of fun family activities inlcuding face painting.
As darkness falls there will be a twilight Tour of the Park for adults, courtesy of the Civic Trust, together with a ‘haunting’ of the Park. Visit outside the park in the evening to see spooky projections of old images of the Park overlaid on its present structures!
Limerick Printmakers will hold a Ghost Bus Tour with finishing at the Limerick Boat Club, where they will host their annual Hallowe’en Ball.
Everyone – young and old – are encouraged to come along, to dress up in costume – with suggested dress code “ghostly Victorian” – and to participate in these events in order to simulate and celebrate the importance of this Park as part of Limerick Victorian life.
Limerick City Council Director of Services Caroline Curley commented “This is a wonderful use of the Park that brings history to life for all ages and the combination of educational, arts and heritage organisations working on the initiative is a great reflection on the rich and diverse culture of Limerick City.”
Tracy Fahey of Gothicise commented “We’re delighted to link in with Limerick City Council, the Civic Trust, the Limerick Printmakers and the Hunt Museum in creating this special commemoration of the wonderful Victorian past of this Park and to highlight its potential to host events such as these. It is also an appropriate time to ‘blur’ the borders separating the living and the dead become blurred, so we present the Victorian past of the Park leaking through and distorting the present.”
For more information on the FREE events in the People’s Park visit www.ahaunting.weebly.com or the Environment Department tel. 061 407190.
Ball tickets are available from Limerick Printmakers tel. 311806
