Creatures of the Night

Celebrate the nights of all-hallows weekend in Bear River at the second annual Creatures of the Night: Light Parade & Lantern Garden

The creatures of the night welcome everyone in the family to participate by joining us for creature & lantern workshops leading up to All Hallows Day where we will celebrate the night in glowing, whimsy and obscure costumes, together we will light up the streets of Bear River with monstrosity & delight

We encourage you to create your own puppet costume, or glow up your Halloween costume with lights and join us as we parade the dark village streets with glowing creatures

We will be hosting a series of workshops so community members can come together and craft their own creatures every Sunday in October at Oakdene Community Centre from 1-4pm

If you need inspiration or motivation to make a costume, this series of workshops leading up to the parade will offer a creative, safe, and collaborative space to discuss and create creature costumes and lanterns in preparation for the parade on November 1st

Each weekly session will include a workshop led by a local artist. Lantern sessions will also include a kid-friendly activity. Project participation is not required, all are welcome to show up, hang out and work on your own creature

Workshop participation is optional for parade participation, self-led creations are welcome

The parading will showcase the talents of local artists as well as live music, light shows and will be followed by a garden of lights in the Bear River Waterfront Park

Meeting 1:

Discussion & Information Session

September 17th

Meeting 2:

Build a Creature & Lantern Workshop - Moth Making

October 5 from 1-4pm

Root Cellar at Oakdene Community Centre

Meeting 3:

Build a Creature & Lantern Workshop - Lantern Making

October 12 from 1-4pm

Auditorium at Oakdene Community Centre

Meeting 4:

Build a Creature & Lantern Workshop - Giant Glow Worm

October 19 from 1-4pm

Root Cellar at Oakdene Community Centre

Meeting 5:

Build a Creature & Lantern Workshop - Lantern Making

October 26 from 1-4pm

Auditorium at Oakdene Community Centre

Final event:

Creatures of The Night Light Parade & Lantern Garden

November 1st at 7pm in Bear River

Participants meet at 6:30pm at Oakdene Community Centre

The Root Cellar is located at the back of Oakdene Community Centre, follow the driveway to the first door in the back

The Oakdene Auditorium is upstairs, head in the front door and follow the stairs up to the gymnasium

Things to Bring

(bring what you can, borrow the rest)

Glue

Scissors

Tissue Paper

Newspaper Cardboard

Sheer Fabrics

Battery Powered Lights

Anything else you can imagine!

Donations of any supplies are appreciated!

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We are also looking for individual volunteers, groups, childcare organizers, activity coordinators, etc, who are unable to attend but want to participate to reach out if you are interested supporting the event by creating flameless lanterns to decorate the village

Admission is free but donations for and of supplies are welcome to be dropped off at meetings

This is a volunteer run event, we want this cool event so we're organizing it, all support is welcome

For questions or more info, contact organizers at CreatureNightBR@gmail.com