September is whistling past and preparations for this year’s Night of Dread are underway! We have some exciting plans in place for this year’s event and we need your help to bring it all together. This will be the 12th annual yearly festival of facing our fears, to be held on October 29th 2011. We are holding open workshops through September and October, and you’re invited: build a mask, puppet, or shrine, or help us build the effigy of the Year’s Great Fear! OR if you are interested in helping us on the Night itself, WE WANT YOU! Please read below for a variety of volunteer roles we are looking to fill.

Email outreach_claypaper@bell.net to get involved!

Workshop Schedule: (at the Field House and/or Rink House)

Saturday, September 24th —-12 – 4PM
Thursday, September 29th—–5 – 9PM
Friday, September 30th———5 – 9PM
Monday, October 3rd———–5 – 9PM
Tuesday, October 4th————5 – 9PM

October 5th – 28th:

Wednesday – Friday 5 – 9PM
Saturday and Sunday 11AM – 7PM

Wednesday & Thursday September 26 & 27: Volunteer Orientation 6:30pm, Dufferin Grove Park

SATURDAY OCTOBER 29th – NIGHT of DREAD!

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS:

  • Technical assistants for sound, lighting, set and stage management
  • Puppeteers
  • Masked Paraders
  • Parade marshals
  • Money Catchers (truly important for Clay & Paper Theatre)
  • Bread Givers
  • Clean Up Crew (everyone’s favorite people)

Join us for the twelfth annual Night of Dread, 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 tumultuous times.

Night of Dread is an unforgettable evening of pageantry, music and masquerade incorporating towering puppets, stilt dancers, fire-spinners and fearful masks in a daring exploration of dread.This much-beloved 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 Rink House to avoid disappointment!

4 PM: Parade begins assembling at Dufferin Grove
6 PM: Parade departs
Dress Code: Black & white and dreadful all over
Pay-What-You-Can/ $10 Suggested Donation