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Halloween fun
If a gaggle of small children start knocking on your door this afternoon, this is no trick.
Instead, you may be in for a treat, with Halloween putting smiles on the faces of more and more younger - and older as well - Australians each year.
Originating from a Celtic festival, October 31 has now become a virtually global event, with many Australian children now fully embracing the rituals of door-to-door “trick-or-treating” and other often pumpkin-related festivities.
One Douglas Shire performance troupe which is welcoming another excuse to dress up and play with fire is the Sea Circus.
This year, Sea Circus Productions has teamed up with PyroGlow Productions, Keep On Dancing, Clink Theatre and harpist Loni Fitzpatrick to stage the one-night-only show Spellbound: Tide of Terror II tomorrow night (Saturday, November 1) at The Surfy, with community events from 4.30pm and the show starting at 6.30pm.
Sea Circus’s Vanessa Carey, who spent some of her childhood in Canada, says Halloween is a project of creativity in deciding whether you will impersonate a traditional spooky character or something more meaningful.
“The joy it brings to see friends and family dress up and get a lil goofy or spooky is the gift of Halloween,” she says.
“Unlike my Canadian childhood Halloweens where we’d trudge through snow for candy, the heat sure makes it tough, yet I notice kids of the community pursue the tradition of trick-or-treating even with very few front porch lights in glow.”
The annual Sea Circus event is a chance for kids, adults and families to come together for a charming afternoon of fun and games, followed by an enchanting evening of dance, music and circus arts put on by passionate local performers, she says.
For further details about tomorrow's show, click here.
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