{"id":152,"date":"2008-10-28T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/UpbeaT\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-10-28T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:30:47","slug":"hallows-eve-events-and-resources-at-your-fiendish-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2008\/10\/28\/hallows-eve-events-and-resources-at-your-fiendish-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallow’s Eve: Events and Resources at your Fiendish Disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"All Hallow\u2019s Eve approaches! My minions and I, mostly my minions, have gathered all the information we could possibly muster under the strains of the horrible, academic torturings of various professors of doom, who themselves are most likely enslaved by their own administrative clockwork, which is itself most likely- I believe you get the picture. Complied for you and your costumed f(r)iends to exact your own hauntings on the cosmos at large are assorted and varied events, on campus and off, and resources for both spooky garb and d\u00e9cor. ENJOY, cohorts in trick-or-treating terror\u2026 BWAHAHAHAHA!\n\nRemember all those clubs you said you\u2019d join on Club Day at Frosh Week, however many years ago that was for you? If you want to do something small (presumably), see if any campus groups you\u2019re interested in are having an event of their own and tag along. We have hundreds, so if the \u2018Students-For-Cat-And-Dog-Equity Committee\u2019 is having a pumpkin carving get-together, hey, why not go? For example, the Cinema Studies Student Union<\/a> is holding, go figure, a movie night! And it\u2019s FREE.\n\nYour respective college may be having some events of its own as well, so bumble by its student union and see what\u2019s up. Example the second; University College\u2019s Literary and Athletic Society<\/a> is holding a $5 ghost tour<\/a> on the 28th, and the following day\u2026 an \u2018Are You Afraid of the Dark\u2019 marathon<\/a>. Bask in the brilliance of your childhood.\n\nWe cannot forget U of T's official giant Halloween party<\/a>, brought to you by U.T.S.U. Whoo! Beware the forty-year olds.\n\nThe Japan Canada Student Association is also having a giant club event, the \u2018<\/a>El Mocambo Halloween Bazaar Party\u2019<\/a> on Nov. 1st. If you\u2019d rather go partying on All Saints\u2019 Day, there be the details. You can buy tickets this Saturday at the International Centre from 2 to 5 pm. There shall be live music, COSPLAY<\/a>, and a costume contest with a trip to Montreal as the grand prize. Wowzers. It\u2019s 19+ though. Do not weep, young anime nerds.\n\n(and a raffle for tickets to see DIR EN GREY<\/a> AAAHH)\n\nThis lovely Toronto Halloween Guide<\/a> has more than enough information than one can shake an Elder Wand at, such as where to buy (or rent!) an<\/a> expensive<\/a> costume<\/a>, a cheap costume<\/a>, and hey! I fail for just noticing this, but there\u2019s also a list of links to second-hand clothing stores! If you don\u2019t find a retro\/vintage old costume there, second-hand stores are good for getting resources for making one on your own. Wash your finds first, and go to town. It\u2019s not a big deal, kids. Or you can waste <\/a>100+ bucks on some spandex.\n\nEvent-wise, one can drag one\u2019s friends along to a number of lovely places, and not just on Halloween Night either. Screemers<\/a>, at the Exhibition Place, is open on everyday starting from the 25th! It costs about $30, and there are some posters up around campus, which, err\u2026 le-git-ti-ma-tizes them a bit, in my opinion. Paranoid, much? Of course, there\u2019s also Canada\u2019s Wonderland<\/a>. I\u2019ve never been to their Halloween thing, but I hear it\u2019s pretty scary, with employees dressed as zombies randomly jumping out from bushes and doing a good job of staying in character. Church Street<\/a> has got \u2018Halloweek<\/a>\u2019 going on for the entire week, including a jack-o\u2019 lantern contest, a short horror film fest, the annual Halloween block party, and a \u2018Drag Swap\u2019. (left eyebrow, right eyebrow) I'm game.\n\nHere we have listed 47 club events<\/a> in Toronto, many with costume contests and the like. Please attend such events in groups, especially if you are female and under the age of 99. I do not want to hear of some poor first year reading this post, dressing up in a red spandex devil costume and going missing.\n\nToronto-Goth.com<\/span><\/a> naturally has many links to events, shops, and all things dark and spooky. Heck, they do all year round. Some of us don\u2019t want the spooky times to end (read: some of us = ME).\n\nIf all else fails, you could always hold your own bloody Halloween event. Were it not for an impending essay and not having thought of this earlier, I would hold a giant, creepy witchy picnic in Queen\u2019s Park.<\/span>\n\nI suppose one could do this if Toronto were a safer city.\n\nAnd, real quick-a-like, as this is becoming longer than I anticipated, DIY costume resources!\n\nInstructables.com<\/a>, where users create and post \u2018how-to\u2019 tutorials can show you how to make ANYTHING<\/a>. For Halloween, they\u2019ve got a plethora of how-tos for make-up<\/a>, pumpkin<\/a> carving<\/a>, decorations<\/a>, and, of courses, les costumes<\/a>! The featured tutorials can get pretty intense, as you can see, but one can always use the site\u2019s search engine to find a multitude of simpler (but just as awesome) ones. There\u2019s even a DIY Halloween contest, but it is only open to the U.S. Curse you, Joe the Plumber<\/em>.\n\nThreadbanger<\/a> is an awesome clothing reconstruction-oriented site (and my latest obsession), and has its own share of do-it-yourself costume ideas, as well as general self-made clothing ideas, featured indie designers, interviews and convention coverage. Last week\u2019s update was a strait jacket made from men\u2019s button-up shirts and leather belts<\/a>. Last year\u2019s Halloween tutorials included fairy wings from old hangers<\/a> and panty hose<\/a>, a mummy costume from bed sheets and tea<\/a>, and\u2026 well, go see for yourself. Please beware: once you click, you will never want to throw out old clothes again.\n\n***\n\nAlmost forgot! Ghost hunting attempts <\/a>have been foiled for the most part. Trinity building entered on Hoskin Ave. seemed to be residence, only investigated first floor. Only fear felt from being a non-Trin student in Trin building, and also visited chapel where older sister used to take me to church, before my own undergrad endeavour. Nostalgic at best.\n\nMassey College also residence. Avoided speaking to porter for fear of condescending tone. Will attempt again.\n\nChristie Manor yet to be located. St. Joseph\u2019s College seemed to sport same porter.\n\nUC saved for Halloween Night.\n\nSir John A. declined.\n\nNow excuse me while I go to class in what-looks-like my pyjamas.\n

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