No zombies today.
Zombiewalk Vancouver, Jr. was August 19 2006
Thanks to all zombies and soundsystems who decomposed nicely for the walk.
The undead rose rotting and stinky for some lurching and musical decomposition.
In fact, the zombie infection simultaneously descended on Vancouver's blood (guts and brains)-sibling San Francisco. Be terrified here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vancouver_zombiewalk_2005/
and here: www.eatbrains.com.
So long and thanks for all the brains.
Arrg.
*****
Zombiewalk Vancouver Jr., Esq. :: August 19, 2006; 3pm starting from the VAG
or perhaps Zombierock Vancouver, as roving zombie soundsystems are highly encouraged . . . If you are liberal minded and creative, you won't need to be told to interpret this liberally and creatively.
The walk will start as per unusual at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson and Howe). Undead from all zombiewalks of life will congregate in front of the VAG, wherever an anti-war protest is not congregating. Do not confuse the two; they will have different signage and gutteral utterances.
To combat weary zombie syndrome the route will be shorter. The beach party will be longer. However, in the spirit of 'make your own fun' the 'party' part of beach party will be up to all you zombies.
To make reading between the lines easy, this means that the walk will not end in the cemetery this year. Variety is the spice of death, and the walk up MainSt. was 'killer' on all the poor zombies. Before complaining, consider this:
Vancouver is curiously lacking in evenly distributed graveyards, preferring a decentralized approach that situates these oases of quietude outside of the main shopping and business districts.
This is perhaps explained by one of the following:
1. nobody who lives there dies
2. nobody who lives there stays dead
3. nobody wants to be buried next to ugly condos only to have their grave defiled by chihuahuas with botox injections.
or perhaps not. At any rate, central and accessible has won the battle over thematically appropirate.
Besides, zombies belong in the marketplace
and on the beach
***ZOMBIEWALK VANCOUVER 2005***
Saturday, August 27 - started 4pm from the VAG (and 5pm from 15th and Sophia)
(near Main St).
The dead rose en masse for the walk! Now that I've seen a couple hundred zombies swarming a shopping mall, riding a skytrain, and marching in a five block long procession of undeaded-ness I can die happy. Only to rise again to eat brains, of course.
!!!Thanks to all of the undead who so gruesomely rose to the occasion!!!
Zombie notice the first...
Saturday, August 27 2005 - starts 4pm from the VAG and 5pm from 15th and Sophia
(near Main St). Read on for further details. . .
The walk will start in two-stages as follows:
1. All non-lazy zombies (or "super zombies") are invited to gather
on or around the big steps at the Vancouver Art Gallery no later
than 4pm. From the VAG the horde will
be skytrain bound. After a stumble through the mall and a short
jaunt on Vancouver's fine public transit system we will de-train at
Main St. station and
stumble on up to the Bethlehem Lutheran
Church - 320 East 15th - two blocks east of Main. Once there, we will
take a short pause to collect ourselves, gnaw on brains, and meet
up with . . .
2. The lazy zombies. A second group of zombies will gather in
front of the above mentioned church (Bethlehem Lutheran, 320 East
15th, at Sophia and E 15th) at or
around 5pm. Remember - zombies tend to move slowly and
occasionally have problems with limbs falling off, body stiffness
and possibly skytrain security officers. If
you do not see any of your brethren exactly at 5pm, be patient.
Mill about and look scary.
Once all zombie factions have massed at the church it will be time
to head onward and uphill to Mountainview Cemetery at Fraser and
31st. For reference, the walk will proceed along
Main Street to 31st should any zombie stragglers be left behind
and/or spontaneous zombies wish to join the braaiiins procession.
Once at the cemetery, please be on good zombie behaviour - respect
your brethren.
We will linger a short while in the cemetery before moving onwards
to nearby Queen Elizabeth Park for some games, brains, fun, prizes,
brains and a pinata or two.
Yes, you do have to dress like a zombie. Those who do not do so
are welcome, but risk having their brains eaten by confused
zombies. You have to admit - they're not
all that smart, but they know a good living brain when they smell it.
Potentially useful things to keep in mind:
Causes of zombie-ness:
As everyone knows - or should know - zombies are usually
attributable to one or more of the following:
1. voodoo
2. science gone astray - chemical or biological accidents,
experiments, viruses and the like
3. the apocalypse
Of course, there are many more possibilties. Be creative. Corpses
in all stages of decay are encouraged.
For the low-budget zombie:
Oatmeal and liquid latex works wonders.
Food colouring and corn syrup makes convincing blood, but sticky.
However, also tasty.
Value Village - but I'm sure it's hardly necessary to mention that.
Finally: As mentioned previously - zombies are only really
effective when travelling together in large groups. Bring your
friends, foes, family and other loved ones.
Nothing says you love someone quite like caking yourself in
make-up, limping down the street together and eating them in the
park!
Pass this info on to anyone who might be interested - it has a bit
of a 'viral' feel to it, but see zombie cause number 2. It all
makes perfect sense.
cerebrally yours,
hHalloween events happened.
Devil's Night Massaker
Much gore, misanthropic metal, noise and dark ambient sounds, garnished with a room full of horrible medical curiosities real and imagined. boo
!! Zombie(walk) Epidemic Alert !!
The month of October brough a ripe harvest of Zombie Walks. Go go zombies-a-go-go.
Ottawa - October 23
Calgary - October 15.
Toronto - October 22
go to www.zombiewalktoronto.com for details
NYC - October 22
go to www.zombiecon.com for details
Madison, WI - October 22
Seattle - a few, I think
Find an undead version of yourself here (or see what kind of zombie fun you missed)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/vancouver_zombiewalk_2005/pool/
Extra special thanks go to the following zombies for making it all happen:
Zombie Brendan
Zombie Dan
Zombie Derek
Zombie Dinka
Zombie Emma
Zombie Harlow
Zombie Jason
Zombie Lashen
Zombie Laura
Zombie Mark
Zombie Ole
Zombie Phil
Zombie Rowan
Zombie Thea (for planting the original seed of evil)
Zombie Video In folks and their haunted castle
&
ALL ZOMBIES WHO HELPED RECRUIT THE STAGGERING MASSES!
***To keep in the 'zombie loop' or if you have video footage of the event please email zombiewalkvancouver at yahoo dot ca
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