Halloween 2020:
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What is on, aside from maybe Trick or Treating
The second annual Powtown Pumpkin People yard art event
Powell River Living End of October Last year, Powell River Living magazine launched the Powtown Pumpkin People festival. Last year it was restricted to the Townsite. This year we’re inviting the whole area! We considered pausing it this year due to the COVID pandemic, but decided not to. After all, Pumpkin People is a perfect event to hold during a pandemic! How many other events, held at a variety of outdoor locations, feature something you can look at from a safe distance? Families can squish into their vehicles and drive around the community looking at Pumpkin People. How cool is that? Please join us this October and create your own Pumpkin Person. Once it’s built, put it on your front lawn for all the world to see during the final few days of the month. If you live in an area where bears are an issue, wait til the night of October 31 to put it out or use a plastic pumpkin head for your creation. To be entered in the Powtown Pumpkin People contest, email your name and address to contest@prliving.ca before 4 pm on October 30, so our esteemed judges can come have a look at your creation.
Cats vs. Dogs vs. Halloween Activity Package
Powell River Public Library October 28 to 31 Pick up a take-out bag of mask-making supplies and Halloween treats and meet up via Zoom on October 31 at 11 am for some virtual cat and dog mask construction. What will you be? Count Catula? Professor Doggenstein?! Make a mask and represent your side of the cats vs. dogs debate with some team trivia, action games, and collaborative spooky stories. Advance registration is required and closes October 19. Pickup will be available during library open hours October 28-30. A link to the Zoom meet-up will be emailed to you the day before the event. For more information, contact Children’s Services Coordinator Sonia Zagwyn szagwyn@prpl.ca. To register, please respond with your phone number, email, and the name of the child you are registering.
Witch’s Kitchen
Powell River Town Centre Later October A scavenger hunt for Halloween objects hidden in the window displays. Prizes and more!
BE LIKE THE BUTCHER: Build a pumpkin person in your yard. Yes, there are prizes!
Memento Mori
The Art Centre Public Gallery November 1 to 20 Memento Mori is a community response and collaborative expression of creative masks, digital projection, music and an ofrenda installation to honour grief and loss. The events are being offered with support from BC Arts Council and Powell River Council for Arts and Culture along with participation and sponsorship from multiple community organizations and artists. The activities have been held in the Cranberry cemetery for the past few years. This year, the event will be hosted at The Art Centre Public Gallery as well as online due to the COVID pandemic. Artists, Sophia Sanford, Leslie Sutherland, Claudia Medina, Pieta Woolley, Megan Dulcie Dill as well as the Brain Injury Society members and contributing artists are collectively engaging the community into conversations around living well, dying well and transitions between life and death. Events will be online for the community to participate in digitally and safely during COVID. “It’s important this festival has been happening in our community and we’re really happy to host these events in 2020,” said Karen Kamon, PRCAC president. The ofrenda, installation and mask exhibition will launch on November 1 between noon and 5 pm with COVID protocols in place at the gallery. The exhibition and events will run until November 20 and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 12-5 and online at: theartcentrepr.ca.
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Pumpkin collecting for animal feed Let’s Talk Trash November 2, 9 am to 4:30 pm at the Town Centre Depot behind RONA Recycle your pumpkins here!
HALLOWEEN EVENTS THAT ARE NOT HAPPENING THIS YEAR: H3 Henderson Haunted House Haunted Forest and Carnival at James Thomson Forestry Heritage Society Hallowe’en Train Living Water Candy Carnival Northside Fire Department Bonfire at Craig Park Town Centre Mall Trick or Treat
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