The dates for this year's Halloween Trail have been set

The dates & times for this year's Disenchanted Forest Halloween Trail have been decided and there is exactly one month to go.

The following text is now published in the Magherafelt Arts Trust Octoberfest Brochure:

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Work on the site has already started in earnest. This is essentially divided up between the four departments of (Site Management, Lighting, Production Design and Special Effects) and there are plenty of jobs to be done in all of them.

If you are able to use a shovel, push a wheelbarrow, build a prop, blow up a balloon, paint a box, dig a grave, build a cave, rake a path, climb a ladder or even carry a cable you can help us out. Working bees tend to be at weekends after which we gather round a bonfire for a cook-up. It does help to know who is coming so that we have enough food and can plan the jobs around the skills that are anticipated.

However, if you would prefer and could spare even a couple of hours mid-week then we would be equally grateful.

You do not have to be a performer to help to make it happen.

The overarching script for this year's Disenchanted Forest is developing well and we are certain of a significant growth from last year.

Our calculations result in some 20 people on site for each night with most of them in the woods pretending to be anything other than human.

If you would like to take a part please check your availability for the dates (there will be a rehearsal or two in the preceding weeks) then contact us and we will work together to develop a role. Activities in the Forest are not scripted so much as motivated by the needs of the entire trail so some characters are guides, others are storytellers and others, well, they just scare people ... If you are keen but not available for all four nights please feel invited to job-share a role; find a friend who can swap in for you and develop.

You do not have to be part of the construction to be a performer, although appreciation does offer first choice to those who are.

There will be a production meeting on site this Saturday 2nd October. We can either have the meeting at 2pm after which new comers can take a tour to get up to speed with the design and the jobs that need to be done or we can have the meeting at 7pm after the working bee prior to lighting the fire for the cook up & lighting the trail in the dark.

Please let us know if you can help by volunteering to get the site ready and/or by being there on the Disenchanted nights.

Please let us know if you intend to be at the production meeting and whether you have a preference for the afternoon or evening. (and indeed if you intend to do some jobs that day and/or stay for a barbecue.

The Disenchanted Forest website will have details of organised working bees and if you use facebook please join our fan page where you can receive invites to all Disenchanted Events (working bees, Disenchanted Organising Group (DOG) meetings, fundraising gigs etc.

Otherwise we can be contacted on our mobiles:

Walter (Lighting) 07511 242 360

Kieran (Special Effects) 07770 529 353

Stevie (Production Design) 07756 399 255