Description: The Cholmely Boys Club in the heart of Dalston, once known as Kingsland had new live today. Passing Clouds, Strangeworks and friends living and living dead gathered to create illumination, Lantern Works, for the now annual March of The Dead.    

myspace.com/halloweenmarch 

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The workshops take place 10-6pm at Old Boy's Hall, 68 Boleyn Road (just behind Vortex Jazz Club). All materials provided!  See MAP

JOIN US!! 

All are welcome– either by turning up on the night (Halloween) in costume, or by taking part in at least one of the wondrous forthcoming Strangeworks Halloween Workshops where they will be creating all manner of spine-chilling costumes and props for the parade! All materials are provided. Just come with plenty of pagan spirit and ghostly gusto…

And play...

Check out more details/photos of last year at www.myspace.com/marchofthedead  

Halloween workshops started on  Sunday 14th These are a few of the photos!!!

1. Mask making – THIS Sunday 14^th October

2. Flag making – Sunday 21^st October

3. Lantern making – Sunday 27^th October

4. The March of the Dead - Wednesday 31 October_ Hoxton Square to Dalston 

Please forward to interested parties and email us in advance if you will be in attendance! 

Passing Clouds Works
Richmond Road, just off Kingsland Road behind Uncle Sam's legendary Jazz Pub
+44 207 168 7146
we@passingclouds.org 

Link to us at www.myspace.com/passingclouds 
www.myspace.com/halloweenmarch

 

The task was to create a lantern that is capable of warding off your fears and possibility- Banish the evil spirits that dwell in this city!

We are being asked: "Are you afraid of the dark? 

And advised that the lanterns of our creation are "your protection against the darkness and your fears....."

A sign on the wall gives some of the history:

Kingsland Road is the name of a road, part of the A10, in the London Borough of Hackney in England. It runs from the junction with Old Street and Hackney Road (the section of the A10 south of this is Shoreditch High Street) north to the junction with Balls Pond Road and Dalston Lane, where it changes its name to Kingsland High Street. It should be noted that Kingsland Road means the road to Kingsland, an old settlement that has been largely absorbed by modern Dalston.

It one of the oldest roads in England and is thought to follow the route of the Roman Ermine Street.

thanks to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsland_Road 

Ermine Street is the Anglo-Saxon name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London (Londinium) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York (Eboracum). It was named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington and Royston, Cambridgeshire. The Anglo-Saxon name was 'Earninga Straete' (1012). 'Armingford', 'Arrington' and 'Ermine Street' are names that share the same Anglo-Saxon origin. It is also known as the Old North Road from London to where it joins the A1 Great North Road near Godmanchester.

Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate where one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London was located. From here it runs north up Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham and Enfield to Royston. This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10. At this point it crosses the Icknield Way. From Royston, it was formerly the A14 to the A1 but now it is the A1198 to Godmanchester (Durovigutum). Ignoring bypasses and modern diversions, the road through Huntingdon to the Alconbury junction on the A1 gives the line. The section from Alconbury to Water Newton, ignoring modern bypasses such as that at Stilton, follows the A1. Ermine street used to pass through Durobrivae, the slight remains of which can be seen to the east, alongside the A1 at Peterborough. The modern road returns to Ermine Street north-west of Stamford, near Great Casterton, through which Ermine Street ran.

thanks to:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine_Street 

Master Bock was looking Both ways

Twins of creation

A light to illuminate the darkness is created 

 Is this the nail of he who is to be warded off or welcomed in shadowlight? 

A

 Will my mask protect me?

A

 Some worked in triplicate...or are they triplets

or are they triplets...

 Owls considers in three forming a committee with self.

 Some work as a twosome

Be very Afraid if you are a demon of hate abroad on the Kingsland Road at Samhain/Halloween.