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Derry Girls become Scary Girls for
Halloween
25.10.19
THE much-loved Derry
Girls are set to become jaw-droppingly Scary Girls
as a mural of the cast comes to life for the city’s
Halloween celebrations.
Street art organisation UV Arts, who created the
tribute to the Channel 4 show on the wall of a local
pub, are teaming up with Edinburgh-based arts
collective Projector Club to devise an exciting
projection mapped installation – where pieces of
video and animated content are overlaid onto the
wall – for three nights during Derry Halloween. |
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The Derry Girls mural on the gable of
Badger’s Bar. |
The installation
outside Badgers Bar on Orchard Street will be in
place from Monday 28th October to Wednesday 30th
October as part of Awakening the Walls, a
spectacular free trail of illuminated animations,
performances and more along the 400-year-old Derry
Walls.
The projection art will reflect this year’s Derry
Halloween theme, The Other World Awakens, and is
expected to draw on an eclectic range of influences,
from the Irish legend of the Morrigan to the Mexican
Day of the Dead.
Further details are a closely guarded secret, but
the tens of thousands of local and international
revellers who descend on the city for the weeklong
Halloween festival can expect to see Erin, Michelle,
Clare, Orla and ‘the wee English fella’ as never
before.
Donal O’Doherty of UV Arts said: “We’re taking the
Derry Girls mural and dressing it up in true
Halloween style. It will feature all things
Halloween, and a few surprises, but we don’t want to
give too much away. It’s mesmerising what can be
done with video mapping.”
Derry Halloween, which runs from October 26th to
November 1st, will see supernatural beings and the
souls of the dead flood into the city for a week of
revelry – and demonstrate why the event has been
voted best Halloween destination in the world.
This year, Derry Girls (or perhaps Derry Ghouls) are
expected to be one of the most popular costumes.
Highlights of the Derry Halloween Festival include
the Awakening the Walls trail around the city
centre, a Carnival Parade, the Legenderry Halloween
food event and of course the fireworks finale.
For more information on Awakening the Walls and
Derry Halloween, visit
www.derryhalloween.com and to view
Derry Halloween Traffic &
Travel click the link. |
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