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Oregon Coast Aquarium Gets Spooky This Weekend |
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10/23/08
Secrets of the Season |
Oregon Coast Aquarium Gets Spooky This Weekend
(Newport,
Oregon) - It's time once again for the Oregon Coast Aquarium's annual
soiree of the sinister, Creatures of the Night. The Aquarium will close
at 4 pm and reopen with jack-o-lanterns lighting the way through the 16th
annual Creatures of the Night, the Aquarium’s annual Halloween Party,
Saturday, October 25, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Creatures of the Night offers a safe environment for a fun family celebration featuring activities for all age groups including games, fun, treats, frights, delights and costume contests. Each area will be marked with signs designating "happy faces" for younger children and “scary faces” for the more fearless. Young children will find interactive games and activities in the main indoor galleries. For older children there are spooky haunts lurking in the outdoor caves and creatures hiding in the shadows of the nature trail.
This year’s theme, "Very Scary Karaoke" will feature performances of nightmarish karaoke in the front courtyard as Burning Truth, a fire dancing troupe, performs dazzling choreography with flames. Sea Myths will be enacted within the indoor galleries and the haunted caves outdoors will feature ghouls and goblins. The nature trail will have a fairytale theme with the dark side of fairytale characters and their friends. Ghost Pirates will perform at the entrance to Passages of the Deep and the exit lobby will feature "Ghosts of the Coast" stories by Andre' Hagestedt in the Gleason Room. Costume contest winners will be chosen by a panel of judges and awarded prizes.
Activities:
7 - 9 p.m. Andre’ Hagestedt, editor of BeachConnection.net and TravelParanormal.com tells “Ghosts of the Coast” stories in the Gleason Room, Passages of the Deep. Stories are ten minutes long each and begin at 7:15, 7:35, 7:55, 8:15 and 8:35
Games and activities throughout the evening
Eric Nepom with the Pirate Improv Theatre Show will perform in the Theatre
7 - 9 p.m. Candy distribution as visitors leave
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| The Oregon Coast Aquarium is filled with throngs of spooks, young and old. |
8 - 8:30 p.m. costume contest with a variety of categories and age groups
Admission is free with donation of a new, unwrapped toy or 2 items of non-perishable food items for Lincoln County Food Share or pet food for Lincoln County Animal Shelter enter free. Without donation adults pay $2 and kids $1. Creatures of the Night is sponsored in part by Dennis P. McManus, CPA, Gastroenterology Specialists of Oregon, Western Partitions, Inc., Georgia Pacific, Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, Newport, American Administrative Services and Oceana Natural Foods Cooperative.
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon. www.aquarium.org
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