[NEohioPAL] Ashtabula's Biggest and Best Ever Halloween Party Next Saturday Night!

[Pamela Hammond]

Order tickets today for Ashtabula's biggest and best ever Halloween bash!  



"Stage Fright!"



will be held Saturday, October 25th   

8p.m. - 1 a.m.

at the Ashtabula Arts Center

For adults 21 and over 

Tickets are $15 per person

and must be purchased in advance 

(party will be sold out and walk-in tickets will be unavailable).

(440) 964-3396



Includes three rotating bands "Blues Project,"  "The King Pins" and "Bar Trek!"

Plus Chinese Auction, 50/50 raffle, games, costume contests, prizes, beer and wine cash bar and more!



Who knows more about dressing up in wild costumes and make-up than the staff and volunteers at the Ashtabula Arts Center?  Halloween has become one of the most popular holidays in the country and the Arts Center has decided to go all out celebrating it this year. "Stage Fright!" will fill the center with a full evening of Halloween fun for adults age 21 and over on Saturday, October 25th.  

 

This John Leombruno tribute/Arts Center fundraising party will be held from 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. and will feature three rotating bands-"The Blues Project," "The King Pins" and "Bar Trek" who have all volunteered to play throughout the event.  The evening will also include a Chinese auction filled with art items donated by local artists, a 50/50 raffle, games, costume contests and more.  For a small fee local artist Ralph Bacon will be drawing caricatures of guests in their costumes and guests can also get a tarot card reading by "a mysterious gypsy woman."  A buffet of snacks and hors d'oeuvres such as "sweet and sour eyeballs," "mildewed spinach nibbles" and "severed finger cookies" will be served and there will be a beer and wine cash bar. 

 

The Arts Center staff knew immediately that they could pull off a fantastic Halloween party.  Their theater prop cabinets were already bursting at the hinges with lots of things that could be used for great decorations. What they don't already have, they knew their art department could make.  They have tombstones and an old coffin that has been seen on stage several times in show such as "Evita." A number of female volunteers who will spend the evening selling raffle tickets and leading games and contests will be made up to look like "Frankenstein's brides," wearing old bridal gowns found in the theater's costume loft.  Tim Dorman, who does much of the lighting design for the Arts Center's theatrical productions, will be designing lighting for the party as well as putting together some old horror movie and spooky comedy show clips that will be shown on the large expanse of walls in the gallery.

 

The Arts Center staff came up with the idea for the Halloween party as a way to raise much-needed funds. "When the economy is doing poorly, one of the first things the government cuts is funding for the arts," says Pamela Hammond, public relations/marketing coordinator for the Arts Center. "As schools cut their budgets, they also cut arts programming. As families try to tighten their budgets at home, it is often their spending on entertainment and the arts that is reduced.  At the Arts Center, we needed to find some extra ways to raise dollars this year in order to keep up with the higher costs of utilities and everything else that we are also being faced with."

 

The party will also be a tribute to the late John Leombruno, a long-time local drummer who died this past year.  

 

"John loved music.  He was all about music," says Jim Fuller of 'The Blues Project' and 'The King Pins.' "John worked by day as a banker and he was very good at it, but his real love was music.  He loved drumming and he was always looking for places to hear live bands. What really made John special to me though, was that he was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things for other people.  He lived his whole life with an attitude that was always asking 'what can I do for you?' Even after he got sick and people would call to ask him how he was doing, John would turn the conversation around to find out how they were and if there was anything he could do for them.  He was just an ordinary guy but he was an extraordinary one as well." 

 

"We are very grateful to the bands and the many volunteers and donors who are coming together to make the party a success," says Hammond. "Our intention is to pack the evening so full of great activities that people will be talking about the party for years to come."

 

Tickets are available for sale at the Arts Center, 2928 West 13th Street in Ashtabula or by phone at (440) 964-3396. Tickets are $15 per person, age 21 and over only.  Underage ticket holders will not be admitted.  Ticket sales are limited to 150 persons.  All proceeds will benefit the Ashtabula Arts Center.



The Ashtabula Arts Center is funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.



Pamela Hammond
Public Relations/Marketing Coordinator
Ashtabula Arts Center
Phone/Fax: 440.964.3396
aac at ashartscenter.org
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