Fear the walking dead: the Canberra Zombie Walk kicks off 28 October at Glebe Park. Photo: Pat Rice Photography.
Ever wish you could be a zombie for a day and walk through the city scaring bystanders without getting into trouble? 28 October could be your day then – the Canberra Zombie Walk is back!
Get bloody and pale-faced and join the horde of undead, brain-craving Canberrans infiltrating the heart of the city when the Canberra Zombie Walk commences at Glebe Park at 3 pm.
Zombie walks have become a global phenomenon in recent years attracting hundreds, sometimes thousands of people. Participants meet in an urban centre dressed in Zombie costumes and make their way around streets and public places.
You might have to leave your appetite for brains at home though – instead, you can contribute to a brainy cause as this year’s zombie walk is run as a free event in support of the Brain Foundation.
The Walk is expected to include over five hundred walkers and hundreds of spectators. It begins at Glebe Park at 3 pm and gradually shuffles to Garema place via City Walk and past the Canberra Centre’s new beauty precinct.
The event is open to all ages and is popular with singles, families, and teams.
Organiser Ravi Sharma has seen a lot of interest in the event:
‘Halloween just gets bigger every year, with more and more people celebrating it. The Canberra Zombie Walk really sets the tone for the day, we’ve got families and teams coming back year after year,” he says.
This year there are 2 additional side events being run beside the main event. ‘The Undead Makeover ‘ will see a room full of professional makeup artists open to all ages of the public for Zombie and Halloween makeup sessions from 11 am. The ‘Undead Beauty Pageant’, an unusual take on a beauty contest, will kick off immediately after the Walk. Both of these events are to be held at Reload Bar on Northbourne Avenue.
To register (essential), click here, or visit their Facebook event page for more information.
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