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More festy's (and buckets of popcorn) than you can count on several severed fingies ✌️
Published 4 months ago • 4 min read
'Ello Dabblers!
A swift one for you this week, due to the fact that we were in the weeds (literally) doing actual manual labour and lost track of days 😅
Please do hit reply and tell us what you got up to, or if you honoured the "absolutely nothing" task!
This week, aside from the obvious 🎃 there are a bunch of festivals on - films, hip hop, Latin celebrations... Heaps of opportunity to get out there and explore something you wouldn't usually say yes to 🖤
ROADIE?! (I'll bring those pea crisps that taste like burger rings)
😈 Halloween Flash Weekend Tattoo collecting is a legit hobby... Go get something spooky or cute from their flash to celebrate either All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints Day (or both)! Where: Little Utopia, 87B High St, Leeston When: Fri 31st and Sat 1st, 10am-4pm Info:https://www.facebook.com/events/1105897008425614
THE QUIET, THE SLOW, THE LOW-KEY, & THE CLOSE-TO-HOME STUFF 🐌
🎞 ✨Lumière Cinemas✨ has their BIFF (British & Irish Film Festival) running from 30th Oct - 19th Nov. You can see all 23(!) films over multiple sessions (which would be $529 assuming you saw each once (at the adult rate) or $1587 if you saw each three times)
While we're very used to Halloween being ghoulish and candified (thanks, 'Yanks'), it's actually of Pagan origins - Samhain(pronounced So-wen) marks the end of the harvest and start of the Winteryness (North America, obvs).
"The symbolism was repeated in a spiritual way on the last day of October, Piatti-Farmell said: “This was when the boundary between the living and the dead was thought to be thinnest.”
In pagan times people dressed up to appease or scare any visiting spirits, she said, but when Christianity arrived, new “undertones” began to creep in and a new focus on children.
“From the late medieval period children began to dress up and go out asking for treats or gifts intended to bring comfort to the souls in purgatory, a practise known then as guising”."
"Ōtautahi locals - This newsletter will RUIN your free time... in the best way" 🔥
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