Date: October 31st 2009
Time: 7:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: St Luke's Anglican Church, 11 Stanmore Rd, Enmore, NSW

RECLAIMING HALLOWEEN WITH THE GOTH n ROLL RECTOR AND THE FESTIVAL OF ALL THINGS DARKLY BEAUTIFUL

As Halloween takes hold in Australia as a commercial celebration, there is one suburb where the authentic experience will take over the streets.

Meet Gwilym, the renegade Rector of St Lukes, Enmore who brought the first ever Gothic Mass to Australia for last year's Under the Blue Moon Festival.

This year Gwilym takes us back to the controversial tradition of  All Hallows Eve, where the souls of those in limbo are said to be released through the prayers of their loved ones.  Gwilym reignites this tradition, reclaiming Halloween as directly related to Christ's passion, death and resurrection bringing light to darkness and new life for the dead.

This will be a most unusual event with a gothic dj on decks playing Dead Can Dance, Sisters of Mercy and Nick Cave tracks, as well as the historic and one of a kind 1883 Wordsworth and Maskell organ getting a work out with gothic and dramatic pieces.   The atmosphere will be gothick ambience with candlelit procession and service,  and Soul Cakes.  Soul Cakes hark back to medieval times and are the origin of  the modern “Trick or Treat”.  

Corpse Candles will be given out for the finale candlelit procession as the 1883 organ heralds us out with soul stirring music.

Like last year's Gothic Mass , The All Hallows Eve Mass will be  intensely visual and evocative, the right kind of spooky with reverance.  Fittingly it is in Enmore, the suburb of Sydney where all human beings dead or alive are encouraged to express themselves creatively and joyfully.

The All Hallows Eve Mass will begin at 7.30pm on Saturday 31st October 2009 at St Luke's Anglican Church, 11 Stanmore Road, Enmore.
Details from www.stlukesenmore.org.au or speak to the Goth n Roll Rector on 02 9557 4219