Welcome to Islington Now’s liveblog, covering the ghouliest and most ghastly goings-on in the borough. If you see anything particularly spooktacular, let us know! Comment on the liveblog, tweet us on @islingtonnow, like our Islington Now page on Facebook and send us your best fancy dress pics! Happy Halloween!
18.58 So concludes our liveblog of Halloween in Islington. Islington Now is off to change into their costume, carve a pumpkin, trick or treat and then eat loads of chocolate. See you next year!
18.53 Alina who lives off of Holloway Road has emailed her and her housemate’s best pumpkin efforts. The middle one is her first ever pumpkin attempt and we think it’s a pretty good job!
18.51 The Old Queen’s Head in Angel are doing a Naked Halloween Reading Special, 7-12pm run by the London branch of international burlesque life drawing group Dr Sketchy. Why don’t you go along, after all, what could be more scary than your birthday suit?
17.40 Islington Mill Studios have a tantalisingly mysterious event tonight. ‘Werewolf’ promises “Four times the deception, four times the lies and four times the paranoia. It’s a social game which you can easily pick up but is impossible to master. This Halloween we show social engineering like never before..” It’s free and it starts at 6.30pm so overcome your fears and head down!
[Edit: The Islington Mill is actually in Salford. But we’re not discriminatory. It can masquerade in our Islington post just this once as it’s Halloween…]
17.33 @metpoliceuk tweets: “If trick or treating – don’t enter houses – stay on the doorstep #celebratesafely”
17.31 @luckyvoice tweets: “@3days_in_london FREE HALLOWEEN PUNCH for the ‘fancy dressed’ tonight at Lucky Voice Islington..”
17.21 Head down to the Tufnell Park Tavern for a pumpkin carving competition from 6-8.30pm. Get your game (and your pumpkin) face on!
17.13 Newington Green’s Halloween Horrors 2012 is in full swing! Here are some of the revellers so far:
Here we have Louisa the witch, Casper the skeleton, Tonka the vampire and Marlow Rolie the ghost/teddy
Chloe and her friends at the handicrafts table
16.50 The Freightliners Farm group in Holloway have spent the afternoon grafting away at their pumpkin lanterns. Check out the gallery and see for yourself – maybe it will give you inspiration for your own…
16.28 @SharleneNair tweets a Halloween spotting in Islington: “Mini Demons behind a shop window in Islington plotting to run amok tonight !! Happy Halloween !!!”:
15.59 …Or will you head over to the Everyman Screen on the Green in Angel Islington to check out the spine-tingling The Shining?
15.30 Terrifying or tantalising? Vue Islington are tonight showing 1978 classic Halloween and the fabulous Rocky Horror Picture Show. Watch at your peril!
15.17 @hoxtonradio tweet: “Happy #Halloween! who’s trick or treatin’ later in Islington?”
15.09 Hundred Crows Rising pub on Penton Street look set for Halloween, promising a “spooky cocktail special” and tweeting their best pumpkin efforts:
15.06 @ailsas tweets: “Looking forward to tonight’s Dia de los Muertos party in Islington… How is everyone else celebrating Halloween?”
15.06 Head to the Toffee Park youth project on Ironmonger Row until 4pm. Make sure you remember your fancy dress costume and prepare for cakes and games!
15.01 Not sure about your costume yet? Cass Art in Angel Islington are offering free Snazaroo face painting until 6pm.
13.16 Islington Arts Factory in Holloway are celebrating Halloween all week this week with a Haunted House half term workshop. Children will be working all week on a haunted house masterpiece which will be displayed as part of the MakeArt exhibition at Islington Arts Factory this December, and will be shown to the mayor. Group leader Eleanor Pearce said: “We do this every year, and the kids really look forward to the mayor coming and giving him a tour”.
12.27 Dare you attend Katzenjammer at Islington’s O2 Academy ? Four girls with thirteen instruments promises to be a grave affair..
12.22 Make sure you stay safe in Islington this Halloween. The Met police have warned people to keep their wits about them and be on your guard especially for smartphone snatches
11.52 Clerkenwell’s alternative Halloween event has kicked off: to complement Islington Museum’s ‘Rebel Clerkenwell’ exhibition there is a ‘Clerkenwell: Radicals, religion and rivers’ walk around the most radical sites in Clerkenwell, starting at Farringdon station. It’s on again on Saturday if you missed out today! More info here
[Edit: Information about Old Queen’s Head Naked Reading, the Alina’s pumpkins post and the photograph for CASS Art face painting were added at 22.12]
