The Watch City Dickens Christmas Festival & Market

Pastimes will be participating in the The Watch City Dickens Christmas Festival & Market, December 10th and 11th, 2011, hosted and presented by the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, located at 154 Moody Street, Waltham MA, features both performance and shopping experiences. 

Throughout the day,  Pastimes Entertainment will present interactive theatrical experiences, including Victorian Carolers, a Victorian Santa Claus and his workshop elf. Queen Victoria will hold court and roving actors will present scenes from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” 



Visitors may interact with Tiny Tim, the ghosts of Christmas past present and future, watch one of Santa’s elves make toys for good girls and boys, and more. 

In addition the museum has gathered together twenty vendors offering hand crafted reproduction Victorian merchandise including wooden toys, leather gifts, porcelain china, top hats, jewelry and more.  Hey kids you can also type letter to Santa on one of our nineteenth century typewrites and search for his elves in a scavenger hunt. 

Ticket are $10.00 for adult, $5.00 per child, student or senior.  Children under six, museum members, active and retired US Military are free. For more information, call 781 893 5410.

We're not dead yet...

Any of you who follow the Pastimes blog know that there haven't been any new postings since last October's Castle of the Damned. What has been going on since then?
Was everyone lost in a plane crash on some remote island?
Were they abducted by aliens? Did they give up the business to go "find themselves"?
No.
We at Pastimes just want to let you know that the company is still in operation, the staff is still alive and (mostly) well, and we continue to provide talent for corporate and private events.
The staff has both written and performed for several other area shows, including













the Connecticut Renaissance Faire,













The Boston Ghost Cruise, and the Mystery Café , through Comedy Theater Productions.

However, the large Pastime fairs in Gloucester, including the New England Pirate Faire, and Castle of the Damned, at Hammond Castle are on hiatus indefinitely.
There may be something new brewing for Halloween that promises to be new and exciting.
Check back here soon for more information.

A Date Change on Castle of the Damned

Just a note for those of you who may have missed it. Castle of the Damned will not be open on Sunday the 24th of October. Performances are Friday and Saturday nights only. There are no Sunday night performances this year. Check the updated schedule on the website at:
http://www.pastimesentertainment.com/PASTIMES/Castle_of_the_Damned.html

A Message from our Creative Director Dave about CASTLE of the DAMNED

Hi Everybody!
To all Pastimes Folk ,CTRF Folk, Pirate Faire Folk and friends of Dave,

We need you! Ever want to really scare people? Want to be part of an event that the Boston Globe calls "the scariest by far of the bunch" and "the weirdest, scariest haunted house in New England?" After many of you have been friendly and affable to guests at Faires all season, wouldn't it be nice to scare the piss out of people?
A Halloween junkie who just loves to terrorize people?

Then join us at the Castle of the Damned!Hammond Castle in Gloucester Ma is once again joining Pastimes to put on their biggest(and creepiest,horrifying and plain weird)fundraiser of the year!

AND WE REALLY NEED YOU! The Castle of the Damned......A haunted attraction in a real castle on the cliffs by the sea in Gloucester. This year's theme takes us to 1930 -when Inventor and builder of the castle -John Jays Hammond Jr. used his considerable electrical knowledge to experiment in an altogether different way- to contact a portal to "the other side" this October , we recreate those forbidden experiments to find out what happened on that terrifying night. We need you to populate the grounds, halls ,dungeons with assorted demon nuns,revival tent cultists, lovecraftian creatures, funeral mourners, bloofer ladies, and all manner of storyteller, clown,lunatic,interdimensional what-its........

Here's the pertinent info......The Castle of the Damned is open
October 22, 23, 29, 30 7pm to 11pm
Call time is 5:30 pm (although we do make allowances on Friday nights)
We are having a meeting at the Castle 7pm on Tuesday October 12 and
Thursday October 14

Contact me (Dave Stickney)at Facebook or at pastimes_world@yahoo.com
Stage Manager Robin Frank at rpf@comcast.net
You can do the whole run or just a night or two but WE NEED YOU....Thanks

Dave Stickney

CASTLE of the DAMNED is Back!

In October 1930, in his magnificent seaside castle, noted inventor John Hammond experimented with piercing the veil of the spirit world in an attempt to contact the dead. To aid in his occult research, he worked Roman gravestones, tombs, reliquaries and more into the very architecture of his home...























What happened during those experiments has been shrouded in mystery...until now.























Join us this Halloween season, as we attempt to recreate his original experiments for a terrifying journey into the twisted worlds of the unknown. A journey that begins when you enter...the CASTLE OF THE DAMNED.


DATES: October 22, 23, 29, 30

TIMES: FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS: 7pm - 11pm (last tickets sold at 10:30)
SUNDAY: 7pm- 10pm (last tickets sold at 9:30)

PARKING: FREE AT STAGE FORT PARK,
TAKE THE SCREAM SHUTTLE TO HAMMOND CASTLE

TICKETS:
GENERAL: $15.00
STUDENT/MILITARY WITH I.D. $12.00


"Consistently voted the best haunted attraction in New England...and one of the best in the country"

Pillage the Village Poster!

The new "Pillage the Village"poster, done by none other than Pastimes creative director David Stickney. Join us at Pioneer Village in Salem on July 24 and 25th for all the fun!

A Message from Dave

Hi Everybody!

I hope everyone is rested and enjoying their summer after a wonderful 2010 NEPF-

We have just been asked to do a pirate event at PioneerVillage:Salem 1630 on July 24 and 25 and i wanted to see who among our Pastimers would like to join us for the event - it is a fundraiser for the Pioneer Village:Salem 1630-, which was the very first living history museum in the country -think a small version of Plimoth Plantation - it has had a rather checkered history- of neglect ,some vandalism,various management trying to make it work and not- It was recently taken over by History Alive! from Gordon College and they attempting to bring the village back to full life -restoring and repairing buildings,etc.

I'm writing to you in regards to an event going up on July 24 and 25- called Pillage the Village-Pirates Invade Salem! - a fundraiser for Salem :1630- the first living history museum in the country-
this will require minimal rehearsal - three outlined scenario scenes - basically attack on the town, depredations of the pirates,and final rebellion/battle- this will also include several interactive scenes- Join the pirate crew,secret heroes' meeting , raising the jolly roger over salem etc. i would also love to do music for this show -we can utilize the songs we learned at NEPF - we will have a few vendors , and a gorgeous set to work on! I am also looking for black powder demos - if you have or know someone who could do that it would great. Music,swordfighting,interactive scenes - what more could you ask for?

I am planning a meeting at Paul's house on Weds. of next week at 7:30pm- and probably one more after that the next weds-July 21 at the same time

for more info on the event go to the pastimes website

So ,my brave lads and lasses ,who would like to join our crew?

Thanks!

Dave