Haunted: Halloween Ball 2007 to offer $1500 best costume prize

by PegNews wire

Haunted: Halloween Ball 2007 (formerly known as the Goth Ball), Dallas largest costume contest event of its kind with the largest cash prize, will be held again this year, Wednesday, October 31, at 8:00 p.m., at Dallas' historic Granada Theater on Greenville Avenue. This year celebrates "The Art of the Costume" and Best Costume Winner will receive $1,500 in cash, second and third place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively .

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I hate it when people decide not to dress up for Halloween.

For those of you who take dressing up for Halloween seriously, this is the event in Dallas to attend. Guests who come to compete stay in character for the entire evening. Celebrity judges including agents, producers, dancers, actors, artists, and media personalities from all over the country will be looking for the most original use of costume elements from makeup, design materials, originality, overall presentation and theme. Last year's winner was a couple who recreated the 1930 Grant Wood painting "American Gothic" live and encased themselves in an actual frame and pitchfork that they carried around with them all night.

While guests are arriving and mingling, judges will observe costumes and hand pick the best contestants to compete on stage later in the evening. Entertainment will be provided by Dallas' best deejay talent, The Party, DJ S3LECT, and DJ Sober who will play their own remixes and mash-ups of the best of dance music from the 80s, 90s and today's top alternative and hip-hop artists.

Haunted directly benefits the Cancer Relief Fund. Haunted and "The Art of the Costume" contest is a production of Arts Fighting Cancer an organization created to provide financial relief to people fighting cancer who do not have insurance. Arts Fighting Cancer is the group who has produced the previous years of the Goth Ball, the Lone Star Drive-In, Live Draw!, and the Deep Ellum Film Festival. The events' creators Melina McKinnon and Michael Cain are also behind the AFI Dallas Film Festival. More than $60,000 in grants for cancer patients have been raised to date.

Source: Endicott & Co. PR