About The Event
Dates: Sept 2012 (dates to be confirmed)
Venue: London (Venue to be confirmed)
Deadline: 6th Feb 2012

To celebrate Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary, Illumini will take you back to Victorian London. The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a dark past and terror that is able to reach out and violate the present fascinated them. Dickens had a fascination with ghosts and death like many Victorians, haunted by the supernatural ghosts and fairies and telepathic encounters, occult religions and the idea of reincarnation.

Illumini will take you on a journey of Victorian hauntings, explore the dark side of a city long forgotten. Take torch light tours beneath the haunted streets of the city. The event will launch with a free grand opening night, full of entertainment, costumed performers and light shows. The event will display artworks, props and the history of Victorian culture and hidden spectres, with guided tours and evenings of ghost stories.

About Illumini
Illumini Event September 2010, attracted over 5,000 people on its opening night and 9,247 guests during its one week event. Artists, from professionals to students, gained commissions, sales and major press coverage and interviews with TV and radio through Illumini. We take promotion very seriously and have a great track record with our featured artists.

Illumini is a not-for-profit organisation that provides free unique illuminating art events, for the public’s enjoyment. Illumini promotes artists from any background and experience from visual artists, prop makers to performers.

Submitting
Applications are invited from artists and prop makers of all disciplines, that can create or already have work that fits the theme of either Victorian, or the supernatural. For example your work can be themed around a famous ghost that haunts London or Charles Dickens, Victorian Culture, Ouija Boards, séances, death. A London haunted building, Steam Punk, etc.

We are especially interested in artists that use illumination in their work, if your work lights up or glows in any way we want to hear from you, from projection, light boxes, LED’s, etc.

Illumini Events are historical event which do showcase art, props, and historical information. The venue will be transformed with a mixture of artists, work, prop makers and historians. Your work will be displayed with props, sets, possibly costumes and information; this is a team event, where each artists work is clearly promoted.

To submit please visit http://www.illuminievent.co.uk/submissions-volunteers.html#sub