Festival Hill has released some additional tickets available online for purchase through midnight Friday, Oct. 28th for $60. Tickets available at gate for $70.
“Being for the benefit of Festival Hill”
Take part in an historically-themed, romantic, theatrical Halloween costume ball at an exquisite cultural and architectural treasure located between Austin and Houston – The Round Top Festival Institute. Words alone cannot describe all that is Festival Hill. You must come out and experience this wonderful place for yourself. Artists from all over the world including Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan and Ray Wylie Hubbard have come here to perform and to record. Located in historic Round Top, Texas, The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts and its sole project, the Round Top Festival Institute, were founded in 1971 by world-renowned concert pianist James Dick. Begun with a handful of gifted young pianists in rented space on the town square, the project is now an internationally acclaimed European-styled music institute for aspiring young musicians and distinguished faculty.
The design and feel of the The Spectral Panopticon is ghostly “neo-Victorian” and features music, entertainment, interactive art and performances, and exotic delights to thrill the mind and soul. Rounding out the bill are intoxicating spirits and a delectable fin de siècle inspired smorgasbord created for you by the Institute’s award-winning chefs.
Guests are urged to garb their exanguinous selves in their most creative period ensembles. Collaborate with us as we create the illusion of stepping back in time to stroll the Edward Gorey-esque foggy streets of Festival Hill’s Herzstein Plaza. alongside a theoretical panhistorical pantheon of Chas. Dickens, Queen Victoria, Edgar Allen Poe, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jack the Ripper, the Brontë sisters, Lilly Langtry, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Madame Flimflamsky… er… Blavatsky, Rasputin, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s The Childcatcher…and beyond!
In our theater of the senses you will enjoy music from Slowtrain and Luna Tart, luminal and sonick arts from Dr. Strangevibe, interactive installations, the latest scientific marvels, take a ride on the Edison Dub Cylinder Zeppelin, create your own cinematographe masterpiece at the Steam Station, spectral divinations from the Ghost Box and Ms. Brainbot, purchase wondrous wearable art, objects of curiosity, and house wares from the Mysterium and as well as costumery and keepsake photografic imagery from the Airship Phantasmagoria and tarot readings from Madame Epiphany.
Have your senses shocked senseless by overly-energized apparatus in Dr. Van de Watt’s High-Voltage and Radiant Energy Laboratory. Keep an eye on your brain in The Van de Watt Miscreant Chemical and Brain Laboratory. Be sure not to pass up Lady Violet Crown Van de Watt’s Violet Ray Machine and Phyery Phosphorescent Phlower Phylaments.
Also on tap are many not-to-be-missed surprises.
Details on clothing suggestions and where to purchase or rent are available here. Our purveyors of one-of-a-kind-objets d’art, frock coats, corsets, top hats, goggles, flasks, canes, photografick imagery, flipbooks and cinematographs will be on hand so have plenty of guineas and shillings on your person.
THE WHEN
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011
7pm – 2am
THE WHERE
The Herzstein Plaza at Festival Hill in Round Top, TX
THE PARTICULARS
Tickets are available at festivalhill.org
Limited accommodations (ranging from $55 – $100 pp based on double occupancy) available by contacting Vickie Hillman at (979) 249 – 3129 or at vickieh@festivalhill.org
More accommodation suggestions listed here.
All ticket sales benefit the James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts, a 501(c)3 organization.
A Margaret Duval Production in conjunction with
Round Top Festival Institute.
