:: Wish You Were Here Swap ::

Wherever you end up – start your night here with a New York-style Halloween right in the middle of Soho

Date: Saturday, 31 October
Time: 6 – 9pm
Location: The Newburgh Quarter

This Saturday October 31, say goodbye to the New Yorkers and the Wish You Were Here pop-up stores in style…With bobbing for apples and jack-o’-lanterns galore across Carnaby’s Newburgh Quarter.

ACTIVITIES ON THE NIGHT:

- apple bobbing
- pumpkin carving competitions
- American style treats (the edible kind)
- prizes for the best costumes of the night
- an exclusive selection of Brooklyn Brewery beers
- live DJ sets on the street thanks to Grok Institute

COSTUME CONTEST:

Theme: ‘Famous New Yorkers’ – so come down dressed as your favourite American celebrity, a New York stereotype, or whatever else you can think of… Costume prizes on the night include:

- ‘Best New Yorker’ awarded by the ‘Wish You Were Here pop-up
- ‘THE Leader of Men’ awarded by Social Suicide
- ‘Best Make-Up’ awarded by Benefit Cosmetics
- Most Avant-Garde Costume’ awarded by Beyond the Valley

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MUSIC LINE-UP:

Curated by: Grok Institute

Rasputin (UK Exclusive):
The globe trotting tattooed, perma bearded Romanian/NY expat is quite simply one of the rowdiest individuals we’ve ever had the good fortune to see play on either side of the pond. We’re happy to invite him to regale WYWH with his own brand of dirty party business.

Sensation (UK Exclusive): One half of Italo-electro upstarts ‘Heartbreak’ will be unleashing his new dark disco project Sensation exclusively at WYWH.

As the event closes, Grok Institute Soundsystem (consisting of Grok Institute curators Jean-Robert Saintil and Andrew LoTrain) will be playing some spookily awesome and thoroughly surprising sounds to wrap up the WYWH, and send you off into the night.