Things go BUMP in the night. When things BUMP In Tucson, it’s for a good cause.

The Tucson Zombie walk, now in its Seventh un-dead year, will again bring forth its un-living legions to raise Funds and Food for the Tucson Community Food Bank!

Rejoice: It is the time of year when a young man’s thoughts turn to the simple pleasures in life: rising from the dead, cannibalism, and widespread destruction!

The Mayan Calendar has said it’s “Game Over!”

What better way to celebrate THE END of Everything than with a
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!!

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2012
Time: Event opens at 6:00pm for Costume Contest Registration.
Audience: All ages. Costumes are encouraged. (We are not responsible for any future therapy needed by small children.)
Start Location: MLK Building Parking Lot, 55 North 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701
End Location: 2nd Saturday Downtown Stage (Scott Avenue North of Broadway)
Event Cost: FREE!!!! Costume Contest Entry: $5 or 5 canned goods.
What to Bring: Canned food and cash to donate to the Community Food Bank!
Sponsors: Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange &The Mission Creeps.

Full list of activities, 6pm-9pm (Subject to change-Times are Approximate):
• 6pm Costume Contest On-Site Registration Starts. See www.tucsonzombies.com for rules and pre-registration.
• 6:30pm Zombie Walk Variety Show/ Dance Party Starts. (Got an Act? Send Email to tucsonzombies@gmail.com to get on our Variety Show Roster)
• 7pm Costume contest registration ends. Judging begins.
• 8pm Costume Contest Finalists Announced.
• 8:30pm Walk Starts with Costume Contest winner as Grand Marshall
• 9:30pm Walk Ends at 2nd Saturday Stage at Scott and Broadway.
FREE Concert by The Mission Creeps begins at the end.

Info on 2nd Saturday Downtown, www.2ndsaturdaysdowntown.com.

Sounds like another creepy, undead event in the heart of downtown Tucson. If you missed last year’s walk (it’s actually more like a shuffle & stumble as these creatures don’t walk well), click here to view my very own photo gallery posted on Halloween. And don’t forget that can of food — not for them of course (they don’t eat food) — but for the living at the Community Food Bank.

Be scared. Be there.

What is this fascination with zombies & the UNDEAD? I hear that the Tucson Zombie Walk of gruesome souls hanging around downtown is in its 6th year. For more info about these folks stumbling, shuffling, moaning & groaning, & waking up from the dead, go to www.tucsonzombies.com. Lots of photos of past Zombie Walks on their website.

2011 Theme: Zombies in Spaaaace!
The 6th Annual Tucson Zombie Walk!! With Costume Contest with these categories:
Funniest Zombie
Scariest Zombie
Most Original
Best Kid (Three prizes given)
Best Group
Best Zombie Hunter
Audience Favorite

When: October 22, 2011, Time: 4 p.m. (but wait till it gets dark!)

Where: 101 N. Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ

Joel D Valdez Main Branch Library
(Outdoor Event)

Activities Schedule: (Subject to Change!)

2:00 – Vendor Set-up
4:00 – Thriller Dance
4:10 – Repo, the Genetic Opera
4:30 – Magician (TBD)
5:00 – Zombie Variety Show
6:00 – Zombie Hokey-Pokey and Roadkill Chicken Dances
6:10 – Dr. Horribles Sing-a-Long blog
7:00 – Call for Costume Contest
7:15 – “The Cordial Dead” film showing
7:05 – Time Warp Dance
7:10 – Thank Yous, Sponsor recognition, & Safety Talk
7:20 – Top 10 of each category paraded on stage. Winners announced
7:40 – Walk Begins (Audience Favorite as the Grand Marshall)

Don’t Miss This Year’s Event!! And Remember– In Spaaaaace, Nobody can hear you Scream!!

Cost: This is a FREE event, though we ask everyone to please bring
2 items of Non-Perishable Food and/or a Few Dollars of Cash
to fill our donation boxes.

Ironically they are asking for food donations, but my question is: why do the undead need or care about food? Or a “few dollars of cash”? Nice of them to care about those of us still alive I guess.

Hundreds of the undead walked in October, 2010 as shown on this Tucson Zombie Walk YouTube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2K0AR5gd-U (taken at the 4th Avenue Underpass).

But it sounds like a fantastic, ghoulish event for those who want to dress up as zombies, just before Halloween, El Dia de Los Muertos, and the upcoming All Soul’s Procession.

UPDATE: Read my Happy Halloween blog with a photo gallery from Zombie Walk (click here).