Dancing skeletons, spooky pumpkins, bubbling cauldrons and a haunted house will all make appearances on the exterior of UVA's Rotunda in celebration of Halloween this year!!
Vignettes accompanied by haunting music will cycle over the outside of the centerpiece of the University, transforming the iconic building into a massive movie screen. The mini-shows might transform the Rotunda into a graveyard with jolly, dancing skeletons, a haunted house or an animated Halloween music box, with a rising moon and rotating, ghoulish pumpkins, caldrons, and purple skulls. You will have to come see to find out!!
Do not miss Kiki & Celeste as they join the FESTIVITIES on Thursday, October 31st!!
Thanks to UPC, there will be great events to accompany the Projection Mapping!!
October 31st: We will have wooden pumpkin ornaments that can be decorated with paint, markers, and stickers. We will also have a Polaroid camera and film so community members and students can take pictures (that they can keep) in their Halloween costumes.
November 1st: We will have cookies, hot chocolate, and Día de Los Muertos crafts.
November 2nd: We will have candy from different regions/countries around the world and goodie bags to collect the candy.
Projection mapping plays with the evolving, fluid relationship between technology & art to produce interactive, immersive, and involving experiences. The show offers students and community members a way to experience art with one another. The energetic pop-up projections blend UVA's prominent architecture with colorful lights and music in hopes of providing an uplifting, joyful, impactful, and engaging encounter that will leave you with a bit of wonder, curiosity, and maybe a new shared experience or memory to draw from.
UVA Arts, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, and UPC present The Great Rotumpkin!
