TORONTO ZOMBIE WALK SUCCUMBS TO LACK OF MUNICIPAL SUPPORT

SEAN PLUMMER

It seems appropriate that the Toronto Zombie Walk, which was cancelled this year due to insufficient funding, should rise from the dead, however briefly. Organizers held a “funeral” for the much-loved annual event at independent Toronto repertory cinema The Royal this past August. Over 200 “mourners” showed up, many of them dressed as the undead. Those who left a donation in a casket set up on The Royal’s stage were given free tickets to the Canadian National Exhibition. Zombies then shuffled en masse to the annual carnival set up at Toronto’s waterfront. Founding director Thea Munster, who started the walk back in 2003, saw it grow from just seven participants in its first year to over 15,000 in 2014. Organizers never charged an entrance fee, and it became an annual tradition for…

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