4 years ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a You Tube video showing him and his brother at the Orlando Zombiewalk. I showed it to my business partner Jared, who said, “That’s a great promotion for the zombie theme at our haunted house this year” …and the rest is history. That first year we had no idea what we were in for…or what we were doing for that matter. Those of you who were among the original 132 participants know how far we’ve come from that alley behind the haunt, with our actor/makeup artists holding the makeup in their hands going from group to group painting people- to last year’s more organized production. This year we’re taking things to a whole new level. We’ve learned a lot in the past 3 years and will probably learn a lot this year also.

 One of our/my more recent lessons is that BIG events like this don’t happen without help. The first 3 years we relied on the help of friends and our former cast from our haunted house. This year we realized we’ve simply grown too big and need to look outside our circle. One of the hard things about planning for the walk is that we never know how many people will be attending. Facebook is a big help for a starting base, but we know that a lot of participants hear about us via word of mouth. While that’s exciting for us, it makes it hard to plan. For instance in the past we’ve had about 15 makeup artists. This year we’re thinking we need at least 30, plus another 4 to help with latex. Last year we used 2 people to run the sign in/registration table and this year we figure we’ll need around 30 people to help with the various tables and to help us be communicate/run the event.

 Right now I have about 10 makeup artists and about as many runners/workers. As you can see we need more. If you’d love to help me out, you can click on the link “get involved” on any of the pages of our home website www.lincolnzombiewalk.com What are the perks of helping? Well of course there’s our undying gratitude! You also get to join the rest of us volunteers on Friday the 20^th for our own special session with the choreographer to learn the Thriller Dance. You get 50% off of this year’s t-shirts, plus some snacks/refreshments the day of the walk and as if that weren’t enough we also get a chance to have our pictures taken by the professional photographer before the event begins. Oh and you get a special armband showing you’re one of the LZW Crew!

 So…what does it require? If you want to help with makeup, we will provide ALL of the MAKEUP and Supplies, so no cost to you. We do strongly ask that, unless you arrange something else with Rebeca ahead of time, you attend our makeup class the Friday night before the event, August 27^th at Pershing Auditorium from 6-9pm. We are also trying to arrange another makeup class for this week, in addition to that one, to get you more practice time. For the other volunteer areas, we’re also asking that you come Friday August 27th from 6-8  to sign up for the area you want to work and to get your t-shirts. Because we’re hoping to be EXTRA organized this year to keep things running as smoothly as possible we really need people to commit ahead of time and to stick to that. So please contact me immediately if you’re willing and committed to helping us out! We seriously, can’t do it without you!  Here’s to the BEST zombiewalk yet!