CAMP BOO
A ghastly regional burn theme camp making yearly hauntings at SideBurn and ArtFarm
NOTE: This is a new project launched in November of 2024 in preparation for Camp Boo's debut at SideBurn 2025. (fingers crossed for placement) This camp is made up from people living in our growing North East Ontario community. (Not the north you may be thinking about southern people. Like actually 6 hours north of Toronto in the Boreal Forest north haha, we are up here)
Below we will share photos, video and stories from Camp Boo's adventures as it becomes a scary reality filling your souls with dread (or maybe just warm tea) bwahahaha.
What is Camp Boo all about anyways?
Camp Boo.
We as a camp offer to the community an interesting one-of-a-kind home-made 20'x40' rain and shade structure that serves as a gathering place complete with a spooky graveyard street-side. Fun lighting, and scary sounds are all powered by a mobile solar system. We host tea and hauntings where anyone can join in, enjoy some hot tea, grab a ghost costume when we all head out as a fright of ghosts, to haunt the community. Whether you show up to do the haunting as a ghost or find yourself being haunted as a non-ghost this offers participation from all. Ghoulish demands will be made and if you want to exorcise these ghastly intruders you must satisfy them with cheesy, corny, and cutesy jokes or silly puns. You will be booed. Don't take it personally, these are ghosts we are dealing with here after all.
Camp Boo has room to grow. Its one of our goals, and that is super exciting. Other possible offerings and random ideas we may provide if not this year, then in following years are:
Ghost themed art installations that focus on the 10 principles.
A pac-man and ms. pac-man costume for silly ghost chasing shenanigans.
Ghost story time around an open fire.
Mobile haunting wagon. Its a coffin with wheels we can serve tea from on the go to those we are haunting. It should probably have spooky sounds and a fog machine, just sayin'.
Growing and wild harvesting all the herbs needed for the next years tea in our new garden spaces and from the Boreal forest that our camp members live in.
Expansion of our covered area, additional camp membership, and even more spooky decorative and lighting creativity.
A bigger graveyard to meander through and discover interactive aspects if you dare? sounds good,
lets do it.
Will we build a haunted house facade someday? We cant say we wont for sure.
Big cauldron that the tea is served from? Maybe.
Ghost shaped pancake breakfast? Its very possible.
Ghost umbrellas for rainy time hauntings. We hope so.
Haunted dance party with spooky themed drum & bass? Sounds good!
How about an emotional Boo-Boo station at our camp? Come take advantage of our services! Our untrained team of not-professional volunteers are here for you! if in need of a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on, hugs, or some other supportive interaction, we really do care. Cant make it to boo-boo station or just too scared of haunted camps? Look for the Boo-Boo station randomly popping up in a neighbourhood near you! Regardless of how silly, or serious, tell us about your Boo-Boo! Possibly, maybe coming soon!
