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Sunday
May 20, 2012
The public is invited to get up close with the ocean’s ultimate predators at the Aquarium of the Pacific for FREE during Shark Lagoon Nights. Guests will have the opportunity to touch bamboo sharks and see large sharks such as sandtigers as well as rays in the Aquarium’s Shark Lagoon.
Coffee, hot cocoa, beer, wine, desserts, and snacks are available for purchase.
Please note that while it is almost every Friday, some Fridays are excluded. Please check the dates for availability. Shark Lagoon Nights are weather-dependent and can be canceled due to inclement weather. Only Shark Lagoon is open and available for guests during these free events. Please call for more information.
The Living Dead return to Long Beach for the 4th time on Saturday, October 29 as LONG BEACH ZOMBIE WALK IV takes over Pine Avenue!
The Long Beach Zombie Walk is an all-ages event that invites ghouls of all ages to participate in a night of creepy-crawly fun. This year’s event is expanding into a full day-long street fest, complete with music and film, food and drinks, vendors and art, and not one but TWO WORLD RECORD ATTEMPTS – to break the record for the largest Zombie Walk in the world (a record currently held by Seattle, WA at at 4,700), and to break the record for the largest choreographed Thriller Mass Dance in the world (currently held by Brazil at 11,000)!
Participation in this year’s Zombie Walk Street Fest is FREE – enjoy music at the Tinderbox! Stage (located at the Promenade at 3rd Street), vendors, makeup artists, and more! Then join thousands of the walking undead for the largest Zombie Walk ever! At 7pm, join THRILL THE WORLD as they lead a mass dance to Michael Jackson’s THRILLER, taking place simultaneously all over the world, with their epicenter right here in downtown Long Beach! At 8pm, march down Pine Avenue in the largest ZOMBIE WALK the world has ever seen!
Tickets now available for Dead Man’s After-Party, a fantastic all-ages concert event featuring a live performance by Johnny Vatos’ Tribute to Halloween (featuring members of the ultimate Halloween band, Oingo Boingo!), beer garden, Zombie contests, and more! Dead Man’s After-Party is located at the Historic Press Telegram building, between 6th and 7th on Pine Ave. – get your tickets before they’re gone! Tickets to Dead Man’s After-Party are $15; save $5 by purchasing a Long Beach Comic-Con/Dead Man’s After-Party package!
Long Beach Zombie Walk is produced by and benefits the Long Beach Cinematheque, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the Long Beach film scene. The Cinematheque will also be donating a portion of their proceeds to Friends of Long Beach Animals and Special Olympics Southern California.
For more information visit:
www.zombiewalklb.com
Join Long Beach’s most animated revelers for the Long Beach Comic and Horror Con at the Long Beach Convention Center over the Halloween weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 29-30, 2011. Registration is currently open for 2011′s Long Beach Horror & Comic Con and tickets range from $25-$50.
