Photoshoot

Well, that went well! The costumes and masks looked really great - we will post pictures as soon as we have copies - so we just wanted to say a big thank you to all the people who helped out by wearing them and also to those who helped model various items while they were pinned or had elastic attached or did some sewing:

THANK YOU

We didn't quite have enough people to wear all the costumes, so you won't see The Sibyl or An Egyptian Lector Priest, who will be around for Light Night. But the picture has all the other characters you can expect to meet as part of Underworlds Live in Leeds.

From left to right: Persephone - garlanded with spring flowers and holding a pomegranate; Demeter/Ceres - a corn goddess and Persephone's mother; Circe - the goddess who knows the way for living mortals to enter the Underworld; Charon - the Ferryman who takes souls across the River Styx; Aeneas - the Roman hero who travels to the Underworld and, being alive, nearly sinks Charon's boat!;  Horus - the Egyptian god, with the feather of truth against which he weighs souls for them to gain entry to the afterlife; Orpheus - the bard, who went to the Underworld to bring his wife back to life, with his lyre; Eurydice - Orpheus' (dead) wife.

For more information on these characters, see the Denizens page.
A larger version of the picture
A version of the picture (albeit with us incorrectly identified as "Underworld Live in Leeds") is used to advertise "One of Leeds' most ambitious programmes of entertainment" - The Yorkshire Evening Post and Leeds City Council's Town Hall events series.