NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- New York City's anticipated 45th Annual Village Halloween Parade announced this year's theme will be: "I AM a Robot!" With artificial intelligences emerging from every corner of our daily lives, the line distinguishing human from robot becomes increasingly vague. On Halloween, we can be whoever and whatever we desire, allowing us to celebrate what truly makes us humans by exploring how we remake ourselves.
So this year we call upon all of our Halloween makers and marchers to join in our positronic collective, expressing our inner cyborgs for an evening of robotic revelry. For the first time ever, the Village Halloween Parade invites you to join a Special VIP Robot Section of the Parade. Advanced tickets are on sale for $25 and robot costumes are required. The Parade will travel along Sixth Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street on Wednesday, October 31st from 7PM-10:30PM.
2018 marks 200 years since Frankenstein's monster took his first steps into sci-fi immortality. Mary Shelley's startling vision of synthetic life laid bare the question of what makes us truly human, a question that has haunted subsequent fictions of robots, cyborgs, and androids.
"The inspiration for this year's theme comes from our fascination with robots and the increasingly blurred lines between human and machine," stated Jeanne Fleming, Artistic/Producing Director of New York's Village Halloween Parade. "With artificial intelligences learning, adapting, interpreting and reacting as humans do, the times we live in can be overwhelming. This traditional and beloved event aspires to bring folks into their creative imagination—celebrating that quality that differentiates us from robots—and by extension make the world a better place. We as New Yorkers and those visiting the Big Apple can come together, affirm our identity, block out the distractions, focus on joy and inhabit the streets of New York LIVE."
The legendary Village Halloween Parade event has entertained the public on Halloween night for the past 44 years, attracting millions of people from around the world. This year, the Research Foundation to Cure AIDS (RFTCA) is hosting the official Village Halloween Parade After Party.
For more information, please visit https://www.halloween-nyc.com/.
For Special VIP Robot Section tickets, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-am-a-robot-tickets-49394794159?ref=ebtnebregn.
SOURCE Village Halloween Parade
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