This event is taking place on the campus of the Oregon School for the Deaf. All items brought to be sold, all costumes, and make up must be appropriate to the school setting. If you have any questions regarding this stipulation, please contact us.
OSD is a smoke-free campus, smoking is allowed off campus only.
Workshop Topics -
Scenic design for the haunted house
Home Haunting tips and tricks
Haunt design
Starting your first haunted attraction
Creating a back story for your haunt
Prop building ideas
Scare tactics
Haunted houses at a School for the Deaf
Actor training
Marketing your attraction
Lighting design
Airbrush makeup
Being a haunted house director
DMX Control systems for haunted houses
LED lighting for Haunts
Children under the age of 14 must be accompanied with a parent or guardian.
WCHC brought to you by -
May 13, 14, 15 2011- on the campus of the Oregon School for the Deaf
Why the WCHC?
Oregon School for the Deaf and the Nightmare Factory to host second annual haunted house convention and tradeshow May 13-15, 2011
The Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD) is excited to announce that we will be holding our second annual Haunted House Convention in Salem, Oregon, May 13-15. 2011.
The significance of holding the West Coast Haunters Convention (WCHC) at OSD stems from the history of running a successful Haunted House business on campus for the past twenty-one years. The Nightmare Factory has been an influential part of the culture of OSD, allowing our students the experience of running a well-regarded, thriving business and providing an avenue for drama, set building, make-up, costume design and stage management experience.
This event has become a tradition for many Oregonians to attend during Halloween week. Having seen the students grow in numerous ways from the haunted house business experience, we are ready to add the skills of attending and running a first-rate haunted house convention to their learning experience.
The West Cost Haunters Convention, WCHC, is open to the general public on May 13th through the 15th and will be attended by professional haunters, home haunters, schools, haunt enthusiasts and the general public from all over the United States and abroad.
All attendees will benefit from this networking and information exchange. The convention’s objectives are to share information and provide the opportunity to see the best products and creations from industry leading vendors, to experience hands-on demonstrations of techniques used in the best haunts and to learn from the masters of this craft. Workshop topics will include such classes as: acting, haunted house design, air brush make up, scenic design, robotics, haunt make up, haunted house do’s and don’ts and so much more.
Another purpose of the WCHC is to help other schools for the Deaf learn how they too can set up and run a lucrative haunted house of their own. Special classes for deaf schools are being scheduled on the 20th as well as general haunt workshops on the remaining days. All workshops will be interpreted into American Sign Language (ASL), and interpreters will be available on the tradeshow floor.
Contact the WCHC project manager Ed Roberts at OSD 503-378-3827
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Scenic and display
We all know and love them and now it's your turn to show off your shaker can prowess.
Bring in you favorite can from your haunt for our shaker can show!
Also join the shaker can showdown at the 2011 WCHC. We'll provide you all the tools to make a shaker can and then let you show it off!
More information will follow and sign ups for both the shaker can show and showdown will be online next year!
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