YES - JOHN BATEMAN, chief executive, UK Youth
The reinvention of Halloween has increasingly taken root in our national calendar. It is something young people are very aware of and even look forward to. To attempt to censor reference to it in youth work would be like burying heads in sand.
Major festivals such as Halloween actually provide great opportunities for fun and learning among the young. Quite apart from the chance to be creative that a Halloween party can provide, related issues that might be explored include: myth, legend and the history of Halloween; paganism as a nature-based spiritual path and works such as Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which draws parallels with the 1692 witch-hunts in Salem, Massachusetts and political hysteria in 1950s America.
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