Vancouver actor Osric Chau visited Burnaby's Central Park Thursday to help out in an international scavenger hunt for charity.
The young actor is best known for his role on the TV series Supernatural. He was volunteering to help with one of the assigned tasks: make a papier-mâché head of an actor from the CW Television Network, and have that actor post a picture of herself or himself on social media.
Roughly 200 people came to the park, many with papier-mâché facsimiles of Chau's head, which he happily posed with for photos.
"The event went great! I kind of got lost in the whole thing," Chau said in an email to the NOW.
The scavenger hunt is called GISHWHES, short for the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, and Chau himself is also a participant. Chau's co-star, Misha Collins, started the annual event, which draws tens of thousands of participants from all over the world.
The players, broken into teams of 15, have a laundry list of roughly 150 items to complete in a week, many outrageous, wild, philanthropic, creative, quasi-impossible and just plain silly. The prize is an all-expenses-paid trip for the team to someplace exotic.
"This event, the charity encourages and facilitates people to get out of their comfort zones, try new things that they would never consider doing in support of a wonderful charity and in the process opens up a world that the participants never could have expected," Chau said.
For more info on GISHWHES, go to www.gishwhes.com.
