Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival

Produced by Creative Alliance, Friends of Patterson Park & Southeast CDC

Event Type: music/performance, kids & families, community, local interest

Sat Oct 27 3:30pm

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The 2012 Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival: Phantasmic Creatures of Earthly Delight celebrates imaginary creatures and mythological beasts inspired by our very own Patterson Park. The day kicks off with a Free Festival w/ Manly Deed, hay rides, lantern workshops, costume contest, food trucks & more! Help create the Giant Afterschool Light Bulb, an interactive light sculpture awarded to Creative Alliance by Afterschool Alliance's Lights on Afterschool Program. Parade Director Laure Drogoul coordinates our shimmering spectacle! Dragon lanterns glow on the park's Boat Lake, video projections light up the DiPietro Ice Rink bubble in the park, artist installations & performances throughout the Parade Route. Raya Brass Band, Marching bands, Fluid Movement, Stilters and more keep your feet moving! All are welcome to dress in costume, make lanterns from repurposed plastic bottles, and carry them in the Parade. Or... watch from anywhere along the route! Help us collect water bottles by dropping off your empty ones at the Creative Alliance. Special thanks to Best Battery Company. Sat Oct 27. 3:30pm Festival. 7pm Parade Line up. 7:30pm Parade. @ Pulaski Monument, Eastern & Linwood Aves, Patterson Park. 3:30pm Festival, 7pm Parade! FREE!

Glow Ball After-Party
Sat Oct 27. Doors 8:30pm. Party 9:30pm. $15, $10 mbrs
After the kids are in bed, head back to The Patterson for Glow Ball, our first-ever Halloween Parade AFTER-PARTY!

Pre-Events:
Fri Oct 19. 8pm. $15, $10 mbrs
Lantini Party: A Groovy Not-for-Kids Halloween Lantern Workshop
DJ Pony sets the vinyl for soul and "Lantini" cocktails are served, as the grown-up set creates a festive lantern for the Halloween Lantern Parade.

Sundays Oct 14 & Oct 21, 10am, 12:30pm & 3pm. Free.
Lantern Making Workshop for Kids
Familes, friends, and neighbors: come out for a free lantern-making workshop at the Creative Alliance and gear up to participate in the Halloween Lantern Parade!

Fri Oct 26. 7-9:30pm. $50
DIY Lantern (part of the Art to Dine For series of fall soirees)
Create your very own luminary work of art to keep and carry in the Halloween Lantern Parade while enjoying Moroccan fare in the candelit home of Bob Dewey and Leslie LaBrecque.

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FREE PARKING & FREE SHUTTLE

Parking garage is on 550 S Eaton, 1/2 block south of Eastern Ave which is just 0. 6 miles east of Pulaski Monument of Patterson Park on LInwood & Eastern Ave. FREE shuttle drop & pick up from 6-10pm on Linwood & Eastern Ave to parking garage, follow signs. To see shuttle route, click here" http://mapq.st/T3anQA