Name: Halloween Harvest Festival
Start: 2026-10-31T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-31T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Socrates Sculpture Park

Join us for the 2025 Halloween Harvest Festival!
About this Event

2026 Halloween Harvest Festival + Season Closeout
Saturday, October 31 | 12 - 5 PM
Free or suggested donation

Join us for the 2026 Halloween Harvest Festival, back with family-friendly workshops, a community resource fair, the Planted Culture Vegan Food Market, as well as New York’s second-largest dog costume contest co-presented with Chateau le Woof. It’s a Halloween Harvest like no other that you do not want to miss!

SCHEDULE

ARTMAKING WORKSHOPS

11 - 1 PM

Field Guide: Bats in NYC with iDig2Learn

Join us for the final Field Guide for the season! Did you know nine species of bats call New York State home? Come learn about their mosquito-eating superpowers and create bat art just in time for Halloween. Join iDig2Learn and the artists of Socrates for a hands-on workshop to better understand bats’ amazing lives. No artist experience needed.

12 - 3 PM

Lizania Cruz: Ecologies of Care
As part of her Adobe Creative Residency at MoMA, artist Lizania Cruz presents Ecologies of Care, an interactive kiosk at Socrates Sculpture Park that investigates interdependent relationships among people, wildlife, and the built environment in the Sculpture Park. Park visitors are invited to contribute to a collective map, creating a living archive of the many connections they encounter. To learn more about the project, please visit our artist exhibitions page.

12 – 3 PM

Drop-in Pumpkin Decorating Workshop.
Come and decorate your own pumpkin just in time for Halloween. Pumpkins provided, first come, first served

12 – 3 PM
Drop-in Costume Making Workshop with reused materials
Come by and make your own costume using recycled materials!

PERFORMANCES

1 - 1:45 and 2 - 2:45 PM: Flying Leap presents The Garden (First Performance)
The Garden is a radically inclusive, interactive performance exploring nature and the life cycle with very young children aged 0-5 and their families in public green spaces. In The Garden, families experience the life cycle through all five senses – through movement theater, poetic text in multiple languages, and interactive play – seated in the grass beneath the open sky in their local public park, lawn, or greenspace.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

12 – 3 PM
Community Resource Fair
Come and learn about some of these amazing organizations and leave with valuable resources for you and your community. Participating organizations:

The Department of Mental Health and Hygiene
Greater Astoria Historical Society
Growing Up Green Charter School Halloween Costume Swap: Bring your old costumes and accessories.

CONTESTS
12 - 2 PM
Pumpkin Carving Contest (Limited slots)
Show us your creativity with our annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Young folks must be supervised by an adult.

3 – 5 PM
Annual Halloween Dog Costume Contest co-hosted with Chateau le Woof.
Join us to see our 3 Prizes for the winner of the Contest, runner-up, and 3rd Place. Dog Costume Contest registration begins at 1 PM at Chateau le Woof’s table on-site.

FOOD
12 - 5 PM
Planted Culture Vegan Food Market: Halloween Edition
Curated by Erica Muñoz, this vegan food market returns to the Park and will offer culturally diverse vegan eats from NYC’s best vendors. Come by and enjoy food by:

Madrina Vegana (Mexican)

RastaRant (Jamaican)

Well Charged (Comfort Food)

Mama’s Pearl Kitchen (Soul Food)

Vegan Bites Dessert

Freakin Vegan (Comfort Food)

and more!