[CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN]
Halloween Family Fun Day
Sunday, October 23rd
12:00PM - 3:00PM
Join us on Sunday, October 23 for an afternoon of Halloween Family Fun! This year’s HFFD will feature a pop up Mini Mütter Museum, and performances by Karen Smith’s “Spiritual Atmosferic Cleansing” and Tangle Movement Arts. Philadelphia Orchard Project’s Learning Orchard will be open for visitors throughout the event!
Free and open to the public.
This is a PEDESTRIAN ONLY event. No cars will be able to enter The Woodlands on Sunday, October 23rd. Please plan to take public transit or find street parking. More information about getting to The Woodlands can be found here.
No food or beverages will be available for sale.
In case of rain, this event will be cancelled.
About the Mini Mütter Museum (12pm - 3pm):
Come visit the Mütter Museum tables located in the Stable and get a ‘disturbingly informative’ lesson on the heart and bones. Check out some the Museum’s teaching specimens, play health themed games, and take part in coloring activities as students from the Mütter Museum’s Junior Fellows program teach about human and animal skeletons and heart health.
About Spiritual Atmosferic Cleansing (1pm - 2pm):
Spiritual Atmosferic Cleansing is a “rhythmic release” featuring percussion, song, and storytelling event. Led by Philadelphia percussionist Karen Smith, Spiritual Atmosferic Cleansing is an informal gathering that seeks to provide a space for us to get in tune with ourselves and others. As Karen always says, “the Arts are healing resources for all and everyone is welcome to get some of this medicine.”
About Tangle Movement Arts (2pm - 3pm):
Tangle Movement Arts is a circus arts company with a contemporary twist, whose performances mix traditional circus like trapeze and acrobatics with dance, theater, and live music to tell a multi-dimensional story. Tangle’s work is devised collaboratively by its all-female ensemble, and reflects individuals of diverse identities, with an emphasis on queer and female experience. Based in Philadelphia, Tangle has been a Philly FringeArts Festival favorite since its inception in 2011.
About Philadelphia Orchard Project (12pm - 3pm):
Since 2007 Philadelphia Orchard Project, has worked with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants in neighborhoods across the city. POP provides orchard design assistance, plant materials, and training in orchard care. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other urban spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people experience limited access to fresh fruit. POP orchard partners and sites with public access can be found on the Orchard Planting Page.
We are seeking additional volunteers for Halloween Family Fun Day. If you’d like to volunteer at this or other Fall events at The Woodlands, click here.