Join us for a spooky celebration at J. Hood Wright Park with an interactive haunted house. Wear your best costume and get ready for the scariest party in town!
Know before you go:
You can experience our fright walk at any point between the allotted time for the day. For your safety and others’, please exercise caution during the fright walk. Please wear comfortable, closed-toed shoes, and refrain from wearing jewelry. Participants cannot run or touch props and actors. No bags or belongings are allowed inside, so please plan accordingly. Parental discretion and supervision, especially for participants under 13, are highly recommended. Waivers must be signed by an adult.
The HALLOWSCREAM! Fright Walk features frightening images and special effects, sudden movements and jump scares, loud and intense audio, varying light conditions (such as flashing lights and low visibility), and fog in a potentially physically and emotionally demanding environment. Enter at your own risk.
J. Hood Wright Recreation Center| W. 174 St. & Fort Washington Ave. | New York, N.Y. 10033
This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit nyc.gov/parks or call 311.
Contact accessibility@parks.nyc.gov or (212) 360-1430 for more information regarding accessibility.
It’s time for the Community Halloween Parade!Wear your best costume, meet at the PS 187 Schoolyard and then at 6 p.m. we’ll process from the school yard along Cabrini Boulevard to Fort Tryon Park’s Stan Michels Promenade. The evening will end with a mill about and candy exchange on Fort Tryon Park’s Cafe Lawn! *Please note, Cabrini Boulevard will be closed at 6 p.m. from 187th Street to Margaret Corbin Plaza.*
Special thanks to the Leaderless Coalition for making this event possible!
Join in this community activation event to create an ofrenda with artist Andrea Arroyo on Saturday, October 26th, 3:00 – 4:30 PM. The ofrenda will be on view in the Morris-Jumel Mansion from October 26th – November 17th, 2024.
Life is a Dream is an art installation inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition. It is based on the belief in the connection between the living and the deceased and the everlasting link between this world and the next. On the Day of the Dead, ofrendas – offerings placed at an altar – welcome the spirits of our loved ones for one night.
Life is a Dream combines traditional and modern elements and invites the community to participate in creating a meaningful shared experience. Attendees are encouraged to bring small photographs (copies, not originals) and cards to place on the altar to remember their loved ones (no food or candles, please). We will provide paper and markers so attendees can write short messages to loved ones and ancestors. Day of the Dead is a revered celebration unrelated to Halloween that does not include morbid, scary, or performative elements.
Life is a Dream is made possible in part with support from Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders and the Puffin Foundation and is presented in conjunction with Andrea Arroyo’s exhibition Faces & Façades, on view through March 23, 2025.
Image: Detail of an ofrenda (“Viva la Vida”) commissioned by the School of Visual Arts and Flatiron in 2023. Photography credit: Mariana Otalora.
Join us for a spooky celebration at J. Hood Wright Park with an interactive haunted house. Wear your best costume and get ready for the scariest party in town!
Know before you go:
You can experience our fright walk at any point between the allotted time for the day. For your safety and others’, please exercise caution during the fright walk. Please wear comfortable, closed-toed shoes, and refrain from wearing jewelry. Participants cannot run or touch props and actors. No bags or belongings are allowed inside, so please plan accordingly. Parental discretion and supervision, especially for participants under 13, are highly recommended. Waivers must be signed by an adult.
The HALLOWSCREAM! Fright Walk features frightening images and special effects, sudden movements and jump scares, loud and intense audio, varying light conditions (such as flashing lights and low visibility), and fog in a potentially physically and emotionally demanding environment. Enter at your own risk.
J. Hood Wright Recreation Center| W. 174 St. & Fort Washington Ave. | New York, N.Y. 10033
This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit nyc.gov/parks or call 311.
Contact accessibility@parks.nyc.gov or (212) 360-1430 for more information regarding accessibility.
Join Word Up for a workshop to understand the historical grounding for policy-based reparations; challenge the possibility of meaningful policy-based repair in a nation built on stolen land; and imagine methods of repair and wellbeing generation outside of the settler-colonial, capitalist construct. Leading the workshop will be Dr. Makini Chisolm-Straker, co-editor of The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking. All materials for this interactive workshop will be provided.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside.
Word Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th St.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH is a policy-based reparations specialist, with a background in public health and domestic policy. A former White House Fellow and visiting professor of history at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Dr. Chisolm-Straker’s work focuses on reparations to Black and Indigenous people in what is now the United States. By centering the populations that are the foundation of the nation’s wealth, Dr. Chisolm-Straker proposes structural changes that value and bring us toward communal abundance.
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