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New York's
Village Halloween Parade

Monday Night, October 31 at 7 P.M.

   The Halloween Parade starts on Spring Street and proceeds straight up 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 21st Street. The streets are crowded between Bleeker and 14th Street so get there early if you plan to hang out... or plan on another loacation on the parade route.

   All those in costume are welcome to join hundreds of puppets, 42 bands of different types of music, dancers, artists, and thousands of other New Yorkers in costumes of their own creation in this new brand of Carnival! And don’t miss the Annual Village Halloween Parade Costume Contest.

   Those who want to join the Halloween Parade may line up on 6th Avenue, south of Spring Street, down to Broome Street, between 6:30 and 8 P.M.

New York's Village Halloween Parade is the nation's LARGEST public Halloween celebration!!

   In Trinidad at Carnival time, something extraordinary occurs - Barriers fall. Rank ceases to matter. Something more fundamental and important suffuses the air. It is a recognition of the human need to recreate. To play. To suspend the superficial world of commerce, gossip and politics for a time, and let the deeper values predominate.

   The Halloween Parade is New York’s Carnival. As the New York Times said "the Halloween Parade is the best entertainment the people of this City ever give the people of this City. It’s a time to kick back, to take a deep breath, to connect to each other before the dark days of winter return."

   Halloween is our opportunity to play, to create. In our fast paced city, even play is turned into a contest in which we must learn to compete in order to survive - many of us have forgotten what it's like to play for the sheer joy of it.

   On this Halloween eve, in addition to the joyous play of the spontaneous masqueraders of New York City, our good friends from Adventure Game Theater will be playing games along the route, Parade puppeteers will enact a new magic in the form of The Chessmen’s Ball, and the Puppeteers' Cooperative of Boston will offer some playful birds, bees and flower puppets and the Flying Bridge Project from Brooklyn will invite us all "To Dance in the Light of the Moon."

   The playground is 6th Avenue from Spring to 21st Street, Halloween Eve.

Change the world, shift the energy, come play with us!

Hallelujah! Halloween!
Jeanne Fleming, Artistic and Producing Director

So celebrate Halloween in NYC with the parade, parties and all the fun New Yor City has to offer.