Celebrate Halloween at the Field Museum’s Halloween Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival features a special workshop and spectacle performance by award-winning theater company Redmoon Theater. This one-day festival commemorates the bounty of the harvest season and the excitement of Halloween. Visitors are encouraged to dress in costume.
An installation of commemorative shrines created by several Chicago communities will be on display on the museum’s north lawn. Members of Redmoon will facilitate a Commemorative Shrine Workshop 2-4:30 p.m. Working with an assortment of found objects, visitors can help construct some new shrines. Participants can decorate the shrines with string, ribbons, thread, etc. They are also encouraged to bring small mementos (notes, photos, and other trinkets) of loved ones they would like to remember and add them to shrines (mementos cannot be returned). The completed shrines will be transported to Logan Square and displayed as part of Redmoon’s seventh annual All Hallow’s Eve Ritual Celebration on Oct. 31.
Then at 3 p.m. there will be a special Celebration Parade featuring a dazzling array of costumed performers, masks, musicians, and objects. The parade will travel around the second floor of the museum, growing in size and theatrics before descending the stairs and traversing the Stanley Field Hall. Museum visitors are encouraged to join in the parade.
Throughout the day, visitors can come face-to-face with Sue, the largest and most complete T. rex ever found, unwrap the secrets of ancient mummies in Inside Ancient Egypt, marvel at the man-eating lions of Tsavo, or check out the creepy crawly bugs in Underground Adventure.
The Halloween Harvest Festival is free with museum admission. Basic admission is $8 for adults, $4 for children 3-11, seniors and students with ID. An additional fee is required for Underground Adventure.
The Field Museum is located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more information, call (312) 665-7400.
There is an additional fee-based Halloween program, a performance called “Music is Language!”, Saturday, Oct. 27, at 1 p.m.
Delight in a musical performance for the entire family. Composer Jon Deak will conduct the acclaimed Rembrandt Chamber Players as they perform two of this own compositions, “Lucy and the Count” and “The Ugly Duckling.” In his compositions, Deak combines works and sounds to create unique and hilarious musical theater. Cost is $12; $10 students/educators; $8 members. Call (312) 665-7400.
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