About
Held in the heart of York, on Parliament Street, The Yorkshire Halloween Festival will take place between 24th October - 1st November.
Hosted by Made in Yorkshire, The Yorkshire Halloween Festival is a celebration of creativity and interactivity suitable for all the family!
As well as our well know large group of local artisans you will also find at the festival, a unique series of local makers who will be running workshops to entertain and encourage you to make and create - all with a Halloween/Autumnal theme.
We will also, for the first time, provide an attractive Tipi (Jorvik Tipis) in which we aim to create an inclusive sensory environment to host a series of accessible and creative events ( free, paid and open) and offer a Halloween inspired sensory haven in the centre of York. This will host a variety of children's activities as well as specialist sessions for adults.
We will schedule a range of activities including:
Tactile pumpkin decorating
Create your own leaf for the central tree
Ginger bread biscuit decorating
Air drying clay ghosts
Stone painting
Conker spiders
Pinecone decorating
Face painting
Demonstrations and Workshops
The Yorkshire Halloween Festival will also feature a series of small pop-up marquees, erected in front of the main marquee, which will house on-going demonstrations and workshops with an Autumnal/Halloween theme from the following:
Blacksmithing
Chimps Forge and Must Forge, two local blacksmiths who will be demonstrating their blacksmithing skills and offering workshops on creating your own metal rose.
Ceramics
Natasha Jackson will lead a series of workshops offering families the opportunity to paint ceramics and throw a pot. Many of the pots will be Halloween themes e.g. pumpkins, witches, leaves, skulls etc
Autumnal Paper Collaging
Lauri Bower will be hosting collage workshops , with opportunity to create an autumnal paper collage.
Felt Making -autumnal felt picture making
Katy Small will be hosting felt picture making workshops to create a colourful seasonal felt picture
Stained Glass Workshops
Janet Fraser is a stained-glass specialist and she will be providing workshops giving the opportunity to learn the basic techniques in stained glass and to create a small take home piece. Her workshops are aimed at all ages.
