Join your favorite characters by dressing up, and enjoying a night of interactive creeps, mystery, fantasy & adventure. Fright Night in The District, a safe Halloween event, will be held Thursday,
October 29, 2015 from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Rock Island. Rock Island Parks and Recreation, Rock Island County Area Project, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and The District are proud to
present this annual children's event.
Attendees will have the chance to trick or treat, parade in their costumes, check out some spooky interactive Halloween windows, play games, and much more! The first 600 children will each receive a free bag of goodies from the welcome table on Daiquiri Factory's deck. Fright Night is free to the public. Jeff James will be the live DJ, and there will be plenty of fun dance music from 5 to 8 p.m. There will also be a performance by the Metropolitan Youth Program Drum Corps & Drill Team at 5:30 p.m. Keep an eye out for many suspenseful surprises throughout the evening! If you are looking for dinner options Huckleberry's Pizza will be selling pizza by the slice, and all other downtown restaurants will offer full menu items.
Fright Night has a new and improved costume contest that means no registration and no lines. This change means there is more time for candy and fun. Surprise costume judging will take place on 2nd Avenue between the hours of 6:00 and 7:30 p.m. Judges will be looking for event participation, effort into costume and enthusiasm, positive attitude, and most of all...if you are having fun. Winners will be picked out of the crowd at random for prizes. Be prepared, you never know who is watching! Everyone is invited to participate in the Costume Parade starting at 6 p.m. The parade will begin at the Plaza Stage and continue down 2nd Avenue. All participants of the parade will receive a raffle ticket for prize bags, with raffle winners being announced at 6:30 p.m.
Several community agencies and downtown businesses will host activities and/or trick or treating. Children will receive an activity sheet that includes a map of the trick or treat locations at downtown businesses and other activities. The activity sheet will include a pumpkin scavenger hunt game. Participants may return their completed sheet at the goodie bag table and a special prize winner will be drawn from all the completed entries. All entries must be received by 7:30 p.m. and the lucky winner must be present to win.
Fright Night is made possible by the help of our contributors: WHBF, the Family Museum, Spellbound, & Hy-Vee.
For more information, please call The District at 309.788.6311 or visit www.ridistrict.com.
The Downtown Rock Island Arts & Entertainment District (The District) is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization established in 1992 by local downtown merchants. The District's mission is to establish and manage downtown Rock Island as a creative and innovative experience by focusing on the development of the arts and quality special event management. It features retail shops, excellent restaurants, live entertainment, dinner theater, art galleries and several entertainment venues. Rock Island is located on the Mississippi River, three hours west of Chicago in an area known as the Quad-Cities which straddles the river and the Illinois/Iowa border. It is at the intersection of Interstate highways 74, 88 and 80 and is served by Quad City International Airport in Moline, IL.
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