Media Contact: Mary Carbine
Madison’s Central Business Improvement District
t: (608) 512-1340
mcarbine@visitdowntownmadison.com
Madison, Wis. (Sep. 30, 2013)—Enjoy family fun at the Downtown Madison Family Halloween, State Street and the Capitol Square, Friday, October 25, 2013, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm. Activities for families and kids 12 and under include magic shows, hayrides, crafts, ghostly songs and stories, kids’ musical theater, trick or treat at participating businesses, and more. Stay into the evening for ““Beakers and Broomsticks: Mad Scientists” (ticketed event), at the Madison Children’s Museum. Information is at www.visitdowntownmadison.com/FamilyHalloween or at (608) 512-1342.
Activities will include Madison Parks Hayrides around the Capitol Square, Halloween Magic & Ventriloquist Shows with Wayne the Wizard plus Halloween family photos at Overture Center, spooky crafts and scary stories at Madison Central Library, a Day of the Dead exhibition and take-home mask at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, trick or treat bag decorating at DreamBank – American Family Insurance, ancient musical madness from MadCAP (songs include Greece Is The Word, In My Tomb, So Long Ago and Toga Party Tonight), a make your own ghost craft activity plus Ghostly Songs and Stories from Wisconsin with Stuart Stotts at the Wisconsin Historical Museum, and trick or treating at participating businesses and organizations.
See www.visitdowntownmadison.com/FamilyHalloweenfor more event details, or pick up a schedule and map on Oct 25th at event locations or the Downtown Visitor Center (452 State St.).
These Halloween family fun events are presented by Madison’s Central Business Improvement District (BID), and the Greater State Street Business Association.
Programming Partners who will help present activities and events include Capitol Kids, MadCAP, Madison Children’s Museum, Madison Public Library’s Central Library, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Parks, Overture Center for the Arts and the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
Thanks to our Sponsors for making this event possible: DreamBank – American Family Insurance, The University Book Store, IsthmusParents.com, Madison Public Library’s Central Library, and Visitor and Information Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
