10/18/2026
Celebrate all-hallows in Bear River at the third annual Creatures of the Night: Lantern Festival ✨
The creatures of the night welcome everyone in the family to participate by joining us on Saturday, October 24th at 7pm to celebrate the night in glowing, whimsy and obscure costumes, together we will light up the streets of Bear River with monstrosity & delight
We encourage you to create your own puppet costume, or glow up your Halloween costume with lights and join us as we parade the dark village streets with glowing creatures, send us an email to register your costume ✨
The festival will showcase the talents of local artists as well as live music, light shows, and more! The creature walk will be followed by a garden of lights, live music and performances in the Bear River Waterfront Park
If you need inspiration or motivation to make a costume, there will be a series of events leading up to the festival offering a creative, safe, and collaborative space to discuss and create creature costumes and lanterns in preparation for the festival on October 24th
Creatures of the Night: Lantern Festival
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
Parade at 7pm
Registered participants meet at 6:30 at Bear River Fire Dept
🌙 WORKSHOPS @ OAKDENE
✨Workshop 1
Animal faces & shapes
Sunday, September 27th from 1-4pm
Hosted by Lili Gooyers
✨Workshop 2
Dream Catchers
Saturday, October 3rd from 1-4pm
Hosted by Rose Meuse
✨Workshop 3
Lantern Making
Sunday, October 11th from 1-4pm
Hosted by Ken Flett
✨Workshop 4
Lantern Making
Sunday, October 18th from 1-4pm
Hosted by Evelyn Winter
✨Creatures of The Night Lantern Festival
Saturday October 24th at 7pm in Bear River
Participants meet at 6:30pm at Bear River Fire Department to line up
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We are also looking for individual volunteers, groups, childcare organizers, activity coordinators, etc, who are unable to attend but want to participate to reach out if you are interested supporting the event by creating flameless lanterns to decorate the village
Admission is free but donations for and of supplies are welcome to be dropped off at meetings
This is a volunteer run event, we want this cool event so we're organizing it, all support is welcome
For questions or more info, contact organizers at [email protected]
