“Harry Potter” attended last year’s Carnival at Marquez.
Photo: RICH SCHMITT/CTN
In Pacific Palisades, perhaps nothing says October better than the Marquez Halloween Festival.
This annual event will be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 20, at Marquez Elementary Charter School, 16821 Marquez Avenue. Entry to the event is free, and tickets can be purchased for carnival games, the haunted house and food. Five tickets for $5 or 110 tickets for $100.
Each class sponsors a booth, such as the lollipop pull, the duck pond and graveyard golf. There will inflatables, a dunk tank and a Sports Zone Camp.
Once again, the fifth grade will be tasked with creating a haunted house – “Enter, if you dare.”
During the afternoon, there will be special performances by Fancy Feet Dance Studio, the Palisades Dance Studio, Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center, the Tae Ryong Taekwondo School and singer/songwriter Matty Gottesman.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.friendsofmarquez.com or at the door. The Friends invite you to come have some “ghoulish fun.” All money raised from the event will be used to support the Friends of Marquez, the parent-run nonprofit that funds supplemental educational programs to enrich the curriculum offered to all students at this elementary school