11:09 AM: The costume parade is under way, kicking off the West Seattle Junction Harvest Festival!
Until 2 pm, The Junction is full of people enjoying performances, activities, and of course business/booth trick-or-treating. From the West Seattle Junction Association, which brings you the festival, here’s the schedule for today:
11:00 – 11:30A
High school band leads costume promenade11:00 – 2:00P
Activity vendor booths and sidewalk trick-or-treating11:00 – 12:30P
Chili cook-off starts [inside ArtsWest, $20/flight] and ends when they run out of chili11:30 – 11:45P
RopeWorks performs in the All Ways Intersection12:00 – 12:20P
Seattle Thrillers perform in All Ways Intersection12:20 – 12:35P
Pet Costume Contest12:30P – 1:00P
Pie-eating contest /announce chili cook-off winner1:00 – 2:00P – Halloween House music
It’s all free fun except $20 for a 9-sample chili flight in the cookoff, benefiting the West Seattle Food Bank! And you can shop the West Seattle Farmers’ Market as always too, until 2 pm on California between Oregon and Alaska.
11:21 AM: Rain City RopeWorks, led by coach (and world champion) Rene Bibaud, is performing now. Amd it’s chili time inside ArtsWest (4711 California SW, a few doors south of Walk All Ways). We’re close to the Seattle Thrillers‘ performance too!
11:44 AM: The sun is breaking through!