In partnership with local organizations, Fall Festival provides multiple engaging and creative art & activity stations. Each station is free and open to attendees of all ages. In the past, these have included: live spooky stories in the gallery, a seasonally-themed scavenger hunt, mask-making, and more.
Port Angeles Fine Art Center
Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival
Saturday, October 17th, 2026 | 5:00-8:30 PM
The Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival is a unique opportunity for people of all ages to embrace the change of the seasons and experience the magic of fall.
This annual event at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center includes a community call-for-art, where everyone is encouraged to carve a pumpkin and enter it into the Pumpkin Carving Contest for a chance to win a prize supplied by Olympic Peninsula local businesses. With multiple categories for different ages and abilities, this event results in Webster's Woods' trails being lined with charming, spooky, artistic, silly, and creative pumpkins for the night of the festival while judging takes place.
Attendees also enjoy local food vendors, a beer garden, live music, professional theatre performances, and free art & activity stations that are open to all ages.
The Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival is free to enter with a suggested donation of $5. Donations help us keep this event open and accessible for everyone.
Interactive Art Stations
Shadow Puppet Theater
The Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival, each year, presents a new and engaging show surrounding the event's theme: shadows. Attend this free performance held at the Community Playhouse during the festival.
Beer Garden +Food
Food and beverage vendors supply the crowds with delicious snacks, meals, treats, and drinks during the Fall Festival. Support local businesses while walking the pumpkin-lined trails, listening to spooky stories, or while watching live performances.
Pumpkin Carving Contest
Enter the Pumpkin Carving Contest with a home-carved pumpkin or a workshop-carved pumpkin. Each pumpkin entered will become a part of the festival and will line the trails in Webster's Woods during the event. Judges and community-members will select winners to receive a series of prizes supplied by local businesses on the Peninsula.
2026 Pumpkin Carving Workshops
Pumpkin carving workshops are led by a professional artist before the Fall Festival at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. All workshop attendees' pumpkins are entered into the Pumpkin Carving Contest at the event for a chance to win a prize. The pumpkins are included in the workshop fee.
Carving Workshop Times: Unreleased for 2026
Workshop Entry: $10 Member | $15 Non-Member
Registration Opens: Summer 2026 | All Ages Welcome
Workshop Fee Includes: Pumpkin, Tools, Instruction on Carving Techniques, Entry into Pumpkin Contest
Home-Carved Pumpkins Contest Entry
Everyone is encouraged to enter the pumpkin carving contest with a workshop-carved pumpkin or a home-carved pumpkin. Please enter your home-carved pumpkins by dropping them off at PAFAC on Saturday, October 17th, 2026. Feel free to take your pumpkin home with you at the end of the festival.
Carve-at-Home Entry: $5/Pumpkin
2025 Festival Schedule
Festivities Happening between 5:00-8:30PM | Food & Drink Vendors Available
5:00PM—Festival begins with food vending by Pacific Pantry and drinks for purchase in the Meadow Beer Garden provided by Angeles Brewing.
5:00-5:30 PM—Spooky Storytime in the Courtyard with NOLS Port Angeles Main Library Youth Services Librarian, Jennifer Lu'Becke. Geared towards little ones, all ages welcome.
5:00-8:30 PM—Glow Scavenger Hunt, Haunted Gallery, Pumpkins on Display and Arts Stations in the Park with Olympic Nature Experience, Clallam Resilience Project, the Community Playhouse, and PAFAC.
5:30-6:30 PM—Pumpkin Contest Judging!
7:00PM—Pumpkin Contest Winners Announced in the Meadow.
5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00PM—Grab your seat at the Community Playhouse for a Shadow Puppet Theater Performance.
7:30-8:30PM—Winners, grab your prizes!
8:00-8:30 PM—Pick up your pumpkins! Did you enter a pumpkin in the contest and want to take it home? Pick up begins after 8:30PM. All pumpkins that are left will be composted.
WHERE TO PARK: We have space in our lot for 30 cars and there is ample parking throughout the neighborhood. Additional parking lots are available at the Community Playhouse, Franklin Elementary School or at Peninsula College on Lauridsen Blvd (3-5 minute walk).
We have one accessible parking spot near on next to the gallery and drop-offs are welcome as well for those who need assistance getting into the gallery. Check with the parking attendant on Jones Street.
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
