After being in hibernation for over a year, the Tucson Museum of Art is howling back to life.
The museum is hosting a Halloween themed “Howl at the Museum” on Friday, Oct. 29.
The indoor/outdoor event will feature dancing to cumbia music, an audience-voted cocktail competition with Tucson’s best bartenders and a costume contest hosted by drag queens Apple, Diva and Venus.
The event also will feature art works representing indigenous, Western and European cultures.
The goal is to usher in new members to the museum and “bridge the gap between downtown and who you might think of as the typical museum crowd,” said Korey Schultz, a co-chairman of the Howl Host Committee.
Several Tucson restaurants — Commoner & Co., Flora's Market Run, Prep & Pastry, Café a la C'Art and LaCo Tucson (formerly La Cocina) — are providing food while Portal Cocktails and Finley Distributing are providing beverages.
The event also features Whiskey del Bac's Del Bac Showdown, a cocktail competition showcasing creations by Tucson's best bartenders. Audience members will vote on the cocktails and the winners will receive cash prizes.
“It’s quite a fun thing. To be able to offer that every year is wonderful,” said Cami Cotton, another event committee co-chairs.
Tucson's DJ Herm and cumbia/rock/funk/reggae band Los Esplifs will perform.
“To be able to play good music and give people a good time, that’s really what I’m looking forward to, especially after 2020,” Herm said.
