Middle School Halloween Costume Contest

River Campus | 807 Rio Grande Street, Austin, TX 78701
Julia Murray
Each year, we celebrate Halloween AND Headwaters Birthday with a special invitation for students and staff to dress up for the school day. During advisory and lunch, the Middle School will gather together for a costume contest. All students and staff are invited to dress up. Due to space, we are not able to welcome parents for this event, but we will livestream Halloween on our Facebook channel, so be sure to follow us so you get a notification!

Costumes are allowed all day as long as they don't interrupt learning for you or other students. Costumes can also just be worn for lunch at the Costume Contest.

We ask those who decide to wear costumes to consider the following questions posed by Yale University in 2015: 
  • Wearing a funny costume? Is the humor based on “making fun” of real people, human traits or cultures?
  • Wearing a historical costume? If this costume is meant to be historical, does it further misinformation or historical and cultural inaccuracies?
  • Wearing a ‘cultural’ costume? Does this costume reduce cultural differences to jokes or stereotypes?
  • Wearing a ‘religious’ costume? Does this costume mock or belittle someone’s deeply held faith tradition?
Check out this TEDxYouth talk from Aaliyah Jihad called "Cultural Appropriation: Why Your Pocahontas Costume Isn't Okay."
Here's a slide show we shared a middle school Pitso about Halloween and cultural appropriation:


Headwaters History: Headwaters calls Halloween it's birthday! We celebrate the day a little differently on each campus, but all of them have some costumes and fun. On the River Campus, a costume contest tradition for students and staff is a favorite part of the year for many.
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