Scary frights at this year’s Night at the Factory

31 October 2024

On Monday 28th, young and old showed up at Kulturfabrikken, which had been transformed into a house of horror, filled with scary creatures and fun activities.

Halloween has its origins from various celebrations in Europe and America that thematize death, and was especially popularized in the United States in the 1900s. Children dress up in scary costumes and go door to door asking for treats. This is a fairly new tradition in Norway, which grew in popularity around the 2000’s. In Norway, Halloween corresponds to a secular version of the Christian celebration of All Saints’ Eve.

The shop and café are decorated for the occasion. Photo: Museum Nord.

This year like the last, there was a large turnout of both scary creatures, witches, skeletons, and some ordinary humans. All in all, around 400 showed up for the free event that has now become a tradition at the cultural center.

The museum arranged a reflective safari. For the occasion, the museum was made as dark as the bottom of the sea – and in the depths you had to use a flashlight to search both high and low for animals.

Children and adults are looking for reflective animals at the museum. Photo: Museum Nord.

The library hosteda workshop where you brought your own milk carton decorated it so it looked like a haunted house!

Photo: Kulturfabrikken.

The cultural school had a performance in Møysalen, where children and youths sang, danced and played to a fully booked auditorium.

Photo: Kulturfabrikken.

Thanks to everyone who wanted to get scared alongside us!

Night at the Factory is a free event for children that is part of the Children’s Factory, organized by Kulturfabrikken Sortland in collaboration with the cultural school, the Culture Café, Sortland library, and Sortland Museum.