Spotlight

Since the park’s debut in 2008, Halloween has always been a big deal at Discovery Green. “Scream on the Green is one of our annual events that people look forward to the most, and it celebrates a very American holiday of Halloween,” says programming director Susanne Theis. But with a huge portion of Discovery Green’s visitors identifying as Hispanic—40 percent according to a recent survey—Theis and her colleagues began to wonder if they should incorporate other cultural traditions around Halloween that are important to Houstonians.