Parktoberfest is a one-day arts festival sponsored by Friends of High School Park, and held at High School Park in the heart of Elkins Park, PA .

This year, Arts in the Park is postponed until October 3rd– and will be renamed Parktoberfest!

Arts in the Park/Parktoberfest was created in 1995 to bring together many of our local talented artists and musicians for a fun, creative day to help raise funds for Friends of High School Park. Please come spend the day with us in our beautiful protected space while enjoying the talents of our gifted and accomplished community artisans. Each year we jury dozens of artists and craftspeople to display and sell their work at the festival, and each festival draws over two thousand visitors from Elkins Park, Cheltenham, and neighboring communities.

Each year we jury dozens of artists and craftspeople to display and sell their work at the festival. Arts in the Park/Parktoberfest is open to artists in all media who design and produce their own handcrafted work. ​No commercially mass-produced items or items for resale will be accepted.​ Only those items represented by the application samples will be accepted, no additional categories of items by the artist will be allowed to be displayed.

Along with visual arts, we also support local performing arts. At Arts in the Park/Parktoberfest, music is supplied all day by the generosity of local musicians. Get the band together and come join us and a large portion of the community for this event.

For 26 years, community-minded companies have been benefitting from our unique sponsorships that combine advance publicity and thousands of event attendees. Your company will be front and center as people of all ages converge on High School Park to browse and shop.

Arts in the Park/Parktoberfest is the largest fund-raiser for Friends of High School Park, and we need your help to make this event a success. Our intention is to build successful partnerships with sponsors that promote their company to a key demographic AND provides invaluable support to the work of Friends of High School Park.