Janelle Monáe Wondaween Is Back for 2025 & Includes Inaugural Vampire Beach Music Festival

Janelle Monáe and The Wondaland Arts Society are transforming Los Angeles into a spooky Halloween destination.

Monáe unveiled the afloat lineup for Wondaween 2025 connected Wednesday (Oct. 15), which blends unneurotic fashion, music, creation and movie events crossed Los Angeles for the adjacent month. While highlights of the festival see a Wondaween Game Night and intimate discussions astir horror, dependable and costume plan with Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and more, the biggest gully is undeniably the inaugural Vampire Beach euphony festival. The festival volition big a specified 1,000 “Wondaweenies” for a fun, costumed solemnisation of music, nutrient and different surprises. The fest volition instrumentality spot connected Oct. 30 astatine a concealed location.

The jam-packed festival should travel arsenic nary surprise, considering however overmuch of a passionate Halloween person Monáe has ever been. Every year, her Halloween costume becomes the speech of the internet. Last year, she shocked the satellite erstwhile she dressed up arsenic E.T., doing truthful with immoderate unbelievable prosthetics and makeup.

“E.T. has lurked successful my caput since I was a baby,” Monáe told Vogue past year. “From Spielberg’s penning to the cinematography, the communicative of E.T. and Elliot has touched my bosom deeply. This movie ever leaves maine successful tears. The enslaved Elliot and E.T. had was a show of the champion parts of us: axenic emotion and allyship. We request much of that. I’m ever praying we tin each interaction each other’s lives similar they did each other’s.”

Check retired Janelle Monáe’s uncover of Wondaween 2025 below. Tickets and RSVPs are disposable present connected the Wondaween website.