The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/wizarding-weekend/)
Amidst legal battles with Warner Bros. and a lack of sufficient volunteer support, the annual Wizarding Weekend is canceled for the foreseeable future.
Ithaca’s Wizarding Weekend, a magical festival held annually in the Ithaca Commons is being discontinued as of 2020, to be replaced by the Gorgekeep Festival.
This year’s highlights include a scroll ceremony and guardian quest, a Fan Arts Show and, as before, a wide range of costumes to add lively colors to Ithaca’s fall season.
“Rain or shine it is so fun to be with fans, because fandom is the best part about doing this,” Muzio told The Sun.
All in all, if you don’t want to go to Wizarding weekend for the people dressed up as wizards living out their Harry Potter fantasies, then at least go for the the variety of food and the atmosphere of excitement during the day.
The event kicked off on Friday in Downtown Ithaca with a costume parade, where participants fashioned their Halloween costumes as they walked from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Commons.
Last weekend, hundreds flooded the streets of downtown Ithaca for the second annual Wizarding Weekend, a four-day celebration of J. K. Rowling’s phenomenon, Harry Potter.
For Harry Potter fans like me, Wizarding Weekend was not just a reenactment of scenes from a favorite read. It also offered good food that reunited fans with the world of Harry Potter.