1. Enjoy hayrides, sweets, a campfire, costume contest and other family-friendly Halloween fun today and Friday at Ox Bow County Park. Hayrides leave at 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m. Cost is $2 per adult, $1 per child 16 and younger. Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. both days. For more information call 535-6458 or visit www.elkhartcountyparks.org. Ox Bow Park is at 23033 C.R. 45, Dunlap.

2. The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center will host several international artists during the next two weeks. Yamato performs on Japan's traditional Wadaiko drums at 7 p.m. Friday, the Irish Chamber Orchestra performs at 2 p.m. Nov. 8, and the Idan Raichel Project, with its blend of traditional Ethiopian folk music, Arabic poetry, Yemenite chants and more appears at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. For tickets to any of these performances call 631-2800. The DeBartolo is at 100 Performing Arts Center, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend.

3. Greenleaf Living Center will host an indoors community trick-or-treat event from 6 to 7 p.m. today. The residents will distribute candy. The center is at 1201 E. Beardsley Ave., Elkhart. For more information call 206-0086.

4. Concord Mall will host a Make Your Own Costume Contest beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Four categories according to age, from babies to adults. For more information call 875-6502. The mall is at 3701 S. Main St., Elkhart.

For more information on things to do in the area, turn to the Entertainment Calendar on D2.