10.6–10.12

The most magical time of the year is heeeeere! Halloween-themed events featuring costume contests, cozy crafts, murder mysteries, and LOTS of treats are marked with a 🎃.

Mon 10/6
✮ 5:30–8:30pm: A Night at the Museum (dinner fundraiser for TAP) // VA Museum of Transportation // $125 ↝
🎃 6pm: Horror Movie Night (Stephen King's IT Double Feature) // Starr Hill Brewery // free ↝

Tue 10/7
💃 1–3pm: Line Dancing with Tracy // Melrose Plaza large fitness room // free ↝
♫ 5–8pm: Jeremy Davall (rock, country, cover) // Parkway Brewing // free ↝
🎃🎨 6:30pm: Going Bats paint night // Crab Du Jour // $25 ↝

Wed 10/8
🏆🌳 4–6pm: Sunset Kayaking // Carvin's Cove // $35 ↝
♫🍔 5–8pm: Jazz Night // Six and Sky // free ↝
✮ 5–8pm: Mid-Week Market (live music, vendors, food & drink specials) // Golden Cactus // free ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Circus Mutt // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
🎃🌳🍷 6–8pm: Petals & Potions (Halloween floral design & a wine flight) // George's Flowers // $75, 21+ ↝
🎭 7–9pm (sign-ups begin at 6:30): Open Mic Comedy Night with the Comedy Lab // Big Lick Brewing // free ↝
♫ 7–11pm: Open Mic Night // The Front Row // free ↝
♫ 9:30pm: Swamp Flower (group show) // Martin's Downtown // free ↝

Thu 10/9
🎨 5:30–6:30pm: Recycled Bottle Lamp Workshop (prep for the Festival of Light) // Morningside Urban Farm // free ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Music Road Co. Trio (reggae, funk) // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
🎨 6–7:30pm: Gnome Needle Felting Workshop // Fishburn Mansion // $55 ↝
🎃🎨 6–8pm: UV Hocus Pocus Paint Party // Well Hung Vineyard // $34 ↝
♫ 6–9pm: Doc McClintock (folk) // Golden Cactus // free ↝
🌳✮ 6:30–8pm: Flora of Virginia & Digital Plant Resources (class & demo) // Christ Lutheran Church // free ↝
💃 7–10pm: Line Dancing with Angela // Tropicana Bar & Grill // free ↝
♫ 7–10pm: Kendall Street Company (rock, jam) // Fork in the Alley // free ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 6:30): Dizgo w/ Chalk Dinosaur (jamtronica, dance, funk) // 5 Points Music Sanctuary // $22+ ↝
♫ 9:30pm: Reggae Night by The Ambassador // Martin's Downtown // free ↝

Fri 10/10
🏆 noon–7pm: .5K Run & Walk // Olde Salem Brewing - Salem // $15 ↝
🎃🎨 1–2pm: Pumpkin Pastel Class // Taubman Museum // $20, ages 10+ ↝
♫✮ 5:30–6:15pm: FREE Guitar Masterclass w/ Justus Ross // Shaftman Performance Hall @ Jefferson Center // free, all ages ↝
🎨 5:30–8:30pm: Keepsake Collage Workshop // Olin Hall Gallery // $5 ↝
🎲 6pm (doors 5:30): Murder by Magic (wizarding-themed murder mystery event) // Stave & Cork - Salem // $35 ↝
♫ 6pm: Corey Hunley Duo (alt country) // Fork in the Alley // free ↝
🏆🐾 6pm: Sunset Goat Yoga // AFOG - Buchanan // $25; reg. ends 10/8 ↝
🎃♫🎨 6pm: Candlelight & Crimson Galloween Gathering (live music, candle painting, intention jars) // Starr Hill Brewery // free ↝
✮ 6–7:30pm: Candlelight Vigil for Palestine // 7636 Plantation Rd  ↝
🏳️‍🌈 6–8:30pm: Sapphic Speed Dating // The Park Dance Club // free ↝
♫ 6–9pm: Leonard Blush and The Camelcals (rock) // Twisted Track Brewpub // free ↝
🏆🐾 6:15pm: Cat Yoga - day 1 // Toebean Cat Cafe // $30 ↝
📚🍷 7pm: Books, Booze, & Bodies (Q&A w/ 3 local mystery authors)// The Bibliopub // free ↝
♫ 7:30pm: K92 Listener Appreciation Party w/ Shane Profitt & Matt Cooper (country) // Sidewinders // $12; 21+ ↝
♫ 7:30pm: One With the Riverbed, The Ziggurat, To Be an Astronaut (metal) // The Spot on Kirk // $10, all ages ↝
♫ 7:30pm: Wes Collins, Rob Fraim (folk, Americana, acoustic) // 3rd Street Coffeehouse // free ↝
♫ 7:30–9pm: RSO feat. Boogie Wonder Band (orchestral disco) // Salem Civic Center // $30–64 ↝
🐾 7:30–10:30pm: Bug & Bat Night (s'mores, class, & up-close encounters) // Mill Mountain Discovery Center // $15 ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 7:30): Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder (bluegrass, country) // Shaftman Performance Hall @ Jefferson Center // $41+ ↝
🎭 8pm: Jo Koy (comedy) // Berglund Performing Arts Theatre // $40+ ↝
🎃🏳️‍🌈💃 8pm–2am: Hocus Pocus Drag Party // The Park Dance Club // cover ↝
♫ 9:30pm: Marvelous Funkshun (funk, blues, psych rock) // Martin's Downtown // $10 ↝

Sat 10/11
🏆 8am: Lewis Gale Half Marathon & 8K // Salem Farmers Market // $65+ ↝
✮🌳 8am–6:30pm: Day Trip: Autumn Leaves Festival in Mount Airy (via shuttle bus) // Brambleton Rec Center // $69 ↝
🌳 10am–noon: Bulb Planting Workshop - morning session // VWCC Community Arboretum // $35 ↝
🌳 10am–noon: Basic Mycology // Explore park // $12 ↝
🎃🧸🏆 10am–noon: Mickey's Halloween Party (skating & activities for toddlers) // Firehouse Skate 'N Play // $13 adv. $15 door; ages 6 & under ↝
🎃🧸 10am–3pm: Spooky Sweets & Treats (crafts, games, vendors, face painting, & book fair) // VA Museum of Transportation // $11+ ↝
✮ noon–2pm: Korean Festival of Letters (traditional music, dance, art, calligraphy, crafts, & more!) // Taubman Museum // free ↝
🏳️‍🌈🍔 noon–3pm: Second Saturday (LGBTQ+ potluck & social for adults 45+) // Roanoke Diversity Center // free ↝
🏳️‍🌈 noon–7pm: SWVA Pride Fest // Salem Civic Center // free ↝
🌳 1–3pm: Bulb Planting Workshop - afternoon session // VWCC Community Arboretum // $35 ↝
🎨 1–4pm: Keepsake Collage Workshop // Olin Hall Gallery // $5 ↝
✮🌳 1–7pm: Earth Mother Honor (somatic movement, garden tour, potluck, & drum circle) // Star City Compost // free; donations encouraged ↝
🎨 1:30–4:30pm: Tapestry Weaving Workshop // Art on 1st // $45 ↝
🎃🧸🎨 2–3pm: Halloween Cookie Decorating // Melrose Library // free ↝
🏆🎲 3–7pm: Cornhole Tournament (benefit for Bradley Free Clinic) // Starr Hill Brewery // $20 for team of two ↝
🎃🎲 3–8pm: Magic in the Mountains (Harry Potter Trivia, adult & children costume contests, & vendors) // Olde Salem Brewing - Salem // free ↝
🎃💃🎲 4–9pm: Carnival of Chaos (real tattoos, games & prizes, costume contest, hot cider, live DJ & dancing) // Motel Studios // free ↝
🌳🍔 5–8pm: LEAP Apples & Acorns (foraging, apple processing, plant walk, potluck, & campfire) // Hunt Park Community Garden // pay what you can ↝
✮♫ 6pm (doors 5): Building a Cure Talent Show (fundraiser for Carilion Clinic) // The Dog Bowl @ Black Dog Salvage // $24+ ↝
💃 6–9pm: BrewChata (Latin dance party) // Twisted Track Brewpub // free ↝
✮🍺 6–10pm: Bourbon, Bubbly, & Brew (food, drinks, music, & auction fundraiser for The Spot on Kirk) // SMWV // $125 ↝
🏆🐾 6:15pm: Cat Yoga - day 2 // Toebean Cat Cafe // $30 ↝
♫ 6:30–9:30pm: Gasoline Alley (rock, cover) // Twin Creeks Brewing // free ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 7): The Wailers (reggae) // The Harvester Performance Center - Rocky Mount // $50+ ↝
♫💃 8pm: Tumbao, JStop Latin Soul (live latin music w/ salsa lesson & dancing) // Fitzpatrick Hall @ Jefferson Center // $20 ↝
🏆 8–11pm: Get Tilted! (after hours pinball party) // Roanoke Pinball Museum // $10, 21+ ↝
🎃🏳️‍🌈💃 8pm–2:30am: Tim Burton-themed Dance & Drag party (prize for best costume) // The Park Dance Club // cover ↝
♫💃 9pm–2am: Party Mortals w/ Star City Soul Club & friends (dance, house) // The Front Row // free ↝

Sun 10/12
🎃🏳️‍🌈🍔 10am–1pm: Halloween Drag Brunch // Well Hung Vineyard // $10 ↝
🐾 noon–3pm: Barktober Fest (dog-focused vendors & free professional pet photos) // Starkey Park South // free w/ dog food donation ↝
✮ noon–6pm: Jack Brown’s Renaissance Faire Festival (music, vendors, food, games, petting zoo, foam sword fights, & more!) // Jack Brown's // free ↝
🎃🎨 1–3pm: DIY Mini Haunted House // Taubman Museum // $45 ↝
🌳✮ 2pm: 20th Annual Historic Walking Tour // Evergreen Burial Park // free ↝
🏆 2pm: CROP Hunger Walk (fundraiser & awareness for food insecurity) // First Evangelical Presbyterian Church // donation-based ↝
✮ 2–6pm: Family Photoshoot Fundraiser (benefitting 127 Place) // Wasena Park // $150 suggested donation ↝
♫ 3pm: Robby Carden, Allen Thompson (country, harmonica) // Starr Hill Brewery // free ↝
✮♫🍔 3pm: Crystal Spring Block Party // Crystal Spring Ave SW // $6+ ↝
🌳 3–4pm: Chestnut & Persimmon Foraging // Fishburn Park // free ↝
🏆🧸 3–6pm: NERF War // Lakewood Park // free ↝
✮🍺 4–8pm: The Urban Picnic (drinks, music, & outdoor movie—BYO food) // Roanoke Higher Education Center Lawn // free ↝
♫ 5pm: Becki & the Boom Booms (blues, jazz, rock) // Fork in the Alley // free ↝
♫ 5–10pm: Music on the Mountain with Star City Swag (jazz, swing) // Mill Mountain Discovery Center // free ↝
🎃🎲 1pm (doors 12:30): Halloween Murder Mystery Event // Twisted Track Brewpub // $35 ↝
🐾 1:30–3:30pm: Tails & Ales: Cat Edition (drink with adoptable cats) // Big Lick Brewing // free ↝
🎃🎨 4–6pm: Ghosts on Classic Prints Paint Party // Bubba's 33 // $29 ↝

Ongoing/Multiple Dates

🎃🎭 Oct 9–19: Monstersongs // Showtimers Community Theatre //  "Late at night, long after being tucked in, The Kid opens up a spooky comic... and a portal to the world of well-known monsters. In this pop-rock concert, the monsters tell their stories of being misunderstood and taken for granted." // $13.50+ ↝

💘 Oct 10–12: Heritage Arts Tattoo Convention // Berglund Center // "Virginia has a rich history in tattooing and this show is geared up to spotlight some of the most talented artists in this craft today from all over the world. A weekend that will be backed with talented artists, live entertainment and local brews." // $30/day or $75 weekend pass ↝

🌽 thru Oct 26: Jeter Farm Fall Festival // Jeter Farm // "If you are young or just young at heart you will enjoy getting lost in the corn maze, visiting the farm animals, or playing in the barnyard. Visit our Country Store that is stocked with all locally made, VA Grown, and VA finest products and crafts. Enjoy ice cream, local apple cider, fresh kettle corn, and on Saturday and Sunday grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, and, roasted corn!" // $15 ↝

🎃 thru Nov 2: Sinkland Farms Pumpkin Festival // Christiansburg // "Attracting folks from miles around, we bring out the best of the farm during our traditional pumpkin harvest. While our pumpkin patch is the star of the show, we offer six weekends jam-packed with activities, music, food, and fun you won’t want to miss." // $13 adv. $15 door; free for children <3 ↝

Looking Ahead

💀 Oct 14: Sugar Skulls Workshop // Evie's Bistro // Create and learn about this classic Day of the Dead treat/craft. "Participants will not take home the skulls we make, as they will be decorated during the Halloween Lantern Festival, where participants can then take them home or include them as a part of the community altar de muertos created by Latinas Network at that event." // free ↝

📿 Oct 18: Charm Bar Affair - sign up by Oct 16 // Second Cafe // "​Join us for a Charm Bar Affair and create elevated, one of a kind keychains that reflect you! Bring your besties, sip your favorite fall drink, design, and connect 🍁 In this 2 hour guided session, I’ll teach you how to create a unique layout + color palette, choose from a wide variety of charms, and how to assemble your 4 strand keychain. Let’s build a little piece of good luck!" // $35 ↝

🏮 Oct 25: Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival // Historic Gish House Lawn // "Join us for an evening of spooky vibes and magical lights as we parade, sing, shout, dance, and create together for the first ever Old Southwest Halloween Lantern Parade! This is a pedestrian-only parade that anyone can participate in— all you need is a 'lantern' of some kind." The night will include DJs, art vendors, lantern making and sugar skull workshops, a costume contest, & shadow puppet theatre! // free ↝

🧧 Nov 11: Printmaking on Gift Tags - sign up by Oct 26 // Crystal Spring Grocery // $45; $33 if you BYO carving tool ↝

🎁 Nov 22: Printmaking on Furoshiki - sign up by Nov 6 // Second Cafe // $45; $33 if you BYO carving tool ↝