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October 2026

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You laughing your head off at an awesome evening of all-ages comedy for kids, teens, and adults with Hartford's professional comedy troupe, Sea Tea Improv Touring Company.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/seateafamilyn-hartford.png", "name": "The Sea Tea Improv Family Show! 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Put together your smartest, funnest, most competitive team and come up with a really good name-- like "Quizzly Bears" or "Let’s Get Quizzical".", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/urban-lodge-brewery-e1696960771788.jpeg", "name": "Bar Rated Trivia Night", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/bar-rated-trivia-night/?occurrence=2026-10-21" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2025-05-01", "endDate": "2025-05-01", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Dead Language Beer Project", "image": "", "address": "1429 Park Street, Hartford, CT" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/bar-rated-trivia-night-375/", "price": "Free", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "Ready to flex your smarts? <a href="https://www.barratedtrivia.com">Bar Rated</a> brings you the best themed trivia happening Thursday nights at Dead Language Beer Project. Put together your smartest, funnest, most competitive team and come up with a really good name-- like "Quizzly Bears" or "Let’s Get Quizzical".", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/dead-language-beer_hartfordct-e1745947307537.jpg", "name": "Bar Rated Trivia Night", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/bar-rated-trivia-night-375/?occurrence=2026-10-22" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2026-10-23", "endDate": "2026-10-23", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Stowe Center for Literary Activism", "image": "", "address": "77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT, USA" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/spirits-at-stowe/", "price": "$20", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "Dust off that old Ouija Board and be prepared to mingle with the dearly departed. The Spirits at Stowe tour explores the role of Spiritualism in the lives of reformers, suffragists, and Black activists. During the tour, the Stowe House is set to reflect a Spiritualist setting, taking place later in the evening and lit by (electric) candlelight. You will engage with the materials of Spiritualism on display throughout the house so as to consider the possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of Spiritualist beliefs.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Spirits-at-Stowe-2022.jpg", "name": "Spirits at Stowe", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/spirits-at-stowe/?occurrence=2026-10-23&time=1792764000" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2026-10-23", "endDate": "2026-10-23", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Mark Twain House & Museum", "image": "", "address": "351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/tarot-poetry-workshop-2/", "price": "$35+", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "Let the cards deal a little literary inspiration at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Glastonbury Poet Laureate Victoria Nordlund leads a poetry workshop inspired by the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck and the mansion’s Gilded Age rooms, with optional personal tarot readings for anyone looking to take the experience a little further.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pexels-monstera-3088369.jpg", "name": "Tarot Poetry Workshop", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/tarot-poetry-workshop-2/?occurrence=2026-10-23" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2026-02-28", "endDate": "2026-02-28", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Mark Twain House & Museum", "image": "", "address": "351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/ghost-tours-of-the-mark-twain-house/", "price": "$23+", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "<span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">The Mark Twain House & Museum</span></span> offers Ghost Tours exploring haunted history, Victorian spiritualism, and the era’s fascination with séances and spirits. Drawing on documented investigations and Mark Twain’s own curiosity about the supernatural, the tour blends historical context with chilling tales rooted in real lives and losses.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/twain-ghost-tour_hartfordct.jpg", "name": "Ghost Tours of the Mark Twain House", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/ghost-tours-of-the-mark-twain-house/?occurrence=2026-10-23&time=1792778400" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2024-09-20", "endDate": "2024-09-20", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Sea Tea Comedy Theater", "image": "", "address": "Sea Tea Comedy Theater, Asylum Street, Hartford, CT, USA" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/the-deep-end/", "price": "$10", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "Dive into The Deep End every Friday night when Sea Tea Improv's dedicated cast of improvisers put on a totally unique show based entirely on your suggestions. They’ll take their 169 (nice!) years of combined experience to razzle dazzle you, every single week. <em>The Hartford Couran</em>t raves: “We haven’t seen it yet.”", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sea-tea-improv_hartfordct-e1732307823194.jpeg", "name": "The Deep End", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/the-deep-end/?occurrence=2026-10-23" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2026-10-24", "endDate": "2026-10-24", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Stowe Center for Literary Activism", "image": "", "address": "77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT, USA" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/family-spirits-haunted-history-tours/", "price": "$10+", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "Harriet Beecher Stowe had a few otherworldly interests, and her Hartford home may still have some stories to tell. The Stowe Center’s Family Spirits Tours explore 19th-century spiritualism, Stowe’s own séances, and mysterious encounters reported in her historic home. Recommended for ages 8 and up.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Family-Spirits_Haunted-History-Tours-e1790886895790.jpg", "name": "Family Spirits: Haunted History Tours", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/family-spirits-haunted-history-tours/?occurrence=2026-10-24&time=1792837800" } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "startDate": "2026-10-24", "endDate": "2026-10-24", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Connecticut's Old State House", "image": "", "address": "800 Main Street, Hartford, CT" }, "offers": { "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/election-cake-bake-off-2025/", "price": "Free", "priceCurrency": "$" }, "performer": "", "description": "In Connecticut's 18th and 19th centuries, Election Day combined voting with parties, libations, parades, and CAKE. Stores sold special Election Cake ingredients to women who transformed them into spicy cakes for crowds gathered to vote at the State House and in other Connecticut cities. For the third year in a row, Connecticut pastry chefs and bakers will compete whisk to whisk to have their confection named the official 2026 Connecticut Election Cake. Let them eat cake. And vote. And everyone keeps their head. This is a democracy, after all.", "image": "https://hartford.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/moms-cake-1520462.jpg", "name": "Election Cake Bake-Off 2026", "url": "https://hartford.com/calendar/election-cake-bake-off-2025/?occurrence=2026-10-24" }
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