R&B But Make it Spooky
Slow jams are getting a spooky season remix at R&B But Make It Spooky at Parkville Market. Ru Williams hosts with DJ Mab spinning R&B favorites under the stars, while costumes compete for bragging rights in best couple, scariest, and funniest categories.
Princesses & Villains
Royalty and rogues are taking over 1390 @ Parkville Market for a Halloween afternoon hosted by Mickey and Minnie. Meet princesses and villains, trick-or-treat your way through the party, catch live performances, enter Halloween contests, and keep an eye out for a little fairy godmother magic.
28 Days Later
London is empty, the infected are fast, and suddenly sleeping through the apocalypse seems like the easy part. Cinestudio’s Fright Nights presents a community showing of 28 Days Later (2002, R), Danny Boyle’s unnerving survival horror film that helped reinvent the zombie genre for a new generation.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Something monstrous is stalking the French countryside in Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001, R), showing as part of Cinestudio’s Fright Nights. Sent to hunt the mysterious Beast of Gévaudan, Grégoire de Fronsac and his companion Mani uncover a strange tangle of bloody attacks, local intrigue, and supernatural conspiracy.
Horror of Dracula
Christopher Lee bares his fangs for Cinestudio’s Fright Nights with Horror of Dracula (1958, NR), the Hammer Horror classic that gave the Count a bloodier, more seductive bite. When Dracula sets his sights on Jonathan Harker’s fiancée and her family, Dr. Van Helsing takes up the hunt before they become the vampire’s next victims.
Ghost Story Writing Workshop
Few places are better suited to writing a ghost story than The Mark Twain House at dusk. Teaching artist Victoria Nordlund guides writers of all levels through atmosphere, characterization, and pacing before setting them loose to create a spine-chilling tale of their own and, if they dare, share it with the group.
Spooky Sweets Cupcake Decorating
Give your cupcakes the Halloween treatment at Toivo with a spooky decorating workshop. Dream up ghosts, monsters, cobwebs, or whatever creepy confection you can conjure, then take your edible creations home to enjoy.
Date Night: Chills and Treats
Date night gets delightfully creepy at the Connecticut Museum. Go behind the scenes to meet a corpse preserver, devil puppet, haunted painting, and other oddities from the vaults, then settle in for a Halloween craft, themed cocktail, and snacks with your sweetie or bestie.
Día de Muertos Community Celebration
Honor loved ones and celebrate Día de Muertos with a day of color, music, and tradition. This free, all-ages celebration brings the museum to life with mariachi music, Mexican folk dance, arts activities, face painting, ofrendas, and food, presented with the Spanish Community of Wallingford and Carlos Hernández Chávez.
Tarot Poetry Workshop
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.