Top Picks: Big Events Happening This October and Beyond

All Ages Convention Festival Food & Drink Shopping

The Northwest Chocolate Festival 2024 @ Meydenbauer Center

Chocolate galore 🍫

FIRST SAT

Puppy Prov @ ComedySportz Seattle

Adoptable pups 🐶ྀི

Comedy

A giant papier-mâché salmon above a crowd.

OCT 5–6

55th Annual Salmon Days @ Downtown Issaquah

Welcome the fishes back 🐟

Community Festival

An illustration featuring a parade of costumed doggies.

OCT 6

Halloween Pet Parade 2024 @ Volunteer Park

Dressed-up doggos 👻🐾

Halloween Kids & Family

The Krabby Patty by Saint Bread in Seattle, Washington.

OCT 8–26

Where to Find the Krabby Patty Kollab in Seattle

Seattle gets spongy 🧽🍍🪸

Food & Drink

Seattle Kraken team members celebrate their win against Arizona Coyotes at Climate Pledge Arena. A crowd celebrates behind them.

OCT 8

Kraken Home Opener @ Climate Pledge Arena

It’s Buoy’s world 🧌

Sports & Leisure

André 3000 and the New Blue Sun band stand in front of a red stage curtain, looking to their left, smiling.

OCT 9

André 3000: New Blue Sun Live in Concert @ The Paramount

Feel the wind 🍃

Live Music

OCT 11, 2024 – MAR 24, 2025

Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy @ MoPOP

An icon 👯

Visual Art

The entrance of Seattle Chocolates during the holiday times with a giant inflatable ghost in the front lawn.

OCT 17–27

Haunted Factory Experience @ Seattle Chocolate Company

Chocolate terror 🍫

Halloween Holiday Kids & Family

OCT 19–20

Seattle Oddities & Curiosities Expo @ Seattle Convention Center

Skulls and bones 💀

Community Shopping

OCT 22

GWAR @ Showbox SoDo

Die in the pit 🎸

Live Music

A group of costumed partiers dance inside the Seattle Aquarium.

OCT 24

After Hours: Halloween @ Seattle Aquarium

Dive into spooky season 🌊 🎃

Holiday Nightlife

A bartender at The Cuff, in Capitol Hill, Seattle, hands a drink while smiling.

OCT 26

Halloween Costume Contest (Hosted by Tara Reid) @ The Cuff

$2,500 in prizes 🎁

Holiday Nightlife Queer

OCT 26

Final Destination Triple Feature @ The Beacon

Horror’s silliest saga 🔥🛩💥

Film Holiday

OCT 27

Pumpkin Curling and Halloween Skate @ Kraken Community Iceplex

Dress up like Buoy 🧌

Halloween Kids & Family Sports & Leisure

A hand with long, scary nails reaches out

THRU OCT 27

Nightmare on 9 @ Thomas Family Farm

They’ve got zombie paintball 🧟

THRU OCT 30

Pumpkin Patch @ Picha Farms

Pumpkins and Bluegrass 🪕

A young girl smiles in a sunflower patch.

Pumpkin Patch @ Stocker Farms

Stay for “Stalker” 👻

Pumpkin Patch @ Remlinger Farms

Pumpkins and beer 🍺

A crowd of people meander a pumpkin patch.

Pumpkin Patch @ Carpinito Brothers

Don’t skip the produce stand 🌽

A woman holds up two mugs from Bob's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch.

Pumpkin Patch @ Bob’s Corn & Pumpkin Farm

Fall veggies 🍁

A truck decorated with tons of ornamental pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch @ Bailey Farm

Free admission 🆓

A book lights on fire in a theatrical production of "This Is Halloween."

OCT 17 – NOV 2

Can Can Presents This Is Halloween 2024 @ The Triple Door

A Burton-esque burlesque 🎩

Burlesque Holiday

Two psychedelic clowns look at the camera.

OCT 4 – NOV 2

Stalker Farms @ Stocker Farms

Haunted corn trails 👻 🌽

THRU NOV 2

Frighthouse Station @ Freighthouse Square

Grab a wand of courage 🪄

OCT 4 – NOV 3

Fright Fest @ Wild Waves

Prepare for scares 😱

A scary man in a lab coat and covered in blood looks at the camera menacingly

THRU NOV 4

Haunted House @ Georgetown Morgue

Try the dark maze 🧛

Community Food & Drink Kids & Family

A tour provider shows a guide to different flavors within chocolate during a Seattle Chocolate Tour at Pike Place Market.

ONGOING

Seattle Chocolate Tour @ Pike Place Market

Treats in downtown Seattle 🍫

An aerial drone view of Stadium High School Tacoma Washington covered in snow

EVERY MONTH

How to Tour the High School from 10 Things I Hate About You

It’s basically a castle 🏰

Film History Tour

THRU JAN 2025

Stonehenge @ Royal BC Museum

Uncover the mystery 🧐

History Museums

Two women, one an elder and one younger, walk side by side, smiling inside a community center

THRU FEB 2025

Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle @ Wing Luke Museum

Illuminating the lives of elders 💡

Community Museums

A shot of two cars from the Shinka exhibit against a nightime Japanese cityscape.

THRU MAR 2025