Weekly Highlights in Connecticut

Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Devil's Ball at River's Edge

The Devil's Ball brings Coffin Jockeys, Funderbird, Hot Ugly and DJ BroBri to The Warehouse at River's Edge Brewing Co. in Milford on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 — free admission, with donations going to Milford Independent Cinema.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Boneheads Haunted House in

Boneheads Hilarious Haunted House brings comedy, scares and an optional escape room to the University of Bridgeport campus in Bridgeport, Conn., on Halloween night, Oct. 31, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Chez Legends Snatch Game at

Amethyst of RuPaul's Drag Race hosts the third annual Chez Legends Snatch Game, a two-category celebrity-impersonation drag competition at Hartford's Chez Est on October 30, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Jack O'Lanterns in New-Gate

Light into the Dungeon returns to Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine in East Granby, with hundreds of carved pumpkins glowing 75 feet underground.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Real Housewives of Sleepy

Pantochino Productions mashes up Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow with the Real Housewives format in a new musical at Milford Arts Council's The MAC, running October 9-30, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Halloween Costume Contest at

Chez Est, Hartford's gay bar and drag cabaret, hands its annual Halloween costume contest to RuPaul's Drag Race alum Loosey LaDuca on Oct. 31, 2026, with $500 in cash prizes for the crowd.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Eli's Garden Makers Market in

Eli's Garden of Healing's 3rd Annual Makers Market brings local artists and small businesses to Spring Glen Church in Hamden on Oct. 24, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., raising money to turn a former Winchester gun test range into a healing garden.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Ales & Artisans at NewSylum

NewSylum Brewing Co. in Newtown hosts its free Ales & Artisans Halloween Edition on Oct. 24, 2026, with tarot readings, handmade Ouija boards, iridology and more.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Revolutionary Haven at Blake

A Broken Umbrella Theatre stages Revolutionary Haven: Myths of America, an original room-to-room work about New Haven in 1776, at the Blake Street Center in Westville on October 24, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Pumpkin Patch Express in

The Naugatuck Railroad's Pumpkin Patch Express leaves Thomaston Station on October 25, 2026, for an hour-long fall ride along the Naugatuck River with a stop to pick your own pumpkin.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Diwali at Gideon Welles School

Layavinyasa brings "Share the Light," a free Diwali evening of dance, henna, crafts and sweets, to Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury on October 24, 2026, as part of Connecticut's 250th-anniversary storytelling.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Poetry Hike at Garrison Park

The Last Green Valley's Wander & Ponder series brings poetry and literary excerpts to a free guided walk through Garrison Park and Hubbard Sanctuary in Chaplin on October 20, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Bristol Gem & Mineral Show

The Bristol Gem and Mineral Club's 54th annual Gem & Mineral Show fills the Douglas Beals Community/Senior Center in Bristol, CT on October 17-18, 2026 with dealer tables, fossils, crystals, and kids' activities.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

S'mores & Storytelling at

Trumbull Nature & Arts Center hosts S'mores and Storytelling Around the Campfire with educator Mark Ceneri on Oct. 17, 2026, at 7115 Main Street in Trumbull, CT.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Community Day at The Aldrich

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield opens its doors free of charge on October 17, 2026, for a campus-wide Community Day built around its new Connecticut artists survey, The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Erector Square Open Studios

Erector Square Open Studios returns to the historic Fair Haven factory complex at 315 Peck Street in New Haven on October 18, 2026, opening artists' studios to the public for free.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Leaf Peeping Kayak Tour on

A beginner-friendly guided kayak ecotour on the Mattabesset River in Cromwell, CT on Oct. 17, 2026 turns fall foliage into a tree-identification lesson, with all gear included.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Light in the Dark: How

Fifteen months after a fatal boat crash killed three young men at the mouth of the Connecticut River, a new solar-powered light now shines on the breakwater that took their lives—a memorial born of grief, advocacy, and a mother's promise.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Beach Day, a DJ, and a Town's Objections: The Summer That Moved a Connecticut Tradition

After nearly two decades at Sound View Beach, organizer Hillary Brown's end-of-summer gathering heads to New London's Ocean Beach Park following Old Lyme's push to ban DJs on the public sand.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Beach Day, a DJ, and a

After nearly two decades at Sound View Beach, organizer Hillary Brown's end-of-summer gathering heads to New London's Ocean Beach Park following Old Lyme's push to ban DJs on the public sand.

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