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Weekly Highlights in Virginia

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Lafayette Author Talk at
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Lafayette Author Talk at

Historian Ryan L. Cole discusses The Last Adieu, his book on Lafayette's 1824-25 return tour, at the Gloucester Main Library on October 26, 2026.

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Trick-or-Treat in the Gloucester
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Trick-or-Treat in the Gloucester

Gloucester County's Main Library on Main Street opens its stacks to costumed families for SPOOKTACULAR, a free, no-registration Halloween trick-or-treat on October 31, 2026.

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NPD Trunk or Treat at Scope Plaza
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

NPD Trunk or Treat at Scope Plaza

The Norfolk Police Department's free Trunk or Treat: Pranks on the Plaza returns to the Scope Plaza on Thursday, October 29, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. with decorated trunks, candy, costumes and public-safety trucks.

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Beats & Treats Halloween Block
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Beats & Treats Halloween Block

Norfolk Festevents brings DJ Amarosa, games and giveaways to Five Points Civic Plaza Park in Norview on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Boom Box Bike Ride Rides Out of
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Boom Box Bike Ride Rides Out of

DJ Bee's free LIVE.LIFE.FRESH Boom Box Bike Ride rolls out of the Elizabeth River Trail's new Trailside Headquarters in Norfolk on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.

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Meet and Treat at Norfolk Animal
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Meet and Treat at Norfolk Animal

Norfolk Animal Care and Adoption Center opens its Sabre Road shelter on Halloween afternoon, Oct. 31, 2026, for a trick-or-treat table and a meet-and-greet with foster dogs.

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Born a Revel Reunion at BTW's
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Born a Revel Reunion at BTW's

Booker T. Washington High School's alumni and community reunion production of "Born a Revel" brings historical theatre to the S. L. Roundtree Theatre in Norfolk on October 23 and 24, 2026.

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Science on Tap: What the Nose
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Science on Tap: What the Nose

Virginia Tech animal behavior researcher and veteran search-and-rescue handler Sally Dickinson explores the mind and body of a working detection dog at Rising Silo Brewery in Blacksburg on October 22, 2026.

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Born a Revel at Roundtree Theatre
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Born a Revel at Roundtree Theatre

Born a Revel, an alumni and community reunion production of historical theatre, returns to the S. L. Roundtree Theatre at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk on October 24, 2026.

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Born a Revel at Booker T
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Born a Revel at Booker T

Born a Revel, an alumni and community reunion historical theatre production, comes to the S.L. Roundtree Theatre at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk on October 23–24, 2026.

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Fleet Fest at Naval Station
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Fleet Fest at Naval Station

Naval Station Norfolk opens the gates of the world's largest naval base to the public on Saturday, October 24, 2026, for Fleet Fest, with ship tours, plus a chili cook-off, live music and military demonstrations.

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Heroes and Hounds at Elation
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Heroes and Hounds at Elation

Adoptable dogs from Norfolk Animal Care Center walk the runway alongside first responders at Elation Brewing in Norfolk on Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Sunset Seed Harvest for the River
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Sunset Seed Harvest for the River

The Sunset Wetlands Seed Collection Workshop at the Elizabeth River Project's Ryan Resilience Lab in Norfolk on October 15, 2026 sends volunteers into the marsh to gather Spartina alterniflora seeds for real wetland restoration.

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Spooky S.T.E.M. at Gloucester
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Spooky S.T.E.M. at Gloucester

Gloucester County's Main Library hosts Spooky S.T.E.M., a free hands-on science session for grades 6-12 on October 18, 2026, with eyeball catapults, pumpkin towers, and spiderweb slime.

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NeighborCare Norfolk at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

NeighborCare Norfolk at

Norfolk's NeighborCare resource fair returns to the Huntersville Community Center on Oct. 17, 2026, bringing city services, food giveaways and free workshops to the Olde Huntersville neighborhood.

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Friends of Oakton Library Book
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Friends of Oakton Library Book

The Friends of Oakton Library's fall used-book sale runs October 14–17, 2026 at Oakton Library in Oakton, Virginia, with gently used books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, and puzzles.

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Going Nuts for the Forest
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Going Nuts for the Forest

Every fall, Virginians bag up acorns and black walnuts by the ton and haul them to drop-off sites like the one in Leesburg — a small civic ritual that grows the state's future forests.

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Norfolk's Free Recording Booth
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Norfolk's Free Recording Booth

A free orientation at The Slover teaches anyone to run a professional sound studio — the latest chapter in a library built to make creative tools public.

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Norfolk's Rolling Block Party
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Norfolk's Rolling Block Party

Every Saturday morning, a Norfolk DJ leads a free, family-friendly bike ride through the city's bike lanes and the Elizabeth River Trail — and it all started with a record store on 35th Street.

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The Boom Box Bike Ride: How a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Boom Box Bike Ride: How a

Every Saturday morning, DJ Bee leads a free, family-friendly cruise through Norfolk's bike lanes and the Elizabeth River Trail — a ritual that started in 2019 simply because a stretch of 35th Street looked too empty.

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The Sunday Ride That Traces a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Sunday Ride That Traces a

Norfolk's Tour de ORF turns a leisurely hour on the Elizabeth River Trail into a rolling tour of a neighborhood that vanished and a waterfront that came back.

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Boots on the Meadow
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Boots on the Meadow

Indiana University's Big Red Rodeo turns a historic 20-acre campus field into a free western-themed welcome party for new Hoosiers.

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NPR's Scott Simon at the Lyric
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

NPR's Scott Simon at the Lyric

The Weekend Edition Saturday host brings a talk on American citizenship to Blacksburg's century-old movie palace for Virginia Tech's Humanities Week.

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Sixteen Thousand Reasons to
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Sixteen Thousand Reasons to

The Ready Bag Rally brings Norfolk together to pack a bag for every single family facing a pediatric cancer diagnosis this year.

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The Rolling Boombox: How a
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The Rolling Boombox: How a

Every Saturday, DJ Bee of the Norfolk record shop Freshtopia leads a free, family-friendly Boombox Bike Ride along the Elizabeth River Trail — a rolling block party born from a simple wish to see the city's bike lanes actually used.

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Passports to the Canopy: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Passports to the Canopy: How

On a September Saturday, the VCE Loudoun Master Gardeners will transform Rust Library into a hands-on arboretum, handing kids passports to explore the hidden lives of trees.

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A Century of Sundays Ends: Glencarlyn Bids Farewell to Its Village Church
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Century of Sundays Ends: Glencarlyn Bids Farewell to Its Village Church

After more than 130 years as the spiritual heart of Arlington's Glencarlyn neighborhood, St. John's Episcopal Church holds its final regular Sunday worship service on Aug. 30.

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A Tail-Wagging Audience
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Tail-Wagging Audience

Young readers find their most patient listeners yet when the Norfolk Animal Care Center's Tales for Tails program brings adoptable animals to the Slover library's reading room.

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A Century of Sundays Ends
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Century of Sundays Ends

After more than 130 years as the spiritual heart of Arlington's Glencarlyn neighborhood, St. John's Episcopal Church holds its final regular Sunday worship service on Aug. 30.

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