Events

If begging door to door isn’t your jam, consider getting spooked via this drive-thru experience. Or better yet, walk it, during October 25’s Friday Night Fright fest. bethelwoodscenter.org

Gourmands will make a beeline for the “botanical bakery” offering bisque, chili and sweets, others the obstacle course, hayrides and scores of craft booths.

Got up in period garb, professional storyteller David Neilsen provides chills and background deets in this family-friendly half-hour retelling, capped off by activities and treats.

Local equestrian/yogini Jennifer Cohen Harper joins the 13 Hands Equine Rescue team to introduce tyros to the joys of interacting with equines, not necessarily while astride them.

This year's festival, honoring Emmy-nominated actor and area resident Walton Goggins, will feature 47 exceptional new films and shorts you won't see in wide release until later this fall and winter, including: Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's WWII drama, Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and

Click the link below to view the 2024 Film Columbia schedule! https://crandelltheatre.org/filmcolumbia/schedule/

Cottagecore enthusiasts can sign up for workshops ranging from fiber crafts (felted pumpkins) to basket-weaving and spoon-carving. Unmissable: the livestock demos, including “leaping llamas.”

Kids are born fauvists, and Béla Bartók Bartok’s wild music can leave them classical- curious. At this family-friendly show, Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri promise to riff and transport.

Fresh from a bracing free sail aboard the Woody Guthrie, dive into hot pumpkin soup and fresh-baked pie while taking in live music emanating from two solar-powered stages.

Test your pickle face with the Pickle Triathlon (eating, juice-drinking, tossing). Among the more esoteric offerings from 100-odd vendors: pickle empanadas, pasta, cupcakes and ice cream.

The endless corridors of this sprawling 1869 resort can be Shining-scary in their own right. Throw in “ghostly games,” an escape room mystery, and a Monster Mash Party for kids, and every generation will be appropriately amused and spooked.

Conceived by playwright Kate Douglas, composer Matthew Dean Marsh, and singer Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez, this immersive folk/chamber/soul concert addresses the relational challenges of a changing world.