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Thursday, Oct. 22

5:30 p.m.
List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames St., Kendall Square.

Opening reception and artist talk: Hao Jingban
Free. Hao Jingban’s “I Witness” is a moving-image installation that is historically incisive. This is a three-channel installation that looks at the COVID-19 pandemic: four participants move slowly through a well-lit apartment, their images punctuated by stories of loss; an older woman who sleeps alone and rises to clean her refrigerator, a group of young people pacing an open field.

8 p.m.
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill.

Boston Circus Guild presents: Cirque of the Dead
$40 and 18-plus. Join Cirque of the Dead as they go deep in the forest for a night of stories around the campfire, where flickering shadows can make you wonder what might be watching from beyond the firelight.

Friday, Oct. 23

8 p.m.
Guild Church (formerly Boston Brunch Church), 204 Elm St., Davis Square.

Tomes of Terror: Sounds of Fear
$15 to $20. The Post-Meridian Radio Players’ 2026 Halloween show, “Tomes of Terror: Sounds of Fear” includes three spooky shows: “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” where a scientist attempts to use a dream machine to help a patient, only to break through the wall of sleep and into a realm of monsters;  “The Monkey’s Paw,” in which a family attains possession of an object that grants wishes, but be careful what you wish for; and “Phantom Frequency,” the story of a man haunted by his victims through his car radio. Runs through Oct. 31.

8 p.m. to midnight
Lamplighter CX, 110 N. First St., North Point.

Haunted Haus Drag and Dance Party
$10 and 21-plus. Sammi Miammi and a cast of characters perform a Halloween-themed drag show, with a DJ to dance the night away. There will also be a costume contest. 

Saturday, Oct. 24

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kresge Oval, 77 Massachusetts Ave.

Rescheduled 2026 MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
Free entry. The 25th annual MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch offers glass pumpkins of all colors, shapes and sizes for sale to the public with the proceeds going back to the lab.

Noon to 4 p.m.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., in the Baldwin neighborhood near Harvard Square.

Day of the Dead Celebration
Admission to the museum is $20 for adults, or $15 for kids. You can personalize a sugar skull (extra fee), watch a mariachi performance with live folk dance at 2 p.m., and write a message to departed loved ones for the museum altar. Hot chocolate and pan de muerto are available for purchase.

Noon to 5 p.m.
Cambridge Crossing, 219 Jacobs St., East Cambridge.

FOUND Boston’s annual Fall Vintage Mega Market & Scavenger Hunt
Free. This outdoor vintage market brings 100 vendors and features a hidden $200 shopping spree scavenger hunt.

Sunday, Oct. 25

2 p.m.
The Comedy Studio, 5 John F. Kennedy St., Harvard Square.

Let’s Not Die: A Live D&D Comedy Performance
$14 to 24. Tess Dion, the game master, guides comedians through a one-shot. This one-shot takes place in Cambridge, home to a hidden realm of magic. PG-13 content. 

4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Congregation Eitz Chayim, 136 Magazine St., Cambridgeport

Heart of the Culture: Somebody’s Gotta Tell James

Free but register. In this one-act play, the rapper and educator Cakeswagg adapts the James Baldwin short story “Sonny’s Blues,” exploring different endings. Sponsored by Black History in Action for Cambridgeport. 

7:30 p.m.
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square.

Claudio Simonetti’s “Goblin/Tenebre”
$53 to $116. Composer Claudio Simonetti has written and recorded some of the most influential scores in horror, including “Dawn of the Dead” and “Deep Red/Profondo Rosso.” This year, Simonetti’s “Goblin” celebrates Dario Argento’s 1982 critically acclaimed classic, “Tenebre,” with a live performance of the score set to a screening of the film.

Monday, Oct. 26

7 p.m.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave.

Thomas Frank on “The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America’s Biggest Racket”
Free. Founding editor of The Baffler and a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal Thomas Frank discusses the evolution of American exceptionalism from Sputnik to Silicon Valley, Apple to Lockheed Martin, Madison Avenue to Main Street. 

Tuesday, Oct. 27

6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill.

The Moth: Boston StorySLAM: Frenemies
$17. This community-focused, open-mic storytelling competition is open to anyone who can share a story about the razor-thin line between friend and foe.

8 p.m.
The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Davis Square.

Emma Moreau performs
$12 to $15. This evening of alt-pop features Emma Moreau, with special guests Haley Montelaro and Alexis Cao. 

Wednesday, Oct. 28

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
East End House, 105 Spring St., East Cambridge.

East End House Harvest Festival
Free. Enjoy hands-on activities and seasonal treats while discovering East End House, including trick or treat through classrooms, games, crafts and scavenger hunt, pumpkin painting, guess the pumpkin weight and a costume contest.

6 p.m.
Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square.

Meg Gehman performs
$20. Meg Gehman is a Nashville-based Americana soul artist.  She performs a mash-up of soul, blues, folk and rock, as she promotes the first single, “The Dawn,” from her forthcoming album, “LoveSister.”

Thursday, Oct. 29

5 to 7 p.m.
Somerville City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., Central Hill.

Truck O’ Treat at City Hall
Free. Costumes are encouraged at this family-friendly event, which will include safe trick or treating on the City Hall concourse, a spooktacular visit from a decorated City of Somerville truck, lawn games, light refreshments, and more. Rain date: Nov. 5.

5 to 9 p.m.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., in the Baldwin neighborhood near Harvard Square.

ArtsThursdays: Halloween at the Museum
Free. Trick or treat your way through the galleries and encounter mysterious specimens rarely seen by the public. Face unusual insects, reptiles, invertebrates, strange plants and treacherous minerals. Wear a Halloween costume and snap photos at the photo booth or decorate a trick or treat bag.

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Friday, Oct. 30

8 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.

The Folk Collective: MAGIC IS REAL!
$25 to $27. “The MAGIC IS REAL!” live album recording for Justine Bowe’s Boston-based project, photocomfort features a performance of a new collection of harp-based songs, storytelling about magic and the accompaniment from the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Choir and a live ensemble.

10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square.

FYI: Halloween
$10. FYI: Halloween honors “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” with the DJ collective to dance to 1 a.m. Bring your best Halloween fit and dancing shoes.

Saturday, Oct. 31

10 a.m.
CambridgeSide, 100 CambridgeSide Place, East Cambridge.

Cambridge 5K
$50 to $148. The Cambridge 5K is a 3.1-mile course that starts and finishes at CambridgeSide. 

Noon to 8 p.m.
Central Square, Cambridge.

Official Cambridge Halloween Bar Crawl
$5 to $10. Ten bars along Massachusetts Avenue, each taking on a different genre of music for the last four decades. Expect ‘90s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s at select venues. Check in, grab your wristband, download the route map, then spend the afternoon taking over the street.

Sunday, Nov. 1

7 a.m.
CambridgeSide, 100 CambridgeSide Place, East Cambridge.

Cambridge Half Marathon
$50 to $148. The Cambridge Half Marathon is a 13.1-mile USATF certified course that starts and finishes at CambridgeSide. It is a flat course along Memorial Drive featuring views of the Charles River, MIT, John W. Weeks Footbridge, Harvard University Stadium, and more.

7:30 to 9 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.

Eudaimonia Voices presents Consent of the Governed: Singing 250 Years Toward Democracy
$20 suggested donation. “Declare” is a new piece by Boston-area composer John Howell Morrison, commissioned by Eudaimonia Voices on the occasion of the nation’s bisesquicentennial. The world premiere is part of Consent of the Governed: Singing 250 Years Toward Democracy, the fall concert by Eudaimonia Voices, a unique ensemble that melds music and activism.

Monday, Nov. 2

11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kendall/MIT Open Space at 292 Main St., Kendall Square.

Bright Spot: Cookies and Film Screening
Free. Enjoy an Elmendorf cookie (while supplies last), and watch a short film, “Presence,” exploring how public life has been staged, recorded and remembered on screen. “Presence” is a film installation by Jingrong Zhang, supported by the Council for the Arts at MIT, which draws on archival and cinematic footage across cultures and historical periods. 

7:30 p.m.
The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Davis Square.

Menopunks Podcast Live!
$20. Menopunks Founder Alicia J. Rose, who directed over 3 dozen music videos for artists like First Aid Kit, Cake and Bob Mould, hosts this comic portrayal of the truth behind the science of menopause. 

Tuesday, Nov. 3

6:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Building W15: MIT Chapel, 48 Massachusetts Ave.

What is Your Light?
Free. Presented by the MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life, “What is Your Light?” transforms the MIT Chapel into a living canvas of light, sound and reflection. Visitors are invited to first strike a tam-tam, activating lanterns of light on the building and sending ripples of sound across the Kresge Oval.

7 to 9 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.

Danielle L. Jensen reads from “Defy the Dusk: Book One of The Sundering Duet”
$49, with book. The no. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Danielle L. Jensen’s latest release, “Defy the Dusk: Book One of The Sundering Duet” is a post-apocalyptic fantasy duology. Jensen creates the Sundered world, where darkness means certain death and survival depends on reaching the dawn. New York Times bestselling author Elise Kova joins.

Wednesday, Nov. 4

6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill.

Party Around the World: Celebrating Language, Culture and Connection
$25 to $75. Found in Translation celebrates 15 years of empowering bilingual women, advancing language access and building a thriving interpreter workforce at this family-friendly event. Children 12 and under are free. 

7:30 p.m.
Arrow Street Arts, 2 Arrow St., Harvard Square.

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul
$26. Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame and Arrow Street Arts present an exclusive screening of “Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul,” the full-length feature documentary exploring the life and work of the late Gregg Allman.

Thursday, Nov. 5

Noon to 1 p.m.
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., near Harvard Square and The Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Harvard Square.

Multi-Site Exhibition Tour: Artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien
Free. Join visual artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien for a multi-site exhibition tour of “Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage” (through April 11, 2027) at the Harvard Art Museums and “Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities” (through Dec. 13, 2026) at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts.

7 to 8:30 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., near Harvard Square.

Arts for Life’s Sake: A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma and Stephen Colbert
Free, but tickets required. Yo-Yo Ma and Stephen Colbert share insights about the work of artists in connecting to humanity and community.

8 p.m.
Somerville Theatre’s Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square.

Emancipator performs
$37. Emancipator, known for blending downtempo beats and live instrumentation, promotes “Chrysalis,” his first studio album in 6 years.

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