Drag Me to Nine Pin: Costume Contest
Thypoid Mary is back at Nine Pin to host the cidery’s popular, free drag event. October’s event features a costume contest so be sure to dress in your most bewitching ensemble.
Date & Time: October 3 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: Nine Pin
Price: Free
Discover the All Hallow E'en Art Path Family Tour
Looking for a family-friendly, frugal event during this day off from school? Join Discover Albany and the Albany Center Gallery for an exploration of the All-Hallow E'en Art Path! On this adventure, young art explorers will be asked to search for clues in the artwork and will learn facts about Albany's history and light, local ghost stories. The journey will end at Albany Center Gallery with snacks and coloring.
Dates & Times: October 9 from 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Location: Discover Albany Visitors Center
Price: $8, Child (3-12) $5, Stroller (0-2) free
Stories and Spirits at the Shaker Cemetery
The Shakers never saw the spirit world as frightening, instead they embraced visions, dreams, and communication with those who have left the realm of the living. The Shaker Cemetery is a beautiful burial site for a range of remarkable figures who lived in the 18th and 19th century. Join the Shaker Heritage staff for a low-cost cemetery tour and learn some of the stories of the Shakers.
Dates & Times: October 11, October 15, October 19, October 24, various times
Location: Shaker Heritage Society
Price: General Admission: $10, SHS Members: $5
Pumpkin Party on the Hill
Join Albany Barn and Historic Cherry Hill for this free, all-ages event. At the Pumpkin Party, the winners of Cherry Hill's pumpkin carving contest will be revealed. Enjoy a fun day amongst jack-o-lantern art and do a little carving of your own.
Dates & Times: October 14 from 12 PM to 3 PM
Location: Historic Cherry Hill
Price: Free
Elliot and Schlemowitz's Phantasmagoria
Travel back in time at this historic site and experience a magic-lantern show straight from the late 1700's. Elliot and Schlemowitz's Phantasmagoria draws inspiration from Fantasmagorie shows featuring a rear projected image and magic lanterns moved to give the illusion of ghosts, goblins, and other frightening creatures floating in air towards and creeping towards audience members.
Date & Time: October 14 at 6:30 PM
Location: Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site
Price: Free
Cider and a Pumpkin
Carve out some time in your day for Nine Pin's Cider and a Pumpkin event! For just $10, enjoy a 12 oz cider and create a jack-o-lantern masterpiece. Nine Pin will have carving tools for use.
Dates & Times: October 23 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Pine Hollow Arboretum
Price: $5 per person, ages 2 and under are free
Mystic Fair
I see a trip to the Empire State Plaza in your future — stop by for the free, Mystic Fair featuring intuitive readings, spirit guides, craft vendors and more.
Dates & Times: October 25 & October 26 from 10 AM to 3 PM
Location: Empire State Plaza
Price: Free
Bram Stoker's Dracula with Professor Jarlath Killeen (Online Talk)
Join the Irish American Heritage Museum and Dublin's Trinity College professor of Victorian Literature, Jarlath Killeen, for this online talk discussing Bram Stoker's Dracula. Learn about this famous Irish author, shrouded in mystery, despite the enormous impact Dracula has had on our culture.
Date & Time: October 26 at 5:30 PM
Location: Online
Price: Free
Van Shaick Mansion Annual Halloween Party
Visit Van Shaick Mansion on October 27 and you may encounter the spirits of Revolutionary War Soldiers roaming this former military headquarters. Hear eerie tales and walk the mansion's floating candle-lit haunted path. But this family-friendly party isn't all things ghostly, enjoy treats from Stewarts and a bit of trick-or-treating!
Date & Time: October 27 from 6 PM to 8 PM
Location: Van Shaick Mansion
Price: $5 per child, $7 per adult
Spooky Lantern Walk
Visit the Pine Hollow Arboretum for this family-friendly venture through the trees. On this lantern-lit tour of the arboretum, learn about nocturnal animals such as bats and owls who often represent the Halloween season.
Dates & Times: October 27 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Pine Hollow Arboretum
Price: $5 per person, ages 2 and under are free
Music for the Masses - 80s New Wave Halloween Party
Dance til you drop to 80s New Wave favorites from Duran Duran to David Bowie all night long at City Beer Hall's Halloween party.
Date & Time: October 27 from 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM
Location: City Beer Hall
Price: Free
Halloween Ride! Albany Rural Cemetery
Enjoy a Halloween bicycling adventure through the gorgeous Albany Rural Cemtery. Stops will be made along the way to learn some of the stories of those laid to rest there.
Date & Time: October 28 at 11:15 AM
Location: Albany Rural Cemetery
Price: Free
Trunk or Treat at Albany Rural Cemetery
This annual sweet and safe trunk or treat experience is full of family fun. While collecting candy, children will be able to explore firetrucks and parents will have the opportunity to join in on a 50/50 raffle. Spoiler: There will also be a chance to win a 5-pound Hershey's chocolate bar!
Date & Time: October 28 from 4 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Albany Rural Cemetery
Price: Free
Hounds of Halloween
Everyone’s favorite howlin’ good time returns to Downtown Albany for the All-Hallow E’en Festival. This low-cost trick-or-treat event is sure to be pawsitively fun for you and your four-legged friend.
Dates & Times: October 28 from 11 AM to 2 PM
Location: Downtown Albany
Price: $15 advance registration, $20 at the event
City Fear Hall
At this thrilling party, be sure to dress in your Halloween best, winners of City Beer Hall's costume contest win free beer for a year. Dance the night away and create lasting memories at the photo booth. Enjoy a free personal pizza with every drink!
Date & Time: October 28 at 10 PM
Location: City Beer Hall
Price: Free
Hallowe'en Film Club - You Are Not My Mother
As the birthplace of Samhain, a festival that laid the roots for modern-day Halloween, Ireland is known for its dark folklore surrounding the holiday. Katie Dolan's horror film You Are Not My Mother taps into Irish folk history specifically of faery doppelgangers. In this film a young girl encounters her mother who had inexplicably disappeared a week before Halloween, but this figure is not the mother she remembers. Join the Irish American Heritage Museum for a showing of You Are Not My Mother on the night before Halloween!
Date & Time: October 30 at 6 PM
Location: Irish American Heritage Museum
Price: $5
Trick or Treating at Honest Weight
There's no tricks just treats at Honest Weight's annual trick-or-treating event. Children of all ages are invited to come in costume and visit each department of the co-op for a special treat!
Date & Time: October 31 rom 3:30 PM to 6 PM
Location: Honest Weight Food Co-op
Price: Free
The Haunted Hall presented by The Cohoes Paranormal Society
This Halloween learn what spirits and paranormal creatures have been detected within the walls of this historic building famously known to be haunted by Eva Tanguay. For the past year, the Cohoes Paranormal Society have investigated this location; on the 31st they will share their findings followed by a screening of the iconic Paranormal Activity.
Date & Time: October 31 at 7 PM
Location: Cohoes Music Hall
Price: $10
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*This project is made possible in part by the City of Albany’s Albany for All funding program and President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. *This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP1752 awarded to the City of Albany, New York, by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
