Fluid Festival starts this Tuesday, igniting many venues in Calgary with contemporary dance, unforgettable performances, glorious contradictions, and beautiful chaos. It’s hard to narrow it down, but you should check out Translations on Tuesday to kick things off, an All Bodies Dance Project collaboration between Springboard’s Fluid Fest and Inside Out Theatre. This accessible and thought-provoking program is a prime way to get a taste of the festival!
This is also the week when truly Halloween partying begins! Two Rivers Distilling is hosting a Horror Movie Date Night on Wednesday. Enjoy crafted cocktails, pizza, and local draft beer while watching Bride of Chucky. Stay for the screening and enter your name to win a tour and tasting with Two Rivers Distillery!
Take the family to Heritage Park on Thursday for a Ghouls Night Out. The entire park transforms into an immersive horror movie experience, where you can choose your own fright levels, show off your costume, and shop at a holiday boo-tique! Ghouls Night Out runs all weekend if you can’t make Thursday work.
Friday marks the first-ever Big Tiddy Goth Girls Halloween Variety Show at The Blox Arts Centre, presented by comedians Mollie Risa and Victoria Banner. This all-ages event promises comedy, drag, music, and even a black cat contest.
On Saturday, Float between CUFF’s 12-hour horror movie marathon at the Globe Cinema and Dickens’ “Isolation” themed Hang The DJ Halloween party, and if you’re lucky, you can try and get into The Nightmare on 7th Avenue Halloween Party presented by Sled Island and CJSW at the Legion Number 1. Advance tickets to the Legion are sold out, but who knows — maybe you can line up at the door!
Wrap up your spooky weekend with a Halloween-themed milkshake workshop at REGRUB on Sunday. You can build your own milkshake and enter to win a $50 gift card. Tickets are only $18, and the shake-making starts at 3 p.m.
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If Halloween isn’t really your jam, there’s still plenty else to do this week. Monday is Name That Tune music trivia at Cabin Brewing, which is only $10 per person and includes your first drink!
Jim Jefferies & Jimmy Carr bring their Charm Offensive tour to Calgary on Wednesday, lighting the ‘dome up with their irreverent brand of observational comedy. And if you want a more grungy comedy experience, head to Verns for Ratboy Comedy, a weekly show every Wednesday that features chaotic laughs and cheap thrills.
The October Metis Business and Professional Mixer, which takes place at Cold Garden this Thursday, is a free and easygoing event to connect with Metis entrepreneurs and build connections in the community.
Local goth rockers Poltergeist are celebrating the release of their new album Nachtmusik on Friday with two floors of music and DJs at the Palomino. It’s highly recommended if you’re the type to cake on the eyeliner and sway to cold-sounding synthesizers.
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performs a Sci-Fi Spectacular on Saturday and Sunday at the Jack Singer, featuring music from Star Wars, Interstellar, and more.
Wrap up the week on Sunday at the YYC Nature & Education Centre, hosting two public events at 1 and 3 p.m. focused on spiders, geckos, frogs, and other nocturnal creatures.
Grab the October issue of The Scene on stands for more events and things to do around the city, including a curated guide to Halloween week.
