🎃 Weekend Update: 10/29-10/31
🎃 Weekend Update: 10/29-10/31
I hope you have a costume ready...
Whew! This is quite the weekend update, definitely the longest and most thorough since summer. So much happening, have fun and be safe! xx
What To Do This Weekend
All Weekend
🎃 🎟️Halloween Days @ Pirates Puzzle Escape Room, 12-3p / Sign Up
For the kids, trick or treat as you solve puzzles and try to find the hidden pirate treasure. Each player gets a pirate dress kit plus take home candy in the clue boxes as you solve them. For those who like their Halloween scary, our room themed after Jaws has been made haunted for Halloween.
🎃 🎟️Monsters, Inc. and Trick or Treating @ the Strand Theatre, 4p / Sign Up
Enjoy Disney’s Monsters, Inc at the re-opened theater. Admission is free for those who register online. Seating is limited.
🎃 🎟️Rizing @ Private Home, multiple showings, $18 / Sign Up
A site-specific evening of immersive storytelling and movement.
The performance invites small audiences into an unusual house with an even more unusual history, where they encounter things that go bump in the night. As the characters that inhabit this residence share their stories through text, dance and theater, guests are enveloped in shifting worlds of sorrow, humor, terror and treats. Reservations required, age 13+
🎃 🎟️Fright Film Fest @ Grange Hall / Info
Films include Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, Mad God, Cabinet of the Caligari
Friday (10/28)
🎃 Pumpkin Potluck @ OB Library, 5:30p
🎃 Zombie Bar Crawl @ Post Office Square, 7p
Kick off the Halloween weekend with the Zombie Bar Crawl. Dress like a Zombie and crawl from bar to bar for an epic night in Oak Bluffs. Business Participators: Sharky's, Dos Mas, Offshore Ale and The Ritz.
Saturday (10/29)
🔄West Tisbury Farmers Market @ Agricultural Hall, 9-12
🎃 Barnyard Boo @ FARM Institute, 9:30, Register
🎃 Spooky Stacks Children’s Halloween Party @ OB Library, 10-11:30a
🎃 Halloween Open House @ Enchanted Chocolates, 12-4
🎃 Trick Or Treating @ Aquinnah Public Library, 12-3
🎃 Family Halloween Party @ West Tisbury Public Library, 1-3p
🎃 Halloween Events @ Bad Martha’s Brewery, Sat + Sun 12-9p
Join us for Halloween activities at the brewery! Pumpkin carving and painting events! Pumpkins, paints, and carving tools are Included with the ticket cost. Costume contest with prizes and giveaways for anyone who arrives wearing a costume.
🎃 Halloween on Circuit Ave (several events)
Trick or treating on Circuit avenue
Costume parade/contest for children, 1:30
Crafts + candy @ MV Tee Shirts, 10-4
Scavenger hunt @ Basics, 1-4
Pumpkin decorating @ Dockside Inn, 1-4
Mini- photo shoots @ Island Outfitters, 1-4
🎃 Goldies Pop-Up @ Grey Barn, 2-5p
🎃🎵🎟️ Dance Party by Habitat for Humanity @ PA Club, 7-10p
Dance the night away in costume! Music by Serendipity. Prizes for best mask, makeup and costume. Costumes encouraged, silent auction,
Sunday (10/30)
🎃 Fall Family Fun Day @ The PA Club, 1-4
🎃 Teen + Tween Halloween Party @ WT Library, 3-5:30
🎃 Edgartown's Happy Haunting (Trick or Treating) @ Main Street, 10-1
🎃 Treasure Hunt @ Aquila, 10a-2p
First Annual “Hunt for Moshup’s Treasure” is a moderately difficult family-friendly treasure hunt, free to participate. Enjoy trick or treating + delicious drinks by stopping by Aquila to pick up your first clue and take on this fun and educational treasure hunt. You will have the opportunity to explore the cliffs + landmarks, solve riddles
Monday (10/31)
🎃 Main Street Halloween Parade in Vineyard Haven @ 3:45
Join the Halloween kid's parade on Main street at 4pm (gather in front of Mansion House at 3:45 p.m.), led by a very special guest. After the parade, don't miss the photo op area on the corner of Main street and Norton Lane, sign-up for the costume contest (4-5 p.m.) and trick or treat at participating businesses.
🎃 Pumpkin Carving Contest @ Stark Park, 4-5p
🎃 Halloween on the Hill @ MV Museum, 4:30-7:30
Don your costume and bring the family out to the MV Museum for frights and fun throughout our campus. We'll have everything you need to ignite your child’s imagination including spooky stories, multiple trick-or-treat stations inside the museum, snacks, and a feel-good Halloween movie playing in the classroom.
🎃 🎵Halloween Party feat Dock Dance @ The Port Hunter, 8p-12
Save the Date
Wednesday 11/2 - Lore Night @ MV Museum, 6-8p
Saturday 11/5 - Barn Raisers Ball @ Agricultural Hall, 7-10p
Sunday 11/6 - Book Sale @ West Tisbury Library, 12-4p
Thursday 11/10 - Coffee + Conversation at The Carnegie with Skip Finley, 10:30a
Saturday 11/12 - Guided Walk @ Philips Preserve, 10a
Monday 11/14 - Holiday Gift Show Begins @ Featherstone Center for the Arts, 12-4
Saturday + Sunday 11/25+26 - Vineyard Artisans Thanksgiving Weekend Festival @ Agricultural Hall, 10a-4p
12/17 - Holiday Festival @ Grange Hall, 10a-4p
Restaurant Updates
Open:
Newly Open: Bombay (online ordering only), Nina’s (at the Ritz), Outermost Inn re-opened through winter with new chef for lunch/brunch 10/27
Closing Soon:
Port Hunter, Atlantic, Larsen’s Fish Market, 19 Raw Oyster (closes Saturday), Fishbones
Closed:
Temporarily: Rockfish closed through 11/2
For the Season: Nancy’s, Blissed Out, Garde East, MV Salads, The Square Rigger, Aquinnah Shop, Sarah Browns, Chilmark Tavern, Covington, Noman’s, Biscuits, Giordano’s, Home Port, Jimmy Seas, Lucky Hanks, Among the Flowers, Back Door Donuts, Ice Cream + Candy Bazaar, Toccopuro, Mad Martha’s, Behind the Bookstore, Chesca’s, Dairy Queen, Katama Kitchen, John’s Fish Market, Beach Road, Coop deVille, Atria dine-in
Indefinitely: Art Cliff Diner, Newes From America, Ocean View (all closed for renovation) Dilly’s Taqueria, Cardboard Box, Oyster Bar 02557 (permanently closing) La Soffitta, The Terrace, Sarah Browns
Fun Food Happenings
Starting next week, this section will feature pop-ups, fun dining specials + more. Please tag us on social media if you see anything that should be included here!
Thanksgiving Pre-Orders open: S+S Kitchenette, Scottish Bakehouse, Pie Chicks, Black Sheep, Black Dog Cafe, Edgartown Meat + Fish, Juice by the Sea, Bettini (sit-down reservations available, takeout pre-orders due 11/16), Vineyard Grocer, Morning Glory Farm
🗺️ ICYMI / We shared an itinerary for planning a romantic getaway 🌹
📅 Key / 🔄 = Weekly Recurring Event 👨👩👧 = Family Friendly Event 🎟️ = Tickets Needed 🎵 = Live Music 🐕 = Dog Friendly 🎨 = Artisans ⭐=This Weekend Only