Best Things To Do in Dallas Oct. 27-Nov. 3 | Dallas Observer
Thursday October 28th
Still: Painting in isolation in the Kettle Art Gallery
The past 18 months have been a real journey for teachers. The challenges of virtual teaching, hybrid teaching, personal teaching, mask mandate or non-mandate … all on top of the universal trauma of COVID-19. The artist Justin Clumpner devoted himself to the things in his immediate vicinity in order to create Still: Painting in Isolation, opening with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, October 28, in the Kettle Art Gallery (2650 Main St.).
“Bored” by Justin Clumpner can be seen in the Kettle Art Gallery
Courtesy Justin Clumpner
In addition to his painted works, the free exhibit features Clumpers pandemic online lessons for his high school art students and the “space helmet” he made to return to school safely. Kettle info is available on their website, but the gallery’s latest opening times can be found on Facebook.
Friday October 29th
Day of the Dead: The Everlasting Bond at the Bath House Cultural Center
For 35 years, the Bath House Cultural Center (521 E. Lawther Drive) has hosted one of the city’s most comprehensive Day of the Dead celebrations. This year it’s no different with Día de los Muertos: The Everlasting Bond, which can be seen Tuesday through Saturday through November 6th from 12:00 to 18:00. This year’s work speaks of the idea that connection overcomes separation and yes death. More than 40 artists represent the enduring connection through altars and traditional media of art, food and music. Before you visit, take a look at Bath House Facebook.
Halloween Spooktacular at the Museum of Illusions
What better time to immerse yourself in the world of illusions than on the Friday before Halloween? The Museum of Illusions (701 Ross Ave.) turned more than 50 exhibits into family-friendly, vacation-appropriate attractions for its Halloween Spooktacular (get it wrong). Admission is $ 30 per person, with a discount for larger groups. Entry is offered every 20 minutes from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and costumes are welcome (yes, there is a price). Buy tickets online, but don’t read the descriptions too deep as there is more to be surprised.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Lewisville Grand Theater
It’s just a jump … to Lewisville. And it’s totally worth it. Prop kits? Yes, please. Hey, a decent showing of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, we missed you. There’s nothing like pretending you’re a minor and throwing things at a movie screen after the curfew. Everyone will welcome the glorious Tim Curry to the Lewisville Grand Theater (100 N. Charles St., Lewisville) on Friday, October 29th at 8pm. Tickets are $ 10 (sold online) and prop kits are also available (sold separately). For you old schoolers, however, there is a big change: Now you get soap bubbles because there is no rice in the theater. You understand. Now … “Does anyone know how to do Madison?”
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Trick or Treat in Downtown Streets from Main Street Garden Park
When Halloween is on a Sunday, it’s all about maximizing the catch. That’s why you have to start the official trick-or-treat on Downtown Streets. It begins on Friday, October 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Main Street Garden Park (1950 Main St.), where participants will receive a map of the participating companies who can rock the dessert stations until 7:00 p.m. Take away while they last. Pets are welcome and did we mention that everything is free? If you prefer to view the map online instead, it will be available on the Facebook event page on the day of the event.
Pets are welcome to trick or treating the downtown streets
Karsten Winegeart / Unslplash
Saturday October 30th
McKinney Monster Dash 5K at the Tupps Brewery
Here’s the deal: you wake up on Saturday October 30th, put on your costume and go to Tupps Brewery (721 Anderson St., McKinney) for doors at 8am (yes, a brewery at 8am) then, when the starter sounds out, you’ll be walking around the great historic McKinney cotton mill for the 3rd annual McKinney Monster Dash 5K (or walking, depending on how well you thought out the costume). You could win a prize. You will definitely have access to cold beer (the time of day is not important after you run). There is a photo box where you can document how you earned that bowl of candy waiting at home. Admission prices vary based on how quickly you commit, so get to Prekindle sooner or later.
Feel Good AF Festival on the Ronald Kirk Footbridge
Before you put on a costume to be something or someone else, the Feel Good AF Festival gives you a chance to discover yourself. To a soundtrack by DJ Blake Ward and DJ Sober, the FGF is presented by founder and wellness explorer Kenneth Paul as a yoga and fitness festival, but also as a mindfulness festival with nutrition, sleep, stress and mindset practitioners. The whole thing will take place on Saturday, October 30th, from 12pm to 6pm on the Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge (109 Continental Ave.). Tickets start at $ 35. Get these and more details on the Feel Good AF website.
Clear light of emptiness in the studio theater
We have wellness, connections to the spirit world and now the metaphysical thanks to Sangeet Millennium, Art Nomadic and other artists Clear Light of the Void at the Studio Theater (2400 Flora St.). The experience, which runs from Thursday, October 28 through Saturday, October 30, at 8 p.m., combines music, movement, light installation and projection, and the spoken word through folk tales and songs to explore South Asian concepts. It’s the ultimate in multimedia, and tickets are $ 29.50 and are available through the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
Children can paint dark chocolate pumpkins at Kate Weiser Chocolate on Saturday.
Kayla Enright
Halloween celebration in Trinity Groves
Trinity Groves (3011 Gulden Lane) is selling the Halloween jams a day early so kids of all ages can get their goodies all weekend long. Over in the ArtPark, the family can get hold of caramel apples for children and caramel apple slippers for the ‘Dults’. Wear fancy dress for a photo op and a trick or treating in any restaurant with a pumpkin on the doorstep. From 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm at Kate Weiser Chocolate, kids can paint their own dark chocolate squash ($ 30) and then crack it open to find a delicious surprise inside. Trinity Groves has more information on participating companies and special offers.
Dallas Day of the Dead Parade & Festival at Dallas City Hall
This event is supposed to become a new tradition. With a colorful and celebratory parade that goes round at 6 p.m., the Dallas Día De Los Muertos Festival is an all-day event from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, October 30th, at Dallas City Hall (1500 Marilla St.). Oskar Santos and Edna Tijerina from Miss Texas Latina act as masters of ceremonies, responsible for live music, various arts and crafts for the whole family and plenty of food and drink. Admission is free, parade plans are available on the event site.
Trick or treat in deepest Greenville
Trick or treat starts early in Lowest Greenville. We’re talking about Saturday, October 30th at 11am, pretty early. This is great because while parents can partake in discounts and snacks (and maybe an adult drink), little ones can indulge in candy, makeup, and begging for pizza from the Greenville Avenue Pizza Company (1923 Greenville Ave.), which is covered with Nutella, sweetcorn and M & Ms. Participating companies include Bullzerk, HG Sply Co., Joy Macarons, Rapscallion, The Libertine, Truck Yard and many more. Take a look at this GapCo pizza.
Sunday October 31st
LaReunion Music Fest at the Dallas Heritage Village
We can tell you all about the amazing music that will be played at the Dallas Heritage Village (1515 S. Harwood St.) during the LaReunion Music Festival on Saturday, October 30th from 11am to 8pm and on Sunday, October 31st, from 11am to 8pm shows up by 7 p.m. Acts like Bob Schneider, The Suffers and the popular Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans. There is also The 40 Acre Mule and Kristy Kruger not to be missed. But we’d be total idiots if we didn’t mention that the free Saturday petting zoo for which the DHV is known comes with the price of admission (adults from 40 US dollars). Oh! And a Spinster Records pop-up shop. Do the gift shopping early.
Wes Corwin stands up as Chris Farley on the Addison Improv Sunday.
Kathy Tran
Nightmare on Belt Line Comedy Competition at Addison Improv
If you’re wishing for Halloween comedian Wes Corwin to become Chris Farley, someone has been looking for you. Addison Improv (4980 Belt Line Road, Addison) hosts Nightmare on Belt Line. It’s an impression and costume contest that brings audiences (ages 18+) a version of Lily Tomlin, Bernie Mac, Mitch Hedberg, Eddie Murphy, and others with varying degrees of success. All of that would be fun if you ask us. The show starts at 6 p.m. and tickets start at $ 10.
Tuesday November 2nd
Side by side at RO2 Art in the Cedars
RO2 Art in the Cedars (1501 Ervay St.) presents an exhibition that is about the repetition of form, in two different but equally exciting styles. In Side By Side, which now runs through November 13, Kathy Robinson-Hays gets ethereal with her acrylic paints. Texture and transparency play with the eye and at the same time are reminiscent of natural shapes such as fern fronds. Meanwhile, Terry Hays creates his own tribute to flora by manipulating a variety of inspiring works from seafaring to tattoos. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Find out more with RO2 online.
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