Oct 4-12, 2010: HONK! Festival, Zombie Walk, Bonfire, Ren Faire, Re-enactments, Laser & Airplane Fests, Parades & Fireworks, Free Tix, and 26 Corn Mazes!
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| Free Tickets to Canobie Lake Park & more | Fri 10/1 – Sun 10/31 | Boston Metro |
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| I have some juicy free tickets this week! For Canobie Lake Park, the 2nd largest (and best!) amusement park in New England, with both a German Octoberfest and a Halloween Screeemfest, I have six this week. And I have tickets to Life as We Know It, TONIGHT 10/4 in Boston. Various.  see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Free tickets to Oktoberfest and Honk! Parade to Harvard Square | Fri 10/8 – Sun 10/10 | Boston Metro |
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| The event of this week is an outdoor brass band festival called HONK. There’s a concert Saturday, and a parade Sunday at 12pm from Davis Square to Harvard Square, which is having an Octoberfest, with 6 live music stages, tons of street vendors, and a tethered hot air balloon ride. It’s free of course, but the event ends with a brass concert Sunday 10/10 at the Somerville Theatre, and I have 4 tickets to give away. Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.617-491-3434. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Free tickets to Evan Ziporyn’s A House in Bali | Fri 10/8 – Sat 10/9 | Boston Metro |
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| I also have a pair of tickets to give away for Indonesian Opera combined with video, dance, modern music called “Bang on a Can All-Stars”, and somehow it’s all connected to an anthropologist from the 1930s. How often do Indonesian events come to town? Sounds like it’s worth checking out! Cutler Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont St, Boston, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Laser Fest | Fri 10/8 | Boston Metro |
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| The MIT Museum is great to visit anytime, and while I can’t vouch for the entertainment value of the panelists (all pioneers in lasers), they’ll have hands-on activities to play with lasers, Jello, and a lot more. 265 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA.617.253.5927. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Collings Foundation Battle for the Airfield – WWII Reenactment | Sat 10/9 – Sun 10/10 | Metro West |
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| This one’s from the World war II era. They’ll have tons of aircraft and vehicles, and even a flying demo that seems to include a mock battle! Also some WWII veterans will be speaking. No reservation needed. 137 Barton Road, Stow, MA.978-562-9182. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Salem Zombie Walk | Sun 10/10 | North Shore |
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| Do you like zombies? Dress as one and go on a (fake) rampage! All the other Halloween events are below in the “Halloween” section. 1pm. Collins Cove, Collins St., Salem, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Guy Fawkes Bonfire | Sat 10/9 | Rhode Island |
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| Another WTF moment is… a bonfire, live music, burning an effigy, and a re-enactment of an old British execution! Who wouldn’t pay to see that… but it’s FREEEEEEEEEE. (If you can get to Rhode Island.). Andrea Hotel, 89 Atlantic Ave, Misquamicut Beach, RI. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Medeival Faire | Sat 10/9 | Western Mass |
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| Although the larger King Richard’s Faire continues, try this Western Mass renaissance faire, featuring an old mansion and museum, the usual vendors and performers, and demonstrations of horseriding and medeival combat. Ventfort Hall, 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA.413-637-3206. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
Columbus Day Parade, Irish Heritage Festival, Mount Auburn: An American Parnassus – A Walking Tour, Roman Legion Re-enactment at Higgins Armory, His Majesty`s First Regiment, Foot Guards, Fall Festival at The Old Manse, Transporterfest / Volkswagen Day, Colonial Days at The Adams Birthplaces, Harvest Festival at Plimoth Plantation, Wampanoag Immigration Booth, National Cranberry Festival, Massachusetts Cranberry Harvest Festival, Cranberry Festival, [SENSE]ation Day: Clay, Fire, and Fun, An Hour in Providence With Edgar Allan Poe, Autumnfest, Topsfield Fair, New Hampshire Fall Festival, Harvest Moon Fall Festival with Fireworks, Yarmouth Seaside Festival, Naughty Bingo, Singles Night at Connors Farm Corn Maze, Spiritways: A Night in Beseiged Salem Village, Salem Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, Salem Chamber of Commerce Halloween Biz Baz, Bootiful Pet Halloween Contest, Buy advance tix for Halloween Carnival at Heritage Museum & Gardens, Milford Great Pumpkin Festival, Two Geeks Are Better Than One, Fenway Cultural Festival (Opening Our Doors!), MFA Fall Open House, New England Fringe Festival, FirstWorksProv, Who Is Winning the Childhood Obesity Battle?, Show Me the Science, Fall Celebration, Discoverers’ Day Family Fest!, Monadnock Open Studios Art Tour, Warner Fall Foliage Festival, Somersworth Pumpkin Festival, Fall Festival & Carnival, Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Championship, International Oktoberfest, Harvest Fest, Pumpkin Day at Bourne Farm, Newburyport Fall Harvest Festival, Boston Palestine Film Festival, Out of the Darkness, Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women, Paradise City Arts Festival (Northampton), Bittersweet Midnight, Poe: a fever dream, Skewed & Screwed Reveue, Fall Foliage Hiking Around New England, King Richard’s Faire (Ren Faire), King Arthur’s Fall Harvest Faire, Oktoberfest Weekend at Folk Arts Center of New England, Ethan Allen Days, Giant Pumpkin Regatta & Festival, Scotland Connecticut Highland Games, Davis Farmland & Megamaze (& Night Maze), Foster Family Farm Corn Maze, Hayes Corn Maze, Lyman Orchards Corn Maze, Goss Farm Corn Maze, Pumpkin Valley Farm Corn Maze, Sandy River Farms Corn Maze, Thunder Farm Road Corn Maze, Zack’s Corn Maze, Corn Maze at the FARM Institute, Beech Hill Farm & Ice Cream Stand, Great Brook Farm, Lavalley Farms, Sherman Farm Corn Maze, Moulton Farm Corn Maze, Trombley Farm Corn Maze, Marini Farm Corn Maze, Escobar’s Highland Farm Corn Maze, J & D Farms Corn Maze, Riverside Farm Corn Maze, Sauchuk Farm Corn Maze, Adams Family Farm, The Great Vermont Corn Maze, Mike’s Maze at Warner Farm, Davis MegaMaze, West End Creamery Corn Maze, and more.
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