Mark your calendars! Here’s a round up of what’s happening in the Montclair area this month:
October 1
- Ales N’ Tails Oktoberfest takes over at Turtle Back Zoo.
- Oktoberfest at Applegate Farm
- Violent Femmes perform at The Wellmont Theater
- Historical Society of Bloomfield holds a “Museum Attic Treasures Sale”
- Montclair Pop Up hosts a Giant Community Tag Sale
- 4th Wall’s “Off The Wall Series” concert version presents Guys and Dolls in Concert.
- NJPAC’s Spotlight Gala 2016 will feature Tony Award winners Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton) and Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) and GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer Kenny Lattimore!
- Morristown Festival of Books features a full roster of authors in Morristown all day. Authors will speak and answer questions for one hour at one of several convenient Morristown locations.
October 2
- The Open Streets Montclair festival will begin with the Tour de Montclair bike ride throughout the town and end at the Open Streets Festival on Glenridge Avenue with music, food, community partners and parklets for the community to enjoy. The construction of the parklets – mini urban recreational and lounge spaces will take place from 10 -12. Then it’s party time!
- The Jewish Cultural Society’s Rosh Hashana celebration at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Montclair to welcome in the Jewish New Year
October 4
- Lincoln Center Local: Mozart Celebration at Montcalir Public Library
October 5
- Montclair Public Library hosts The Every Wednesday Matinee, a classic film series presented in its auditorium, with this month’s theme being “Wicked Women.” Today is Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders, a self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband’s dead first wife. (1940, 130 minutes, B&W)
October 6
- King of the Mountains, a world premiere by Ben Clawson, opens at Luna Stage in West Orange
- Masters of Illusion Live at The Wellmont Theater
- The 2nd Annual Whiskey Festival of New Jersey at Pig & Prince
- Montclair Art Museum’s Free First Thursday Nights Halloween-Themed Experience
- American premiere of Figure a Sea at Peak Performances.
October 7
- Rodney Carrington performs at The Wellmont Theater
October 8
- Bloomfield Harvestfest
- The Van Vleck House & Gardens Centennial Celebration Gala and After Party
- Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon & The Animals perform at The Wellmont Theater
- Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center celebrates the 60th anniversary of the famed perfect game caught by Yogi and pitched by Don Larsen by showing the entirety of the perfect game.
- 90.5 The Night.org Showcase at Tierney’s Tavern
- Savion Glover performs Chronology of a HooFer at NJPAC
- Indie Author Day at Montclair Public Library
October 9
- Saxophonist Maceo Parker performs at SOPAC
October 10
- 1st Annual Slurp. Sip. Repeat. Ani Ramen Eating Contest
October 12
- MPL screens One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tarring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Michael Berryman. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. (1975, 133 minutes, Color)
October 13
- Local poet Roger Sedarat reads form his new book Foot Faults: Tennis Poems at Watchung Booksellers.
- Les Brers performs at The Wellmont Theater
October 14
- See Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It at The Wellmont Theater
- Shemekia Copeland at Outpost in the Burbs
- St. James Players present William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
October 15
- Open Book/Open Mind at MPL presents Alan Cumming’s You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams
- Montclair Ambulance Unit Fall Fest and 1st Annual MAU Duck Derby.
- Joan Baez performs at The Wellmont Theater
- The 5th Annual James Moody Jazz Festival at NJPAC begins
- Robert Hill Band at hat City Kitchen
October 18
- 15th annual Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Essex County’s Brookdale Park Show
October 19
- 15th annual Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Essex County’s Brookdale Park Show
- MPL screens Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Victor Buono. A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. (1946, 134 minutes, B&W)
October 20
- Noise/Funk—20 Years Later: A Conversation with Savion Glover and Reg E. Gaines at Montclair Art Museum
October 21
- Montclair Public Library’s The Little Read 2016 Bedtime Stories
- Chris Botti performs at The Wellmont Theater
- Montclair Center Fall Art Walk
- Presby Iris Gardens Gardens Aglow event
- Dean Shot’s Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf at hat City Kitchen
October 22
- Strut Your Mutt: Canine Halloween Costume Contest
- Montclair Public Library’s The Little Read 2016
- Bloomfield hosts the Halloween Spooktacular. Bring the kids for trick-or-treating, the pumpkin patch, costume contest and magic show at the Town Green and Civic Center.
- Walking Tour of Mt. Hebron Cemetery with Montclair Historical Society
October 24
- Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman perform at The Wellmont Theater
October 26
- MPL screens Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid and Steve Forrest. Mommie Dearest, best-selling memoir turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford. (1981, 129 minutes, Color)
October 27
- RISE of the Jack O’Lanterns, a spectacular display of 5,000 carved pumpkins, makes its New Jersey debut in Secaucas. RISE will bring out the Halloween spirit in visitors of all ages, indoors at the Meadowlands Exposition Center from October 27 – 30.
October 28
- Indigo Girls perform at SOPAC
- 3rd annual Halloween Bash with Dave Stryker Organ Trio (Plus Special Guest) at Trumpets Jazz Club.
October 29
- Tierney’s Tavern Halloween Bash!
- Zombie 5K Run/Walk and Funny Bone Fun Run for Kids Fundraiser in North Caldwell
- Karl Blau and LAKE at Outpost in the Burbs
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show live shadow cast performance at the Bowtie Bellevue Cinema in Montclair
October 30
- Walking Tour of Rosedale Cemetery with Montclair Historical Society
- Steve Martin and Martin Short perform at NJPAC