Pumpkin Night
The Bear and Ragged Staff in Cumnor.
Friday 30th October
Festivities are scheduled as per the list below, though being pumpkin night and the amounts of beverage consumed, there has to be a bit of give and take on the timings. There will be an outdoor real ale bar.
18:00 Childrens Magician
19:00 Childrens Fancy Dress Parade
19:30 Pumpkin Competition
20:00 Storm Fireworks
20:15 Armaleggon Morris Dancers
21:00 Presentations, Raffle & Auction
22:00 Election Of Mayor & Inauguration of Mayor
Elvis Tribute Night and Dinner
The Cockadoo Chinese Restaurant
Friday 30th October
Darren is a London based singer/songwriter and started in the tribute scene in 1991 after appearing on, and winning, his heat in Granada Television's 'Stars In Their Eyes' as Simply Reds Mick Hucknall.
Accompanied by a truly outstanding Chinese meal (excellent vegetarian option) this is really a night to remember.
£36.00 per person (min 2 people) including a set menu.
Halloween Fashion Show
Oxford Covered Market
Saturday 31st October 1pm
Independent stores Ansari, Fresh Clothing, Macsamillion, Next to Nothing, The Hat Box, Thena, Burrows & Hare and C H Brown get together to showcase their autumn collections!
Friday 01 October - Sunday 1st November
Ghost Fest at Oxford Castle Unlocked
Now in its third year, Oxford Castle Ghost Fest is bigger and better than ever before! England’s premier ghost festival returns to Oxford Castle-Unlocked, thought to be one of the most haunted buildings in the country. With the help of Fright Nights, the UK’s leading ghost hunting specialists, Ghost Fest sets out to uncover the dark secrets that lie within the grounds of Oxford Castle including a Halloween special of ‘In Extremis’ - an amazing ghost hunting experiment. Are you brave enough to join us?
Official website
Witches and Wizards Halloween Trail
02 - 29 October
Wander through the museum looking for wicked witches and wonderful wizards.
Museum of Oxford
Saturday 23 October - Sunday 1st November
October Half Term - Halloween Entertainment at Blenheim Palace
There are ghostly goings-on at Blenheim Palace this Halloween for families to enjoy over the Half-Term week.
Blenheim Palace, Wooodstock
Blenheim Palace official website
Saturday 23 October - Sunday 1st November
Halloween Half Term -The Maze of Bones
There are skeletons rattling and spooky story-telling this Halloween at Blenheim Palace! Funny bones’ our resident spooky skeleton has lost his body parts in ‘The Maze of Bones’! Can you find them rattling around the world’s largest symbolic hedge Maze this Autumn Half Term? Are you brave enough to meet our resident story teller Bill Spectre and Colin – The Crow-in-the-Know at weekends? From 23rd – 31st October the Marlborough Maze, situated at the Pleasure Gardens, will be transformed into a ‘Maze of Bones’, with a challenge to find all 10 body parts that make up our spooky skeleton. A spooky miniature train ride from the Palace brings you to the Pleasure Gardens where an additional spooky hunt called ‘All things Halloween’ will also be available. Come along and try one or both hunts if you dare! You can have a go at Pumpkin ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ making in the Garden Café by purchasing your own pumpkin to gouge out and create a spooky design to take home with you. Spooky face painting available, or why not petrify your closest friends or family by decorating your own piece of scary pottery with ‘Pottering About’ from 11am – 4pm. Additional charge applies for pottery and pumpkin activities.
10:30 to 16:30
Saturday 23 October - Sunday 1st November
Half – Term Frightful Family Fun
10.00am – 4.00pm. Throughout Halloween Week, young explorers can take part in pumpkin trails and search for chilling clues hidden by the wicked witch to win a spooky prize. Join our Halloween arts and crafts in the Prison Gallery; and hear spine-tingling tales from the Oxford Castle gruesome ghouls. FREE with Castle admission. Activities only £4.00 per child/adult
Oxford Castle Unlocked
Saturday 23 October - Sunday 1st November
The Great Pumpkin Hunt!
Give the kids an exciting challenge by taking part in the Great Pumpkin Hunt. Throughout half term week join the race to find 10 pumpkins hidden in our beautiful gardens – and at other locations around the estate – to win a special, seasonal, edible prize! Children must be accompanied by a paying adult but there’s no need to book – just turn up and enjoy
Waterperry Gardens
Saturday 23 October - Sunday 1st November
Halloween Howl at Millets Farm
Come face to face with ghosts and ghouls this Halloween in the haunted grounds of the Mass-Acre Maze. The 10 acres of maize will be transformed into a wicked world of webs and ghastly creatures for 9 days and 9 bone-shaking nights for all the family. The Gruesome Disguise Awards will be taking place both during day time and night time spookings, so come along dressed up as a grotesque ghoul or weathered witch and feature on our ‘Hall of Horrors’ ! The most terrifying outfit will win a mystery prize so be imaginative and inventive.
Fun By Day: 11am-4pm Fun for all the family. Terrifying By Night: 6pm-10pm Not recommended for under 8’s
Official website
Ollie the Ox’s Activities - Halloween hangings
Thu 29 Oct
Make a marvellous lantern to hang in your window to scare off ghosts and ghouls this Halloween. £3.50 per person Booking is recommended as space is limited (we regret no accompanying younger siblings).
Museum of Oxford
Halloween hangings
Thursday 29 October
Make a marvellous lantern to hang in your window to scare off ghosts and ghouls this Halloween 11am – 12.30pm and 2pm – 3.30pm
Museum of Oxford
Saturday 30th October & Sunday 1st November
Trick-or-Treating
6.00pm – 7.00pm. Enjoy safe Trick or Treating this Halloween. Children are encouraged to dress up in their favourite costumes and collect tasty sweets as they trick-or-treat around the Castle. Courageous children who survive meeting the gruesome ghouls can then enter the Prison Gallery to hear spooky stories from the haunted Castle. £4.00 per child, £2.00 per adult.
Oxford Castle Unlocked
Sat Oct 30
Queen of Clubs’ Halloween Spectacular!
TICKETS: £7.50 adv (no booking fee) via Paypal:http://www.myspace.com/queenofclubscabaret and £7.00 (plus booking fee) onhttp://www.wegottickets.com - £10 door. Relive the best of this year’s Arcane Festival (http://www.arcane-festival.com) with a pick of the craziest live bands and then some! Chancery Blame and the Gadjo Club - Inflatable Buddha - The Goggenheim - Shimmy Shimmy Bang Bang - DJ Mystic - PRIZE for the bestest vintage Halloween getup - freakish facepainting from Lapis Lizard - more TBC!!
Baby Simple
8pm-2am
Fri 30 October, Sat 31 October
Extra Trails at Halloween at Bill Spectre's Oxford Ghost Trail
You are hereby cordially invited to join Bill Spectre on a tour of Oxford's ghosts. Illustrated with props and illusions, your costumed guide (who is a professional actor and equity member) will entertain and horrify you through the streets of this most historic city. You may regret not bringing a camera.
Tours at 18:30 and 21:00 Adult £6, children £3
Official website
Sat 31 October
Museums at Night - Damifino! At the Old Museum, Museum of Oxford
Join the Museum of Oxford on Halloween for a Victorian spooktacular. Enter if you dare and be guided around the more scary side of the Museum’s collections, share your fears and spooky moments in Oxford, eat and drink like a Victorian and relish in some eerie events taking place in The Old Museum throughout the evening. What will happen? Damifino!
Day of the Dead
Pitt Rivers Museum
Saturday 31st October 7pm
Shake Oxford’s dreaming spires awake and help us bring Mexico’s Day of the Dead fiesta to the Museum.
Charity Oral Hygiene Day
Diamond House Dental Practice
Saturday 31st October
Diamond House Dental Practice in Summertown is holding a fun and interactive Halloween-themed oral health day for children aged 5 - 12 on 31st October.
