Spooky Outdoor Events for Queers and Allies
Photo: Maan Farm
Hallowe’en is the spookiest of all seasons but you’re an adult - you can handle it right? We’ve gone looking for the coolest and the creepiest of the BC Lower Mainland’s October celebrations. Enjoy.
Maan Farms is baaaack for 2021
The scariest corn maze in Canada - Maan Farms
As fog rolls over Maan Farms, the circus returns for another year of laughs and screams, and the corn is bleeding again. Founded during the peak of circus culture in the 1800s, this twisted carnival of the macabre comes to pull you into its circus of terrifyingly fantastic delights. From the cart of ancient wonders to a mysterious gypsy, what foul fortune might befall you within the tall corn?
The scariest forest in Canada - Maan Farms
A traveler guides you into darkness, fog whispering in between your fears as you find what horrors might persuade you further into the dark. Cursed and slaughtered, the pagan inhabitants of a once-proud settlement have come back beneath the crimson moon to drag down any and all who walk upon their soil. Venture with us if you will, deep within darkened wood.
Pitch Black - Maan Farms
Tossed into the turmoils and sensory assaults of purgatory, this year's Pitch Black is a venture into the unknown and into your worst fears as they come out and touch you. Smell, Touch, Hearing… all of these will be pushed to their limits as you are ushered into darkness, no sight of a way out, just the hope that the claustrophobic nightmare may end. For the horror extremists, welcome home.
More information and ticket purchase at: https://www.maanfarms.com
Parade of Lost Souls: Phoenix Rising
Date: October 30, 2021 | 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: Britannia Community Centre 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Processions on the hour with The Carnival Band
Tickets: Free
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/182405667334789
Like the Phoenix rising, Parade of Lost Souls, like all of us, returns again. We invite you to reflect on your inner self, your neighbourhood, and of the world right now. At this, another turning point in history, what is your inner Phoenix. Happening this year on October 30th, we invite you to follow The Carnival Band in hourly processions from 7-10pm. All are welcome to bring a shrine, installation or perform. Parade is an event for the people and by the people, so bring your whole self and your ideas.
Lost Souls of Gastown Walking Tour
This Halloween season, follow the lamplight of your guide into Vancouver’s earliest and most gruesome history. You’ll step inside a world of murder, revenge, and true grit in a dramatic retelling of Victorian Gastown’s earliest stories. Tales of deadly fire and smallpox emerge from the shadows as you venture through cobblestone streets to the shocking finale in this unique performance-theatre experience. Small groups | social distancing | 100% outdoors.
More information and ticket purchase at: https://forbiddenvancouver.ca/lost-souls-of-gastown-vancouver-tour
Halloween Mystery Nights
Three games to choose from: an outdoor murder mystery for Halloween, a superhero adventure game or a play a spy-themed outdoor escape the room style game in Vancouver this Halloween. Sign up in teams of 2-6 players and compete for the top score in these fun group activities in Vancouver for Halloween.
More information and ticket purchase at: https://vancouvermysteries.com/
Hallowed Eves
Select Nights: October 8-31
Tickets: https://www.pne.ca/hallowed-eves/
In the dead of night, a Caravan of Curiosities rolled into town… Alongside firebreathers, contortionists and other oddities, a resentful puppet longed to be the star of the show. Chippy is no dummy; he’s ready to cut the strings and become the Ringmaster of the Sideshow.
This October, Playland once again transforms into a Halloween-themed experience including thrill rides, creepy décor, scary characters and live performances. You’ll be awestruck by fire and swordplay, incredible stunts and circus arts, while the amusement park crawls with terrifying monsters, mutant carnivores and re-animated dolls who have breached their usual cages.
Screams will ring out from the Beast, Hellevator, and Atmosfear, but you won’t be able to hide inside, as the haunted houses will not be operating. The Wooden Roller Coaster is currently undergoing a major refurbishment and will not be running this year.
Advance tickets and proof of vaccination required for this Playland event.
Be sure to read Vancouver's LGTBQ Halloween Events You want to Know About in 2021 as well!
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