Events
Rossford Events
Oktoberfest Polka Party + College Football Frenzy!
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
Danny’s Café
600 Dixie Hwy
Rossford, OH
You’re invited to the wildest mashup of polka, pigskin, and pints this side of Bavaria! $1 Entertainment Fee.
12–3 PM – Duane Malinowski and His Polka Variety Band
4–7 PM – The Randy Krajewski Polish Band
8–11 PM – Joe Zalewski & Dynabrass
German beer. Brats. Pierogi.
OVER 50 HIGH-DEFINITION TVs blasting every big college football game all day long—YES, we’ll have your team on.
Racing for Recovery 5k and Walk in Rossford
Saturday, October 25, 2025
8am - 10am
701 Superior St.
Rossford, OH
Taking Rock-N-Roll to the streets of Rossford! Where the sounds of music hits the pavement and rubber hits the road. Run, walk, or dance to the start and finish on Superior Street, downtown Rossford. Enjoy a beautiful loop course through the scenic Colony neighborhood while live bands keep the energy high with classic Rock and Roll hits. Celebrate the inspiring message that With Sobriety Anything is Possible.
Rossford Halloween Parade
Sunday, October 26, 2025
2 pm
Veterans Park
100 Hannum Avenue
Rossford, OH
Come watch Rossford’s favorite hometown parade—Halloween Parade.
Events
Within 10 Miles or 10 minutes
Honeybees 101 at 577 Foundation
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10 am - 11am
577 Foundation
577 Front Street
Perrysburg, OH
Explore the fascinating and complex world of honeybees, from their behaviors to their importance in nature. Whether you are toying with the idea of beekeeping, looking for simple ways you can help our local bee population, or just love Apis mellifera, participants will gain a better understanding of these amazing and vital creatures.
Learn about the diverse and interconnected workings of a honeybee hive, explore the lifecycle and jobs of bees, see what a year of natural beekeeping looks like, and leave inspired and ready to support bees in big and small ways.
Toledo Zoo Sturgeon Fest
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10am - 1pm
City of Toledo Boat Launch
2700 Braodway St.
Toledo, OH
Join us at the City of Toledo boat launch across from the Broadway Street Zoo entrance at 2700 Broadway Street. Toledo Zoo staff and partners will share information on conservation, education and our environment. Sponsor a sturgeon, release a fish at no cost and enjoy family-friendly activities. Food and beverage available for purchase. Event is open to the public. Rain or shine.
Be Excellent Festival of Games
Saturday, October 11, 2025
11am – 6 pm
Franciscan Center at Lourdes University
6832 Convent Blvd
Sylvania, OH
Come for a day full of games, vendors, and
kittens! Board game and RPG demos,
game creators, local organizations.
All ages welcome. $5 single admission, $10 family.
Bewitched Harvest Art & Craft Show
Saturday, October 18, 2025
9am - 4pm
Premier Banquet Hall
4480 Heatherdowns Blvd.
Toledo, OH
The show is filled with hundreds great quality hand-crafted items that you’ve come to know along with many new items. Find unique seasonal decorations, metal, wood and fabric items, soaps, scents and lotions, jewelry, home decor, and plenty of holiday home decorations, and so much more. If you can't find what you want, many members of the Toledo Craftsman Guild will create that special item for you. Several of your favorite food trucks will be there to serve you!
Jurassic Quest at Glass City Center
Saturday, October 18, 2025
9 am - 6pm
Glass City Center
401 Jefferson Avenue
Toledo, OH
Two admission times: 9am-1pm and 1pm to 6pm
The largest and most realistic Dinosaur Exhibit on tour. Science Stations & Floor Puzzles. Tricera-TOTS soft play area. Dino Crafts & LEGO® build stations. 35' Derby Track. One of a kind LEGO® models (great photo ops!)
Jurassic Quest
Ultimate Collectible Expo
Saturday, October 18, 2025
9am - 4pm
Glass City Center
401 Jefferson Avenue
Toledo, OH 43604
Whether you’re a seasoned collector, just starting your collection journey or just a fan, this event is your chance to explore a world of incredible items—from sports cards and memorabilia to toys, comics, coins, and other unique collectibles. If you love everything from sports history to pop culture, this expo has something special for YOU!
​
MJ Live
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025
8pm
Valentine Theatre
410 Adams Street
Toledo, OH
Experience the legendary Michael Jackson’s music like never before. Featuring his biggest hits, including “Bad,” “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Dangerous,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Black & White,” “I Want You Back,” and many more, this show will transport you back to the energy, excitement, spectacle, and pure joy of his iconic performances. The Michael Jackson Estate is not affiliated, associated, or connected with “MJ Live Tribute Concert,” nor has it endorsed or sponsored “MJ Live Tribute Concert.” Michael Jackson portrayed by Jalles Franca.
​
Little Boo-Pumpkin Path
Toledo Zoo
Thurs, Oct. 16 & Fri, Oct. 17, 2025
10 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Toledo Zoo
2 Hippo Way
Toledo, OH
Trick-or-treat around the Zoo and enjoy these other free fun activities: Strolling Magic & Puppets; Boo-tacular Play Area; BubbleLunatics, Bubble demos, Pumpkin Carving Demos, Creature Feature Animal Shows, Character meet and greets and live performances, and Pumpkin Express Train, with Halloween story times
Sunshine Communities: Spooky Boardwalk
Sunday, October 19, 2025
2pm - 4pm
Sunshine Communities
7223 Maumee Western Rd
Maumee, OH
Trick-or-Treat, Sunshine style—come in costume, stroll the boardwalk, meet our barnyard animals, and collect candy from local businesses, organizations, and partners—accessible and free for the whole family!
Monty Python's Spamalot
by Toledo School for the Arts
Sunday, October 19, 2025
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Owens Community College Center for Fine & Performing Arts
7270 Biniker Road
Perrysburg, OH
A new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Make Your Own Harvest Wreath
Saturday, October 25 2pm to 3:30pm
Monday, October 27 6pm to 7:30pm
Celebrate the harvest season with a wreath craft at 577, using seed heads, dried flowers, herbs, and other beautiful wild plant cuttings. You’ll be surprised by how much beauty can come from plants that grow around our backyards and in our gardens.
Wreaths will be 100% biodegradable, using twine instead of wreath wire. All supplies are included. Participants will complete one wreath within the class time. Completed wreaths will be approximately 1 foot in diameter.
Halloween Cookie Decorating
Saturday, October 25, 2025
1pm - 2:30 pm
Lockett Lash Studio
3136 West Sylvania Ave.
Toledo, OH 43613
Get into the fall spirit with a hands-on cookie decorating class led by the talented team from Kacee’s Cookies! Decorate three delicious sugar cookies with fun, seasonal designs - perfect for beginners and cookie lovers alike. Learn techniques like piping, working with different icing consistencies, and decorating tips and tricks to help your cookies look as amazing as they taste. All supplies are included. Complimentary refreshments (Ages 13+).
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with Toledo Ballet
Saturday, October 25, 2025
2pm - 4pm
Valentine Theatre
425 N. St. Clair Street
Toledo, OH
A new Halloween tradition returns as Toledo Ballet brings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to life through dance. Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher with a passion for ghost stories, vies for the heart of Katrina Van Tassel, the charming daughter of a wealthy farmer. But after a lively harvest celebration, his journey home takes a chilling turn when he crosses paths with the legendary Headless Horseman. By morning, Ichabod and Katrina have vanished without a trace.
Haunted Waterville Tours
Saturday, October 25, 2025
5pm - 9pm
Robbins House
114 S. River Rd.
Waterville, OH
Visitors will meet a ghost hunter or a medium in Robbins House for the first half of the tour and then board a horse-drawn trolley and travel through old Waterville hearing stories of hauntings old and new. Total tour time 1.5 hours. Tours at 5:15, 6, 6:45, 7:30 and 8:15pm. $30 per person.
Haunted Halloween Waterville Tours
Halloween Hike at Olander Park
Saturday, October 25, 2025
5 pm - 7pm
Olander Park
6930 W. Sylvania Ave.
Sylvania, OH
Kiddos stroll the park in costume and collect candy from volunteers. Admission: $3.00 for ages 3-12; 2 years and under are free.
-
Pre-registration begins on Monday, September 8, and continues through Friday, October 22. Pre-registered participants enter the park at 5:15 p.m.
-
Unregistered visitors (Walk-Ups) enter from 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
-
-
Park at Tam-O-Shanter and enter Olander Park through the walk-in gates.
-
Remember to dress for the weather. The Hike is rain or shine.
Halloween Hike at Olander Park
​
Dark Waters Mystery Tour at National
Museum of the Great Lakes
Saturday, October 25 10:15–11:15 AM 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Saturday, November 1 10:15–11:15 AM
National Museum of the Great Lakes
1701 Front Street
Toledo, OH
Step beyond the exhibit labels with an exclusive guided tour of Dark Waters: True Crime & Mystery on the Great Lakes. Led by the exhibit’s curator, Director Emeritus Chris Gillcrist, these intimate tours uncover seven untold stories, chilling details, and behind-the-scenes insights into how the exhibit came together. Recommended for ages 13 and up.
“On Golden Pond”
Sunday, October 26, 2025
2pm - 4pm
Toledo Repertoire Theatre
16 10th Street
Toledo, OH
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together.
On Golden Pond
Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience
October 30, 2025
Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle
2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH
8 pm
Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience is a groundbreaking live concert experience that transcends time, weaving the deep-rooted history of the Blues with the grandeur of orchestral music. Guided by the legendary voice and vision of Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Freeman, the program weaves together a vibrant dialogue of in-person and recorded commentary, including a special pre-concert Q&A session and a live appearance at the top of the performance. This unforgettable evening is more than a concert. It’s an immersive journey through sound, culture, and storytelling that stirs Morgan Freeman’s soul. It’s a sound world that shaped him and will move you, too.
​​​
Murder Mystery at Libbey House
Saturday, November 1, 2025
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Libbey House
2008 Scottwood Ave.
Toledo, OH
Detectives from all over the globe gather at the Libbey Mansion to solve the murder mystery at Highclere Castle in Newbury, UK. The case was never solved, the clues and leads seemed to vanish in the wind. You’ve been cordially invited to the Libbey Mansion to review the clues we’ve uncovered and help us solve this mystery. Dress in Roaring 1920’s fashion or Modern 2020’s attire for a night of mystery, food, and fun! Must be age 21 and over.
“Clybourne Park” by Village Players
Saturday, November 1, 2025
7 pm – 9 pm
Village Players Theatre
2740 Upton Avenue
Toledo, OH
This Pulitzer and Tony-winning script explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
​
Creepfest at Collingwood Arts Center
Saturday, November 8, 2025
3:00 pm - 11:59 pm
Collingwood Arts Center
2413 Collingwood Blvd
Toledo, OH
A night of Paranormal Speakers • Psychics • Tarot • Reiki • Metaphysical Vendors inside one of Ohio’s most haunted venues.
General Admission – $5
The Blade Holiday Parade
Saturday, November 15, 2025
10 am - Noon
Downtown Toledo
Toledo, OH
Don’t miss out on the annual Blade Holiday Parade in downtown Toledo. Bring the family down and enjoy the Distinguished Clown Corps, Giant Balloons, local marching bands, horses, floats and more.
Be sure to stay for the full parade as Santa will be making his debut!
Evil Woman: An ELO Tribute with TSO
Saturday, November 15, 2025
8 pm - 10 pm
Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle Theatre
2445 Monroe Street
Toledo, OH
The Toledo Symphony with The American ELO, performs Electric Light Orchestra’s biggest hits in a tribute to their signature mix of rock and orchestral sound, performing classics like “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Evil Woman,” and “Don’t Bring Me Down.”
With lush strings, rich harmonies, and all the soaring melodies that made ELO legendary, this concert will have you singing along and feeling the full impact of these timeless songs.
​
Maker's Mart Holiday 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
11am – 6 pm
Handmade Toledo
1717 Adams Street
Toledo, OH
Shop 70+ local artists + midwest makers + more!
$5 admission // 10 & under free!
FREE admission the last hour of the show from 5-6
Shipshewana on the Road in Bowling Green
Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16, 2025
9 am – 4 pm
Wood County Fairgrounds
13800 W. Poe Road
Bowling Green, OH
Gigantic GIFT, FOOD and CRAFT show! Shipshewana On The Road.
Just $5 gets you in to browse unique gifts, crafts, and food galore.
Children 12 and under are free.
Shipshewana On the Road Tickets
Tree City Market
Saturday, November 15, 2025
11am-4pm
Lourdes University
6832 Convent Boulevard
Sylvania, OH
Over 100 local vendors and small businesses will be represented. Come ready to shop, eat, drink, and ENJOY.
Brewdolph Bash
Thursday, November 20, 2025
6pm to 10 pm
Toledo Zoo
2 Hippo Way
Toledo, OH
Get in the spirit of the holiday season! Bring your antlers, Santa hats and bright red noses to Brewdolph Bash! Adults 21+ are invited to this exclusive, limited-attendance, preview night of the Lights Before Christmas. Enjoy a fun-filled evening strolling through the Zoo, as each guest will receive a souvenir cup with a signature drink! Entertainment includes strolling holiday characters, a live band and more!
“Witch” at Village Players
November 21-23, 2025
7pm and 2 pm
Village Players Theatre
2740 Upton Avenue
Toledo, OH
A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her - and then returns again - unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed.
Holiday Night Market
Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025
4 pm to 10 pm
Fifth Third Building
1 Seagate
Toledo, OH
Celebrate in the Grand Lobby of the Fifth Third Building for a nostalgic, two-level wonderland. Ride the escalator for that classic department-store feel and explore local artisans, one-of-a-kind gifts, tasty bites, craft drinks, music, and a whole lot of holiday cheer. Free Hot Cocoa Bar. Complimentary gift-wrapping. Free parking in the connected garage. Visit from 419 Santa. Food trucks and craft drinks available. $5 admission. Children 2 and under free.
​
