1. VanDusen Glow in the Garden
The second annual VanDusen Glow in the Garden celebrates the classic tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Wear a costume and share photos using #VanDusenGlow for a chance to win a one-year family membership to the garden and an afternoon of tea-for-two at Truffles Café. .
VanDusen Botanical Garden, only tickets for Oct. 30-31 remain, 5-9 p.m. $12.50/$10.50/$8.50. vancouver.ca/vandusenglow
2. Halloween Monster Match
Vancouver TheatreSports League hosts a spooktacular event featuring haunting décor, costumed performers in "head-to-headless" TheatreSports matches, a danse macabre with DJ, roving performers, palm reading and improvised poems at Poe Corner. Winner of the best costume prize receives an invitation to every VTSL opening night for a year.
Improv Centre, Oct. 28, doors 7:30 p.m. tickets.vtsl.com.
3. All Souls
A series of events that give participants the opportunity to honour the dead through ceremony and celebration. Music, film and the opportunity to make personal memorials in a quiet atmosphere bring deeper meaning to Halloween weekend. nightforallsouls.com.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oct. 28-Nov. 1. Free. nightforallsouls.com
4. Halloween Mystery Nights
Thirteen years ago Jimmy Capello was found dead in his downtown Vancouver apartment, strangled, poisoned and stabbed. Now the Terminal City Police Department has re-opened the cold case and it’s up to you to solve it. Halloween Mystery Nights return this year with Crime in Downtown, in which teams compete against each other while completing challenges on the streets of downtown Vancouver and Gastown. Armed with your game kit and a team of your closest friends, you’ll figure out which of the suspects killed Capello. Each team must contain two to five members and contain at least one adult.
Meet at Waterfront Station. Games available Oct. 30-31, 7-9 p.m. $25. vancouvermysteries.com
5. The Beautiful & The Damned
Hosted by the Social Concierge, this is billed as Vancouver’s most decadent and mysterious Halloween event at one of the city’s most hauntingly beautiful hotels, where the historic Spanish ballroom is transformed into a world of the vampiric undead. Special live entertainment, dance performances, a welcome drink and a spread of midnight snacks. It's a black-tie affair with a difference, so dress in your finest over-the-top gowns, tuxedos and masks.
Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $55. thesocialconcierge.com
