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Tuesday, October 6
Spirit of Japan
from $150
details → Wednesday, October 14
Teen Ceramics
from $200
details → Friday, October 16
Dishes & Wishes | Make-A-Wish Southern Florida
from $150
details → Monday, October 19
Garden To Table Dinner
from $150
details → Wednesday, October 21
Where in the Vino: California
from $150
details → Saturday, October 24
Hearts for the Arts Back to Broadway 30th Anniversary Gala
from $175
details → Tuesday, October 27
Omakase Dinner at RO Hyde Park
from $150
details → ACOTAR 6 Release Faerie Ball!
from $100
details → Thursday, October 8
Harry Potter Book Day : Spells & Potions at Imagine Museum
from $5
details → Friday, October 2
Art & Aces 2026 – A night of vintage glamour
from $250
details → Bleach 30 Year Anniversary w/ special guests Rookie of the Year and Keep Warm in Tampa
from $40
tickets → Thursday, October 8
Ultra Sunn and Soft Vein in Tampa
from $34
tickets → Thursday, October 15
On Company Time "The PTO Tour" in Tampa
from $34
tickets → Wednesday, October 7
Black Flag
from $31
tickets → Saturday, October 3
Joey Cash in Tampa
from $28
tickets → Thursday, October 29
SAP, Sludge Mother, and Easterlin in Tampa
from $23
tickets → Saturday, October 24
Flaw
from $22
tickets → Tuesday, October 6
Sex Mex "The Stockpile Tour" in Tampa
from $20
tickets → Saturday, October 17
OBSCURA: A Dance Theatre of Mystery & Revelation
from $60
details → Tuesday, October 27
Symphony of Shadows featuring Liz Glushko
from $60
details → Thursday, October 22
Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn
from $59
details → Thursday, October 8
Remix: Mysteries of the Nile
from $55
details → Saturday, October 17
Candlelight: Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
from $46
details → Tuesday, October 13
Black Violin
from $45
details → Tuesday, October 20
Figure Drawing Study
from $45
details → Saturday, October 24
Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics
from $45
details → Sunday, October 25
Turnpike Troubadours, Muscadine Bloodline & Drayton Farley at BayCare Sound
from $44
details → Friday, October 2
America
Midnight Tyrannosaurus (18 and Over)
tickets → Saturday, October 3
Treaty Oak Revival: West Texas Degenerate Tour
tickets → The Beths
Sunday, October 4
Rutenberg Chamber Music Series: Chang / Sun Duo
tickets → Ziggy Marley w/ Govt Mule
Celtic Thunder
tickets → Wednesday, October 7
Oktoberfest🍻
Free
details → DRV Gallery presents Sip & Paint with Amy Howell
from $40
details → USF Jazztet
Thursday, October 8
Logic & G-Eazy: The Endless Summer Tour Part II
Black Country, New Road w/ Lily Seabird
Boz Scaggs
tickets → Friday, October 9
Karol G - Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour
Bryson Tiller Presents: The Neo Trapsoul Tour
Ty Myers
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
tickets → Saturday, October 10
Five Finger Death Punch
tickets → Phil Wickham | Official Ticket + Hotel Packages
tickets → The Avett Brothers w/ The Secret Sisters
Rebecca Black
The Artimus Pyle Band-Honoring Ronnie Van Zant
from $40
details → Sunday, October 11
Jonas Brothers: The Burning Up Tour All Over Again
Tuesday, October 13
Tedeschi Trucks Band: Future Soul 2026 Tour
tickets → Wednesday, October 14
Vocal Jazz Showcase
tickets → Friday, October 16
Cavetown - Running With Scissors Tour
Dan + Shay: The Young Tour
The Living Tombstone
Saturday, October 17
$uicideboy$ present Grey Day Tour 2026 w. Shakewell & more
Suncoast Credit Union "Juntos y con Ritmo"
Sunday, October 18
Snail Mail w/ Soccer Mommy
Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
The Smashing Pumpkins: The Rats In A Cage Tour
Monday, October 19
Breaking Benjamin
tickets → Tuesday, October 20
CLUTCH: US Fall Tour
tickets → Wednesday, October 21
The Concert: A Tribute To ABBA
Thursday, October 22
Jake Owen w/ Niko Moon
Friday, October 23
Tampa Halloween Indie Night
Planet Smashers w/ Pwrup
tickets → Cake
HOL! (18 and Over)
tickets → Saturday, October 24
20 Years of Nekrogoblikon with Special Guests Aborted
tickets → The Hip Abduction
tickets → Sunday, October 25
Rutenberg Chamber Music Series Guest: Sohn / Blaha Duo
tickets → Teddy Swims: The UGLY Tour
Yung Gravy: The Joyrider Tour
Tuesday, October 27
Alice Cooper
Wednesday, October 28
USF Jazz Ensemble
Steve Lacy: Oh yeah? Tour
tickets → Thursday, October 29
Clara La San
Friday, October 30
Commercial Music Ensemble Concert: Program A
tickets → Chayanne - Bailemos Otra Vez Tour
Hairball
tickets → Monster's Ball Featuring NOIZU
Saturday, October 31
Nightmare on Channelside
Ghostbusters in Concert
tickets → Thursday, October 1
Jane Don’t Does America!
from $37
details → Thursday, October 8
JIMBO’S ‘JOAN! Can We Laugh?!’ TOUR (A Parody)
from $37
details → Thursday, October 1
Wine & Caribbean Food Tasting
from $35
details → Friday, October 16
Bat Boy: The Musical
from $35
details → Saturday, October 10
Rocktoberfest
from $34
details → Thursday, October 15
Tee Sanders
from $32
details → Saturday, October 17
Performer Purgatory
from $30
details → Saturday, October 24
🎃Christy's Thirsty Halloween Beer Ride 🎃
from $30
details → Saturday, October 10
DRV Gallery presents The Business of Being an Artist
from $79
details → Friday, October 2
Gabriel Rutledge
from $27
details → Thursday, October 22
Anthony Fuentes
from $27
details → Thursday, October 29
Dustin Nickerson
from $27
details → Friday, October 30
Don “DC” Curry
from $27
details → Wednesday, October 28
Micro Wrestling 11
from $26
tickets → Thursday, October 1
The Wash
from $25
details → Friday, October 16
Pattern and Pause: Meet the Artists Event
from $25
details → Saturday, October 31
Halloween Gong Portal: Beyond the Veil
from $25
details → Thursday, October 1
The Singularity Play
Friday, October 2
Atsuko Okatsuka: The Big Bowl Tour
Atsuko Okatsuka
tickets → Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Saturday, October 3
Next Level | Sew Seen: Stitching New Narratives with Nneka Jones
from $1100
details → Tuesday, October 6
USF Concert & Symphonic Bands
tickets → Thursday, October 8
Tim Dillon
tickets → Usf Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, October 11
Excel Music: Fall Recital 2026
tickets → Wednesday, October 14
Teen Animation Workshop
from $185
details → Thursday, October 15
The Vampire Circus
Friday, October 16
Earthquake
Bassem Youssef: The Belly of the Beast Tour
Saturday, October 17
Spooktacular Science
from $20
details → Sunday, October 18
Steinway Piano Series at USF: Tinatin Gudadze
tickets → Grief Sucks: A One Man Show By KevOnStage
Tuesday, October 20
Fall Fantasy Soiree
from $20
details → Wednesday, October 21
Hamilton (Touring)
Thursday, October 22
Gameface & Drag The River w/ The Arrival Note
from $20
details → Encoding: Fall Dance Concert
Saturday, October 24
Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue
tickets → Garrison Keillor w/ Erica Rhodes
tickets → Monday, October 26
Dan and Phil
Saturday, October 31
The Halloween Bar Crawl – St Petersburg
from $20
details → The Halloween Bar Crawl – Tampa
from $20
details → Don 'D.C.' Curry
tickets → Saturday, October 24
St. Pete Boos & Booze Halloween Bar Crawl: 2nd Annual, by Bar Crawl USA
from $18
details → Tall Tales of Old Florida
from $18
details → Friday, October 2
Fall Music Night with Nick Ewing
from $15
details → Thursday, October 8
Happy Hour with the Historian – The Thing About Florida Man: Poems Revisited
from $15
details → Thursday, October 22
Marly Music Presents Andrew York
from $15
details → Saturday, October 10
Johnny Cougar's Birthday Celebration
from $12
details → Friday, October 30
Halloween Carnival
from $10
details → Friday, October 9
Monsters & Makers Market
from $5
details → Saturday, October 17
Countess's Manor: High Tea
from $65
details → Tuesday, October 27
St. Pete TOT Fall Festival
from $4
details → Thursday, October 15
Razor and the Boogie Men (Tour Kickoff), Last Bias, Ekibyo at The Potion Portal
from $1
details → Thursday, October 1
Suki Waterhouse – The Loveland Tour
details → Friday, October 2
South Florida Bulls Football vs. Temple University Owls Football
Los Tigres del Norte – La Lotería Tour
details → Streetlight Manifesto – The Presence of the Past Tour
details → Saturday, October 3
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington
Caamp Live In Concert
details → Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Miami FC
details → Mariachi El Bronx – 2026 Fall Tour
details → Monday, October 5
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 7
Thundercat – Distracted AF Tour
details → Thursday, October 8
Pilates in the Park
details → Tampa Bay Lightning vs Minnesota
University of South Florida Football at UTSA
details →
Dermot Kennedy – The Weight of the Woods Tour
details → CANNONS – 2026 North American Tour
details → Friday, October 9
Nurse John – Against Medical Advice Tour
details → Saturday, October 10
Phil Wickham – Song of the Saints 2026 Tour
details → The Florida Orchestra: Revolution – The Music of The Beatles
details → Willow Avalon – Pink Pocket Pistol Tour
details → Sunday, October 11
TNA Bound for Glory - Tampa
Kyle Gordon in Tampa
Free
details → Eddie 9v – 2026 Tour
details → Tuesday, October 13
Pickleball 101 | Get Fit St. Pete
details → Basement & Momma – Wired USA Tour 2026
details → Wednesday, October 14
Weezer – The Gathering Tour
details → Thursday, October 15
3rd Thursday Tampa
details → Tampa Bay Lightning vs Seattle
Friday, October 16
Pairing with Pros: Beer & Food Pairing Cookbook Release Party at Green Bench Brewing
details → South Florida Bulls Football vs. Kent State University Golden Flashes Football
Saturday, October 17
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Vancouver
DRV Gallery presents Watercolor Portraits by Laurie Edwards
details → $uicideboy$ – Grey Day Tour 2026
details → Toadies & Local H – The Charmer Tour
details → Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Detroit City FC
details → The Florida Orchestra: Scheherazade
details → Sunday, October 18
Arch Enemy & The Black Dahlia Murder – Wrath Across North America Tour
details → Monday, October 19
Breaking Benjamin – North American Tour 2026
details → Tuesday, October 20
Dying Fetus & Sanguisugabogg – 2026 Tour
details → Thursday, October 22
EsDeeKid – Council House Rat Tour
details → Friday, October 23
Florida Writers Association WritersCon 2026
from $599
details → Scene Queen – METALICIOUS Tour
details → Saturday, October 24
Kids Market at Trunk or Treat at Yuengling
details → Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Sporting JAX
details → Wednesday, October 28
Rav "Exopocalypse Tour" in Tampa w/ Teller Bank$ & Fatboi Sharif
Free
details → Thursday, October 29
CeCe Winans – COME WORSHIP! Tour
details → Tampa Bay Lightning vs Winnipeg
Dillinger Escape Plan – Final Calculating Infinity Shows
details → Friday, October 30
South Florida Bulls Football vs. UAB Blazers Football
Sonic Live In Concert
details → Little Stranger
details → Saturday, October 31
13 Ugly Men – The Halloween Party 2026
details → Sunday, October 4
Sips, Spirits & Sunday Football
from $49
details → Thursday, October 8
ConvoDojo Live
from $99
details → Tuesday, October 13
Abstract Explorations with Amy Howell
from $45
details → Thursday, October 1
Art on the House
details → Art After Dark: Trivia Night with Max Blowers
details → September Book Club Reflection + Animation
details → Dome After Dark: Surreal Nature – October
details → Friday, October 2
Pee-Pa's Open Mic Night
Free
details → Tuesday, October 6
Luna Moth Moonlight: A Stained Glass Workshop
from $60
details → Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal
details → Thursday, October 8
Art After Dark featuring Sundé Café Clementine Hosts Lost Coast Oyster Co.
details → Friday, October 9
Beyond the Basics: Pumpkin Stained Glass & Soldering Techniques Workshop
from $60
details → Thursday, October 15
Art After Dark: Swing Dance the Night Away
details → Performance: Latin Jazz with Fernando Cruz
details → Thursday, October 22
Art After Dark: T-Shirt Screen Printing Pop-Up
details → Saturday, October 24
Sueños de Dalí
details → Monday, October 5
DRV Gallery presents Embracing Watercolors
from $25
details → Thursday, October 8
Appy Hour Cooking Class – Dumpling Party
from $55
details → Saturday, October 3
DRV Gallery presents Poetry Open Mic
details → Saturday, October 24
15th annual A Night at the Museum
from $20
details → Sunday, October 25
A Star to Remember
Saturday, October 31
St. Pete Official Halloween Bar Crawl 2026 – Halloween Night
from $20
details → Saturday, October 3
Relics & Lore: A Radley Experience
from $27
details → Sunday, October 4
Ceramics Continued Study
from $45
details → Wednesday, October 21
Goth Floral Workshop
from $45
details → Thursday, October 1
Dinosaur World Live!
tickets → Film Screening: El ángel exterminador / The Exterminating Angel
details → Friday, October 2
DRV Gallery: 5-Year Anniversary & Season Reopening
Free
details → Thee Mighty Pi Iota
Free
details → Seeking Mastery ~ Process & Practice with Debra Vivi Steinfeld
Free
details → Saturday, October 3
Serve For Strength Charity Tournament
from $60
details → 5pm In Tampa The R&B Block Party: Fifty Shades of Melanin
tickets →
Sunday, October 4
Tampa Bay Sun FC vs. Lexington SC
tickets → Akeem Ali (Under 18 with parent or legal guardian)
tickets → Wednesday, October 7
St. Pete Night Market
Free
details → Thursday, October 8
Natural History Speaker Series
Free
details → Friday, October 9
Keys in the Park: A Melodic Duel
Free
details → Saturday, October 10
Opening Reception/Meet the Artist Palehorse for Shapeshifter: New and Select Works Exhibition
Free
details → Practice Dying: A Skull & Bones Exhibit Opening Reception
Free
details → Tampa Bay Sun FC vs. Carolina Ascent FC
tickets → 999999999 (18 and Over)
tickets → Sunday, October 11
Chorus Angelorum & Iona Consort | Fall Concert
Free
details → Octoberfest with the Moravians
Free
details → A Tribute to Demon Hunters
tickets → Wednesday, October 14
Breakfast for Scholars
from $60
details → Thursday, October 15
Hurricane Wisdom: Weathering The World
tickets →
Friday, October 16
Rhythm & Hues: An Alleyway Art Show
Free
details → DRINKURWATER (18 and Over)
tickets → Saturday, October 17
Don and Cristina Williams: A Change of Seasons Exhibition Opening Reception
Free
details → 4th Annual Pups & Pumpkins Fundraiser
Free
details → Experience the Evolution of Nelson Fisher Gallery
Free
details → Artist Talk with Debra Vivi Steinfeld
Free
details → Tuesday, October 20
Everything is Fragile: An Exploration in Cyanotype – Artist Talk with Becca McCoy
Free
details → Hip Hop In The Heights
Free
details → Thursday, October 22
Photography Social & Networking Event
Free
details → Friday, October 23
Trunk or Treat/Fall Festival
Free
details → Saturday, October 24
Riverwalk Trick-or-Treat
Free
details → Monday, October 26
Studio 55: Encaustic Sculpture
from $60
details → Black History Book Club: “The Talented Ribkins” by Ladee Hubbard
Free
details → Midnight Maasquerade: A Court Of Thorns And Roses 6 Book Release Ball
tickets →
Thursday, October 29
Art After Dark: Spooky Edition
Free
details → Friday, October 30
Sip & Stroll on Corey Avenue
Free
details → Spirits After Dark 2026
tickets →
Sunday, October 25
Halloween on Central at Imagine Museum: Monster Jeep Rally
from $5
details → Friday, October 16
Vintage Market Days® of Greater Tampa: “Timeless Traditions”
from $12
details → Friday, October 2
The Art of Coffee: A Tasting Journey featuring Mission Grounds Coffee
from $10
details → Sunday, October 4
Tampa Bay Buccaneers V Green Bay Packers
Friday, October 9
DRV Gallery presents Art in Action Fridays
details → Sunday, October 11
Peace Memorial Concert Series-The Bay String Quartet- Classics to Pops
details → Saturday, October 17
Tampa Pig Jig
details → Sunday, October 18
Tampa Bay Buccaneers V Pittsburgh Steelers
Saturday, October 24
DRV Gallery presents Songwriter Afternoon
details → Friday, October 30
Anchors & Irons Invitational Charity Golf Tournament & Social
details → Tuesday, October 13
Florida Treasures with A.C.T. for Youth
from $7
details → Saturday, October 10
A Century of Baseball History Trolley Tour
from $45
details → Time Travelers Vintage Expo
from $1
details → Saturday, October 3
Sensory Saturday | Hands-On with Curious Creations Co.
details → Kids Market at Largo Vibe Fest
details → Sunday, October 4
Corey Ave Sunday Fresh Market
details → Wednesday, October 7
Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta
details → Thursday, October 8
The Florida Orchestra: Once Upon A Time in Paris
details → Poetry at The Dalí
Free
details → Thursday, October 29
The Florida Orchestra: Monumental Sounds
details → Friday, October 16
Lavell Crawford
from $37
details → Wednesday, October 21
Growing Creatively: Early Learner Gallery & Art Experience
from $30
details → Friday, October 23
Enchanted Unicorn: A Stained Glass Workshop
from $60
details → Saturday, October 24
Talking Texture with Green Bench Brewing Making an Esoteric Concept Concrete
details → Sunday, October 25
Art & Nature Sunset Tours with the MFA & Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center
details → Friday, October 23
Tony Roberts
from $27
details → Friday, October 9
Forces of Nature Dance Theatre
from $23
details → Thursday, October 1
Member Offer: Haus of Darkness, Haus of Light
details → Member Offer: 25% Off Books
details → Gallery Chats
details → Tampa Bay Real Estate Networking Social (200+ Attendees) Free Admission
Free
details → Saturday, October 3
Bank of America “Museums on Us” Weekend
details → Sunday, October 4
Little Surrealist Tour
details → Wednesday, October 7
Coffee with a Curator
details → Wednesday, October 14
Homeschool Hours | Ancient Greek and Roman Influence
details → Saturday, October 3
St. Pete on Foot – A Walking Tour of the Sunshine City
from $15
details → Tampa Cigar Bash 2026
tickets →
Saturday, October 10
Teen Takeover – Night at the Museum
Free
details → Saturday, October 24
St. Pete Street Market
Free
details → Sunday, October 25
2026 Voodoo Vendor Village @ Halloween on Central
Free
details → Saturday, October 10
USF Botanical Gardens' Fall 2026 Plant Festival
from $9
details → Fall 2026 Plant Festival
from $9
details → Saturday, October 3
Sensory Saturday
from $7
details → Yoga Poolside at The Hollander Hotel
from $5
details → University of South Florida Football vs Temple - Title sponsor: Tampa General Hospital
details →
Flamingo Swing Classic
details → Historic Downtown St. Pete Trolley Tour
details → Corey Avenue Art & Craft Festival
Free
details → Saddlebrook Wellness Expo
Free
details → Weekend Wake & Bake
Free
details → Cheesemaking Class
from $30
details → Saturday, October 10
Tarpon Springs Fall Art and Craft Festival
Free
details → The Market Marie: Coachman Park
Free
details → Thursday, October 15
Book Club: “Brawler” by Lauren Groff
Free
details → Ceramic Workshop with KIND STUDIO
details → Writer’s Workshop | Black-Out Poetry
details → Friday, October 16
8th Annual Tampa Bay Business Expo. FREE 3PM-7PM. 2000+ ATTENDEES
tickets →
Saturday, October 17
University of South Florida Football vs Kent State - Title sponsor: Florida Blue
details →
Gulf Coast Bike Trek
details → Fall Fest presented by Carrollwood Village Phases II & III
Free
details → Sunday, October 18
St. Pete Sunday Market
Free
details → Monday, October 19
University of South Florida Men's Basketball vs Saint Leo
details →
Saturday, October 24
Run for All Children
details → Cars & Coffee
details → Sunshine Market at Midtown Tampa
Free
details → MAACM Speaker Series: Dr. Thomas Guiler, The Handcrafted Utopia
Free
details → Saturday, October 31
University of South Florida Football vs UAB - Title sponsor: LifeLink
details →
Monday, October 12
October 1-Day Art Camp
from $70
details → Thursday, October 1
Member Event: The Florida Aquarium
Free
details → Wednesday, October 7
Member Event: Florida Holocaust Museum
Free
details → Saturday, October 10
Studio Saturdays
details → Sunday, October 18
Yoga at The Dalí
details → Friday, October 2
Largo Vibe Fest: A Three-Day Arts Festival in Largo
Free
details → Saturday, October 3
Walk To End Alzheimer's
Free
details → Saturday Morning Market
Free
details → Dunedin Downtown Market
Free
details → Wednesday, October 7
Industrious Coworking Day
Free
details → Thursday, October 8
1st annual Suncoast Classic Inshore Challenge
Free
details → Saturday, October 17
Titan Vitality Grand Opening Celebration
Free
details → Bubble Run – Tampa
Free
details → Saturday, October 24
Out of the Darkness Walk St. Petersburg
Free
details → Sunday, October 25
Sunday Morning Market at Westshore Marina District
Free
details → Saturday, October 3
JANIS IAN documentary + rare, live appearance - benefiting Gulfport Library
tickets →
Tuesday, October 27
Public Library Outreach Portraiture: Learn and Create
Free
details →