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Celebrate the holiday season with our a new display of professionally decorated theme trees, visit with Santa and enjoy caroling and refreshments, too.
Start your holiday shopping early at this charity craft and vendor show. Proceeds go to benefit the Downriver West Kiwanis.
The Berkley Junior Women's Club and Berkley Parks and Recreation present tons of creepy crawly holiday fun at this annual. Activities include a slime bar, rock painting, candy bar, games and more. Registration required. Costumes encouraged.
Take a wagon or walking tour of a living nativity, complete with camel. Also find homemade cookies, caroling and much more holiday fun.
Michael Myers, the escaped mass murderer from the 1978 John Carpenter flick, makes an appearance on the big screen just in time for Halloween.
Gather 'round the fire for an evening of fun and top it all of with a holiday tree lighting.
Go trick-or-treating in the halls of the museum at this event. Find hands-on activities and live animals, too.
Local kids help “unwrap” the city's storefronts, which have been festively decorated for the holiday season. Always held on the day before Thanksgiving.
Event cost: Free
Honor the sacrifices that our veterans have made at this annual.
Sign up to run the Dia de los Muertos 5K or 10K event in your neighborhood or on your treadmill. Run can be completed anytime in October or November.
Pint-sized pirates, princesses and others trick-or-treat for candy and gather details on local critters. Cider, doughnuts and fall fun follow. Younger kids. Registration required.
Start with a little history of Halloween; then join an interpreter-led hike in the woods to collect candy from costumed friends. Costumes encouraged. Registration required.




