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🪔✨ Celebrate the Festival of Lights at Chai Pani Decatur! 🪔✨ No reservations are needed. The night includes Bollywood music, free henna, photo booth, food and drink specials, live pani puri and their almost-famous fireworks display by Chef Daniel Peach at dusk. 🎇

🌟Chef Meherwan Irani will be at the party, selling and signing his new cookbook, No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World.

🗓️Sunday, November 8 • 4-10 pm
📍, 406 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.

What is Diwali?
Diwali celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil. During Diwali in India, oil lamps and fireworks illuminate the night and neighbors and families visit each other, sharing sweets, gifts, and good wishes.While Diwali is primarily a Hindu festival, people of many religious backgrounds celebrate the festival with equal enthusiasm and everyone is welcome.

Uncork a fun afternoon of music and w**e at the Decatur W**e Festival! 🍷Taste from more than 350+ w**es, ciders, and zero-proof options around the newly renovated Decatur Square on Saturday, November 7.

Your ticket grants you unlimited pours and a tasting glass. All proceeds support the Decatur Arts Alliance. And yes, there will be a DJ on the new stage, and plenty of room for dancing!

Food vendors will offer a wide selection of snacks for purchase within the festival’s footprint.

🍇 Decatur W**e Festival
🗓 Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026
⏰ Gates open at noon and pouring begins at 12:30 p.m.
📍 Downtown Decatur Square
🎟 Tickets at FreshTix. Link bio.
Attendees must be 21 or older
🚗 Need a GPS address? Use “101 East Court Square, Decatur, GA” to get you here!

📸 Cover photo: Dean Hesse,

Who says Halloween only has to be one day?!? 👻🕸🍭 is back! Kids and teens can dress up in costume and visit spook-tacular stops throughout downtown through Saturday, Oct. 31! Look for the pumpkin “Trick or Treat Checkpoint” signs in the windows of our Decatur storefronts.

✨ Trick or Treat Stops • October 25-31 ✨
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🎃Bellwood Coffee, 133 E. Court Square
🎃 Brick Store Pub, 125 E Court Square
🎃 Chick-fil-A, 105 E Trinity Pl.
🎃Dancing Goats Coffee, 419 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
🎃 Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St
🎃 Decatur Visitors Center, 113 Clairemont Ave.
🎃 DeKalb History Center Museum, 101 E. Court Square
🎃 Hearsay Goods (Odd Bird Gifts,) 149 Sycamore St.
🎃 Kelly’s Market, 308 E. Howard Ave.
🎃 Little Shop of Stories, 133 E. Court Square
🎃 Maxim Barbers, 218 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.
🎃 McKinney’s Apothecary, 225 E Ponce de Leon Ave.
🎃 Parkers on Ponce, 116 E Ponce de Leon Ave.
🎃 Pastries A Go Go, 235 Ponce De Leon Pl.
🎃Rebel Teahouse, 225 E Ponce de Leon Ave.
🎃 Squash Blossom Boutique, 149 Sycamore St.
🎃Smiley’s Burger Club, 310 E. Howard Ave.
🎃 Worthmore Jewelers, 117 E Court Square

*Candy/prizes while supplies last
Organized by Little Shop of Stories.

Check the latest on our website for more details + map plus more Halloween happenings!

Come out for the last night of Decatur Amplified Concert Series at 7 pm!

Experience the magic of a candlelight concerts this Halloween. 🕯️ At the Chapel on Sycamore, the soft glow of candlelight sets the stage for a spine-tingling evening of iconic scores from classic films and shows including Stranger Things, Beetlejuice, The Addams Family, Psycho, and more — and of course Michael Jackson’s legendary “Thriller.”

📸📍: Chapel on Sycamore, 318 Sycamore St, Decatur, GA 30030

Come in costume for a fang-tastic Friday night on Decatur Square full of family-friendly Halloween activities with City of Decatur departments. Enjoy trick-or-treating, face painting, and music before an outdoor showing of Casper (the friendly ghost) at 7 pm on the big screen. Bring your chairs and blankets for the movie.

👻Scream on the Square
🍬Activities + Fun, 5-7 pm
🎬Movie (“Casper”) at 7 pm
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 For kids and families!
🎟️ FREE
📍Downtown Decatur Square
🚗Need a GPS address? Use “101 East Court Square, Decatur, GA” to get you here!

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The weekend you’ve been waiting for has arrived — Oakhurst Porchfest in ! 🔊 From noon to 6 p.m., front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day. Scour the schedule to make meticulous plans (200+ performances!), then abandon them entirely once you start wandering aimlessly at the whims of serendipity.

Here’s what you need to know:

🗓️October 10, 2026 • Noon - 6pm
🎟 FREE!
🎶 Line-up + downloadable map website
🚗 Rideshare, MARTA, bike, and walk. Parking is VERY limited.
🌥️ Rain or shine, the show goes on!
🐶 Dogs on leash are allowed. However, different homeowners may have different preferences as it relates to pets on their property.
💦 Drink water, stay hydrated.
🚻 Portalets are located at Harmony Park and other key locations.
🏡 Be kind to your neighbors.
See you there!

📷: poster by . Limited prints available at the Decatur Arts Alliance / Decatur Visitors Center, 113 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030.

🎃 Pumpkin picking? Classic. Pumpkin making? Even better. Create your own glass pumpkin paperweight at Decatur Glassblowing in October. Choose from 29 gorgeous colors, then work one-on-one with a professional to blow your own little cutie. ✨

📷📍: , 250 Freeman St.

The circus is coming! The Upside Down World Circus, that is! The one and only Bread & Puppet returns to Decatur on October 16. 🎪 Join the DecaturArts Alliance on the front lawn at Legacy Park for a spectacle of stilt walkers, flags, paper mache beasts of all sizes, many short acts, and a riotous brass band.

The Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company known for its street-theater and political brand of performance.

🥖After the show, Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “cheap art” — books, posters, postcards, pamphlets, and banners — will be for sale.

🎪 Bread & Puppet: The Upside Down World Circus
🗓️ October 16, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm
📍 Legacy Park, 500 S. Columbia Dr.
🎟️ Free • Donations accepted.
🅿️ Parking is available at Columbia Seminary and Tally Street Upper Elementary. Only handicapped parking will be available on-site at Legacy Park.

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