Welcome back, weekend.
Oh, how we missed you, old friend.
To make the most of your 48 hours of freedom, check out our latest batch of best bets.
The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art will again host a Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27.
Admission is free, and events include public remembrances and offerings, face painting, cut paper and tissue paper flower crafts and more.
Mexican hot chocolate and goodies are on the menu for a thrilling themed lunch, available while supplies last.
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere.
The typically multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.
BIMA guests are invited to bring a photo of a loved one for the ceremonial altar (4-inch-by-4-inch or smaller).
Visit www.biartmuseum.org to learn more.
When not the fronting celebrated Tom Waits tribute band, The Bleeding Romeos, leader John Wies is passionately producing original material with his trio, Weiswald.
Weiswald is now set to return to the stage at the Treehouse Café for a free 21-and-older concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27.
The band incorporates Waits-style offbeat syncopation, arrangements, and moody rants into rhythmic grooves and storytelling vignettes.
Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to learn more.
Enhanced by Wies’ percussive guitar playing, the idiosyncratic Mike Young on percussion and the versatile keyboard playing of Jon Lanthier, the music of Weiswald spans musical genres, offering listeners something both familiar and new.
Eagle Harbor Book Company will host a spook-tacular Halloween Bash for tweens and teens from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, featuring a fang-tastic author lineup.
Attendees will include Paula Stokes (“Liars, Inc.,” “Hidden Pieces”), Lish McBride (“Hold Me Closer Necromancer,” “Firebug”), K.D. Halbrook (“Smoke & Mirrors”) and Jennifer Longo (“Six Feet Over It,” “Up To This Point”).
Prepare your best and most terrifying costume (there will be a contest), cozy up with a chilling read, and get ready to have the time of your (after)life.
Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more.
Also, Yvonne McAllister will return for a free concert performance at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Treehouse Café.
McAllister has been playing the trumpet since she was 3-years-old when her mother, supposedly the first female trumpet player west of the Mississippi, put the instrument in her hands.
Originally from Ballard, she has performed professionally all her life, including at the Show Box in Seattle where she appeared with Sophie Tucker and other greats of that era
Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to learn more.
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