Downtown Dayton Partnership

Adult Weekday Classes
2025-10-28 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | K12 Gallery & TEJAS, 341 S. Jefferson St., Dayton, OH, 45402
Tuesday and Wednesday weekday classes: Tuesdays (September-May) Stained Glass Classes: 1:00pm-3:00pm Ceramics/Clay Classes: 3:00pm-5:00pm Glassblowing Classes: 3:30pm-5:30pm Wednesdays (September-May) Still Life Oil Painting Classes: 1:00pm-3:00pm Glassblowing Classes: 2:00pm-4:00pm or 6:00pm-8:00pm. Call for Costs.

Discovery: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
2025-10-28 11:30, 2025-10-28 09:30 | Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
This show is part of our Discovery Series, which presents weekday field trips for area schools to experience carefully selected shows designed to enhance curriculum connections throughout various subject areas. If you are not purchasing tickets for a school or homeschool, please click here to explore our Children’s Theatre programming.
Ichabod Crane is the new schoolmaster in town, but his snooty cosmopolitan ways rub some of the residents of Sleepy Hollow the wrong way. And… he’s getting awfully close to marrying Katrina Van Tassel, inheriting her father’s farm in the bargain. To get rid of him, the villagers will make sure that “Icky” meets their local legend – The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow! Not too scary for your kindergarteners, but still jokey enough for your middle-schoolers, this adaptation is a great all-school show, blending the goofy and the spooky, with lots of interactivity for your students.
Produced by GreatWorks Theatre Company.

Ding Chao and John Tronsor Exhibit
2025-10-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Galleries at Sinclair College, 444 W. Third St., Bldg. 13, Dayton, OH, 45402
The Sinclair Community College Art Department is pleased to present The Dialogue by Chao Ding in the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery and limen series by John Tronsor in the Works on Paper Gallery. The Dialogue is a visual diary of paintings exploring evocative moments and fragments of time in the artist’s life. Ding explores loneliness and mystery through textural layers and subtle colors, focusing on revealing forgotten beauties and poetic significance through deserted spaces in the work. Tronsor’s limen series is a collection of photographs created during a period of self-quarantine focusing on his apartment windows, which were sealed shut and covered with a white semi-opaque film. The resulting photos reflect landscapes paralleling tundras or oceans with their own depth and singularity. There will be a virtual artist talk via Zoom on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 12pm. Visit www.sinclair.edu/artgalleries for details. The exhibitions will be on display from September 29–October 28, 2025. Galleries are located on the fourth floor of building 13 (located at West Fifth and Perry Streets). The galleries are free and open to the public from 8am–6pm Monday–Friday and 9am–12pm Saturdays. Free and accessible parking is located in Parking Lot K.

Water Street District Pint Path
2025-10-28, 2025-10-27, 2025-10-26 | Water Street District
Sip your way through local brews, grab a bite at buzzworthy spots and discover why Water Street District is where Dayton comes to play. Pick up a free Water Street District Pint Path passport from any participating business. Once a passport has been picked up, purchase a menu item of choice at each stop to receive a stamp on the passport. Once you’ve sipped and stamped at all 14 locations, turn in your passport to Water Street District’s leasing office (115 Madison Street) to claim your prize. Pint Path Passport stops can be completed at the leisure of each participant. Cheers! Please remember to drink responsibly. Find a list of participating businesses and more details here: https://www.waterstreetdayton.com/wsdpintpath

Artist in Training (AIT) Program
2025-10-27 15:00 - 18:00 | K12 Gallery & TEJAS, 341 S. Jefferson St., Dayton, OH, 45402
After school Artist in Training program geared for grades 3rd-12th grades. Classes are Monday-Wednesdays from 3:00pm-6:00pm. Open Studio time to explore different types of mediums such as Drawing, Painting, Clay, Digital Art. 20.00 per session for Members/40.00 per session for Non-Members.

Reflections
2025-10-26 16:00, 2025-10-25 19:30 | Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) – Dayton’s internationally celebrated cultural gem – presents REFLECTIONS, a concert of dances that illuminate the drive, passion, and joy of what it means to be uniquely and proudly African American.
Placing another Dayton and world premiere under its belt, DCDC presents Promised Land, a layered, complex, and hopeful reflection on the African American journey through movement. Taking inspiration from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the University of Dayton in 1964, Promised Land encourages an examination of our relationships and responsibilities to democracy.
Returning to the stage is Sir Warren Spears’ powerful tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, On the Wings Of Angels. Seven young men, hopeful and determined to be part of the USA war effort, as dignified, patriotic Americans, are seen training, dreaming, buddying up, and, finally, flying. Spears’ work is full of sweeping ensembles, sinewy supports, and bounding leaps that never seem to touch the ground.
Opening DCDC’s season of Dancing In Our Light, REFLECTIONS is storytelling in motion, memory, and meaning. Whether you’re discovering DCDC for the first time or have followed the company for years, this is the kind of performance that leaves you changed.

Dial ‘M’ for Murder
2025-10-26 15:00, 2025-10-25 17:00 | Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45410, USA
A cunning husband. A flawless plan. One fatal call. In this razor-sharp, midcentury mind game of deadly charm, calculated lies, and impetuous greed, the plot to commit the perfect murder begins to unravel. What follows is a taut and twisted Hitchcockian thriller—where life and death hang on the line.

Skinner Pipe Organ Concert: Spooktacular
2025-10-26 14:00 - 15:30 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
​Matt Dierking from the Dayton Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will perform a special Halloween concert, complete with spooky silent films and scary music played on the DAI’s Skinner Pipe Organ! Hear the museum’s restored Skinner pipe organ and see the beautifully renovated Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium. Performance begins at 2 p.m. and lasts until 3 p.m.

Skinner Pipe Organ Concert
2025-10-26 14:00 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
Hear the museum’s restored Skinner pipe organ and see the beautifully renovated Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium. Matt Dierking from the Dayton Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will perform at 2 p.m. Free to members; included in museum general admission for non-members.

Historic Churches Tour
2025-10-26 13:00 - 16:00 | OH
Preservation Dayton, Inc. (PDI) invites the public to experience the city’s rich spiritual and architectural heritage during its Historic Churches Tour, showcasing some of Dayton’s most significant houses of worship. Monica Snow, vice president of PDI, states, “This tour offers a rare opportunity to explore the history and architecture of four of Dayton’s remarkable religious landmarks. PDI is excited to partner with these congregations to share their fascinating history and the contributions they are making to the greater Dayton region.”
The guided tour will highlight a selection of Dayton’s historic churches known for their remarkable design including First Baptist Church of Dayton, Second Church of Christ Scientist, Grace United Methodist Church, and Sacred Heart Church. Attendees will gain insight into how these sacred spaces have shaped neighborhoods and stood as local landmarks for generations. Tours will take place on Sunday, October 26 from 1-4pm. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/preservation-daytons-historic-churches-tour-tickets-1753979763689.
Preservation Dayton has long championed the protection and revitalization of Dayton’s architectural treasures. This tour continues that mission by deepening public appreciation for the city’s religious landmarks and the stories they hold. You can support PDI’s efforts by becoming a member online, or donating by check, made payable to Preservation Dayton, Inc. and mailed to Preservation Dayton, P.O. Box 3614, Dayton, OH 45401.
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DLCA Performance: Beetlejuice JR.
2025-10-26 13:00, 2025-10-25 17:00, 2025-10-25 13:00 | PNC Arts Annex, 46 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH, 45402
A Dayton Live Creative Academy production!
It’s our show now, kid. The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in BEETLEJUICE JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager, still grieving the loss of her mother and obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, she and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium.
There are four performances of this show: Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon.

Pumpkin Decorating and Trick or Treating at the Market
2025-10-26 11:00 - 15:00 | 2nd Street Market, 600 E. Second St., Dayton, OH, 45402, USA
Join us at the Market as we celebrate Halloween! We have free pumpkins and supplies to decorate a pumpkin, then trick or treat with our vendors for special treats.

Exhibit: The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art
2025-10-26 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
October 18, 2025–January 11, 2026
The Triumph of Nature presents the refined, ever-popular and elegant curvilinear designs and nature-based motifs of Art Nouveau. From the rich holdings of the Chrysler Museum of Art, more than 120 turn-of-the-20th century treasures are included, with works by Tiffany, Mucha, Gallé, Beardsley and many others. Furniture, paintings, sculpture, mosaics, books, posters, prints, lamps, glass art and more highlight the innovative ways artists made harmonious visual arrangements. The DAI is the exclusive Ohio venue for this major traveling exhibition.

Vinyl Vinyl Sundays
2025-10-26 | The Barrel House, 417 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Sunday – Vinyl Vinyl Sunday – bring your records, we’ll play ’em

Hauntfest
2025-10-25 18:00 - 23:59 | Oregon District, Fifth Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
39th Annual Hauntfest in the Oregon District
Saturday, October 25th 6:00 PM – Midnight (the witching hour!) Oregon District, Dayton OH
The streets of the Oregon District transform once again for the 39th Annual Hauntfest – the biggest Halloween party in Dayton!
This year’s theme: Witches! So grab your broomsticks & cauldrons and tell your coven—it’s going to be a magical night.
What to Expect:• Live street entertainment• Delicious eats from food trucks & the districts eateries• DORA cocktails served from every Oregon District bar• A wickedly fun Costume Contest with cash prizes: Best Witch Best Group Best Overall Costume
Whether you come dressed to scare, slay, or enchant, Hauntfest is the place to be this Halloween season.
Hosted by the Oregon District Business Association
Don’t miss Dayton’s most legendary Halloween tradition.Tag your crew, plan your costumes, and we’ll see you on October 25th under the moonlight!
No weapons real or fake will be permitted. This is a 21+ eventGet your pre-sale tickets now before the price goes up at the gate!

Healing Sound Bath
2025-10-25 15:00 - 16:30 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Healing Sound Bath
Saturday, October 25, 3-4:30 pm, Main Library, Bassani Theater Off Third, 3rd Floor: All ages are invited to experience a meditative sound bath using gongs and hand-crafted Tibetan singing bowls. The vibrations will harmonize with the body’s internal system, promoting physical and mental relaxation.

Family Open Studio
2025-10-25 15:00 - 16:30 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
Join us in Studio A in the Education Wing of Rike for a time of open-ended creativity and art making. Browse our weekly selection of open studio materials and unleash your inner artist. No Signup Necessary. Drop-ins Encouraged! Sponsored by AES Ohio Foundation. Free with museum admission.

Spooky Wine Tasting with Dani
2025-10-25 14:00 - 17:00 | The Barrel House, 417 E. Third St., Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
Dani’s popping up 2-5pm and sampling out spooky season wines – pull through and get a fill! Sip and shop Gypsy Vibes Pop-Up Shop’s goods!

Every Body ~Rainbow Reels~
2025-10-25 13:30 - 16:30 | Dayton Metro Library – Main Library, 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH, 45402
Observe Intersex Awareness Day with a screening of Every Body (2023, Rated R), a Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh documentary by Julie Cohen, Academy Award-nominated director of RBG (along with Betsy West). This film follows intersex activists in a battle to live life on their terms.
Rapid HIV testing with quick results via a finger stick will be available before, during, and after the screening, through Public Health Dayton Montgomery County. (Adults)

DAI Dialogues Tour
2025-10-25 13:00 - 14:00 | The Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, 45405, United States
Connect with your community in an enriching way through DAI Dialogues. DAI Dialogues is a tour experience led by a member of the Dayton community where art exploration meets storytelling. Engage in open dialogue and leave feeling more unified. Sponsored by AES Ohio Foundation. Members: Free, Non-members: Included with the price of admission. Register here: https://dai.ticketapp.org/portal/product/66/events
