🌴 What's Happening in Naples October 26 - November 1

Halloween lands on a Saturday, and Naples spreads the fun across the whole week. A full-moon market at Mercato opens it on Tuesday, then the Baker Museum throws a Día de los Muertos night on Wednesday with mariachi and a community ofrenda, and the Naples Philharmonic plays Beethoven and Brahms on Thursday and Friday. Saturday runs from a circus-themed pool party at The Perry to Fright Night at Fleischmann Park, and the haunted houses at the fairgrounds keep going after dark. Sunday you get the extra hour of sleep, the Día de los Muertos festival at the Botanical Garden and a sunrise paddle at Clam Pass. It is laid out one day at a time, so find tonight and go from there.

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🗓️ Monday, October 26

🎃 Spooky Make and Take
📅 Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Estates Branch Library, 1266 Golden Gate Blvd W, Naples, FL 34120
✂️ Details: A drop-in Halloween craft table for kids ages 2 to 11, with no registration needed. Swing by any time and walk out with something for the fridge.

🍕 The Art of Pizza Making
📅 Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Sweet Revenge Cooking School, Bonita Springs
👩‍🍳 Details: A hands-on class for $90 where you make the dough and leave knowing how to do it again. Monday night dinner, handled.

🎸 David Rojas Jr. at Sugar Shack
📅 Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Sugar Shack Downtown, 27421 Old 41 Rd, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
🎶 Details: A free live set on Old 41 to start the week. Grab a seat outside now that the evenings have cooled off.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 27

🌕 Moonlight Market at Mercato
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍 Location: The Piazza at Mercato, 9110 Strada Place, Naples, FL 34108
🔮 Details: A free evening market under the full moon, with metaphysical vendors and ambient music. Come for the crystals, stay for dinner at Mercato.

📚 ACOTAR: A Court of Splintered Harmony Release Party
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Books on Third, 1300 3rd St S, Naples, FL 34102
🧚 Details: A launch party for the new Sarah J. Maas book, with a wine spritzer, snacks, a book bedazzling bar, trivia with prizes and a photo spot. Tickets are required and costumes are encouraged, so the fae ears are fair game.

🎤 "Tuesdays With Travis" at Celebration Park
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Celebration Park, 50 Bayshore Dr, Naples, FL 34112
🍔 Details: Weekly live music at the food truck park on Bayshore. Pick a truck, find a picnic table by the water and stay a while.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 28

💀 October Art After Hours: The Art of Remembering
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
📍 Location: The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, FL 34108
🌼 Details: A Día de los Muertos night with mariachi, live music and dance, family crafts and an art demonstration by exhibiting artist Nicario Jiménez-Quispe. Museum admission is free, and you can leave something for a loved one at the community ofrenda, which stays up through November 1.

🧛 Keiser Naples Scare Fair
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Keiser University Naples Campus, 3909 Tamiami Trail E, Naples, FL 34112
🎪 Details: A free Halloween carnival with live music, an escape room, a food truck, trunk-or-treat and a costume contest. Bring the kids in costume and let them burn off some sugar.

🚗 Trunk and Treat at First Naples Church
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
📍 Location: First Naples Church, 3000 Orange Blossom Dr, Naples, FL 34109
🍬 Details: Free trick-or-treating from decorated cars, plus games for the whole family. Non-scary costumes are encouraged, so this one is good for the little ones.

😂 Dustin Nickerson at Off The Hook
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Off The Hook Comedy Club, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, Suite 1100, Naples, FL 34109
👨‍👩‍👧 Details: A touring stand-up known for material on marriage, parenting and everyday family chaos. A good midweek date night that does not need a babysitter past 9.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 29

👗 African Fashion Show: Pace Girls Modeling and Dancing
📅 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM
📍 Location: The Naples Sailing & Yacht Club, 896 River Point Dr, Naples, FL 34102
💃 Details: Girls from Pace take the runway and the dance floor in African fashion. Check the event page for tickets, since it is one of the most popular listings of the week.

🎻 Beethoven and Brahms: Naples Philharmonic Masterworks
📅 Date: Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM, conductor prelude at 6:30 PM
📍 Location: Hayes Hall, Artis-Naples, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, FL 34108
🎹 Details: Zwilich's Jubilation, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Yeol Eum Son and Brahms' First Symphony, led by music director Alexander Shelley, who steps in for Ruth Reinhardt. Tickets start at $29 and include same-day entry to The Baker Museum.

🍷 Hallowine at Mercato
📅 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Mercato, 9110 Strada Place, Naples, FL 34108
🍇 Details: Wine, bites and Halloween fun hopping around Mercato, hosted by the Rotary Club of Naples and Pelican Bay Rotary. Buy tickets ahead through the event page, and a costume is never a bad idea.

😂 Dale Elliot Jr. at Off The Hook
📅 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Off The Hook Comedy Club, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, Suite 1100, Naples, FL 34109
🎤 Details: A Thursday night stand-up set at the North Naples club. It is a cheap way to laugh before the big weekend.

🗓️ Friday, October 30

🧱 Halloween Lego
📅 Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
📍 Location: Golden Gate Branch Library, 2432 Lucerne Rd, Naples, FL 34116
🏚️ Details: Kids 4 and up build a haunted house out of Lego bricks, with no registration needed. A good after-school stop that does not cost a thing.

🎙️ Open Mic Night at Food & Thought
📅 Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Food & Thought, 2132 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL 34102
🥗 Details: An open mic at the organic market and café, for songs, poems or whatever you have been working on. Sign up when you get there and grab dinner while you wait your turn.

👽 Galaxy Fright Nights
📅 Date: Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31, 2026
📍 Location: Collier County Fairgrounds, 751 39th Ave NE, Naples, FL 34120
🤡 Details: Two new haunted houses, Aliens Versus Clowns and a saloon-themed Last Call to Hell, plus a non-scary Beyond Wonderland maze and a laser show. It is indoors and parking is free, so check the site for hours and ticket prices before you drive out.

🗓️ Saturday, October 31

🎪 Big Top Halloween at The Perry Hotel
📅 Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📍 Location: The Perry Hotel, 12155 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL 34110
🎩 Details: Magicians, circus acts, pool access and a lunch spread of burgers, hot dogs, mac and cheese and BBQ chicken, for $25 to $55. Pack a swimsuit under the costume, and book a daybed early if you want one.

🪦 Día de los Muertos Celebration
📅 Date: Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Dr, Naples, FL 34112
🌺 Details: Community altars, towering Catrinas by artist Ricardo Soltero, and performances by Ballet Folklórico Jaliscience and Mariachi Sol Azteca, all included with Garden admission. The La Catrina flower crown workshop runs at 10 and 2 for $60 ($40 for members), and only 16 people fit in each session.

🍬 Trick or Treat at Headquarters Library
📅 Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Headquarters Library, 2385 Orange Blossom Dr, Naples, FL 34109
📖 Details: Stop by the Children's Room in costume and pick up a treat. Easy to fit in between everything else on the day.

👻 Naples Fright Night in the City
📅 Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Fleischmann Park, 1600 Fleischmann Blvd, Naples, FL 34102
🎃 Details: Bounce houses, candy and vendors in the middle of town, and with more than 230 people interested it is the biggest local listing of the week. Get there early for parking.

🎸 Live Music: Head Above Water
📅 Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: 4805 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL 34103
🕸️ Details: A Halloween night band set for the grown-ups once trick-or-treating wraps up. Check the event page for cover and costume details.

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🗓️ Sunday, November 1

🛶 First Sunday of the Month Paddle at Clam Pass Park
📅 Date: Sunday, November 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30 AM
📍 Location: Clam Pass Park, 465 Seagate Dr, Naples, FL 34103
🌿 Details: A group paddle through the mangroves that happens on the first Sunday of every month. The clocks fall back an hour overnight, so you have no excuse to be late.

🌼 Día de los Muertos Celebration, Day Two
📅 Date: Sunday, November 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Dr, Naples, FL 34112
🌮 Details: The second and last day of the festival, and the Fogg Café has blue corn empanadas on the lunch menu. Dogs in the Garden is paused today, so leave the pup at home.

🎭 All Week

🚀 Rocket Man
📅 Date: Through Sunday, November 22, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM Wednesday to Saturday, 2:00 PM Sunday
📍 Location: Price Theater, The Naples Players, 701 5th Ave S, Naples, FL 34102
🌌 Details: A bittersweet, funny drama about Donny, a man who feels like a stranger in his own life. It opened last week, so you have almost a month of chances to catch it.

🎙️ The World Goes 'Round
📅 Date: Through Sunday, November 22, 2026
📍 Location: Struthers Studio, Gulfshore Playhouse, 100 Goodlette-Frank Rd S, Naples, FL 34102
🎷 Details: A Kander and Ebb revue with songs from Cabaret, Chicago and New York, New York, staged in a studio made over as a hazy jazz club. Check the Playhouse site for showtimes, including the Wednesday 2 PM matinee.

🖋️ Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White
📅 Date: Daily, through January 2027
📍 Location: Naples Art Institute, 585 Park St, Naples, FL 34102
🖼️ Details: Etchings from the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, covering Bible scenes, portraits and landscapes, for $15. It is the last stop on the U.S. tour, so this is the one to catch.

🐸 Ánima Botánica
📅 Date: Daily
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Fogg Café, Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Dr, Naples, FL 34112
🔍 Details: The garden at tiny scale, with giant air plants, magnified orchid petals and a greenhouse frog blown up larger than life. Pair it with the Día de los Muertos weekend and make a day of it.

⚠️ Please verify event details and availability with the respective venues or organizers, as schedules may change.

📰 What's Happening in Naples

🔗 Former Naples Vice Mayor Linda Penniman Died at 83
The longtime council member and Community Redevelopment Agency chair died weeks after resigning her seat in September, following the September 29 death of her husband, Nicholas G. Penniman IV.

🔗 Collier Early Voting Runs Through October 31 at 11 Sites
Polls are open 9 AM to 6 PM daily through Saturday at sites including Marco Island Library, Everglades City Hall and Immokalee Community Park, ahead of the November 3 election.

🔗 Silverberg and Melo Are Running for Passidomo's Open Senate Seat
Naples Democrat David Silverberg and Republican state Rep. Lauren Melo want the District 28 seat covering Collier, Hendry and part of Lee that term-limited Kathleen Passidomo is leaving.

🔗 Hilton Marco Island Dropped Its Plan to Double in Size
Owner Olshan Properties pulled its request to grow the hotel at 560 S. Collier Blvd. from 310 to 626 rooms with a second tower three days before the council vote, after city staff said it clashed with the comprehensive plan.

🔗 Marco Island Got Its First Live Local Act Apartment Project
The 27-unit complex off San Marco Road keeps 11 units affordable for 30 years and skips city review under state law, and council reluctantly signed off on its land use agreement 6-1.

🔗 A 74-Year-Old Naples Woman Was Killed in a Crash on Immokalee Road
FHP says a 17-year-old changed lanes into her SUV near Esplanade Boulevard early Friday, pushing it across the median into a cargo van, in at least the 30th Collier road death this year.

🔗 FDOT Holds I-75 Widening Hearings October 27 and 28
Plans for new express and auxiliary lanes from Golden Gate Parkway to Alico Road go on display at 4 PM Tuesday at Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church and online Wednesday at 6 PM, with comments due November 10.

🔗 Collier Schools Were Named an Academically High-Performing District
Collier is one of 18 districts in Florida, and the only one in Southwest Florida, to earn the state designation for achievement, class size compliance and finances.

🔗 Collier Tourism Rose in August, but Fewer Visitors Paid for Rooms
The county drew 241,300 visitors who spent $169 million, up 7.8%, while paid room nights slipped 1.7% to 184,000 and Canadian visits jumped 27.9%.

🔗 74% of Collier Women Say Housing Costs Are Their Top Need
A Women's Foundation of Collier County and Collier Community Foundation survey of more than 500 women also found 56% call child care a barrier to working.

🔗 Paragon Theaters Will Reopen Mercato's Movie Theater in Early 2027
Paragon leased the 11-screen space Alamo Drafthouse left and plans heated recliners, MyPi Pizza, two premium large-format screens and $5 Tuesday tickets.

🔗 Sierra Is Opening an Outdoor Store at Park Shore Plaza November 14
The TJX-owned chain takes the old Party City space next to Burlington at 4377 Tamiami Trail N., its second Florida store after Jacksonville.

🔗 Marco Island Starts Replacing Signals at 10 Intersections Monday
Crews will swap out signal cabinets from around 2005 and add a seven-second head start for pedestrians through early December, with flaggers directing traffic during outages.

🔗 Security Cameras Are Coming to Anthony Park in River Park
Commissioners unanimously approved $80,368 in federal HUD money for cameras at Charlie C. Anthony Park on Fifth Avenue North, where rowers have reported vandalism.

🔗 Collier May Hand 28 Parcels to a Port of the Islands Condo Group
The county paused a fight with the Orchid Cove association over more than $1 million in claimed fees, and under a possible deal the group would pay $85,127.66 in back taxes and costs and take the land.

🔗 A Pediatric Health Center Opened in Immokalee
The Naples Children and Education Foundation's 3,600-square-foot center on North First Street brings child physical and occupational therapy back to Immokalee for the first time since 2007.