Featured Image: 2017 Zombie Ball – by Lisa Boehm
BETHLEHEM, PA—Eat, drink and be scary! Join ArtsQuest as it celebrates Halloween with terrifyingly fun events highlighted by the 2nd Annual SteelStacks Zombie Ball Oct. 26, 8 p.m., in the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling. Tickets for the Zombie Ball are available now at www.steelstacks.org and 610-332-3378; they’re $13 and limited to the first 666 zombies, ages 18 and older.
The Zombie Ball features live music from local party band favorites Flowers for Taco as well as an eerie aerial performance by Aerial Minds. Get in the spirit with zombie-style dancing, sink your teeth into mouth-watering food and drink specials, have infectious fun in the haunted bounce house and strike an undead pose in the selfie area. Guests are encouraged to don their most inventive Halloween costume or favorite formal wear with creepy zombie makeup; prizes will be award for Best Dressed Zombie Man, Woman and Couple. Not sure how to look like a zombie? Artists will be on hand to create bloodcurdling looks at the free face painting station!
Looking to trick or treat yourself with more Halloween fun? Check out the full list of events coming to SteelStacks & The Banana Factory
The Devil’s Backbone – Part of the International Film Series
Oct. 1, 7:15 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
101 Founders Way, Bethlehem
One of the most personal films by Guillermo del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
Hot Glass Experience at Oktoberfest
Oct. 5–7 & 12-14
PNC Plaza at SteelStacks
711 East First Street, Bethlehem
What’s better than carving a pumpkin? Making one with fire! Start your glass-making adventure with the ArtsQuest Glass Studio by signing up for a Hot Glass Experience at Oktoberfest! Each session takes 20 minutes. Ages 6 and up are welcome, and no experience is necessary.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – Part of the First Saturday Horror Series
Oct. 6, 9:45 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
In 1970, young debut director Dario Argento indelibly redefined the “giallo” genre of murder-mystery thrillers with the first installment of his “Animal Trilogy,” catapulting him to international stardom.
The Cat o’ Nine Tails – Part of the First Saturday Horror Series
Oct. 13, 9:45 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
This second entry in Dario Argento’s “Animal Trilogy” found the young talent further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as master of the giallo. Featuring another nerve-jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone, this film remains one of Argento’s most suspenseful and underrated.
Frankenstein – Free Event
Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
Presented in partnership with the Health, Medicine and Society Program at Lehigh University
An unforgettable masterpiece, the original Frankenstein stars Boris Karloff as the screen’s most tragic and iconic monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet – Part of the First Saturday Horror Series & Cult Saturdays
Oct. 20, 9:45 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
This homicidal frenzy completed Dario Argento’s revered “Animal Trilogy” that dubbed him “The Italian Hitchcock,” leading to Suspiria and his worldwide “Master of Horror” reputation.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
Featuring a live accompaniment by award winning composer Bryson Kemp, Nosferatu remains to many viewers the most unsettling vampire film ever made, and its bald, spidery vampire, personified by the diabolical Max Schreck, continues to spawn imitations in the realm of contemporary cinema.
Felted Pumpkin Workshop
Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.
The Banana Factory Arts Center
25 West Third Street, Bethlehem
Make a cute keepsake pumpkin out of wool to decorate your home or give as a gift! Students will learn wool felting techniques, and all materials are included.
Halloween: 40th Anniversary Screening
Oct. 27, 9:15 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
This horror classic was released on Oct. 25 1978. Forty years later, the film has earned the distinguished honor of being the most successful independent horror movie of all time. John Carpenter’s Halloween is a seminal film, not only for the genre, but for the industry as well. Halloween is truly one of the first blockbuster independent films and has inspired and driven countless other films in this genre.
Witch’s Hat Basket
Oct. 27, 1 p.m.
The Banana Factory Arts Center
This fun woven basket is woven from the bottom to the top with a black woven base, and black reed. Basic stitching is done with continuous weaving and shaping is the major skill that participants will learn.
Splintered Sunlight
Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling
Celebrate Halloween as Splintered Sunlight presents a spooky evening of psychedelic tunes. Formed in 1992, Splintered Sunlight quickly became the most popular Grateful Dead tribute band in the Philadelphia region, gaining praise from Dead Heads and others alike. Following a series of successful shows at SteelStacks, the group was honored as the Musikfest Café’s first-ever Artist in Residence in 2016.
Ghostbusters
Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at the ArtsQuest Center
Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Akroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their university jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service. As soon as they open the doors, their first order of business becomes saving beautiful cellist Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and nerdy Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), who’ve inadvertently opened the gates of hell… right in their own apartment building!
For tickets and more information on all of these events, visit www.steelstacks.org.
Information and image provided to TVL by:
Mark Demko, ArtsQuest
http://www.artsquest.org/
