SATURDAY
Enjoy a Japanese experience Saturday at the Japanese Cultural Bazaar and Festival, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs University Center. Meet guests from Tomodachi, Colorado Springs’ Japanese sister city. Food and music and a great place to shop for kimonos, obi, haori, pottery, dishes, books and stationery, décor items and Japanese toys. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. JapanAmerica.org
SATURDAY
The popular YMCA 5k Race Series opens Saturday with the The Creepy Crawl along Santa Fe Trail in Palmer Lake. After that, the Turkey Trot 5K at the Briargate YMCA on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 28, and The Jingle Jog 5k at Fountain-Fort Carson High School Dec. 14. For the whole family, ppymca.org/raceseries
FRIDAY
Poetry 719 has plans this weekend starting Friday, Disability Awareness Month Open Mic, with a poetry workshop, open mic and a featured poet celebrating and “lifting up the voices of people with visible and invisible disabilities.” University of Colorado at Colorado Springs University Center, Room 122, 6-8 p.m. Friday, free and free parking. poetry719.com. On Sunday, a Poetry 719 Festival pop-up Vendor Market at Tree House Cafe, 5965 N. Academy Blvd., Suite 203., 11 a.m.-3 p.m., open mic 4-7 p.m. treehousecafecos.com/calendar
SUNDAY
Howl-O-Ween with the Wolves is a unique opportunity to feed meat-filled pumpkins to the residents of Colorado Wolf and Wildlife. And for the human visitors, an opportunity to howl along and eat refreshments around the bonfire. 4-6 p.m., 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide, reservations $40, $20 for ages 6-11. 719-687-9742. wolfeducation.org
SATURDAY
The Generation Wild team from Great Outdoors Colorado will be in Panorama Park, 4540 Fenton Road, with a Southeast Fall Festival for families Saturday. From noon to 3 p.m., outdoor fun, a chili cookoff, trunk-or-treating, activities for the youngsters and more. facebook.com/GenerationWildPPR
SATURDAY
One of those quirky Manitou Springs events takes to the streets downtown Saturday with the Emma Crawford Coffin Races and Festival. For 30 years the town has remembered in the oddest of ways the special resident who chose the summit of Red Mountain as her resting place before she died of tuberculosis in 1891. Problem was, in 1929 Colorado’s rainy and snowy weather washed her coffin right down the mountain toward town. The festival runs all day starting at 10 a.m. and includes a noon parade followed by the races by unique homemade coffin teams. Parking: Free at 1675 Garden of the Gods Road, the DMV Parking Structure, and shuttles from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., $5 round trip. PikeRide free bicycle valet located in Memorial Park. Uber/Lyft/Z-trip dropoff/pickup at Chase Bank, 484 Manitou Ave. manitousprings.org/emma-crawford-coffin-races
SATURDAY
Be treated to music by students at Colorado Springs Conservatory in the Haunted Conservatory, Carnival of Madness, with an evening of games, food, haunting and trick-or-treating. 5-8 p.m., 415 S. Sahwatch St., $7-$25. A benefit for music scholarships. coloradospringsconservatory.org/event/haunted-house.
SATURDAY
Get ready for a most unusual party: Chappell Roan Paint, Sip, Sing & Dance. Black lights and karaoke and put on your dancing shoes at the Pink Pony Club, sing along to “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” Painting with a Twist, 115 N. Tejon St., 8:30 p.m., ages 18+, $39. paintingwithatwist.com/studio/colorado-springs-downtown/calendar
SATURDAY-NOV. 2
The best 18 and 19-year-old boxers from 20 countries, many potential future Olympians, will be competing starting Saturday in Pueblo at the 2024 World Boxing U19 Championships. Finals will be Nov. 2 Action at Pueblo Convention Center and tickets $10 at the door. usaboxing.org
