Ultimate Guide to Fall Festivals around Boston

By: Jim Martinho - Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015 - 5:30pm

Fall festival season, coming in ~~hot~~ cold and rainy. Break out your fall jacket (check the pockets for stray bills — a fiver, score!) and come out to celebrate the harvest, local music, film, food, beer and cider, and lots more. Really just any excuse to gather together and be festive with your neighbors a few more times before we stay home and hate each other all winter.

Harvest Festivals

Pictured: Downeast Cider’s new pumpkin cider

10.2 to 10.15 Topsfield Fair
10.10 + 10.11 Cranberry Harvest Celebration (Wareham)
10.10 Lawn on D Punkin Fest
10.11 Chestnut Hill Farm Harvest Festival (Southborough)
10.11 + 10.12 Newburyport Harvest Fest
10.17 Somerville Local First Harvest Fest
10.17 Frog Pond Pumpkin Festival
10.17 Salem Harvest Fest
10.17 + 10.18 Wachusett Mountain Applefest
10.20 Neponset River Pumpkin Float
10.23 + 10.24 Downeast Cider Harvest Fest
10.24 Pemberton Farms Harvest Hoopla
10.24 Franklin County Pumpkin Fest
11.8 Inman Square Harvest Hoedown

Neighborhood + Cultural Festivals

Mayor Walsh at the Fenway Hurling Classic announcement

10.11 East Somerville This Is East Festival
10.12 Columbus Day Celebration at Christopher Columbus Park
10.18 Monster Mashed Up @ SomerStreets
10.25 Somerville Fixer Fair
11.22 Fenway Hurling Classic & Irish Festival

Music + Arts

HONK! Festival

10.2 to 10.25 Boston University Fringe Festival
10.9 to 10.11 HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands
10.10 ILLUMINUS Festival
10.10 to 10.11 Boston Zine Fest
10.12 The Fenway Alliance Opening Our Doors 2015
10.17 Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
10.23 to 10.24 Boston Book Festival
10.30 + 11.1 Peabody Museum Day of the Dead Celebration
11.5 to 11.7 Boston Hassle Fest 7
11.6 to 11.14 Boston Comedy Festival
11.12 Boston Brazilian Dance Congress

Film

The Filmshift Film Festival takes place on October 17th

10.8 GlobeDocs Film Festival
10.10 to 10.17 Boston Winter Film Festival
10.15 to 10.22 Arlington International Film Festival
10.15 to 10.18 Williamstown Film Festival
10.15 2015 Kickstarter Film Festival
10.16 to 10.25 Boston Palestine Film Festival
10.17 Filmshift Festival
10.22 to 10.25 Boston Asian American Film Festival
11.4 to 11.16 Boston Jewish Film Festival
11.6 to 11.8 Boston International Kids Film Festival

Food

Photo from the Wellfleet OysterFest

Beer, Wine + Cider

Graphic via Wine Riot

10.9 + 10.10 WZLX Craft Beer Experience
10.16 + 10.17 Drink Craft Beer’s Beer & Cider Fest
10.17 Wicked Wine Fest
10.18 Fall Craft Beer Festival at the Cyclorama
10.23 + 10.24 Wine Riot 2015
10.26 Tremont 647 CiderFest
10.31 Cambridge Brewing Co. Great Pumpkin Festival
11.20 SBN Local Craft Brewfest
11.20 + 11.21 Beer Summit Harvest Fest

Oktoberfest

Harvard Sq Oktoberfest

10.6 Oktoberfest der Beehive
10.11 Harvard Square Oktoberfest
10.16 South Shore Oktoberfest Fundraiser
10.17 + 10.18 Lowell Oktoberfest
10.18 Oak Square OAKtoberfest
10.24 Chatham Oktoberfest

Celebrating Boston

ILLUMINUS Festival will light up the Green Monster as part of Hubweek

10.3 to 10.10 HUBWeek
11.5 to 11.14 City Awake Social Impact Festival

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