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# 📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Oct. 19–25
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/baton-rouge-events-calendar-october-19-25/
- Published: 2026-10-18T23:55:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-18T23:55:14.000Z
- Author: JR Ball
- Tags: Get Out

**Why it matters:** Early voting opens Tuesday, the State Fair opens Thursday, and Saturday stacks the Lebanese Festival, a bourbon fest, the Ogden Park Prowl and a live *Clue* into one packed fall day.

***🗓️ Tuesday, October 20***

🥕 **Red Stick Farmers Market at Goodwood—3–6 p.m.** 📍 Main Library at Goodwood Plaza, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

- BREADA’s seasonal Tuesday market opens with local produce, bread, plants and prepared foods; SNAP purchases are matched up to $40 a day. A Wednesday market also reopens 9 a.m.–noon at the ExxonMobil YMCA. Both run through November. [Details](https://www.breada.org/?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Wednesday, October 21***

🎤 **Dax: The Anger Management Tour—9 p.m.** 📍 Texas Club, 456 N. Donmoor Ave.

- Doors at 7:30 p.m. [Tickets](https://www.ticketmaster.com/dax-the-anger-management-tour-baton-rouge-louisiana-10-21-2026/event/1B0064AEAB9BC4E9?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Thursday, October 22–Sunday, November 1***

🎡 **Greater Baton Rouge State Fair** 📍 BREC’s Airline Highway Park

- A Baton Rouge community tradition. Rides, fair food, livestock shows and live music for 11 days. [Tickets](http://tix.extremetix.com/webtix/4419?salesRef=WEBeTx&ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Thursday, October 22***

🎵 **Rock N Rowe: 2 Domestic 1 Import—6–9 p.m.** 📍 Perkins Rowe Town Square

- Free. Bring lawn chairs. If it rains, the show moves to The Great Hall. See the [schedule](https://perkinsrowe.com/rocknrowe/?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Friday, October 23***

🎵 **Live After Five: The Michael Foster Project—5–8 p.m.** 📍 Rhorer Plaza

- Free brass, funk and jazz from Baton Rouge’s longest-running brass band. See the [fall lineup](https://downtownbr.org/live-after-five/?ref=redeyebr.com).

🐿️ **Radio Bar Double Bill—6 p.m.–close** 📍 The Radio Bar, 3079 Government St.

- Mid City Gras starts the night with a free, adults-only Squirrel Week social and silent auction for parade funding (6–9 p.m.; [details](https://facebook.com/events/s/squirrel-week-radio-bar-social/1813129150108792/)). At 9 p.m., DJ Ryan McKey kicks off a Halloween dance party with a costume contest paying up to $100\. 21 and older, no cover ([details](https://www.facebook.com/share/1HMiR5FGyB/)).

🎸 **Night of the Living Ladyrat—8 p.m.** 📍 Hartley/Vey Studio Theatre

- All-ages garage rock and punk [release party](https://manshiptheatre.org/comingsoon/ladyrat?ref=redeyebr.com) for Bozo Red, with Scab Labor and Snowmiser.

🎃 **Juicy Halloween: A 2000s Night—10 p.m.** 📍 Chelsea’s Live, 1010 Nicholson Dr.

- A costume dance party built on 2000s throwbacks. 18 and older. [Tickets](https://www.chelseaslive.com/event-details/juicy-halloween-a-2000s-night-of-nostalgia-at-chelseas-live?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Saturday–Sunday, October 24–25***

🎃 **Boo at the Zoo—9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.** 📍 BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo, 3000 Zoo Circle

- Trick-or-treat stations, characters and live entertainment. Costumes encouraged. Regular admission; members free. Highway 19 is down to one lane, so the Thomas Road entrance is open. [Details](https://www.brzoo.org/?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Saturday, October 24***

🥕 **Red Stick Farmers Market—8 a.m.–noon** 📍 5th & Main streets

- Weekly Saturday market downtown. [Details](https://www.breada.org/?ref=redeyebr.com).

🧺 **St. George Farmers Market opens—8 a.m.–noon** 📍 The Artist’s Loft, 7126 Antioch Road

- A new weekly market with up to 20 vendors selling produce, eggs and plants. [Details](https://www.theadvocate.com/baton%5Frouge/news/st-george-farmers-market-saturdays/article%5F420bbb0c-a0e2-43ae-8122-e99ea9cdccfc.html?ref=redeyebr.com).

🧆 **Lebanese Festival—11 a.m.–8 p.m.** 📍 Main Library at Goodwood, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

- St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church serves homemade falafel and saj, plus music and Lebanese beer and wine. Free admission. [Details](https://www.sharbel.org/festival?ref=redeyebr.com). [More](https://www.redeyebr.com/an-old-migration-a-new-feast/) from *RedEye*.

🥃 **Louisiana Bourbon Festival—11 a.m.–10 p.m.** 📍 L’Auberge Casino Hotel

- Sample the bourbon aisle, including rare bottles. Grand Tasting is $100; VIP $200; designated drivers $50\. [Tickets](https://www.louisianabourbonfest.com/tickets?ref=redeyebr.com). [More](https://www.redeyebr.com/sip-save-and-enjoy/) from *RedEye*.

🌕 **BREC’s Full Moon Fête—noon–3 p.m.** 📍 Independence Community Park, 7500 Independence Blvd.

- Free trunk-or-treat trail, character meet-and-greets, face painting and a kids’ play zone. [Details](https://www.brec.org/form/trunk-treat-business-organization-participant?ref=redeyebr.com).

🎨 **Ogden Park Prowl—1–5 p.m.** 📍 Ogden Park neighborhood, Mid City

- A free neighborhood arts festival of open houses and yards filled with local artists, makers, music and food. Manship Theatre runs a free stage on Wilshire Drive. [Details](https://www.opprowl.org/about?ref=redeyebr.com).

🔍 **Clue: Live on Stage—8 p.m.** 📍 River Center Theatre for Performing Arts

- Broadway in Baton Rouge brings the whodunit based on the 1985 film and the board game. [Tickets](https://raisingcanesrivercenter.com/events-tickets/?ref=redeyebr.com).

🪩 **You Should Be Dancin’: ABBA & Bee Gees Tribute—8 p.m.** 📍 Chelsea’s Live

- Where Y’Acht serves up disco-era hits. 18 and older. [Tickets](https://www.chelseaslive.com/event-details/where-yacht-presents-you-should-be-dancin-a-tribute-to-abba-the-beegees-at-chelseas-live?ref=redeyebr.com).

***🗓️ Sunday, October 25***

🧙 **Witchy Brunch—11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.** 📍 Mid City Beer Garden, 3808 Government St.

- Brunch in the garden with palm and tarot readings from Belladonna MoonBeams, tarot cards and witchy books from Red Stick Reads, and caricature drawings. [Details](https://www.facebook.com/share/1CJ5TAWoEC/).

🎬 **A Lesson Before Dying—2 p.m.** 📍 Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette St.

- Free screening of the Ernest J. Gaines adaptation, starring Don Cheadle, ahead of the Oct. 29 Gaines Award. Presented by BRAF. [Details](https://manshiptheatre.org/comingsoon/lessonbeforedying?ref=redeyebr.com).

🐱 **Cat Haven Grand Opening—2–5 p.m.** 📍 530 Shadows Lane

- The rescue opens its new 7,200-square-foot adoption center with Baton Rouge’s first cat café. Tailgate-style party with adoptable cats. Free. [Details](https://cathaven.org/?ref=redeyebr.com).

👻 **Haints, Haunts and Halloween—2–4:30 p.m.** 📍 LSU Rural Life Museum, 4560 Essen Lane

- An old-fashioned country Halloween with storytelling, cake walks, hayrides and trick-or-treating. $12 adults; $6 ages 4–12; free 3 and under. [Details](https://www.lsu.edu/rurallife/events.php?ref=redeyebr.com).

🧛 **Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really—7:30 p.m.** 📍 Mid City Civic Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd.

- One-night-only staged reading of Kate Hamill’s play. Mature content. [Tickets](https://midcitycivic.org/dracula-2026?ref=redeyebr.com).

### 📋 **Civic Duty**

🏛️ **Press Club: U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis—Monday, October 19, noon** 📍 Drusilla Place Catering, Drusilla Shopping Center

- Doors open 11:30 a.m. Lunch is $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers. [Details](https://batonrougepressclub.com/?ref=redeyebr.com). LPB posts video on its [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@LPBtv?ref=redeyebr.com).

🏛️ **Planning Commission—Monday, October 19, 5 p.m.** 📍 City Hall, 222 Saint Louis St.

- See the [agenda](https://www.brla.gov/AgendaCenter?ref=redeyebr.com).

🗳️ **Early Voting—Tuesday, October 20–Tuesday, October 27** 📍 Parish early voting sites

- 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily, except Sunday, Oct. 25\. [Details](https://www.sos.la.gov/electionsandvoting/getelectioninformation/pages/default.aspx?ref=redeyebr.com).

🏛️ **Metro Council Zoning Meeting—Wednesday, October 21, 4 p.m.** 📍 City Hall, 222 Saint Louis St.

- See the [agenda](https://www.brla.gov/AgendaCenter/metropolitan-council-3?ref=redeyebr.com).

🎭 **A Christmas Carol Auditions—Saturday, October 24, 2–5 p.m.** 📍 Mid City Civic Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd.

- Adults and kids 8 and older can try out for every role but Scrooge, reading cold from the script. The show runs Dec. 11–20\. [Details](https://midcitycivic.org/acc-2026?ref=redeyebr.com).

🗣️ **Civic Sips: Civic Speed Dating registration** 📍 Louisiana’s Old State Capitol

- PAR and the LSU Reilly Center seat residents with state and local leaders, including Mayor-President Sid Edwards, on Nov. 12\. Seating is limited. [RSVP](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-sips-tickets-2003158863083?ref=redeyebr.com) by Nov. 10.

**Reach us:** Want to submit an event item for consideration? Email us the information at [news@redeyebr.com](mailto:news@redeyebr.com). **Details:** The calendar is on a Monday–Sunday rotation, and the submission deadline is the Wednesday prior.