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    Here is your Guide for Spooky Bear Halloween 2024!

    October 17, 2024

    Here is your Guide to Halloween in Provincetown.

    Spooky Bear Weekend in Provincetown is an opportunity to “do” Halloween right—Nightmares style! Northeast Ursamen will be Spooky!


    Spooky Bear Weekend Tea Dance
    Thursday Oct 31 – Sunday Nov 3
    4pm – 7pm

    It’s 4 pm and time for Tea. Resident DJ Maryalice, a Provincetown favorite for over 25 years drops the needle on the first song of a supercharged 3 hour set with Spooky Bear Weekend Tea Dance at Boatslip!


    Spooky Bear Ptown Pub Crawl
    Thursday Oct 31
    10pm – 1am

    Join us for a Spooky Bear Ptown Pub Crawl starting at The Vault at 10 pm and going from there on Halloween night in Provincetown.


    Loving Our Bear Bodies
    Friday Nov 1 – Saturday Nov 2
    10am – 3pm

    Returns to Provincetown with a “Loving Our Bear Bodies” workshop during Spooky Bear, Halloween Weekend at Outermost Yoga! Check out this unique two hour experience of affirmative touch, community and acceptance. Space is limited, so sign up ahead of time for one of four sessions.


    Spooky Bear Meet & Greet
    Friday Nov 1
    6pm – 8pm

    Come Spooky Bear Meet and Greet in the Dive Bar at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown! Come meet some of the members of the Northeast Ursamen! Drinks and appetizers will be available!


    Spooky Bear Nightmares Heroes & Villains
    Friday Nov 1
    9pm – 1am

    With music by TDon and Boomer Banks, Provincetown in the Crown & Anchor’s Spooky Bear Nightmares Heroes & Villains is more like a wet dream! Are you a Hero or Villain? Depends on what you’re into! Win $500 CASH for Best Costume. Prizes for 2nd and 3rd, too!


    Spooky Bear Marketplace!
    Saturday Nov 2
    2pm – 4pm

    The Boatslip Spooky Bear Marketplace boasts 12-15 vendors in Provincetown each year including photography, ceramics, sculptures, t-shirts, and a make your own harness station! Spooky Bear T-Shirts will also be on sale by the Northeast Ursamen! The bar will be open so you can enjoy a cocktail while you shop! Come see all that it has to offer this year!


    Dune Tour with Art’s Dune Tours
    Saturday Nov 2
    1pm – 3pm

    Dune Tour with Art’s Dune Tours: Enjoy the beauty of the dunes in Ptown with experienced tour guides! $33 per person. Call Art’s Dune Tours to book: 508-487-1950 and for more information, check out their website: https://www.artsdunetours.com/


    Bingo for a Cause!
    Saturday Nov 2
    2pm – 4pm

    Bingo for a Cause! located in the Paramount Room at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown. We will be raising money for the Food Pantry (connected to the Provincetown United Methodist Church), our beneficiary for the weekend so come play some bingo for some fabulous prizes! $25 online or at the door, and buys your first card (pack of 10)! $5 for each additional bingo card (pack of 10)! Every dollar counts!


    Spooky Bear Nightmare’s Costume Ball!
    Saturday Nov 2
    9pm – 1am

    Come one, come all to the Spooky Bear Nightmare’s Costume Ball in Crown & Anchor in Provincetown! With ‘Frightening Beats’ by GSP and Andrew Lenox. Win $1000 CASH for Best Costume! Prizes for 2nd and 3rd, too!


    There is a never ending schedule of fun events.  ptownie wants to make sure you know about all our favorites!


    Art House
    214 Commercial Street

    Join your favorite wicked trio as they take over Spooky Bear weekend in Provincetown at Art House Hokus Pokus Live!! It’s the bewitching hour on all hallows eve and the Sanderson Sisters are back! Join Ginger Minj from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Hocus Pocus 2 in this all new, original re-telling of the classic 90’s movie!

    Crown & Anchor
    247 Commercial Street
    508-487-1430

    Cabaret sensation Kiki Ball-Change is haunting Spooky Bear Weekend with her Halloween cabaret, FUNNY GHOUL in Provincetown. Kiki celebrates one of her favorite holidays with a hair-raising romp through the Halloween season with side-splitting parodies and bone chilling vocals.
    What happens when 3 of Provincetown’s drag divas have a seance to talk to their favorite dead icons? You get an hour of performance possession, spooks, and haunts…DEAD DIVA! Join Delta Miles, Roxy Pops and Qya Cristal for this special Halloween edition of DIVA! as they invoke the spirits of their favorite musical artists from the afterlife and beyond!
    Tim Murray brings his spooky comedy hour ‘Witches!’ to the Crown and Anchor in Provincetown! Hot off his sold-out and award winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Murray will be playing P-town for two nights only. The show is a mix of drag, stand up and original comedy songs about his favorite pop culture WITCHES!
    Just when you thought she was dead and gone, Provincetown’s award-winning Crown & Anchor drag brunch Queen is back from the grave and she’s bringing her ghoulish pals with her! Join Mackenzie along with Hunter Love, Venus, Austin Tyler and more for a very special, spooky ZOMBIE 2 DRAG BRUNCH!
    Provincetown’s GAYEST Brunch in Town with ALL LIVE SINGING! The Crown & Anchor presents Delta Miles, Qýa Cristal, Roxy Pops in Say Ghoul Brunch!

    Gifford House
    9 Carver Street
    508-487-0688

    Get ready to celebrate Halloween Spooky Bear at the Gifford House in Provincetown! We’re open every night from 5pm, and the club comes alive Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Don’t miss the spooky bingo finale with Trish—it’s a scream!

    Governor Bradford
    312 Commercial Street
    508-487-2781

    Everyone’s favorite rock band, SPACE PUSSY! One Show Only of the biggest parties of the season and featuring 25 local and celebrity guests! There’s only ONE real Halloween Eve at The Governor Bradford!
    Luxx Liaison Presents: Mother! A brand new, edgy, conceptual performance dinner showcase at Governor Bradford in Provincetown! Featuring drag, burlesque, dancing, live singing, and over-the-top costumes!
    The stage is set: Curtains up!, light the lights! It’s a Dragalicious Karaoke night! It all starts tonight, 9:30pm! Every Thursday thru Saturday at Governor Bradford in Provincetown.

    Post Office Cafe & Cabaret
    303 Commercial Street
    508-487-0087

    Vivienne Fontaine’s WHODUNNIT? leads a cast of Provincetown local comedians and performers as they try to solve a Spooky Bear murder at Post Office Cabaret. Where is the murder weapon? Was it one of them? More importantly…who cares? See some of your favorite spooky season characters reimagined in a variety of sketches and numbers as the perfect way to kick off your Spooky Bear Weekend.
    Dazzling and Dynamic, the Ladies of Illusions are the definition of drag! Campy yet contemporary, these 4 performers will show you that Classic Drag is alive and well in Provincetown!
    John Hill returns to Provincetown’s Post Office Cabaret for Spooky Bear weekend with his hilarious show “Gooning”.
    Drag Brunch hosted by Anita Cocktail joins the outrageously talented crew on weekends in Post Office Cafe in Provincetown! We do take larger group reservations and do our best to seat everyone together. For parties larger than 8, we can’t guarantee all being at the same table but will try our best! Food not included with the price of entry. This show sells out every week so we recommend getting tickets early! Can’t wait to see you.
    The Anita Cocktail Variety Hour is thrilled to be their FOURTH SEASON in the Post Office Cabaret in Provincetown. Hostess and Emcee Anita Cocktail and drag cast members Abby Cummings and Raquel Blake as they welcome guest entertainers from all over the country, performing everything from Spot-On celebrity impersonations, hysterical comedy, Pop Divas, Burlesque and Live Singing. A great way to celebrate a Birthday, anniversary or even a divorce, a night with Anita and the girls is the way to go!
    Post Office Cabaret is proud to present Helltown Burlesque show featuring Spookey and a rotating cast of Provincetown’s best performers. We invite you on a Vaudeville journey with a sexy, modern twist. With singing to dancing, drag and even circus acrobatics, this Burlesque Revue serves all genders, all bodies, and anyone looking for just the right amount of tease.

    Provincetown Brewing Co.
    141 Bradford Street
    508-413-9076

    Kick off Spooky Bear Weekend with your friends at Provincetown Brewing Co. during our 6th Annual FLIP CUP TOURNAMENT!

    Ptown Town Hall
    260 Commercial Street

    WELL-STRUNG, the talented and handsome singing string quartet returns to Provincetown on Saturday, November 2nd at 7:30PM at Town Hall. Specializing in their signature pop/classical mashups, you’re in for a treat as Edmund Bagnell Chris Marchant Daniel Shevlin and Trevor Daniel Wadleigh reunite in the place where it all began for ONE SHOW ONLY.

    Red Room
    258 Commercial Street
    508-487-4870

    Cost Humor is an hour of stand-up comedy from Provincetown’s loosest lips at the Red Room during Spooky Bear!
    Spooky Bear in Provincetown is back for the Tammie Brown’s Halloween Spooktacular. A world for a show of fun, ghouls, and pumpkin blasting!
    Golden Gays Halloween Show: The Golden Ghouls drag show by The Golden Gays in Provincetown at the Red Room.
    Jackie Cox returns to Provincetown with “Jackie Cox All Along” – Spooky Bear Weekend’s a Bewitching Cabaret Extravaganza at The Red Room.
    Back for its 5th year, Provincetown’s biggest halloween party and costume party is November 2nd at Red Room, Possessed 5! This years party, with 2 floors of dancing, drinks and pop up ghouls, and a $1000 cash prize for best costume will surely sell out -Sooooo, buy your tickets early!

    Your stop for a full schedule of Provincetown events, programs, shows, parties, and more!: Provincetown Event Calendar

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