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Find Salem events for Halloween weekend, October 30-November 1, including trick-or-treating, live music, workshops, family events, and more. 🎃
WhirLocal Salem · Oct 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Read the StorySalem’s art scene can be easy to overlook until you start paying attention to it. It’s spread across downtown galleries, campus collections, historic spaces, cultural exhibits, and public places you might pass every week without really noticing. This guide is a good excuse to slow down, look around, and see a different side of the city.
We've got a very full fall weekend in Salem! 🍂 Here’s what’s happening October 23-25.
Salem’s Civic Center is getting a new piece of public art rooted in the Willamette Valley. A new steel art installation inspired by Oregon white oaks will welcome visitors when the renovated Civic Center reopens in early 2027.
Riverfront Park’s new playground is ready for play! Learn more about the accessible features, climbing structures, wildlife-themed scavenger hunt and other additions families will find at the renovated Salem park.
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