A haunted path, tattoos on the pier, house tours, and more to do this weekend

Have you bought your Halloween candy yet? Have you bought the replacement candy for the candy you ate? Do you need to get out of the house and away from the candy?

Cemetery Soul Crawl

On Friday night, you probably won’t get ghosted by anyone you take on Laurel Hill Cemetery’s Soul Crawl Haunted Halloween History Tour, a favorite feature of the famous Philly graveyard’s season. The extended nighttime walking tour lasts about two hours, is led by an experienced Laurel Hill guide, and wends from the cemetery roads out among the tombstones and back again. The tour is a great intro to the site’s history and “some of the liveliest spirits buried within.”

Mood-lighting aficionados can also be on the lookout for a selection of monuments illuminated by students from Jefferson University’s industrial-design department. Things wrap up around the fire with snacks and cocktails. Dress warmly, wear comfortable shoes, and bring a flashlight. Because the group will be walking through the grass and between tombstones in the dark, the tour is not a good option for folks using wheelchairs or other assistive devices. Tickets are $25 in advance, and the tour runs Friday and Saturday night at 7pm sharp.

Tattoos on the pier

On Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 7pm, the new Cherry Street Pier’s Festival for the People opening celebrations continue (did you catch our WNWN preview?). Coming up October 20 and 21, it’s the People’s Embodied Culture Weekend, with a tattoo and body-art fair. There’ll be live tattooing featuring women and gender nonconforming artists, but if you’re not ready for something permanent, you can also get henna or a temporary tattoo. And at 5pm, there’s a “Tattoo Edition” First Person Arts Story Slam. The new pier is ADA-accessible (except for the second-floor artist studios), including accessible restrooms onsite.

Cammy Awards

Saturday night, Philly Community Access Media (PhillyCAM) presents the second annual Cammy Awards, a live broadcast and awards show honoring our local community TV and radio-show producers from PhillyCAM and WPPM 106.5 FM. It’s coming to Lightbox Film Center, with a red-carpet reception kicking off at 6:30pm and the live cable-TV broadcast starting at 8pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

The Cammy Awards celebrate PhillyCAM producers whose TV or radio shows exemplify the organization’s values of “inclusion, collaboration, discovery, learning, local focus, and quality.” Award categories include innovation, excellence in curation and production, and three “Democratic Values” awards for inclusion, collaboration, and messaging. Lightbox is an ADA-accessible venue.

Drumming with the kids

On Sunday at the Curtis Institute, the new season of Family Concerts begins with Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, an hourlong interactive experience for the kiddos, happening at 11am and 1pm in Lenfest Hall’s Gould Rehearsal Hall. The show explores percussion, rhythm, and collaborative play with internationally known performer and educator Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, a composer and percussionist whose work takes him around the world. A Montreal native now based in New York, he’s a former teaching artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Play On, Philly! and is a 2008 Curtis grad himself.

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb is inspired by Al Perkins’s children’s book by the same title. The experience is recommended for youngsters ages 5 to 12. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for kids. Lenfest Hall is an ADA-accessible venue.

Welcome to our home

Also on Sunday, architecture lovers should head to Northwest Philly’s popular Old Germantown Township House Tour, now in its 9th year. Presented through a partnership of Historic Germantown (HG) and Mount Airy Learning Tree (MALT), this year’s tour, At Home in the Old German Township, will visit six private homes. The tour covers “adaptive re-uses, local icons, and personal follies of local developers,” including houses that date back to the 18th century, and houses built in the 1950s.

“You will learn fascinating details about each home’s history and architecture,” MALT executive director Stephanie Bruneau promises, including original features and wayward additions. The tour is curated and researched by HG. Tickets are $30 in advance ($35 day of).

The tour meets at MALT’s office (Greene and Hortter Streets) and runs from 11:30am to 4:30pm. Since guests will be visiting multiple private homes, ADA accessibility is not guaranteed. For questions, call MALT at 215-843-6333.

Fall is here, and it's a beautiful time of year. Look out for special coverage next week of Halloween-themed arts events.