‘TIs the Season-October First Friday

LSJ Studios 104 W Chestnut Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

With the Holidays right around the corner LSJ Studios has already began all things gifting and original! Introducing our Holiday Gifts collection – the perfect blend of originality, creativity, and functionality. Each item is thoughtfully designed and created by artist Loryn Spangler-Jones to bring joy and cheer to your holiday season. With a wide range […]

Offcuts & Overprints – A Letterpress Exhibit

Noware Gallery 349 W Grant St, Lancaster, PA, United States

Letterpress art exhibit focusing on the leftover bits and scraps from the process of letterpress printing. Geometric and organic colorful paper sculptures using up leftover portions of printed projects, cleaning rags, and some new printed paper pieces as well. - This is the last night of the exhibit.

Free

Adult Book Sale with Read Rose Books at Endo Café!

Endo Cafe - 237 N. Prince St. 237 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

Boy! Does Endo Café have a night planned for you! Join us from 5-8pm for Italian wines brought to you by Vine Bar Collective and check out their new space! They are not quite open yet but we will have the doors open for you to check out what’s coming later this October! We couldn’t […]

Free

10x6H Drawing Invitational

curio. Gallery & Creative Supply 106 W. Chesnut Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

A challenge, by nature is something that is confrontational, it brings with it a sense of pressure. The stakes don't have to be high, and confrontation isn't always a negative interaction, it can be playful. Though ultimately there is an expectation of three possible outcomes- success, stalemate or failure. The artists in this exhibition, we […]

Laura Roberts: Gangly Bits of Flesh and Memories

David Lyall Home & Design 241 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

This work involves themes of brokenness and repair, using the convergence of materials to express a sense of unity or cohesion. I see this as my personal way of processing emotions of joy and grief by creating ties of meaning in the spaces between life experiences.

Creative Quarters: The People & Places of the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program

Demuth Museum 120 East King Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

Creative Quarters features black and white photographs of the 60+ artists represented in Historic Artists' Homes and Studios (HAHS), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This exhibition of images of 19th and 20th century artists from across the country with their homes, studios, and landscapes they worked in captures the historical evolution […]

Admission By Donation

First Friday Artist Reception

328 North Queen St 328 N Queen St, Lancaster, PA

October's First Friday we will be featuring Photography by Cam Ferdinand. Photos of local interest, including sports, locations of interest in Lancaster and of course some critters. Refreshments will be served.

free

First Friday at Altana

Altana Lounge 26 East King Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

Multiple local artists, your fave beer or cocktails, dinner and Adult Trick or Treat bags!!! All at Altana and the gallery this First Friday! Bar and restaurant located on the rooftop weather permitting, art gallery located on 2nd floor.

First Friday Fall Inspired Gelli Plate Printmaking Workshop

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design 204 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

Get ready to embrace the eerie charm of the season in our fall inspired Gelli plate printmaking workshop during October First Friday! Unleash your creativity as you learn how to use Gelli plates to create hauntingly beautiful prints inspired by autumn’s enchanting colors and spooky motifs. Join us as we experiment with ghostly textures, foliage […]

$45
Recurring

Kids Night Out

Tiny Town 533 Janet Ave., Lancaster, PA, United States

Tiny Town offers childcare EVERY SINGLE First Friday of the month? Tiny Town offers a great opportunity for you to take a break by hosting Kids Night Out (KNO)! Enjoy a night out (or in?) while your children come and experience life in Tiny Town! Closed to the public, we will offer our town exclusively […]

$35

Mercury Stardust Signing and Meet and Greet

Pocket Books Shop 903 Wheatland Ave, Lancaster, PA, United States

Join TikTok sensation Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handyma'am, as she signs books and meets fans at Pocket Books. Tickets are $35 and include a copy of her new book, SAFE AND SOUND; A RENTER FRIENDLY GUIDE TO HOME IMPROVEMENT. Tickets are still available, walk-ins welcome!

$35

Speed Dating + Date Night

Griest Building 8 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

Single? Here’s your chance to plan a date with destiny. Taken? Enjoy a romantic roof-top date with your better half and the most stunning view in Lancaster. Love is sure to be in the air on Friday, October 6th.

$25 – $40

First Friday October – Pink Out!! Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness month with performer Liz Fulmer and friends

Ware Center Ware Center, 42 N Prince St, Lancaster, PA, United States +1 more

Performance by Liz Fulmer, Tess Feiler, Erika McCandless, and Allan Dutton of original folk and spiritual songs with lush vocal harmonies and gentle acoustic arrangements. Information available on breast cancer awareness, celebrating the survivors and remembering loved ones lost.

Free

Art & Harp Serenade

Gallery On Market 15 West King Street , Lancaster , PA, United States

Davie Krak will be playing beautiful Harp music at galleryonmarket on first Friday! Come and sip some wine, enjoy the art, and be serenaded!!!

Free

Book Reading/Signing with author Dan Laubach

Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster, PA, United States

At 7PM, come to the Dan Laubach book reading/signing event with his recent publication, "The Four Sane Women and Other Parables." It's a collection of parables and poems reflecting on life, faith, and spiritually.  He will share some about the process of writing the book, share a few of the parables and where they came from.  There will […]

Free

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