Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

Here you will find information on a multitude of fang-tastic events happening right across the borough this Halloween. With such a variety on offer, there really is a cauldron of creepy delights, eerie entertainment and monstrous mayhem to suit everyone! 

Whether you want to be flabbergasted by fireworks or get creative with autumn workshops, spin to deadly tunes or go snow tubing down the spooky slopes, we have got it all this Halloween!

We also have some helpful advice on how to have a terror-ific time with family and friends, while ensuring everyone stays safe – as we know this time of year also comes with some risks.

So take care, be aware and have a hauntingly happy Halloween!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Halloween fireworks extravaganza at Craigavon Lakes has been rescheduled to take place on Wednesday 29 October at 7.30pm. In line with health and safety guidance, the event can no longer be held as planned on Thursday 30 October due to strong winds being forecast from 7pm on this date. Please share this change of date with family and friends. We look forward to celebrating the spooky season with you at this year’s fireworks display – it’s going to be a night to remember!

Date: Wednesday 29 October
Location: South Lake Leisure Centre

Halloween is a time for spooks, ghouls and beasts. So here’s a chance to take on ‘The Beast’ – South Lake Leisure Centre’s incredible indoor aqua inflatable obstacle course.

Date: Sun 26 – Tues 28 Oct
Location: South Lake Leisure Centre

£2 swims are back for Halloween! Get ready to have devilish fun in our pools at South Lake Leisure Centre, Orchard Leisure Centre and Banbridge Leisure Centre. Dive in and make some waves with this spooktacular offer!

Date: Fri 31 Oct
Location: South Lake Leisure Centre, Orchard Leisure Centre & Banbridge Leisure Centre

Don’t let the kids sit like zombies and drive you batty this Halloween. Join our camps and develop monstrous moves with running, dodging, tagging and ball games. Get scarily social and make fearsome friends!

Date: Mon 27 – Wed 29 Oct
Location: Tandragee Recreation Centre & Banbridge Leisure Centre

Release your inner demons and get competitive over the holidays. Book a court for table tennis, pickleball, badminton and squash or a sports hall for football, netball and basketball.

Location: Various

Ghouls, witches and young demons can enjoy fiendish drinks and scarily good food treats after a full-on soft play session at Orchard Leisure Centre and South Lake Leisure Centre.

Date: Various
Location: Orchard Leisure Centre & South Lake Leisure Centre

Boo-k your little devils in for some scarily good fun on the inflatables at Keady Recreation Centre. It will be a scream!

Date: Mon 27 – Fri 31 Oct
Location: Keady Recreation Centre

Our dark secret…a spooky glow and Halloween soundtrack make for a great 45-minute workout!

Date: Wed 29 Oct
Location: Banbridge Leisure Centre

Step inside, if you dare, and bounce around with other ghosts and ghouls or get competitive in the games room!

Date: Mon 27 – Sun Nov (Games Room) & Thurs 30 Oct (Inflatable Sessions)
Location: Dromore Community Centre

Let the good times roll this Halloween. Get your skates on and have a fang-tastic time with all the family.

Date: Sat 1 Nov
Location: Banbridge Leisure Centre

Join us for a spooktacular outdoor adventure. Follow enchanted trails and meet creepy characters. Get creative with pumpkin carving, slime-making and spooky-themed arts and crafts.

Dates & Locations:
Sat 25 Oct – Lurgan Park
Mon 27 Oct – Dromore Park
Tues 28 Oct – Edenvilla Park, Portadown

Treat your little ghouls to fiendish fun on the spooky slopes. Let them sink their fangs into a snowtubing, footgolf and ski adventure followed by tasty hot food in the Alpine Ski Lodge.

Date: Various
Location: Craigavon Golf & Ski Centre

Have a hauntingly good time with a short stay at our caravan and camping sites, complete with glamping pods. The fearless Camping NI are returning to Gosford Forest Park for some trick or treating.

Location: Gosford Forest Park & Kinnego Marina

It will be fangs for the memories at South Lake Watersports Centre with our frightfully good Halloween activity sessions. Choose one of the following sessions: sailing; rafted canoeing and archery; or mountain biking and battlebows.

Date: Mon 27 Oct – Wed 29 Oct & Mon 3 – Wed 5 Nov
Location: South Lake Watersports Centre

Get your fangs into cycling and paddlesports or take a ghostly ride on wheelie boat across Craigavon Lake if you dare.

Date: Mon 27 Oct – Wed 29 Oct & Sat 1 – Wed 5 Nov
Location: South Lake Watersports Centre

Discover Halloween traditions from the past and have a go at making some seasonal crafts. Talking Reptiles will make an appearance bringing with them snakes, spiders, minibeasts and more.

Date: Sat 25 Oct
Location: Armagh County Museum

Spin a spooktacular masterpiece and craft a cute or venomous beaded spider at this creative workshop that blends art, craft and textile techniques.

Date: Thurs 30 Oct
Location: Market Place Theatre, Armagh

Combine unspun wool with various crafty bits and bobs to create a spooky picture with spider webs, haunted houses, ghastly ghosts and crazy bats using wet felting techniques.

Date: Thurs 30 Oct
Location: F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge

Get ready for ghoulish games, spine-tingling activities and creepy creativity. Little ghouls and goblins can dive into a world of Halloween crafts and eerie entertainment from haunted art projects to monstrously fun games.

Date: Thurs 30 & Fri 31 Oct
Location: Palace Stables, Armagh

Unleash your creativity this Halloween by crafting your own clay pumpkin. Use mosaic tiles and mark-making tools to design a one-of-a-kind autumn decoration.

Date: Fri 31 Oct
Location: F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge

In Disney Pixar’s ‘Coco’, aspiring musician Miguel teams up with charming trickster Héctor on an extraordinary journey though the Land of the Dead.

Date: Fri 31 Oct
Location: Market Place Theatre, Armagh

Get ready for thrills, chills and magical mayhem with the new stage show ‘The Skeleton Who Lost His Body’. Skelly Bones and Ghoulia will take you on a spellbinding adventure filled with laughter, mystery and unexpected surprises!

Date: Sat 25, Sun 26, Thurs 30 & Fri 31 Oct
Location: Navan Centre & Fort, Armagh

Little spooks who prefer lower sounds and softer lighting will have a hauntingly happy Halloween at the sensory-friendly version of the show ‘The Skeleton Who Lost His Body’.

Date: Sat 25 Oct
Location: Navan Centre & Fort, Armagh

Explore the origins of Halloween, the festival of Samhain, which was considered to be the Celtic New Year. This event will include ceremony, celebration, reflection and tradition.

Date: Sat 1 Nov
Location: Navan Centre & Fort, Armagh

Calling all brave souls. Armagh’s cobbled streets and ancient buildings are steeped in eerie legends and ghostly whispers. Be transported back in time and encounter the city’s ghostly inhabitants and haunted landmarks.

Date: Fri 31 Oct, Sat 1 & Sun 2 Nov
Location: County Infirmary (Old City Hospital), Armagh

Treat yourself to a frightfully good three-course feast curated by former Michelin star chef Barry Smyth. But beware because you’ll be blind-folded. This gastronomical experience is guaranteed to challenge your senses.

Date: Fri 31 Oct & Sat 1 Nov
Location: Armagh County Club