EVENTS
Sooke Spook and The Great Gourd Showdown
Sat 24 October
Songstress Locals
Wednesday 14 October | 7pm
$20 admission (children free)
Join Opal Dar, E3GI, and Kat Kadoski in the Fireside Pavilion as they perform in a Songstress Circle for this month’s Singer Songwriter sessions and celebrate Women’s History Month.
About the Artists:
Opal Dar is a queer, disabled, and multidisciplinary singer-songwriter and artist. Born and raised in East Vancouver, they are a descendant of Icelandic folk musicians and clowns.
Self taught and doing it their own way, Opal brings their singular flavour of folk punk music that both soothes and agitates as they whisper and scream their feelings about the world we live in with their guitar.
A recipient of the Canada Council of the Arts, their debut album Birds Hurting Birds Who Hurt Birds is available on all platforms.
Katrina Kadoski is a Sooke B.C.-based singer-songwriter and playwright. Her work invites audiences to form meaningful connections with their hearts. Kadoski’s earlier music took inspiration from Lilith Fair, a travelling music festival, which she attended in the late 90s. Her debut full-length album Whirlpools (1998), recorded in Calgary and released independently, mirrors this folk sound. Since then, Kadoski has released four more albums: Dreamtime (2016), After the Shipwreck (2020), The Edgedwellers (2022), and most recently Soul Anthems (2023).
Sooke Spook 2026
Saturday 24 October
5-7pm
Join us for a haunting good time – if you dare!
Explore the Museum grounds and peek in the buildings to see if characters from local history have come back for this one evening (or is it just their ghosts?). Free event admission, concession available in the events pavilion.
Come in costume and participate in the parade!
Event details here as they become available.
The Great Gourd Showdown
Saturday 24 October
2pm – drop off your gourds, squashes and pumpkins
3:30pm – The Great Weigh Off
4:45pm – Rosettes and Ribbons presented
We’re partnering with Sooke Fall Fair to host the Great Gourd Showdown!
Bring us your gourds for this Fall Fair competition to see who’s grown the largest, heaviest this year.
Pick up your gourds following Sooke Spook at 7pm.
Thank you to the CRD for supporting Sooke Region Museum events.
With support from the CRD Rethink Waste Grant, our guests will enjoy their meal on real plates, their drinks in real mugs and use real cutlery to reduce waste from this event.
Thank you CRD!
2026 Events
more details available for each event closer to the date
2026
Museum Mondays – monthly, last Monday, 6pm (summer break, resumes 31 Sep)
19 September – CRABFEST
24 October – Sooke Spook
7 November – We Remember (interactive event with Victoria Esquimalt Military Reenactors)
5 December – Moss Cottage Christmas & Market
BIG BACKYARD BIOBLITZ 2026
