Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: Oct. 9-11
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🎸 Woodbridge porch concerts: Walk around the Woodbridge neighborhood as local artists take over front porches with folk, rock, blues, soul and more.
- Noon-6pm Saturday; free!
🍂 Welcome fall at Harvest Fest at the Shepherd, featuring live music, a Detroit Metropolitan Dance performance, a skate demo, pumpkins, cider, doughnuts and kids activities. Tyree Guyton's solo exhibition will also be on view.
- Noon-4pm Saturday; free!
📚 Celebrate the freedom to read at Ferndale's Banned Together Book Fest, featuring programming at the Ferndale Area District Library and Love & Other Books, the romance bookstore across the street.
- Saturday, 10am-6pm.
- Free library panel discussions; $10 general admission for other events.
🎶 Celebrate Black classical music at the Detroit Public Library's 76th annual E. Azalia Hackley Collection concert, featuring performances inspired by the library's renowned archive of Black performing arts history.
- Saturday, 1pm, the Main Library; free!
🍎 Get your cider mill fix downtown as Cider in the City brings Blake's cider and doughnuts, pumpkins, caramel apples, live music, family activities and food trucks to Beacon Park.
- 1-5pm Saturday and Sunday; free admission.
🎻 Hear the DSO perform Copland's "Appalachian Spring" alongside works by Leonard Bernstein, Joan Tower and John Adams at Orchestra Hall.
- 10:45am Friday, 8pm Saturday and 3pm Sunday; tickets start at about $20.
🎨 See Indigenous artist Jamie John at work during a three-day residency in Greenfield Village's historic Print Shop.
- 9:30am-3pm Friday-Sunday; included with admission.
🎃 Go trick-or-treating at the Detroit Zoo during Zoo Boo, featuring treat stations, live entertainment, character meet-and-greets and other Halloween activities.
- 3-8:30pm Friday-Sunday; tickets start at $21.