The Hunger 18: Halloween Festival Event - 9 venues|stages - 50 performance acts - 38 bands|DJs

Name: The Hunger 18: Halloween Festival Event - 9 venues|stages - 50 performance acts - 38 bands|DJs
Start: 2025-10-31T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Waterfront District BIA

Schedule

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Waterfront District BIA | Thunder Bay, ON

THE HUNGER | 18TH EDITION
9 Venue | Downtown-wide, Annual Halloween Festival Event
Friday, Oct. 31st @ 9pm-2am.
$20 cover for access to all 9 venues. 19+ | ID required | Cash Door – No advance tickets.
56 Acts – 38 Live Bands/DJ’s – 275 Musicians & Performance Artists
3,150 Attended Last Edition! ... Advice: come early, as you don't want to miss a thing.
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Oh what a day, what a lovely, lovely day!… If it’s Halloween, it must be the HUNGER… Okay… 3,2,1, let’s jam! … Enter the multi-verse of the largest and most diverse live music and performance spectacle you’ll ever experience.
One night – one massive downtown wide Halloween festival – one cover price of $20 gets you into all 9 venues: THE FOUNDRY | BLACK PIRATES PUB | THE PARAMOUNT I + THE PARAMOUNT II (2 levels/2 stages) | NORTEÑOS CANTINA | BLOOM BAR+LOUNGE (the former Atmos, renovated & rebranded, now open) | PORT ARTHUR LEGION BRANCH 5 | RED LION SMOKEHOUSE… & MORE.
Featuring 56 Performance Acts, including: 38 Bands + DJ’s – 275 Musicians | Performers. Thousands in Halloween costume contest prizes at each location. Move between venues and interact with every soul along the way, you could even win prizes in the street.
Feed your hunger and treat yourself to the wildest, slickest Halloween x nine! Receive a Wristband & Multi-Pass on the night of the event, with times and locations for acts. You choose what you want to see and hear… Pick your story, Diabolic or Devilicious… You’ll Remember Halloween! 3,150 attended last edition! ~Advice: come early, you don’t want to miss a thing! Ready…Setty…Go!
VENUES:
• THE FOUNDRY
• BLACK PIRATES PUB
• NORTEÑOS CANTINA
• BLOOM BAR+LOUNGE
• PARAMOUNT THEATRE 1 (2 LEVELS/2 STAGES)
• PARAMOUNT THEATRE 2 (2 LEVELS/2 STAGES)
• PORT ARTHUR LEGION BRANCH 5
• RED LION SMOKEHOUSE (16 Cumberland St. S.)
• & MORE
• (See venue addresses further below)
*Performance Acts and Schedule TBA…Coming Soon*
Presented by Definitely Superior Art Gallery aka DefSup; Fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts!
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HUNGER Q & A:
>No advance tickets or wristbands.
>Pay one cover price of $20 cash on the night of the event, at any participating venue door. Receive a wristband that gains you entry to all participating venues, and a “multi-pass” flyer program with locations/times for all acts.
>Preplan your Hunger Halloween adventure, by checking out the advance schedule, posted closer to the event, on the Facebook event page & web page: http://www.definitelysuperior.com/events/upcoming/
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PRIZE SPONSORS | TBA
Best Halloween Costume Contests at all Hunger Venues - Thousands in prizes to be awarded! Expect to see a lot of cool cosplay / superhero / fantasy horror and other DYI costume adventures downtown... creative eye candy fun! Also compete to win "Lip Sync for your Life" - drag show prizes by Wiggins Productions. More to come!
PHOTOGRAPHERS | TBA
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PRODUCTION SPONSORS
The Waterfront District BIA • The Walleye – Thunder Bay’s Arts & Culture Magazine • TBshows • The Foundry • Black Pirates Pub • Norteños Cantina • Red Lion Smokehouse • Bloom Bar+Lounge • Port Arthur Legion Branch 5 • Paramount Theatre • The Asylum Sideshow • Thunder Bay World Dance Collective • Women In Silk • LU Radio – CILU 102.7 FM (volunteer & event sponsor) • AudioWorks • Peter David Wragg - Video Mapping Projections • GardaWorld - security @ The Paramount & Port Arthur Legion Branch 5
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VENUE ADDRESSES:
• THE FOUNDRY (242 Red River Rd)
• BLACK PIRATES PUB (215 Red River Rd.)
• NORTEÑOS CANTINA (235 Red River Rd.)
• BLOOM BAR+LOUNGE (211 Red River Rd – the former Atmos, renovated & rebranded, now open)
• PORT ARTHUR LEGION BRANCH 5 (229 Van Norman St, Club Room upstairs)
• RED LION SMOKEHOUSE (16 S. Cumberland St)
• THE PARAMOUNT 1 + 2 (24 Court St. S./corner of Park Ave ) (2 venues | levels | 2 stages, welcome to the funhouse! Cirque Du Hell-Main floor music hall| extreme performance + DJ / dance club atmosphere with towering 3 story treehouse. Upstairs is the art deco performance stage w- live bands | drag | dance | performance | art projection mapping.
• & MORE TBA
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>What does the fundraiser support?
The annual Hunger fundraiser presented by DefSup, will be helping to support the phase II transition | renovations, into our exciting new industrial gallery | performance complex space, located in the Cumberland Cinema 5 building. Also, ongoing annual multi-disciplinary contemporary arts, and educational / new generation | youth programming. As well, our special developmental production & tour funding, directed towards professional artists | musicians | performance artists.
GALLERY PROFILE
>Definitely Superior is Northwestern Ontario’s leading edge art gallery and nationally recognized professional artist-run centre. Incorporated in 1988, Definitely Superior operates as a distinct alternative to public art galleries, museums, and commercial art venues. As an element of our country’s covetable network of artist-run centers, Definitely Superior is part of a bigger picture that has been a major catalyst in the development of new and exciting contemporary art in Canada.
>Formed and directed by artists in the city of Thunder Bay, the gallery’s role as a charitable, not-for-profit group is to support contemporary art and the artists that produce it. The mandate goes beyond presenting visual art exhibitions and extends into multi-disciplinary activities including: workshops and lectures, artist’s film screenings, media arts installations, offsite public artworks and interventions, street art, performance art, interdisciplinary art, studio residency, contemporary dance, music and experimental sound, mentorship and education of youth, as well as literary events and book publishing. Definitely Superior works to provide and increase opportunities for the research, production, presentation, promotion and dissemination of the work of artists.
>The gallery is committed to fostering the creation of new and experimental works through the payment of CARFAC professional artist’s fees. Every year, the gallery presents up to 40 exhibitions, events and activities. This programming occurs both in and out of the gallery, supporting more than 1,850 multi-disciplinary artists and providing them with an audience of 35,000 attendees and participants. Viewed with envy by artist’s world wide, our country’s network of artist-run-centres has been a major catalyst in the development of new and exciting contemporary visual arts in Canada. Gallery admission is by donation.
>Ontario Premier’s Award For Excellence in the Arts:
Definitely Superior Art Gallery is the only arts organization to be acknowledged from Thunder Bay and all of Northwestern Ontario, as the Premier’s Awards’ Laureate winner in 2013, and as a three-time Finalist for the awards in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
>Learn more: http://www.definitelysuperior.com/