LGBTQ+ Events in Durham

Printmaking workshop

Sunday DRIFT Rooftop DJ Sets at The Velvet Hippo!

Transforming Families Support Group

Chef Collaboration Omakase with Tokyo Chef Satoshi Katakura at Dashi in Downtown Durham

Open to the Public

Community center opens doors for public to explore resources and programs

FREE Fun da’MENTal Trivia with “Just Dave”

Queer Soup Night: Pride Edition

Native Shrubs for Resilient Landscapes (virtual)

K-12 Teacher Open House

Get Shit Done - SQSN

Five Points LGBTQ+ Film Series - The Favourite (2018)

SQFN - Latin Family Night

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Bitters – Sept. 22, 6:30PM

Swift Night Out

Trivia Night

Buena Vista Social Club

BEERthoven: The Balourdet Quartet

Understand. Act. Together.

Youth Drop-in - Youth Center

Durham Chess Club

Sculpting with polymer clay

Velvet Rewind: R&B Wednesdays at The Velvet Hippo!

Classic Bingo Night @ DSSOLVR! (Free – Win Drinks & Lottery Tickets!)

Rigged Trivia at the Durham Food Hall

Golden Circle Connections 50+ Social Mixer

Ally J on the Roof

Durham Pride Festival

Members-Only Fall Plant Sale

Drag Bingo

The Ethics of Now with Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Gay/Bi Men's Tao Tantra Initiation – Fall 2026

Youth Rock NC & Durham Pride Flash Tattoos

Pride Party: Candy Land

Fourth Sunday Social Rides

Sunday Kettlebell Classes with Strength With Purpose

Durham Geek and Grub Market (Cottagecore Edition)

Beginner Fused Glass: Pendant & Earrings

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Bitters – Sept. 27, 3PM

Sunday Set with DJ Gemynii

Sexual Health Open House

Storytime on the Roof with Durham County Library

Magic The Gathering Cube Night at DSSOLVR

Powerplant – Durham

Queer Ecology Family Picnic

Trivia Night @ DSSOLVR (w/ Hammered Trivia – FREE & Dog Friendly!)

PRIDE Bike Ride

Doodle & Drink

Bilingual Story Time | Tiempo de Historias Bilingües

Walk on the Wild Side

Inaugural Susan and Barkley L. Hendricks Artist Lecture

Durham Real Gay Men Speed Dating Event

Queer History of Durham Tour: Downtown Edition

Steeped in Culture: An Autumn Season Chinese Tea Tasting Experience (October)

House of Heavy

Durham 🌹 Guided Speed Dating Social Ages 25-40 Meet & Mingle

Remembering in the Garden: Community Journaling in Nature

Urban Ministries of Durham’s Fall Festival

Japanese Tea Gathering: Kanna-zuki -1st seating

Fortune Feimster

Durham Gay Speed Dating True Love

Fall Film Series

Oct Book Club — Read a Book of your Choice - 🌈

Move-A-Bull City Open Streets

Bull City Blues Ramble

Durham Square Dance

First Tuesday Social Ride

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Sours – Oct 6, 6:30PM

Tom Jones: Come Gather Round Tour

Gallery Guide Tour: Slow Art: Seeking and Making

Monthly Mahjong @DSSOLVR(Beginner Lessons & Guided Play Every 2nd Thursday)

Good Moon Festival – Sylvan Esso With Meshell Ndegeocello

Reflections: Virtual Tour

Good Moon Festival – Tyler Childers With aja monet

Southern Doc Fest

Good Moon Festival – Sylvan Esso With Silvana Estrada

Second Sundays: Open Studio

Climate Up Close

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Sours – Oct 11, 3PM

Adrián Uribe: 50 y Pico Tour

Adrian Uribe – Durham

Spill the Tea: An LGBTQ+ Spooky Season Mixer 👻🌈

Reflections: Public Tour

Maybe Happy Ending

Trombone Shorty And Orleans Avenue – Durham

Botany Spotlight: Meet the Meat Eaters—Carnivorous Plants

Gallery Guide Tour: Send in the Clowns! The Comedic Relief of Art

Joy, Grief, & Motherhood

Pruning with Confidence: Small Trees and Shrubs

Bull City BOOs Fest

Juelz – Durham

Bull City Race Fest

Harvest Festival

Flowerbomb – Durham

On the Rocks: A Scree & Crevice Garden Tour

Dan and Phil

Seeing the Garden — Plein Air Landscape Painting Through Observation

Jacob Collier

Elmo’s Got The Moves

Hearty Landscapes: Foodscaping for Joy, Beauty & Abundance

Clint Black & Midland

Robby Hoffman: Live On Tour

Barktoberfest

Pupalooza

Rocky Horror Picture Show – live band & cast

Japanese Tea Gathering: Moon Viewing Tea

Undertale: The Determination Symphony

She/They/Gay Show @Comedy Worx

Halloween Storytime on the Roof

Beck: Ride Lonesome Tour

Costume Silent Disco: Everything Now All At Once

Carolina Gayniacs Hurricanes Hockey Watch Parties

Mixed-Media Floral Greeting Cards

Mum’s the Word: Special Walking Tour of Show Chrysanthemums (Oct.)

Mrs. Doubtfire

Botanizing at Occoneechee Mountain

Build a Bug Snug

K-12 Teacher Workshop

Delving Deeper into the Declaration of Independence: A Guided Reading with Thavolia Glymph and Exploring the Use of Iron Gall Ink

Waiting to Exhale in Concert

Mum’s the Word: Special Walking Tour of Show Chrysanthemums (Nov.)

A Festival of Fabulous Mums

Little Big Town

Festival of Fabulous Mums: Basic Floral Design with Patty Stimell (Sat.)

Festival of Fabulous Mums: The 13 Classes of Rare & Heirloom Chrysanthemums with Margie Case

Saturday Reflections

Fall Film Series: Best in Show

Jake Shimabukuro – Durham

Festival of Fabulous Mums: Growing Fabulous Mums with Joan Matthews

Festival of Fabulous Mums: Basic Floral Design with Patty Stimell (Sun.)

Second Sunday: Family Day Celebration

Rethinking Seasonal Cleanup: Why Less Can Be More for Wildlife (in person)

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Punches & Batching – Nov 10 6:30PM

Death Becomes Her

Surprise Chef – Durham

Botanical Quilt Blocks

Duke Forest’s 2026 Annual Gathering

Fall Fest: A Celebration of Creative Entrepreneurs

NC Comicon

Woody Ethnobotany

Cultivating Capacity: Plant Meditation and Sculpture

Cocktail Classes at Durham Distillery | Nov 15, 3PM – Punches & Batching

The Story of Stone in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum

BEAT: Belew/Vai/Levin/Bozzio Performing the Music of KING CRIMSON

Midday Meader

Night of Activism and Civic Action

NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet

Triangle Orchid Society Fall for Orchids Show

A Drag Queen Christmas

The Heavy Heavy – Durham

A World of Weird and Wonderful Plants: Duke Research Greenhouse Tour

Fall Vendor Fair

Kudzu and Wisteria Basket Weaving