AFTER DARK: The Beginning

LES BIAUTE

The Inaugural Halloween
October 24th, 2026

Some nights are planned. Others become part of the story. There is something about October that changes the atmosphere. The days become shorter. The evenings become colder. The familiar starts to feel unfamiliar, and with the arrival of Halloween comes a certain freedom—a permission to step outside of the world we know and become someone, or something, else. For one evening, we dress differently. We will stay out later. We gather with friends, strangers, and people we may have never met before and somewhere between the music, the laughter, the lights, and the late hours, we create stories simply by being together…