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Oakland men's soccer hosts Green Bay on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 2 p.m. at Oakland Soccer Field in Rochester. Ticket info is on goldengrizzlies.com, Oakland’s official athletics site.
Oakland Soccer Field

Wise Guys Chess Club hosts a Wednesday chess night on Wednesday, October 7, at 6 p.m. at Robert C. Valade Park in Detroit. Free for all ages and skill levels, with free lessons from 6–7:30 p.m.
Robert C. Valade Park

Meadow Brook Hall hosts a Dinner & A Movie night with Death Becomes Her (1992) on Wednesday, October 7, at 6 p.m. at Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester. Dinner-plus-screening format; tickets available via the venue.
Meadow Brook Hall

Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center hosts a queer fantasy book club on Wednesday, October 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Affirmations Board Room in Ferndale. It’s a welcoming space with structure for newcomers and die-hard fans alike; free to join with registration.
Affirmations Board Room, 290 W Nine Mile Rd, Ferndale, 48220

Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center hosts the Stonewall Run Club on Wednesday, October 7, at 6:30 p.m., starting at Affirmations in Ferndale. Choose a 5K or 10K; even weeks finish at Soho, odd weeks at Sidecar Slider Bar. Weather call is made by 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Affirmations

MUNA brings the Gets So Hot Tour to Detroit on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Temple Theatre, with hemlocke springs opening. Expect sharp, dance-forward pop from their new album Dancing On The Wall, and a portion of proceeds benefits The Ally Coalition.
Masonic Temple Detroit

A hundred years on, Cecil B. DeMille's The Volga Boatman (1926) returns to the big screen at the Senate Theater, 6424 Michigan Avenue in Detroit, on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.. A centennial encore for a film from 1926.
Senate Theater

Meadow Brook Theatre stages The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at 207 Wilson Hall on the Oakland University campus in Rochester. With 20 performances in the run, it's easy to find a date that works for you.
Meadow Brook Theatre

Cranbrook Academy of Art x MOCAD: Karyn Olivier at MOCAD, Detroit.
MOCAD

DJ Moppy plays a DJ set as part of Open House Thursday on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 6 p.m. at Detroit Shipping Company in Detroit.
Detroit Shipping Company

Film screening and Q&A with Nicky Siano on Thursday, October 8, at 6:30 p.m. at Affirmations in Ferndale. A founding father of disco talks about 1970s New York; seat reservations available.
Affirmations

We Run 313 hosts an intermediate group run on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. at Robert C. Valade Park in Detroit, with two distance options. Two groups (3.1 and 6.1 miles) run and finish together.
Robert C. Valade Park

Detroit Social Walk Club leads a women’s walk on Thursday, October 8, at 6:30 p.m., meeting at Cullen Plaza in Detroit and heading along the Riverwalk. Join for a friendly, waterfront stroll; registration via the club’s link.
Cullen Plaza

Sugar (Bob Mould, David Barbe, Malcolm Travis) brings the world tour to Detroit on Thursday, October 8, at 7 p.m. at Masonic Temple Detroit’s Masonic Jack White Theatre. Rare reunion with a new song in the set. Tickets via Masonic Temple Detroit. All ages.
Masonic Temple Detroit

Real stories, real improv. For Real plays the Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 East Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.: a guest shares true stories from their life, and the cast of improvisers spins them into unscripted comedy.
Go Comedy! Improv Theater

Enter the Dragon Lair at your own peril. This short-form improv show starring Go Comedy!'s Resident Company Understudies hits the Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 East Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 9 p.m., with games, merriment and more. Raise a glass of mead.
Go Comedy! Improv Theater

Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s PVS Classical concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit on Friday, October 9, at 10:45. Peter Oundjian leads Joan Tower’s Concerto for Orchestra, Bernstein’s Serenade with rising star Paul Huang, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and John Adams’s Frenzy. Tickets $25.95–$115.25.
Orchestra Hall

Detroit Artists Market presents a group exhibition curated by Sydney Frakes from Friday, October 9, through Saturday, October 31, in Detroit. Installation, fiber, and painting probe nostalgia and longing; gallery hours are Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Detroit Artists Market
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