This weekend around Capitol Hill brings some fun and good times rallying around good causes — plus a healthy dose of Halloween fun. You can find all of the Hilloween 2015 events here on the CHS Calendar.

Don’t forget about Thursday night’s Lit Crawl Seattle:

Think of Lit Crawl Seattle as a free cool reading at your favorite bar, times about 30. The extra-large burrito of readings. For one beautiful and awesomely weird night, over 80 Pacific Northwest readers and artists will fill Capitol and First Hill bars with stories about oyster foraging and the Jesus movement, photography of Seattle outcasts and innocents, and odes to football and salt.

Earlier this year, the Sustainable Capitol Hill found a home for the Capitol Hill Tool Library in First Covenant’s E Pike Summit event space. Sunday, you can help get things started with a tool drive and project demos:

Join us on Sunday, October 25 from 1-3pm at 420 E Pike St. (entrance on Crawford) to support the Capitol Hill Tool Library. You’d love the Capitol Hill Tool Library because it will not only be an inspiring social hotspot workshop space for neighbours to build, fix, and cook things while learning from each other, but also a resource for the community to reduce consumption of resources by fixing broken items, as well as loaning out items that are seldom used. And it’s all FREE!

Before the formal launch, Sustainable Capitol Hill is hosting a tool drive and project demos. Bring your gently used tools and household items to donate. Or bring your skills to help build maintenance and repair skills in the community. Or just come hang out, learn some new DIY skills, and meet your neighbors! We will be having a small appliance fix demo, kitchen demos, juggling, and more.

Tools, time, and/or money are all welcome at the Fixer Tool Drive on October 25!

Please email [email protected] if you would like to donate or if you have any questions.

Starting Thursday, the annual Seattle Weavers Guild show and sale returns to St. Mark’s:

The Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Sale is more than just a sale. It gives you a chance to find that exceptional, one-of-a-kind item for your home, your office, your wardrobe, or that someone special in your life. You can see the process of weaving fabric and baskets, spinning yarn, and doing other fiber arts. You can talk to many of the artists whose work you admire.

The event begins Thursday 5 to 8 PM and continues Friday 10 AM to 8 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.

Thursday also brings two opportunities to fulfill your civic duty — one more pleasurable than the other, by far.

Let’s start with soup! Thursday night, Melrose’s Mamnoon hosts Soup for Syria:

On Thursday, October 22nd, we will partner with local retailer, Elliot Bay Book Company, to organize a fundraising event in the restaurant with 100% of the money designated toward 3 organizations: Mercy Corps, Medecins Sans Frontières andKaram Foundation. We hope that you will come out to support them.

Inspired by the cookbook, Soup for Syria, from Lebanese author, Barbara Massaad, Chef Jason Stratton has enlisted support from Seattle’s culinary community.

In the dining room, Jason and friends will construct a fantastic, multi-course dinner with beverage pairings. The dinner will include a copy of Barbara’s book. The cost of the dinner is $250 per person (+ tax and gratuity).

Half-dozen chefs will contribute a soup for an all-you-can-eat, Soup, Bread and Beverage for $35, available at the communal table and Mamnoon Street. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Also Thursday night, the monthly gathering of the East Precinct Advisory Council will cover “micro community” policing plans and the Capitol Hill Community Council hosts a “community activation fair.”

Ready for Hilloween? The weekend brings a coven of spooky gatherings to be part of.

Saturday, Hallows In The Cathedral comes to St. Mark’s with “ethereal harmonies enchantingly sung by Seattle Women’s Chorus.” You can also take the Capitol Hill Historical Ghost Tour starting at Elliott Bay Book Co. Sunday, enjoy A Witches High Tea at The Sorrento Hotel on First Hill.

Meanwhile, the first ever Mad John Pumpkin Festival goes down outside the Bottleneck and Two Doors Down all weekend.

For more things to do on or around Capitol Hill — or to add your own events — check out the CHS Calendar.

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