Arts & Entertainment
first full weekend (thru Dec) – Bank of America Museums on Us (FREE *for cardholders)
Tue thru Sat – Atlanta Contemporary Art Museum (FREE)
Sat – Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Open Exhibit: Everything Must Go (Serenbe)
Sat – Farm Tours (Serenbe)
Oct 2-Nov 6 – A collection of new artists on view (Mason Fine Art)
Oct 2-Nov 7 – Carol Prusa: unfathomable (Alan Avery Art Company)
thru Oct 10 – Love Me Till My Heart Stops (Marcia Wood Gallery)
thru Oct 17 – El Gallo (Whitespace Gallery)
thru Oct 18 – Chinese Master Artist I-Hsiung Ju (Millennium Gate Museum)
thru Oct 23 – My Atlanta 2015 (Ponce City Market)
thru Oct 24 – After Selma (Spruill Gallery)
thru Oct 29 – Robots (Fernbank: IMAX)
thru Nov 7 – Selections from the Atlanta Printmakers Studio (Chastain Arts Center Gallery)
thru Nov 20 – Filming the Camps – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg
thru Nov 20 – Paper Narratives (Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking)
thru Nov 28 – Sheila Pree Bright: 1960Now (Museum of Contemporary Art)
thru Nov 30 – Bobby Jones: The Game of Life
thru Dec 6 – Dreams, Discord, and Desire: Nathan Lewis (Oglethorpe University Museum of Art)
thru Dec 6 – RITES, Forget Me Not, Anamnēsis, and Maria Artemis Selects Ruth Zuckerman (Zuckerman Museum of Art)
thru Dec 6 – The Sorrow of Too Many Joys: Satire in 19th Century France (Oglethorpe University Museum of Art)
thru Jan 3, 2016 – Searching for the Queen of Sheba (Fernbank Museum of Natural History)
thru Jan 3, 2016 – The Waters and the Wild: Alen MacWeeney Photographs of Ireland (Michael C. Carlos Museum)
thru Jan 3, 2016 – Nature Connects: Art With LEGO Bricks (Atlanta Botanical Garden/Gainesville)
thru Jan 10, 2016 – Designers, Makers, Users: 3D Printing the Future (MODA)
thru Jan 10, 2016 – Seriously Silly! The art & whimsy of Mo Willems (High Museum of Art)
Ongoing – Bodies: The Exhibition (Atlantic Station)

Oct 9 – A Really Good Strut (Westside Provisions District)
Oct 9 – 2nd Friday Art Stroll (Castleberry Hill)
Oct 9 – Spooky Film Fest: Edward Scissorhands (Atlantic Station)
Oct 10 – (Castleberry Hill) Loft Tour
Oct 10 – Five Year Anniversary Party {Poem88}
Oct 10 – Party at Ponce (Ponce City Market)
Oct 10 – The Art of Nature (Georgia Aquarium)
Oct 10 – (Chattahoochee Hills) The Ballog – A Night Market (Serenbe)
Oct 10-11 – Cinemás Film Series (Rialto Center for the Arts)
Oct 11 – Second Sunday Fundays (High Museum of Art)
Oct 11 – (Chattahoochee Hills) Fall Art Stroll + Home Tour (Serenbe)

Food & Drink
Sat – Farmers and Artisan Market (Serenbe)
Sun – Sunday Supper at Vine & Tap
Oct 10 – Brookhaven Chili Cook Off (Brookhaven Park)
Oct 10 – (Lawrenceville) Rock’n Ribville
Oct 11 – 6 Chefs + ONE Harvest (ONE. midtown kitchen)
Oct 11 – (Chattahoochee Hills) Right Off The Farm: Seasonal Cooking Classes (Serenbe)

Music
Oct 7-11 – A3C Hip-Hop Festival
Oct 9 – Of Monsters and Men (Chastain)
Oct 9 – Ghost (Tabernacle)
Oct 10 – Jackson Browne (Chastain)
Oct 10 – ALL TIME LOW & SLEEPING WITH SIRENS: Back to the Future Hearts Tour (Verizon/Alpharetta)
Oct 10 – Milkshake (Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre)
Oct 11 – King Dude (Masquerade)

Performing Arts
Oct 3-11 – La Boheme (Atlanta Opera)
Oct 6-11 – Jersey Boys (The Fox Theatre)
Oct 7-11 – Disney On Ice: 100 Years of Magic (Philips Arena)
Oct 8-11 – Todd Glass (Laughing Skull Lounge)
Oct 9-10 – (Duluth) Complexions Contemporary Ballet (Infinite Energy Center)
Oct 9-11 – Coppelia presented by Georgia Ballet (Roswell Cultural Arts Center)
Oct 9-24 – (Marietta) In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Out of Box Theatre)
Oct 9-Nov 8 – Informed Consent (Horizon Theatre)
thru Oct 10 – (Decatur) Looking for Normal (OnStage Atlanta)
thru Oct 11 – A Steady Rain (Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage)
thru Oct 11 – Stupid F*cking Bird
thru Oct 18 – My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy! (The Strand Theatre/Marietta)
thru Oct 18 – (Lawrenceville) Divorcées, Evangelists and Vegetarians (Aurora Theatre)
thru Oct 25 – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Aurora Theatre)

Festivals & other fun Fall & Halloween things
every night in October – (Lawrenceville) Ghost Tours
Oct 1-31 – (Alpharetta) House on Horror Hill
Oct 1-Nov 1 – (Chattahoochee Hills) The Sleepy Hollow Experience (Serenbe)
Oct 2-Nov 1 – Paranoia Haunted House (Canton)
Oct 2-Nov 1 – Fear the Woods (Stockbridge)
Oct 8-29 – Fest-of-Ale at Atlanta Botanical Garden (Atlanta Botanical Garden)
Oct 8-31 – Scarecrows in the Garden (Atlanta Botanical Garden)
thru Oct 25 – Pumpkin Festival (Stone Mountain Park)
thru Oct 31 – Oktoberfest (Der Biergarten)
thru Nov 1 – Fright Fest (Six Flags Over Georgia)
thru Nov 7 – Fall Family Fun Days (The Rock Ranch)

Oct 9 – Atlanta Cheese Festival (Atlanta Botanical Garden)
Oct 10-11 – Art on the Beltline
Oct 10-11 – (Blue Ridge) Fall Arts in the Park Festival (Blue Ridge Mountains)
Oct 11 – (Marietta) Boxerstock Music and Family Festival (Jim Miller Park)

photo: Serenbe Playhouse