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Stuff to do this weekend

It's the weekend! Wake up and smell the cider donuts.

So much stuff to do, and only two days to do it. No worries -- we're here to help.

After the jump a list of weekend events we thought you might enjoy. Doing something you don't see here? Share it with the rest of us in the comment section.

And whatever you're up to, have a fantastic weekend!

North Albany Oktoberfest
Saturday: Wolff's Biergarten's annual Oktoberfest street fair is on Broadway in North Albany. Music, food, family activities, dachshund races, and more. Saturday 11 am to 7 pm -- $15 pre-sale / $20 at the door

Breathing Lights
This is the opening weekend for Breathing Lights. The public art project is illuminating windows in hundreds of vacant homes in Albany, Schenectady and Troy (the slowly pulsing lights will be active from 6-10 pm each night).

Breathing Lights Troy
The opening weekend is also the project's "Troy City Weekend" with events around the city:
+ Friday: There's an opening reception at the Arts Center of the Capital Region. Friday 5-9 pm
+ Friday: Collar Works is hosting an exhibit called Reclamation. Friday 5-9 pm
+ Friday: There will be walking tours led by Breathing Lights neighborhood ambassadors starting at Freedom Square (39 5th Ave). Friday 6-9 pm
+ Friday: Brenda Kenneally's North Troy Peoples' History Museum and the Story Candles project opens in North Central (3334 6th Avenue). Friday 6-9 pm

Troy Night Out
Friday: It's the first Troy Night Out of autumn. Here are a few things on the agenda:
+ Hair Spray and Opinions -- a pop up art show -- is at the former Troy School of Beauty Culture at 86 Congress Street, featuring local artists, music, poetry and more.
+ RPI's jazz groups will play a concert at the River Street stairs
+ Shuttles will be running from downtown to see the Breathing Lights installations in Troy
+ Troy Bookmakers is hosting a 10th anniversary party in the Frear Building with authors and book lovers.

Here's the full schedule. Friday 5-9 pm

Story Harvest
Saturday: The Sanctuary for Independent Media's annual Story Harvest event includes music, art, food and stories. The event will feature poets Daneille Colin, Nancy Klepsch and others. Music from Chill Smith DJ Collective. There will also walking tours of the Breathing Lights installation in North Central, and North Troy Peoples' History Museum and Story Candles. Saturday at 2pm -- free admission

Saratoga Harvest Festival
Saturday: The Saratoga Race Course hosts the Saratoga Harvest Festival. Craft beer, wine, cider, food trucks, music, and more. Saturday 10 am to 7 pm -- $8 in advance / $12 at the door

Upper Union Street Harvest Fest & Art Show
Saturday: The Upper Union Street Harvest Fest returns to Schenectady. Music, food, and family-friendly activities along a four block corridor of Union Street. Saturday 10 am to 3pm -- free admission

Wing Walk
Saturday: Downtown Schenectady's annual Wing Walk returns. Stroll around, sample wings, and vote for your favorite. Ballots are available at the Proctors box office. Saturday noon to 5 pm -- $10 / $5 with valid student ID

Oktoberfest at Hunter Mountain
Saturday-Sunday: Hunter Mountain's annual Oktoberfest continues this weekend. German food, music, motorcycles and cars, keg rolling, pumpkin bowling, and more. Saturday and Sunday noon to 7 pm -- free admission

Stage

Outside Mullingar
Friday-Sunday: Capital Rep continues its production of Outside Mullingar. Blurbage:

This charmer of a play by John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Doubt, whisks you away on a delightful journey to the farmlands of Ireland. Outside Mullingar is the story of an unlikely romance between two rural, middle-aged neighbors: Anthony, an introverted farmer and Rosemary, the woman who vows to have him - at all costs! Poetic, uplifting, dark and funny, Shanley lovingly spins a tale infused with a deep yearning for heart, homeland, faith and a sense of belonging.

The production runs through October 16. Friday-Sunday various times -- $20 and up

Annie Get Your Gun
Friday-Sunday: Schenectady Light Opera Company presents the Irving Berlin classic Annie Get Your Gun. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm -- $22 and up

Intimate Apparel
Friday-Sunday: Soul Rebel Performance Troupe presents Intimate Apparel, the story of an African-American seamstress who makes lingerie -- and the variety of people she meets. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 2:30 pm -- $15 / $8 under 17

Time Stands Still
Friday-Sunday: Curtain Call Theater continues its run of Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies's play about a photojournalist who comes home from Iraq torn between her career and a quiet domestic life. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3 pm -- $24

Comedy

"I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone."
Saturday: Comedian Steven Wright is performing at The Egg. Saturday 8 pm -- $35 and up

Film

Zoot Suit Riots
Friday: The NYS Writers Institute's Classic Film Series is screening Zoot Suit Riots -- a PBS American Experience documentary exploring racial tensions that led to 1943 race riots between whites and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. Joseph Tovares, the doc's filmmaker, will be there for a discussion following the screening.
Friday 7:30 pm in Page Hall on UAlbany's downtown campus -- free

Asbury Short Film Concert
Saturday: The Asbury Short Film Concert -- a touring "concert" of film shorts -- is at The Linda. Saturday 8-11 pm -- $10

Drive-in
Here's what you can see this weekend:
+ Hollywood: Storks and Sully
+ Jericho Drive In: Storks and Sully
+ Malta: Screen 1: Magnificent 7, and Sully | Screen 2: Storks and Kubo and the Two Strings

Music

Friday: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox at The Palace
Jazz/ragtime/swing covers of pop music. 8 pm -- $39.50 and up

Friday: The Hot Sardines at The Egg
"Along with their very own tap dancer, the Sardines play 'hot jazz' with a bit of glamour, a little grit, and a lot of passion." 7:30 pm -- $34.50

Friday: SIMO at The Hangar
Psych rock. 8 pm -- $10

Friday: Ian Hunter & The Rant Band
Cleveland rocks. 9 pm -- $45 and up

Friday: Peter Mulvey at Caffe Lena at The Grove
Folk. With: David Greenberger. 7 pm -- $18

Saturday: Il Divo at The Palace
Operatic pop. 7:30 pm -- $45 and up

Saturday: Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey at Troy Music Hall
Of Peter, Paul, and Mary. 8 pm -- $39 and up

Saturday: Amy Ray & Her Band at Helsinki Hudson
From the Indigo Girls. With: Chely Wright. 9 pm -- $25 and up

Boo!

Field of Horrors
Saturday: The Field of Horrors returns to Brunswick. There's a Trail of Terror Hayride, a paint ball gallery and other haunted attractions. Saturday 6:30-11 pm -- $25

Ghosts of Albany Walking Tour
Friday-Saturday: Ghosts of Albany is a historic walking tour of Albany with a paranormal twist. Tour meets at 40 Lodge Street, outside the Hilton Albany. Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 730pm and 9:30pm -- $20

Double M Haunted Hayride
Friday-Sunday: The Double M Haunted Hayrides in Ballston Spa are back for the fall. Attractions include the Haunted Hayride, a Museum of Horrors, and a Schadenfreude Circus. various times and prices

Ghosts in the Yaddo Garden Tours
Friday: Take a ghostly tour of the Yaddo Gardens in Saratoga Springs. Friday from 5-6 pm -- $10 / under 12 free

Ghost Tours at Fort William Henry
Friday-Sunday: Fort William Henry in Lake George is holding ghost tours of the fort. Friday-Sunday at 7:30pm and 9pm -- $17 / $8 kids 15 and under

Fort Ticonderoga's corn maze
Saturday-Sunday: Fort Ticonderoga's annual corn maze is in the shape of a fort. Try to find your way out while looking for history. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5pm -- $20 / $9 kids ages 5-12 (4 and under free)

Warrensburg Garage Sale
Saturday-Sunday: The "World's Largest Garage Sale" is back in Warrensburg. The annual Warrensburg Garage Sale includes more than 200 vendors from across the nation with antiques, clothing, furniture, electronics and more. Saturday and Sunday 8:30 am to 6pm -- free admission

Watervliet Historical Society's Fall Garage Sale
Saturday-Sunday: The Watervliet Historical Society is holding a garage sale this weekend. Saturday 9 am-5 pm, Sunday 9-3 pm -- free admission

Professional Bull Riders
Saturday: Professional bull riders from around the world will gather at the Times Union Center for the BlueDef tour. Saturday 7 pm -- $18 and up

Curling
Friday-Saturday: The Schenectady Curling Club hosts an open house this weekend. Watch demonstrations and learn to throw 42 pounds of granite down a sheet of ice. Walk-ins are welcome but priority will go to people who register ahead. Friday at 7 pm and Saturday at 3 pm -- free admission

Schenectady Socialism and Mayor George Lunn
Saturday: The Schenectady Historical Society hosts a talk by historian Bill Buell on former Schenectady Mayor George Lunn and how "socialist politics affected his career and the growing city of Schenectady in the early 1900s." Saturday 2 pm -- $5

Museums/galleries

Hudson Valley Ruins
Recently opened at the State Museum: Hudson Valley Ruins. It includes more than 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi of "forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley." It will be on display through the end of 2017.

Splendor, Myth, and Vision
Still on display at The Clark: Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado. Blurbage: "The exhibition explores the role of the nude in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the collecting and display practices of the Spanish royalty. Twenty-four of the paintings have never before been shown in America." It's on display through October 10.

200 years of Seating
Saturday: The Albany Institute of History and Art opens its new exhibit, The Art of Seating: 200 Years . Blurbage :

The chair is experienced not only as a functional item, but as sculptural in view--the chair as art. Each of the more than forty chairs in the exhibition was chosen for its beauty and historical context with important social, economic, political, and cultural influences.

The exhibit continues through December 31

Alexander Hamilton
The Albany Institute of History and Art exhibit on the life of Alexander Hamilton and his time in Albany continues. Hamilton, who has experienced a resurgence in popularity due to Lin Manuel Miranda's award-winning musical based on his life, married Elizabeth Schuyler at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany and visited the city often after that. The exhibit highlights objects related to Hamilton, including a portrait from the permanent collection of Union College. (On display through December 31.)

A More Perfect Union
The Tang presents: A More Perfect Union -- a new exhibit featuring Mel Ziegler's Multi-Year Project Flag Exchange. The installation includes 50 American flags collected by Ziegler, who traveled the country trading new flags for tattered ones flying at homes and public locations. (Runs through January.) free admission (suggested donations of $2 - $5)

Circus
The Arkell Museum has an exhibit of circus-themed art and vintage circus marketing materials. On display through October 16.

MASS MoCA
+ Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder
+ Alex Da Corte's Free Roses
+ Here Comes the Sun in the Kidspace

Sculpture parks
Maybe you'd like to explore some sculpture parks around the region.

Day trips
Explore some waterfalls, head for The Berkshires, The Catskills, or Columbia County. Or check out a state park.

Farmers' markets
This is a great time of year to visit the farmers markets in the Capital Region.
+ Troy Waterfront Farmers Market is in Riverfront Park for the rest of the summer because of the planned construction on River Street. Saturday 9 am-2 pm
+ The Saratoga Farmers' Market is outdoors at High Rock Park. Saturday from 9 am-1 pm
+ The Delmar Farmers Market is at Bethlehem Central Middle School. Saturday 9 am-1 pm
+ The Schenectady Greenmarket is at its outdoor location around City Hall. Sunday from 10 am-2 pm.
+ The Spa City Farmers' Market is outdoors to the lawn at the Lincoln Baths. Sunday from 10 am-3 pm

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