5 THINGS: Weekend of Oct. 7

#1 Alaska Home Companion

Saturday: 7 p.m. Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry, 3800 W. Museum Dr, Wasilla, $15

Would you like to share your stories about the best, the worst, and the silliest of everyday living in Alaska? Coming soon, the Season 5 Premier Episode of The Alaska Home Companion—A Frontier Variety Show!

The Season 5 Premier Episode will be broadcast live on Saturday October 8 from the historic Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry (MATI) gallery next to Wasilla International Airport. An encore episode will be broadcast live from the Sutton Public Library in November.

The Alaska Home Companion—A Frontier Variety Show! is the Valley Arts Alliance rendition of a live radio broadcast from the golden age of radio, with skits, music, and dance acts, similar to the popular Prairie Home Companion radio show on NPR.

The Wasilla episode of the VAA Alaska Home Companion—A Frontier Variety Show! will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Saturday, October 8 at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry in Wasilla.

Tickets are $15 and are available at the door. A cash bar will be open during the event.

The Sutton episode of the VAA Alaska Home Companion—A Frontier Variety Show! will be broadcast in November at the Sutton Public Library. Suggested donation is $15

#2 Boots and Bling

Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.: Menard Center, $65

The 2016 Rotary Uncorked event features an evening of wine tasting, tapas, live & silent auction, music, and lots of fun.

Dress in your best boots and bling and join us for our fundraiser to help local organizations such as My House, Sertoma, and others.

#3 Delightfully Dulce

Sunday, 3 p.m., Glenn Massay Theater, free

Anahelene Taylor and Tim Carrick, along with the Matanuska Susitna Orchestra, are presenting a concert to benefit the Friends of The Children’s Place, starting at 3 p.m. at the Glenn Massay Theater.

The concert is free and donations will be accepted for The Children’s Place.

#4 Synesthesia ~ A Concert of Visual Music

Saturday, 7 p.m., Vagabond Blues, 642 S Alaska St., Palmer, $10-$15

The Palmer Arts Council is pleased to bring Tina Larkin to the stage and the walls of Vagabond Blues.

She will use her unique gift to take you along on a “Concert of Visual Music” as we hear her perform and see her artwork as well. Joining Tina on stage will be the always entertaining Shonti Elder on fiddle and Naomi Stamoolis on Oboe. Tickets are available at Vagabond Blues, Fireside Books. Visit www.tinalarkin.net or call the Palmer Arts Council at (907) 745-7735.

#5 Fall Coin Show at Fairgrounds

If you’re into coin collection, the State Fairgrounds in Palmer is the placed to be Saturday and Sunday for the Fall Coin Show. Admission is $7 per day, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The event is in conjunction with the Alaska Gun Collectors Association.