Right Now: Tell Emily Farris you want to compete in her Oct. 16 casserole party. There’s just one spot left. Then spend the weekend perfecting your recipe. casserolecrazy.com

Thursday
2pm-on: Mack on free burgers and dogs during Barcade’s third anniversary party. Wash it all down with American craft beers. 388 Union Ave., near Ainslie, 718-302-6464, barcadebrooklyn.com

Friday
9am-11am: Meet up with local entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and investors (ah, investors) to talk shop at the first Brooklyn OpenCoffee. RetreatNYC, 147 Front St., retreatnyc.com.

Saturday
10am-5pm: Buy hand-crafted jewelry, accessories, silkscreened onesies, photography and prints from over 40 local artists and crafters at the second annual ArtMart 11225 in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Lincoln Rd. between Ocean and Flatbush Aves., plgarts.org

Noon-5pm: Fight Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards development by walking or sponsoring someone in the Third Annual Develop Don’t Destroy Walkathon. Details here; previous post about the walk here.

3, 6, or 9pm: See Soy Cuba, the black & white, visually stunning portrait of the country before Castro, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov in 1964 and re-released in 1995 by Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola, Saturday or Sunday at BAM (bam.org). View the trailer here: youtube.com

8pm: Hear local experimental rockers Oneida and Canadian 70s proto-punk outfit Simply Saucer at Southpaw, where radio station WFMU hosts the free show. spsounds.com

Sunday
1-5pm: Visit six brownstones and two apartments on the Prospect Heights House Tour, including a green reno, and an illustrator’s studio. $15 in advance, $20 day of. 718-707-1277, phndc.org

3pm-on: Eat artisinal cheese, drink Oktoberfest beer, munch on Bob McClure’s Pickles and Kelly Geary’s organic goodies at The Yard’s Harvest Festival. Rest. Repeat. Then carve a pumpkin, canoe the Gowanus, and if you’re small enough, ride a pony. $5, 388-400 Carroll St. between Bond and Nevins, theyard.ws

New on the homepage: Statue, Leaf, by Brooklyn photoblogger Tom Giebel (atomische.com), taken at Green-Wood Cemetery.