Labor Day Weekend: 3 Things To Do In Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA — Ready to start planning your Labor Day festivities? Atlanta is brimming with fun activities over the holiday weekend.

While there are many events going on in the city, the biggest and brashest will be happening in downtown Atlanta and involve throngs of people with customs on and clothing with elaborate designs. And football. There's going to be some pretty big football games here this weekend. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)
Take some time to check out these exciting events and learn how to post your own event to the Patch Calendar.

Dragon Con

More than 65,000 people are expected in downtown Atlanta for Dragon Con this weekend. The festivities kick off Friday, Sept. 1 through Monday, Sept. 4 with a convention, parade and much more.

The Chick-fil-A Kickoff game

The No. 1 team in the nation, the Alabama Crimson Tide, will play the No. 2 Florida State Seminoles to usher in the 2017 college football season at newly minted Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Bama-FSU contest starts at 8 p.m. ET, Saturday, Sept. 2. The teams have combined to win five of the last eight college football national championships.

Georgia Tech-Tennessee

Georgia Tech will travel 1.5 miles from its home environs of Bobby Dodd Stadium to downtown Atlanta to open the season. Part of the 2017 Chick-fil-A Kickoff, No. 24 Tennessee will play Georgia Tech on Sept. 4 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium to cap off Labor Day weekend.

Many times Patch writers and editors get emails from people wanting us to post or write about their events. Here is an easy way to post items of note yourself on the site.

Posting an event is as simple as 1, 2, 3. Here's how to do it:

1. Create a Patch account and sign up to post your own local content on Patch, totally free. It's probably the easiest thing you'll do all day.
2. Make a Calendar Event and fill it with all the awesome info that people need to add it to their list of things to do in their neighborhood. Choose a fun image to upload and most importantly, have fun with it! It's your event, and the possibilities are endless.
3. Post it on Patch! That's it. Get ready for RSVPs.

You can share your event for free to three Patches, or if you really want to get the community's attention, you can pay $20 to feature your event. When an event is featured, it receives priority placement on the local calendar as well as on your Patch's homepage, article pages and in the daily newsletter (if available) the week before the event.

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