Earth Day, Patriot’s Day parades compete with plays, music festivals this weekend

Spring has sprung and so has the flurry of activity in and around Lawrence.

Plays, concerts, art shows and a music festival fill this weekend.

Today

Art Sale in the Barn, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Carlson Farm, 1157 E. 1200 Road.

Tour de Fat Festival, begins at 9 a.m., Burcham Park, Third and Indiana.

Earth Day celebration, 10 a.m., Prairie Park Nature Center, 2730 Harper St.

“The Big Adventures of Stuart Little,” 10 a.m., Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth, Topeka.

Fort Leavenworth Homes Tour and Frontier Army Encampment, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Leavenworth.

Kansa Prairie Quilters Patriots’ Day Quilt Show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., United Methodist Church, McLouth.

Earth Day Parade, 11 a.m., South Park to Buford M. Watson Jr. Park.

Official Opening of Kaw Nation Heritage Park Project, 11 a.m., Little John Creek Reserve, 3 1/2 miles south of Council Grove.

Xbox Odyssey, traveling video arcade, noon-10 p.m., Independence Mall, Independence, Mo.

Patriot’s Day Celebration, 11 a.m., with parade at 1 p.m., McLouth.

“Stuart Little,” by Seem-To-Be Players, 1:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.

“Wind in the Willows,” 2 p.m., Coterie Theatre, 2450 Grand Ave., Kansas City Mo.

“Storytelling Celebration: Connecting Communities with Stories,” 7 p.m., Unity Temple on the Country Club Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Annual Free Dessert Concert, featuring The CottonWood Winds, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive.

“South Pacific,” by University Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall, Kansas University.

“Beyond Riu, riu, chiu: The Valencian Villancico from the 16th to 18th Centuries,” 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 13th and Holmes streets, Kansas City, Mo.

Curtis and Loretta, 8 p.m., Borders Books, 700 N.H.

“Arsenic and Old Lace,” 8 p.m., Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 N.H.

“Dames at Sea,” 8 p.m., American Heartland Theatre Co., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Harlem Knights,” 8 p.m., Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, Kansas City, Mo.

“Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” 8 p.m., Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth, Topeka.

Rick Bruner, 8 p.m.-10 p.m., Classic Bean West, 2727 Wanamaker, Topeka.

Sunday

Xbox Odyssey, traveling video arcade, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Independence Mall, Independence, Mo.

Museum Day, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Museum of Anthropology, Natural History Museum and Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU campus.

“Stuart Little,” by Seem-To-Be Players, 1:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.

“Wind in the Willows,” 2 p.m., Coterie Theatre, 2450 Grand Ave., Kansas City Mo.

“Dames at Sea,” 2 p.m., American Heartland Theatre Co., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“South Pacific,” by University Theatre, 2:30 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall, KU.

Alumni Concert Band in honor of Robert E. Foster, 2:30 p.m., Lied Center.

“Contemporary Acoustic Folk Music,” Rick Bruner, concert, 2:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.

Mozart’s “Requiem,” presented by the Kaw Valley Community Chorus, 3 p.m., West Haven Baptist Church, 100 West, Tonganoxie.

The Bradley Allen Quartet featuring Rod Fleeman, 3 p.m., Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth, Topeka.

“Beyond Riu, riu, chiu: The Valencian Villancico from the 16th to 18th Centuries,” 7:30 p.m., St. John the Evangelist Church, 1234 Ky.

Curtis and Loretta, 8 p.m., Fedora Cafe, 210 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Mo.

“Arsenic and Old Lace,” 8 p.m., Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 N.H.

Rick Bruner, 8 p.m.-10 p.m., Classic Bean West, 2727 Wanamaker, Topeka.

Ongoing

“Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things” exhibit, through Sunday, Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Wow! That Oughta Be In a Museum,” through Wednesday, Old Depot Museum, 135 W. Tecumseh, Ottawa.

“Behind the Screen: Making Motion Pictures and Television,” through May 12, Union Station, 20 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo.

“Contemporary Ceramics East and West” and “Goltzius and the Third Dimension,” through May 19, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU.

“Those Who Came Before: Mexican-Americans in Kansas 1900-1950,” through May 22, Old Depot Museum, 135 W. Tecumseh, Ottawa.

“Tim Rollins/KOS and the Langston Hughes Project,” through May 26, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU.

“Small Paintings” by Alex Katz, through June 2, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Amish Quilts 1880 to 1940, from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown,” through June 30, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU.

“Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum,” through July 7, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.

“From Reservation to Corporate Office: A Donation of Southwest Art” and “Early Us (and Them) in Africa,” through Aug. 18, Museum of Anthropology, KU.

“Truman’s Chryslers,'” through September, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.

Topeka Zoo, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays, 635 S.W. Gage Blvd., Topeka.