Farmers Market opens today

Nash Dash, Mother's Day at the Pool also on tap

If you are looking for something to do with mom this weekend for Mother’s Day, Lawrence has plenty to offer, from plays to music. The Farmers Market makes its debut today, just in time to get Mom some fresh flowers.

Today

Opening day of the Farmer’s Market, 6:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., 10th and Vermont streets.

First Annual Nash Dash WRAP Run, 7 a.m., begins at the levee at Elm and North Second streets.

Cherished Doll Club of Topeka Annual Doll Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Kansas Expocentre, Ag Hall, 17th Street and Topeka Boulevard, Topeka.

“Pinocchio,” 2 p.m., Theatre for Young America, Mission Center Mall, 4881 Johnson Drive, Overland Park.

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

“Celebrate the Stokstad Years,” public program and reception of Kansas University art history professor Marilyn Stokstad, 4 p.m., Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University.

Live jazz, featuring Mr. Van’s Jazz Band, 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Bichelmeyer’s Steakhouse Restaurant, 427 E. Fourth St., Tonganoxie.

Saturday Nite’s Main Event, youth lock-in for fourth- through eighth-graders, 7 p.m.-11 p.m., East Lawrence Center, 1245 E. 15th St.

Branson-style country music, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Glen’s Opry, Fourth and Main streets, Tonganoxie.

“Proof,” 8 p.m., Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Singer Dianne Reeves, 8 p.m., American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.

“Carmina Burana”/”Agon,” with Kansas City Ballet, 8 p.m., Midland Theatre, 1228 Main, Kansas City, Mo.

“The-Under-A-Minutemen,” 8 p.m., Dance Academy, 1117 Mass.

Sandy Johnson at the Piano, 9 p.m., The Lodge, 502 Ames, Baldwin.

Sunday

“Mother’s Day at the Pool,” 9 a.m.-8:45 p.m., Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive.

Harry Connick Jr., 7:30 p.m., Midland Theatre, 1228 Main, Kansas City, Mo.

“Cold Sassy Tree,” 2 p.m., Lyric Opera of Kansas City, 11th and Central Streets, Kansas City, Mo.

“Proof,” 8 p.m., Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

“Carmina Burana”/”Agon,” with Kansas City Ballet, 8 p.m., Midland Theatre, 1228 Main, Kansas City, Mo.

Swing dance, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., with salsa and swing lessons from 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Dance Academy, 1117 Mass.

Ongoing

“Behind the Screen: Making Motion Pictures and Television,” through Sunday, 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, and “Todd Hido: Open House,” through June 2, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Under the Chuppah: Judaica for the Wedding and Beyond,” through June 23, Kansas City Jewish Museum, 5500 W. 123rd St., Overland Park.

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

“Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donnapermill,” through June 30, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 701 Beach Lane, Manhattan.

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

“Good Bears of the World,” through July 11, Toy and Miniature Museum, 5235 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.

“History of Corinthian Hall,” through December, Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City, 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, Topeka Zoo, 635 S.W. Gage Blvd., Topeka.