Friday
• Friday Night Music Series will allow first-time start up bands to perform their tunes 7 p.m. at the Otherwise Gallery, 1207 Turner St., in Old Town Lansing. For more information, call (517)371-4600.
• The Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse concert series is sponsoring Joel Mabus, a folk singer-songwriter, and his performance 8 p.m. at the Erickson Kiva on Friday. For more information, call (517)337-7744 or visit www.tenpoundfiddle.org
• Friday Night Improve Live! will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the East Lansing Recreation & Arts, Bailey Community Center, 300 Bailey St. For more information, call (517)337-4442.
• The Canadian folk singer Ferron will be performing 8 p.m. at The Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St., in Old Town Lansing. Call (517)487-9549 for more information.
Saturday
• There will be a Japanese Christmas open house and read-a-book poster contest 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will take place at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame, 213 W. Main St. in Lansing. Call (517)484-1880 for more information.
• The MSU Choral Ensembles, the Choral Union and the Symphony Orchestra will be performing Handel’s Messiah 8 p.m. at Great Hall in Wharton Center on Saturday. For more information, call (517)432-2000 or 1-800-WHARTON.
All weekend
• The comedy-drama “CTRL+ALT+DELETE” by Anthony Clarvoe will be performed at the Pasant Theatre in the Wharton Center all weekend. The performance times will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call (517)432-2000 or 1-800-WHARTON.
• The Nunsense Christmas musical “Nuncrackers” will be performed by the Lansing Civic Players at Lansing Catholic Central High School, 501 Marshall St., in Lansing all weekend. Performance times are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call (517)484-9115.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be performed at the Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive, Lansing all weekend. Performance times are at 7:30 p.m. Friday at and 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Contact (517)482-5700 for more information.
