Under the direction of Associate Professor George French, the award winning rock musical “Little Shop of Horrors” will be performed by students in the Music and Theater Department at the University of Minnesota Crookston, this Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, April 5, 6, 7, and 8th. Performance time is 7:30 p.m. each evening in Kiehle Auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students and children.

The North Dakota Ballet Company presents “Poetry in Motion”, Saturday April 5th at 7:30 pm at the Empire Arts Center in downtown Grand Forks. Tickets are available at the door.

Musicians from the Northern Valley Youth Orchestras will perform a Spring Concert on Sunday, April 6th at 4:30 at the First Presbyterian Church of Grand Forks. The performance is titled “Spring Serenade: NVYO Garden Party.”

Holocaust survivor Marion Blumental Lazan will share a first -hand account of her family’s life in Germany under Nazi control on Wednesday, April 9th at the Fisher Public School in Fisher, Minnesota. The presentation begins at 10 am and the public is welcome to attend.

Minnesota’s Mason Jennings performs this Friday, April 4th at the Fargo Theater, 314 Broadway in downtown Fargo. Show time is 8:00pm. The opening act is Iris Dement, country, folk and gospel singer from Paragould, Arkansas.

“Joseph and the Amazing Color Dreamcoat” opens this weekend at “The Stage at Island Park” in Fargo. Performances by the Moorhead/Fargo Community Theater are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

The opening and a reception for the art exhibit by Dan Jones will be held on Friday, April 4th from 6 to 8 pm at ECCE Art in downtown Fargo, 216 North Broadway. His work reflects the farmland, landscapes, and lake and river scenes in northwest Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

“Iron Range Discovery Day” is this Saturday, April 5th at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm, Minnesota. Museum exhibits, demonstrations and special programs will be featured. For more information call toll free at 800-372-6437.