The Triangle Calendar

Durham Armory, 7:30 p.m. The Choral Society of Durham and the Durham Symphony perform Mozart's Requiem for the 25th anniversary. Free.

Dashi, Durham, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursdays in September in the izakaya. Sip, learn a little, stay for dinner. Free.

Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden at Duke Gardens, Durham. Meet the people who keep the bees, the chickens, and the edible plants.

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill, 6:30 p.m. Opening night of a festival running since 2004. Free and open to all.

Moore Square and City Plaza, Raleigh, through Saturday. Over 100 bands, and a long list of free day parties around downtown if the $159 wristband isn't happening.

Talley Student Union, Raleigh, 7:30 p.m. Haitian Vodou blues from a musician raised in the tradition. $30 to $35 general admission.

Mettlesome, Durham, 9 p.m., $9. The audience drops anonymous confessions into a bucket and an improv cast performs them back.

Durham Central Park pavilion, 7 p.m. A free outdoor screening of the Peabody-winning documentary on the Durham-raised lawyer, priest, and poet.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 5 to 9 p.m. The museum stays open late for the Carrboro-Chapel Hill ArtWalk. Admission always free, no registration.

Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, 6 a.m. Participants climb 2,071 stairs, the height of the towers, for the 2,977 people who died. Open to all.

FRANK Gallery and galleries across Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Monthly reception, with the Ackland staying open 5 to 9 p.m.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 1 p.m. A half-hour conversational tour of a few works from the new modern and contemporary acquisitions. Free, first come first served, 20 spots.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. German music, dancing, food and beer, open to all ages.

Motorco, Durham, 1 to 10 p.m. Nine hours of oompah bands and Bavarian food.

Briggs Avenue Community Garden, Durham, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fall vegetable starts, a pepper tasting, free seeds and compost to take home. Free.

Durham Convention Center Plaza, 1 to 5 p.m. Paperhand Puppet Intervention, the Durham Labor Choir, and a square dance with the Five Points Rounders, then a benefit concert at the Carolina Theatre at 7:30.

Durham Central Park, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. NAMI Durham's youth leaders built this one themselves. Music, games, food trucks, and mental health resources. Free.

Pittsboro, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and again Sunday from noon. A barn full of wood-fired mugs and vases, plus a free LocoPop while supplies last.

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1 to 5 p.m. Performers claim spots across the 164-acre museum park. Free to wander, but bring cash for the hat.

Downtown Cary Park, 3 to 10 p.m. Aerial and fire performances, free interactive circus workshops, an arts market, and food trucks. Free.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, 6 to 9 p.m. Wander between performances in whatever order you like. Free, but you need a ticket, and the museum just released more.

Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough. Free coffee-and-donuts gathering with collector cars; bring a favorite vehicle to show off, 9 a.m. to noon.

1515 N Pointe Drive, Durham, 3 to 8 p.m. Parade, folkloric dance, Garifuna ballet, food and live music. Free, $5 donation suggested.

The Velvet Hippo, Durham, 4 to 7 p.m. DJ sets drifting off the Orange Street rooftop every Sunday.

North Carolina Botanical Garden, 100 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill. About 66 artists across the display gardens, up through December 6. Free, $5 suggested for the show.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. The artist talks with curator Lauren Turner about Against Nature, the newest ART& installation.

Passmore Center, Hillsborough, 2 p.m. A speaker sets up the film, then free popcorn. Free, register by 3 p.m. Friday.

The Pinhook, Durham, 8 p.m. Pop-rock loud enough to fix a Monday.

The Lumina Theater, Chapel Hill. A political-thriller classic starring Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant, screened as part of the Ackland's public film series.

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC Chapel Hill, 5:30 to 7 p.m. A panel from the School of Civic Life and Leadership and the law school, with pizza afterward. Free, no tickets, first-come seating.

Durham Central Park Pavilion, 6 to 7 p.m. Gentle mat yoga from You Call This Yoga, weekly on Tuesdays through September 29. Free.

The Pit and Polk Place, UNC Chapel Hill, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Booths, live demonstrations, CPR and fire-extinguisher practice with campus, county, and state partners. Drop in.

The Pavilion at Durham Central Park, 7 to 9 p.m. The local Batala group practices out in the open every Wednesday, and you can hear it from Foster Street.

American Tobacco Campus amphitheater, Durham, 6:30 p.m. Week two of the Tift Merritt series. Free, no tickets, bring a chair.

Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street, 3 to 6 p.m. The Durham Farmers' Market midweek edition, everything grown or made within 70 miles.

Gregg Museum, Raleigh, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Raleigh poet laureate Johnny Lee Chapman III seats Black elders with young adults, and advocate Octavia Rainey is the guest. Free, register ahead.

Durham Central Park, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A grand piano in the back of a box truck, parked and played in the open. Free, and a fundraiser for the park.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 5:30 p.m. Tanya Shields on two plantation-owning women and what their power looked like. Free, registration required, hosted by Carolina Public Humanities.

Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street. The MAKRS Society's monthly food and art market, with trucks, makers, and music.

Durham Central Park, 5:30 p.m. The MAKRS Society's monthly foodie and art market, with a food truck rodeo plus food and art vendors. The Glass Jug is next door.

Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Chapel Hill. An evening of science with lighting and sound adjusted for sensory needs.

John Chavis Memorial Park, 505 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Raleigh, 6 to 8 p.m. A free '90s-themed skate night with music and throwback fun. Bring your own roller skates.

Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Chapel Hill, 6 to 8 p.m. A science evening adjusted for sensory needs, open to all ages.

Duke Gardens, Pelham-Cullen Classroom, Durham. A two-hour class with Julia Gartrell of the Radical Repair Workshop on embroidering botanical designs over the holes in your clothes.

Downtown Durham, Main and Chapel Hill Streets around CCB Plaza. North Carolina's longest-running street art festival: a juried art market, live music, kids' art activities, and food. Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free, $5 donation suggested.

NC Museum of Natural Sciences, downtown Raleigh, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The museum's biggest festival, indoors and out.

Moore Square, 201 S Blount Street, Raleigh, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. A free day-long Lord of the Rings festival with a movie marathon.

Indian Creek Trailhead, 101 Town Hall Drive, Morrisville, 4 to 7 p.m. Free.

The Velvet Hippo, Orange Street, Durham, 4 to 7 p.m. Rotating Velvet Hippo DJs on the rooftop with spritz and mimosa specials. No cover, 21+.

Fayetteville Street, downtown Raleigh, noon to 6 p.m. The Triangle's largest Latin American festival, with music, food, and vendors. Free to attend.

John and June Allcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. Analogue animation and abstraction from collaborators Michelle Inez Hinojosa and Barbara Pearsall, up through October 15. Free, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Durham Central Park, 6 to 7 p.m. Gentle mat yoga on the lawn from You Call This Yoga, weekly on Tuesdays through the end of September. Free.

The Durham Hotel rooftop, 315 East Chapel Hill Street, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Watch the chimney swifts swarm before they leave for South America. New Hope Bird Alliance brings the scopes. Free.

American Tobacco Campus amphitheater, Durham, 6:30 p.m. Week three of the Tift Merritt series. Free, no tickets, bring a chair.

Hill Hall, Chapel Hill, 7:30 p.m. The university jazz band with a guest vibraphonist. $10 general admission, $5 students and staff, tickets at the door 30 minutes before.

Carolina Theatre, Durham, 11 a.m. Lights up, sound down, movement welcome, built with the Duke Center for Autism. Free, reserve tickets ahead.

Apex Town Campus, 63 Hunter Street, Apex, 3 to 7 p.m. Free admission, live entertainment schedule.

Downtown Cary Park Great Lawn Pavilion. Free American Dance Festival program of four commissioned world premieres by North Carolina choreographers, 90 minutes with one intermission.

Durham Central Park, noon to 4 p.m. Forty-plus food trucks and sixty-plus LGBTQ-affirming vendors, plus a Drag Story Hour, kicking off Durham Pride Week with the LGBTQ Center of Durham.

Downtown Carrboro. Free, dozens of performers across multiple locations, with kickoff events the Saturday before.

Gateway Gardens Event Lawn at Duke Gardens, Durham. Bring your own picnic and blanket for story time with Stormie Daie plus zine-making and creature-building tables.

American Tobacco Campus amphitheater, Durham, 6:30 p.m. Last night of the Tift Merritt series. Free, no tickets, bring a chair.

Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at Duke Gardens, Durham, 11 a.m. to noon. Horticulture staff and volunteers walk the native-plant garden with a seasonal topic each month. $10, free for members.

Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street. Durham Central Park and WNCU 90.7FM bring in a Stevie Wonder tribute band with a full horn section, led by Gabriel Bello.

Downtown Raleigh. A free street festival with music on multiple stages, October 2 to 3, with a kickoff party October 1. Presented by PNC and produced by PineCone.

Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary, Friday and Saturday. Bavarian food, music, and stein-hoisting.

The Pavilion at Durham Central Park, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Durham Parks and Recreation's fall film series, with local food trucks on site. Free.

Durham Performing Arts Center. Sylvan Esso's downtown festival: three nights at DPAC (Sylvan Esso twice, Tyler Childers once) with guests Meshell Ndegeocello, aja monet, and Silvana Estrada, plus afterparties at The Pinhook, Bay 7, and Boom Club through October 10. Ticketed.

FRANK Gallery, Carrboro, 6 to 9 p.m. The September-November member show opens alongside FRANK:inFocus, with wine and cheese. Free.

Amphitheater at American Tobacco Campus, Durham. A free afternoon concert with MJ Lenderman and a screening of William Tyler's film "Time Indefinite," part of Good Moon Festival. Open to all; start time not yet announced.

Downtown Cary Park, 1 to 5 p.m. More than 20 architect-built pet structures up for auction for local rescues, plus a costume contest and adoptable dogs. Free, leashed pets welcome.

Lake Benson Park, 921 Buffaloe Road, Garner, 1 to 4 p.m. Free, rain date October 11.

NC State Fairgrounds, 4285 Trinity Road, Raleigh. Opening day — the fair runs October 15 to 25.

Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden at Duke Gardens, Durham. A free drop-in autumn festival with music, demonstrations, and activities for all ages. Parking fees apply.

Downtown Cary Park Great Lawn, 6 to 10 p.m. Local zombie short films, one to five minutes each, this year on the theme of sport. Costumes encouraged. Free.

Downtown River Park, 144 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, noon to 8 p.m. A free, volunteer-run outdoor music day from the Triangle Music Alliance.

Jim Graham Building at the NC State Fairgrounds, 4285 Trinity Road, Raleigh. The Neuse River Valley Model Railroad Club's two-day show, November 7 and 8. Enter at Gate 9.

The Plant, Pittsboro, noon to 6 p.m. Roasted chestnuts, chestnut cocktails, live music and pop-up vendors. Free.

Carolina Theatre, Durham, 8 p.m. The SNL trio brings its live show to Morgan Street. Tickets on sale at the box office and online.