The Wonderful World of Chris Monroe, Sat. & Sun., Sept. 21 & 22 and Sept. 28 & 29, 1 & 4 p.m., Zeitgeist Arts

Great Northern Squash Fest
Sept. 19-21
Foxboro, Wis.
Folk and bluegrass festival that features original music and art from artists around the area and beyond. Music, camping, kids’ activities, vendors, art, campfire pickin’ and good times.

Folk It Up: An Americana Cabaret
Sept. 20-22
UMD Marshall Performing Arts Center
Stage 2 Theatre Company at the University of Minnesota Duluth kick off the 2024-2025 season with a free show performing a wide variety of folk tunes as solos, duets and group numbers alongside acoustic instruments and social dances.

The Wonderful World of Chris Monroe
Sat. & Sun., Sept. 21 & 22 and Sept. 28 & 29, 1 & 4 p.m.
Zeitgeist Arts
The whimsical, beloved characters from the children’s books by Duluthian Chris Monroe come to life in this stage play. Play tricks with sneaky sheep, find mischief with Sasquatch and Squirrel, take a walk with Cookie and solve problems with the monkey with a toolbelt, Chico Bon Bon.

Carpe Noctem
Saturday, Sept. 21, 8 p.m.
Duluth Depot
Come gather in your finest gothic attire for an evening of dark and eerie entertainment featuring aerial, burlesque, dance, drag, fire dancing, pole artistry and live singing.

Roy Book Binder
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m.
Northerly School of Music
Stirring folk/blues guitarist and storyteller who began playing while in the Navy, then in East Coast coffeehouses in the early 1960s, associating with Dave Van Ronk, Pink Anderson, Rev. Gary Davis and Jorma Kaukonen. With Todd Albright.

War & Moral Injury
Wednesday, Sept. 25, noon
UMD Library Rotunda
Thursday, Sept. 26, 2:30 p.m.
Bong Veterans Historical Center
Garett Reppenhagen, a U.S. Army scout sniper in Iraq, talks about the emotional wounds that many veterans carry from their wartime experiences. He is also in the documentary, What I Want You to Know, which shows at UMD Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. and at CSS Thursday, 7 p.m.

In Tandem
Thursday, Sept. 26, 7 p.m.
Zeitgeist
Tina Higgins Wussow wrote a short story titled “Nostalgia” and local artists pooled their experience within their respective mediums to create an all-encompassing production based around the reading of a written work.