• North Kingstown High School, 100 Fairway Drive, North Kingstown, will present “Fame: The Musical” tonight and tomorrow night at 7, and Sunday afternoon at 2.

Tickets are $8 if purchased in advance at Ryan’s Market and the school, or $10 at the door. For information, call 268-6274.

• The Jamestown Library, 26 north Rd., Jamestown, will host a performance by Richard Clark in “And now…Mark Twain!” this Sunday afternoon at 2.

Clark has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, the Actor’s Connection, and the Actor’s Loft in new York City, and has appeared in a number of new England regional theaters. His film credits include The Kennedys of Massachusetts, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Saturday Night Live. For information, call 423-7280.

• The Cornerstone Playhouse, 213 Robinson St., Wakefield, will present Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, this weekend, with performances at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow night, and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $18, $15 for senior citizens and students, and $10 for children. For reservations, call 783-8827

• The Amari String Quartet will perform at the North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone St., North Kingstown, this Sunday afternoon at 2, as part of the winter series of “Sunday Musicales at the Library.” The program will include works by Beethoven, Haydn, and the late 19th-century composer Ernest Chausson. Admission is free, but reservations should be made by calling 294-3306, ext. 3.

• The 2007 “Piano Extravaganza!” Festival at the University of Rhode Island will begin tonight with a preview concert featuring 13 URI piano students performing ensemble music, at 8 in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Rd., Kingston. Admission is free.

Tomorrow night, a concert with URI faculty, and featuring festival artist Kevin Ayesh of North Carolina, as well as jazz pianist Joseph Parillo and classical pianist Manabu Takasawa, will begin at 8, also in the concert hall. Admission is $8, $2 for students. Ayesh will give a master class Sunday morning at 10, followed by an afternoon piano competition for pre-college students, kicked off by an additional short performance by Ayesh, from 1 to 5 p.m.

• Rhode Island Celtic band Pendragon will perform at the Courthouse Center for the Arts, on Route 138 in West Kingston, as part of a pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration tomorrow night at 7:30. Tickets are $15, $12 for members; for reservations or information, call 782-1018.

• “Sol Music” will perform tonight at 7:30 at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 15 Each Beach Rd. Charlestown. A free-will offering will benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

• The Rhode Island Shoreline Coalition will host its annual mid-winter membership meeting tomorrow, when former attorney general and radio talk-show host Arlene Violet and Larry Fitzmorris, president of the Portsmouth Concerned Citizens, will address Rhode Island legislative corruption and the Portsmouth school district’s budget establishment process.

The meeting is at 9 a.m. at Venice Restaurant in Charlestown. For information or reservations, call 322-2051.

• A baking class to make the Middle Eastern treat baklava will run from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at the neighborhood Guild, 325 Columbia St., Peace Dale. Fees are $31 for South Kingstown residents, $38 for others; to register, call the South Kingstown Parks and Recreation Department at 789-9301.

• Children age 2 to 6 will learn about the properties of magnets during a 45-minute program this morning at 10 at the Tri-Pond Park nature Center, on Asa Pond Road in Peace Dale. Fees are $10 for town residents, $13 for others. To register, call the South Kingstown Parks and Recreation Department at 789-9301.

• The South Kingstown Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a nature and music program for families with children age 5 to 12, tomorrow afternoon at the Tri-Pond Park nature Center, on Asa Pond Road in Peace Dale.

A brief meditation/breathing exercise will begin at 1:30, followed by an exploration of the park trails. Afterward, participants will collaborate on a musical or poetical expression of the experience. Fees are $9 for town residents, $12 for others. To register, call 789-9301.

• The Exeter Animal Shelter will raise funds with a spaghetti supper this Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Masonic Hall, on Route 102 in North Kingstown. For reservations, call 294-2754.

• The Knights of Columbus, St. Francis Council, will host an Irish dinner and dance tomorrow at its hall, 1265 Tower Hill Rd., North Kingstown. Cocktails at 6 p.m. will be followed by dinner at 7, with music by Jeff Shea and Shawn Reilly from 8 until midnight.

Admission is $30 per couple. For reservations, call 295-0507.

• Hypnotist Jim Spinnato will perform at Chariho Middle School, on Switch Road in Wood River Junction, tonight at 6:30. Admission is $6, $5 for students, will proceeds to go toward the graduation party for Chariho High School’s class of 2007. For information, call Lisa Schipritt at 364-3655.

• Films from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia will be shown at the Westerly Public Library, 44 Broad St., Westerly, at 1 p.m. each Friday in March. This afternoon’s feature will be Billy Elliot, about an 11-year-old English boy’s efforts to study ballet. For information, call 596-2877.

The Hopkinton Recreation Department screens films for adults each Saturday at 7 p.m. at Crandall House, on Route 3 in Ashaway. For reservations, call 377-7795 by noon that day.

• Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association geologist, Charlie Hickox will lead a three- mile hike through Champlin Glacial Park in Westerly, tomorrow morning from 10 to noon. Fees are $4 for association members, and $6 for others. To register, call 539-9017.

The preserve, owned by the Westerly Land Trust, features several classic glacial formations.

• The Friends of Canonchet Farm are sponsoring guided walks of the Narragansett park each Sunday afternoon at 1, weather permitting.

Walkers should wear appropriate shoes for crossing small, wet areas, and meet at the South County Museum parking lot, at the end of Strathmore Street, Narragansett. For information, call Kathie Kelleher at 783-3951.

• Peace Dale’s Church of God, 209 Allen Ave., will celebrate black history with an evening of readings, music and dance, tomorrow, beginning at 5 p.m. Audience members and participants are encouraged to come in African dress.

• David Fisher, a forensic scientist with the new York City medical examiner’s office, will discuss DNA typing as part of URI’s forensic science series, this afternoon at 3:30 in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Rd., Kingston. Admission is free and open to the public.

• Beware the Ides of March. Shakespeare scholar Helen Whall will lead a discussion of Julius Caesar tomorrow morning at 10:30 at the North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone St., North Kingstown. To register or to reserve a copy of the play, call 294-3306, ext. 3.

• URI’s Electronic Music Association is sponsoring a night of electronic music, “Dance ’til Dawn,” featuring disc jockey Bryan Cox, beginning tomorrow night at10 and running until Sunday morning at 6, in the Memorial Union. Admission is $12 for students with ID, $15 for others.