Let your creative juices flow

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This weekend offers several opportunities to flex your creative muscles, from a Quilt-A-Thon to a blacksmithing workshop to a free drum circle. There’s also a euchre tournament, a psychic fair, plenty of art exhibits and more.

For Friday evening’s live music, we have metal bands From This Point On and Stranded Beneath, nu-metal bands HotBox and Splinters. and hard-rock band Ritual Suns at Mac’s Bar at 6 and solo musician Mark Weaks at Holt's Summerlands Brewing Co. at 8. Saturday evening, we have the first round of Q106’s Homegrown Throwdown battle of the bands contest at Grewal Hall and indie-folk-rock band Four More Shapes with singer-songwriter Kennedy Perez at UrbanBeat, both at 7. Ending the weekend on Sunday is folk-rock duo Wilderhoney at the Avenue at 7:30 p.m. and Mac’s Bar’s weekly Harmony Sundays DJ show at 9 p.m.

Art displays on view this weekend include the Mid-Michigan Art Guild’s fall art show at the Neighborhood Empowerment Center, which is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; “Complex Dreams,” “Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People,” “Freedom in the Automation Age” and “Seeing in 360 Degrees: The Zaha Hadid Design Collection” at the Broad Art Museum, which is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday; and “Light Through the Darkness” at the Art Williamston gallery, which is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

If you’d like to get creative yourself, the Broad’s monthly Family Day, running 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, will offer the opportunity to build illuminated sculptures inspired by the “Complex Dreams” exhibition. Additionally, Charlotte Community Library will host a no-sew bookworm-making craft 4:15 p.m. Friday for kids in first through third grades.

Sewing and quilting shop Country Stitches seeks volunteers for its annual Quilt-A-Thon, running 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday at its East Lansing location on Coolidge Road. Participants will help finish quilts that will be donated to charities in the Lansing and Jackson areas. No quilting or sewing experience is necessary — Country Stitches notes that if you can tie a knot, you can help. To sign up, call (517) 351-2416, email countrystitchesquiltshop@gmail.com or visit countrystitchesmi.as.me.

Unity Spiritual Center of Lansing’s monthly euchre tournament begins 7 p.m. Friday, with an optional potluck at 6:30 p.m.

The Meridian Township Farmers Market returns 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Meridian Mall and continues the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month through April.

Visit the Okemos Event Center 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday for a New Year’s Psychic and Holistic Fair, featuring aura photos, private sessions with psychics and mediums, reiki sessions and massages, and vendors offering crystals and holistic products.

Artfire Michigan in Leslie will host its monthly First Start Sunday beginners’ blacksmithing workshop 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Finally, Greater Lansing Area Drummers will move its weekly drum circles to Bath Community Center for the rest of the winter season, beginning with Sunday’s event from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience level. Attendees can bring their own drums or borrow one from the group.

Whatever you choose to do, I wish you the best of weekends.

(Have an event? Be sure to list it free at lansingcitypulse.com/calendar. Think it’s worth at least a short story? Send a news release to nicole@lansingcitypulse.com for consideration.)

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