ROCK THE CLOCK, 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday, 300 S. Madison Ave., Greenwood.
Celebrate the Greenwood community in this block party featuring live music, local beer and wine, vendors, food trucks and many more activities. All-day play in the Fun Zone is just $5, or enter one of the competitions, such as the Beer Stein event for adults and Root Beer Stein event for kids. The rock-paper-scissor tournament will turn the simple game of chance into a rollicking competition. Music by the Blue River Band will start at 3 p.m., then at 5:30 p.m. Karma Band will go on. The evening will finish out with a performance by Tastes Like Chicken at 8 p.m.
AN EVENING WITH NAFISSA THOMPSON-SPIRES, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Hamilton Auditorium, Franklin College campus. Free.
Thompson-Spires, a writer and a creative writing professor at the University of Illinois, comes to Franklin College as part of the Carlson-Stauffer Visiting Writer Series for this school year. Her first book, “Heads of the Colored People,” was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for fiction, as well as the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, some of the most prestigious writing awards in the world. Her work has appeared or will appear in the Paris Review Daily, Dissent and The White Review, among other publications.
