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Twin Ports Heavy Metal Scholarship Fundraiser
Friday. Nov. 6, 6 pm
Elks Lodge
Wisconsin Freemasons host a metal concert in the basement to raise money for students in music and arts programs at Twin Ports area colleges. Local Twin Ports area bands Brainwashed, Possessed to Restored and Shadows of Me take the stage.

Hunting in the Northwoods: Two One-Act Plays
Fri.-Sun., Nov. 6-15
Old Post Office Ballroom, Superior
Revival of the original plays that introduced Time Arc Theatre to the community eight years ago. The Hunting Shack Anniversary Surprise by Teddie Meronek and The Wild, Wild (Mid) West by Kathy Laakso both have women crashing the men’s idyllic hunting cabin paradise.

Art, Life & Death: 3 Films by The Archers
Nov. 6 & 7
Burns Wellness Commons, St. Scholastica
“The Archers” were the filmmaking partnership of British director Michael Powell and Hungarian writer Emeric Pressburger. Free showings of The Red Shoes 7 p.m. Friday, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1 p.m. Saturday and A Matter of Life and Death 7 p.m. Saturday.

Everybody
Nov. 6-14
UMD Dudley Experimental Theatre
Adaptation of the 15th-century morality play Everyman. The allegorical character Everybody goes on a journey to face Death. Embodying life’s unpredictability, certain roles at each performance will be assigned by lottery.

Amy Speace
Saturday, Nov. 7, 7 pm
Wussow’s
Heralded by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Billboard Magazine and NPR’s Weekend Edition, singer/songwriter Amy Speace is one of contemporary folk music’s leading voices and widely considered one of the best songwriters in Folk and Americana. With Ashe Berton.

Earth, Fire, Water & Blood: A Tale of Two Mines
Sunday, Nov. 8, 1 pm
Fairlawn Mansion
Fairlawn tour guide Nolan Ewert shares a presentation on late 1800s mining, the births and deaths of two mine’s profitabilities – The Denn Mine in Bisbee, Arizona and the Pioneer Mine in Ely – what life was like as a miner, how minerals funded the lives of the wealthy, and copper mining versus iron ore.

Urinetown
Nov. 12-21
Zeitgeist
Local version of what is possibly the oddest-named Broadway hit musical, this satire depicts a drought-stricken city where private toilets are outlawed, a powerful company profits from controlling public amenities and a revolution ensues.