Things to do in Sunrise/Whitney Sept. 25- Oct. 1

A free Healthy Kids Festival featuring entertainment and information from health providers, fitness advocates and more is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. Visit clarkcountynv.gov or call 455-7340.

Rock-It-Science is scheduled to play at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Roxy's Lounge in Sam's Town, 5111 Boulder Highway. Admission is free but limited to adults 21 or older. Visit samstown.com.

Block Party is scheduled to perform from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday at Marilyn's Lounge in the Eastside Cannery, 5255 Boulder Highway. Visit eastsidecannery.com or call 856-5300.

Tenor saxophonist Gary Anderson's quintet, the Cocho Arbe Latin Jazz Quintet and trombonist Curt Miller's Boneheads are scheduled to perform at a free Jazz Picnic from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. Visit clarkcountynv.gov or call 455-7340.

The band Slam is scheduled to perform from 8 p.m. to midnight today through Thursday and from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday through Sunday at Arizona Charlie's Boulder, 4575 Boulder Highway. Admission is free but limited to adults 21 or older. Visit arizonacharliesboulder.com.

Worth a Drive

The 16th annual Bite of Las Vegas food and music festival is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Desert Breeze Park, 8275 Spring Mountain Road. Headliners include: Matchbox Twenty, Alanis Morissette, Ed Sheeran, Rebecca Ferguson, Tristan Prettyman and Phillip Phillips. Tickets are $13. Children 8 or younger get in free. Visit mix941fm.cbslocal.com.

The third annual Asian Harvest Moon Festival is scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. Expect traditional music and dance performances, arts and crafts, a children's lantern parade, and food and drink concessions. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children 5 to 12 and free for children 4 or younger. Call 822-8453 or visit springspreserve.org.

Around 300 visitors are expected for this year's Pioneer Day scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park. The park plans to offer pioneer activities throughout the day, including candle dipping, needlework and dancing. Fiddlers also are scheduled to perform. The park is off state Route 159, roughly 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Beltway on West Charleston Boulevard. Park entrance is $7. Call 875-4141 or visit parks.nv.gov.

"Seussical" is scheduled at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday at the Henderson Pavilion, 200 S. Green Valley Parkway. Tickets are $10. Visit hendersonlive.com.Gory historic attire is encouraged but not required at the Pride & Prejudice and Zombies English Dance set for 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St. Come early for dance lessons scheduled from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for Southern Nevada Old Time Contra Dancer members and $10 for nonmembers. Visit lasvegascountrydance.org or call 229-6383.

Margo Torea of the Sociedad Cultural Hispana plans to examine the shared spirit underlying Latin America's dance cultures and costumes in a free program featuring flamenco, tango, rumba and more at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road. Call 507-3459.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Taras Krysa, is set to open its season with "Beethoven and Dvorak" at 7:30 p.m. today at the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall at UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for UNLV faculty and staff, military and seniors and free for UNLV and Clark County School District students with a valid ID. Call 895-2787 or visit pac.unlv.edu.

The touring "Tree House: Look Who's Living in the Trees" exhibit is scheduled to be on display through Jan. 14 on the second floor of the Lied Discovery Children's Museum, 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North. The exhibit includes a tree house kids can explore, 3-D images of animals living in trees, an animal dance floor where kids can try to identify animal sounds and a computer forest game where patrons can harvest trees without harming wildlife. Visit ldcm.org.

Cocktails & Canvas, a live collaborative art event, is planned at 5:45 p.m. Saturday at Loftworks, 6405 S. Tenaya Way. All proceeds are to benefit the charity New Vista. Sixteen artists are set to collaborate on 13 original works on everything from canvas to a hybrid sports car donated by Gaudin Fisker of Las Vegas. Guests will also enjoy menu samplings from Garfield's, The Melting Pot and others. Tickets start at $75. Visit newvistanv.org.

n Farcical play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder is planned at 7 p.m. Saturday and Oct. 5 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Jim3 House of Performing Arts at Bishop Gorman High School, 5959 S. Hualapai Way. Also, one-act play "Check Please" and ballet "New York Stories" are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at the school. Tickets are $12. For more information, visit bishopgorman.org, call 476-4175 or email performingarts@bishop
gorman.org.

PLAN AHEAD

n The Maloof Money Cup World Skateboarding Championship is scheduled to be broadcast from South Africa at
7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in theaters across the country, including Century 18 Sam's Town, 5111 Boulder Highway. Visit fathomevents.com.