What's going on this weekend?

Friday — First Friday and more

Vibrant Colors with Joel Washington
WonderLab
5 to 8:30 p.m.
Joel Washington, a vibrant Bloomington artist, will be displaying his work at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health, and Technology. His style includes bright, eye-catching portraits of famous figures and celebrities. Half-price admission to the WonderLab is in effect after 5 p.m. ($3.50). Visitors will be able to experiment with their own color-creating demonstrations.

Aleppo Before the Civil War
Boxcar Books
7 to 9 p.m.
Local artist Natasha Ritsma’s photographs chronicle the summer of 2010 in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria and the oldest continually habited city in the world. The photographs capture peaceful situations now likely damaged or destroyed by the Syrian civil war.
More artist information is available at http://www.boxcarbooks.org/Art.

$5 Ryder Films

Five dollars buys a ticket to see one of three movies on either Friday or Saturday night around campus. “The Big Picture” airs at 7 p.m. upstairs in the Fine Arts building, “The Flat” runs at 8 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 101 and “In Another Country” rounds out the evening upstairs in the Fine Arts building at 9:15 pm. The showtimes and locations are the same for Friday and Saturday night.
More information is available at TheRyder.com.

Stone Carnival
Bluebird
9 p.m.
A seven-piece band from Bedford, Ind., “Stone Carnival” brings a dose of strange to the music community. With stage names like “Hunky Dory Starr” and “Carlito Warrior,” Stone Carnival stands out as a goofy local act.

Saturday

Perkins Bros
Bluebird
9 p.m.
The self-described “hard charging, full energy, country rockers” also hail from southern Indiana. The band cites Cheap Trick, the Black Crowes and the Rolling Stones as part of its influences.