Patti Gibbons

The Department of Performing Arts is presenting "The Importance of Being Earnest," Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, in McCrary Theatre from April 6 through April 9.

The James P. Elder Lecture brings Diane Rehm to Elon for an entertaining conversation moderated by D.G. Martin in Whitley Auditorium on April 6 at 6 p.m.

Afternoon symposium on Concussions and Mental Health in Lakeside Meeting Rooms of Moseley Center from 3 to 7 p.m.

Michael Messner, professor of sociology and gender studies at University of Southern California, will present "More Men: From Violence to Anti-Violence" in Whitley Auditorium at 7 p.m.

Directed by Catherine McNeela with performances both nights at 7 and 8:30 p.m. in Roberts Studio Theatre, Scott Studios at Arts West

The Elon Teaching Fellows and the School of Education present the senior director of professional development at Gender Spectrum and the talk "It's About All of Us: Expanding Understandings of Gender" in Lakeside Meeting Rooms at 7 p.m.

Alamance County's Science Café hosts John Anderson, "What big ideas we have learned from small fossils" at Fat Frogg Bar and Grill at 7 p.m. 

Elon's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter invites Daniel T. Rodgers for guest lecture in LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center at 5 p.m.

The Department of Music hosts two alumni artists in a concert celebration of early British composers in Whitley Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

The Department of Performing Arts presents the Elon Spring Dance Concert in McCrary Theatre, Friday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.