Here’s a look at some of the top happenings around Colorado Springs and the Front Range over the next few days:

CALENDAR FOR FUN

– Updated list with dozens of music, art and other events in the Pikes Peak region.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

– Southwestern art, Native American dancers, drumming, Brulé, food and a 35-year tradition. It’s the weekend of the Colorado Indian Market and Southwest Showcase at Denver Mart, 431 E. 58th Ave. Hours are 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is good for the whole weekend: $13, $11 for seniors, free for children younger than 13. Parking $5. indianmarket.net

SATURDAY

– The competitive adult Manitou Springs Fruitcake Toss is Jan. 30, but kids like to throw cakes, too. Itty-bitty catapults, teensy fruitcakes and bunches of action-packed fun await you at the Kids’ Mini Catapult Fruitcake Toss, a project of Cool Science and Imagination Celebration. It takes flight from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at iSpace in The Citadel mall, 750 Citadel Drive E. The little catapult launchers will build their designs starting at 10 a.m. and then compete starting at noon for distance, accuracy and best-decorated. Open divisions for K-8th. Preregistration recommended. Free, but donations happily accepted. coolscience.org, imaginationcelebration.org

– Say Ivywild and for many people it’s the popular brewery, restaurant and destination site in the former Ivywild School. Its history is much more: a delightful neighborhood along Cheyenne Creek established in 1888. Hear the whole story and the interesting neighborhood tales as told by writers Molly Merry and Linda Johnson in Ivywild: The Treasured History of a Neighborhood from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Cheyenne Mountain Library, 1785 S. 8th St. Photographs of the Cheyenne Ivywild area are on display at the library through the end of January. Free. ppld.org

– Welcome the Year of the Monkey 2016 at the Mochitsuki New Year’s Rice Pounding. Pound Japanese mochi and then take a taste to be assured longevity and prosperity in the new year. Rice pounders of every age welcome, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Colorado College’s Worner Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave. Presented by the Japan-America Society of Southern Colorado and sponsored by the college’s foreign language department and Jun Nakajima, the Sushi Man. Free. japanamerica.org

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

– Powerful music by Russian Masters Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev is performed by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic with featured guest Conrad Tao, for two weekend concerts at Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave., 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, $23-$68, tickets west.com, csphilharmonic.org.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27

– A busy night Wednesday when Sunshine Studios offers Seeker, Left Behind, Great American Ghost, Stavesail, Systems and Thoz1Guyz, 6:30 p.m. at 3970 Clearview Frontage Road. $10-$12 through Ticketfly.com, sunshinestudioslive.com and on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JAN. 28

– Just how important are the arts to the local economy? It’s major. Come talk the arts and hear the numbers at Coffee w/COPPeR when the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region presents the national Arts & Economic Prosperity Study 5 at the Tim Gill Center for Public Media, 315 E. Costilla St. Every five years for 20 years, the Americans for the Arts organization has the results after studying the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences. Free, RSVP to info@coppercolo.org., 634-2204.

– Come “Walk the Line” through a “Ring of Fire” with the Cash’d Out – A Tribute to Johnny Cash. Don’t be surprised to see a lot of folks in black, 7 p.m. Thursday, at Stargazers Theatre, 10 S. Parkside Drive, $15 plus $4 fees, $20 plus fees day of.