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GED orientation class, 9 a.m., The Learning Connection, 210 Ferry Way. GED orientation is designed to improve the success rate of those taking the tests. Details: www.serrc.org/tlc.

Senior ceramics, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Juneau Senior Center. Details: Diane, 463-6176.

Storytime, 11 a.m., Mendenhall Valley Library. Details: 586-5267.

Organ concert, noon, State Office Building.T.J. Duffy to play variety of music.

Senior Lunch, noon, Juneau Senior Center. Details: 463-6175.

Adult Children of Alcoholic or Dysfunctional Families and Codependents Anonymous meeting, noon-1 p.m., Northern Light United Church, 400 11th St.

First Friday Art Walk, 4:30-7:30 p.m., various locations downtown. See this week’s Arts section for details.

“Dopeless Hope-fiends” NA meeting, 5-6 p.m. Rainforest Activity Center.

Magic the Gathering Friday Night Draft, 6 p.m., Juneau Gamers Coop, 5750 Glacier Highway D2. All ages welcome.

Traveler Trio at Rockwell, 6 p.m., Rockwell Ballroom. Live jazz with Doug Bridges on tenor sax, Jim Noel on piano and Adrian Minne on bass.

SEAGLA Friday Social, 6-8 p.m., Imperial. LGBTQ community and friends are invited to gather, relax and decompress from the work week.

Fireside Lecture: Mountain Running, 6:30-8 p.m., Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Dan Lesh and Geoff Roes will share a virtual tour of some of Southeast Alaska’s most unique, challenging and inspiring mountains, drawing on thousands of miles they’ve run over the past decade. They’ll also discuss what running means to them.

Sound + Motion: HARM, 7-10 p.m., UAS Egan Lecture Hall. HARM is an Alaskan ensemble that defies the bounds of typical genre standards. Blending psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes, the experimental chamber group utilizes upright bass, cello, harmonium, banjo, clarinet, guitar, beat boxing and vocal layering to explore themes of violence, gender and sexuality.

The Pirates of Penzance, 7 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School Auditorium. Floyd Dryden Middle School presents the play, a comic opera about a man’s apprenticeship to a gang of pirates. Children $5, adults $15.

Tlingit and Haida Indians of the City and Borough of Juneau bingo, 7 p.m., 3235 Hospital Drive. Details: 463-5680 or 463-5690.

Fairbanks Invasion, 7 p.m. This Fairbanks-themed mini-festival brings more than eight individual performances from around the state. Friday is at UAS as part of the “Sound + Motion” series; Saturday is at KTOO’s 360 North studio as an episode of Alaska Originals. Music at the Alaskan Hotel and Bar Friday and Saturday after 9 p.m.

Wrestling Jerusalem, 7:30 p.m. Set in America, Jerusalem and Palestine, the play follows one man’s journey to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sit in With the Band, 9:30 p.m., Rendezvous.

Live music: Brian Bearden, 10 p.m., McGivney’s Sports Bar & Grill.

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