5 things to do this weekend, Sept. 21-23

It's no surprise if watching the Emmy Awards and NFL football is ranked at the top of your to-do-list this Sunday. But remember, you've still got to make it through today and Saturday, first.

So here are five adventurous events that'll get you through the weekend, including a special treat on Sunday.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21

1. Swim with Rupa and the April Fishes

Based in San Francisco, Calif., Rupa and the April Fishes will make a splash at the Arden Gild Hall tonight at 8 p.m. with its global-alternative grooves, which will likely include cuts off the group's upcoming album, "Build".

The new album, due out Oct. 2, is a 12-song journey that draws from themes such as the collapse of capitalism and false democracies to the rise of populist movements from Tunisia to Chile to Athens to Wall Street. "Build" is also the Fishes' first album with lyrics recorded primarily in English.

The band's debut album "Extraordinary Rendition" examines love from many angles, with lyrics mostly recorded in French. Meanwhile, the second project "Este Mundo" traces the plight of migrants crossing borders, which was largely in Spanish.

IF YOU GO

WHAT Rupa and The April Fishes in concert

WHEN 8 p.m. Friday

WHERE Arden Gild Hall, 2126 The Highway, Arden

COST $15.48

INFO ardenclub.org or 475-3126

2. Jill Sobule to 'Kiss' Kennett Flash

Folk singer Jill Sobule belongs to a rare breed of artists and this will become apparent to new listeners at the Kennett Flash tonight.

Sobule, a native of Denver, Colo., is best known for her 1995 single and MTV staple "I Kissed A Girl". Her work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic.

With nine albums (the latest was "A Day at the Pass" released in 2011) and a decade of recording on her resume — Sobule has tackled topics such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence and the Christian right, as well as themes of love: love found, love lost, love wished for and love taken away.

IF YOU GO

WHAT Jill Sobule and Sarah Donner in concert

WHEN 8 p.m. Friday

WHERE Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, Pa.

COST $21

INFO kennettflash.org or (484) 732-8295

SATURDAY, Sept. 22

3. A taste of India

Spice up your Saturday with the IndiaFest 2012 at the Bob Carpenter Center. Presented by the Indo-American Association of Delaware, the IAAD has invited clothing, jewelry, and arts and crafts vendors, as well as performing artists from throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and New York to give the First State a chance to explore India's rich variety of sights, sounds and cuisines at the annual event.

The IAAD is a non-profit organization without political or religious affiliations and was incorporated in Delaware in 1984.

IF YOU GO

WHAT IndiaFest 2012

WHEN 11 a.m. 7 p.m., Saturday

WHERE Bob Carpenter Center, 631 S. College Ave., Newark,

COST $5 adults; kids 6 and under free

INFO iaadelaware.org or 234-0214

4. Big bellies in '17 Girls'

Inspired by the headline-grabbing incident in Gloucester, Mass. — where a group of teen girls decided to become pregnant at the same time — "17 Girls" offers a look at the reactions the teens provoked in the adults surrounding them.

The film will make its debut at the Theatre N this weekend.

"In 17 Girls," first-time feature directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin instead shift the action from Massachusetts to a sleepy seaside town in northern France, where the rocky cliffs and unwelcoming sea create a sense that all of the characters are in some way trapped. When the brash Camille (Louise Grinberg, discovered in Laurent Cantet's "The Class") announces she's pregnant, soon her friends and classmates decide to follow.

IF YOU GO

WHAT '17 Girls'

WHEN 12 p.m. Sunday

WHERE Theatre N, 800 N. French, St., Wilmington

COST $5

INFO theatren.org or 576-2135

SUNDAY, SEPT. 23

5. Feel the 'Natural Forces'

The "Natural Forces" exhibit at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts sort of gives the impression of what a wooded area would look like indoors through artist Alison Stigora's large and peculiar sculptures.

For instance, Stigora's piece "Seed" is a swollen elliptical formation made of charred tree limbs that evokes metaphors of birth and death, while "Ascents" appears as an ascending tangle of branches between columns reflecting growth through the gallery. In the corner lies "Pyramidion," a gilded trove of cardboard that offers an illuminated path to the unknown.

When viewed together, these individual pieces complete the artist's three-dimensional interpretation of the past, present and future.

IF YOU GO

WHAT 'Natural Forces' art exhibit

WHEN 12-5 p.m. Sunday

WHERE Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, 200 S. Madison St., Wilmington

COST Free

INFO thedcca.org or 656-6466