MUSIC | The Casualties

Hardcore punk band the Casualties stir up mayhem at Avalon. Sharing the stage and their ear-splitting hardcore sound are A Global Threat and the Briggs. Tickets $10, $12 day of show. 18+ 9 p.m. Avalon, 13 Lansdowne St., Boston. (SLS)

MUSIC | The Slip

Playing together since the first day of high school, members of The Slip have successfully been accepted as quality musicians in both the “jam band” community and the contemporary jazz community. The Slip has released 6 albums and tours 150 days throughout the year. This Saturday they team up with Leslie Halpert and Nathan Moore. Tickets $12, $15 day of show. 18+. 10 p.m. The Middle East Upstairs. (AG)

MUSIC | Steve Kimrock Band

Led by self-taught guitar virtuoso, the Steve Kimrock band is known for their creative improvisation. Their music fuses jazz and rock in the jam band tradition of Phish and The Grateful Dead. Tickets $25. +18. 10 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs. (AG)

Sunday, Feb. 29

MUSIC | Orpheus and Dance NESE

The New England String Ensemble performs an impressive array of pieces. Celebrate the allure of dance, the colors of flute, harp, percussion, piano and strings and the young award-winning stars of the future on Harvard’s campus. Concerto Competition Winners for both flute and strings will perform St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29. The world Premiere of “The Creation according to Orpheus” (2002) will be performed as well as Dvorak’s Waltz Op. 54, Piazzolla’s Four for Tango, and Skalkottas’ Five Greek Dances. A behind the scenes talk will begin at 2 p.m. Show starts at 3 p.m. $30 regular, $22 students, $10 seniors - general admission seating; $37 Premium seating in front center mezzanine. Sanders Theater. (RCS)

DANCE | The Mystical Arts of Tibet

Having performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, “The Mystical Arts of Tibet” tour displays the famed singers and dancers of Drepung Loseling Monastery. The tour is backed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself as a way of promoting world peace through the performance of sacred art. Tickets $28 adult; $24 student, senior or member. 2 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (SLS)

Tuesday, March 2

LECTURE | Norton lectures: Manet’s Le bain and the death of the historic landscape As part of an ongoing series entitled “Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye,” art historian Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, will speak on the death of the historic landscape. She specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the work of Gustave Courbet and the Impressionists, as well as the representation of women and the work of women artists. Her book Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art, 1730-1970, published in 1972, introduced a feminist perspective to the field of art history and criticism. Free and open to the public. 4 p.m. Sanders Theatre. (RCS)

READING | Charles Rowan Beye