Calling all Harry Potter fans! Get your fix a month before the film is released with this afternoon of Wizard Rock with two Harry Potter-themed bands. From Los Angeles, we've got the Remus Lupins and, as an opening act, Ann Arbor's own Tonks and the Aurors.

Can't get enough video game music? Come see the OneUps show the original games and music, and then perform their own versions. Find out about the world of game music and remixes with masters of the craft. The OneUps will perform with MC Frontalot at Videogame Night @Top of the Park on June 29 as part of The Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

MC Frontalot is a NYC based hip-hop musician and a proud nerd who takes the stage in glasses, tie, and pocket protector to rap about web comics, computer games, blogs, and picking up girls at Star Wars' conventions.This is a great opportunity to find our more about the MC and his music. Ask him your questions about Nerdcore Hiphop and beyond. This discussion will be immediately followed at 1:30 pm by a screening of Nerdcore Rising, the 2008 documentary film (not rated) following MC Frontalot on his first national tour.MC Frontalot will perform with The OneUps at Videogame Night @Top of the Park on June 29 as part of The Ann Arbor Summer Festival.YOU FOUND A GAME CODE! Visit your player page and enter the code WELOVEYOUFRONT for bonus points!

AADL and the University of Michigan Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies invite you to spend an evening with acclaimed writer and historian Timothy Tyson. He will discuss his memoir - soon to be made into a major motion picture - of the South and civil rights. Mr. Tyson will be accompanied by musician and singer Mary Williams, who will perform at this event. The event will include a book signing, with books available for purchase. Timothy Tyson is an American writer and historian from North Carolina, currently serving as Senior Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History. He is also adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His narrative of the fiery summer of 1970 in Oxford, North Carolina, brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to a shocking episode of our history.

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal works program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, during the Great Depression. Bill Jamerson of Escanaba has spent years researching the Corps. In addition to performing, Jamerson will discuss his research and show a short clip from his award-winning PBS film, "Camp Forgotten: The CCC's in Michigan." He will also read excerpts from his novel, "Big Shoulders," which has the Conservation Corps as its setting.

In the second of the four-part series, Jazz 101, Professor Mark Clague will discuss modern jazz. This lecture is held in conjunction with the Feb. 16 University Musical Society performance by Ahmad Jamal at Hill Auditorium. Jazz 101 is a collaboration of UMS, UM School of Music, Theatre and Dance, WEMU, UM Department of Jazz, and AADL.