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Riverfront Farmers Market: 8 a.m. -1 p.m. at Dock Street, between Front Street and Second Street, downtown Wilmington. Last market of the season.

Holiday Market: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Kure Beach. Free admission. The market features more than 40 artists and crafters, a DJ and food trucks. Bring a new, unwrapped toy donation, or minimum $5 cash donation for Toys for Tots.

Craft fair: By the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at St. Marks Church Activity Center, 1011 Eastwood Road. Free raffle with over 45 prizes donated by vendors. Additional raffle tickets are available for $1 or six for $5.

German Christmas Market: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 612 S. College Road, Wilmington. Featuring live music by the Harbour Towne Fest Band, German food and beverages, gifts and crafts, local vendors and service providers, and 50/50 raffle. Admission $3, free for ages under 13. Parking on site for handicapped visitors. Free shuttle service at UNCW lot located behind Taco Bell.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNCW: Presents Metropolitan Opera Live in HD featuring Philip Glass's Akhnaten. Conducted by Karen Kamensek in her Met debut. 1-5 p.m. at Lumina Theater, UNCW, 615 Hamilton Drive. Admission: $20-$24. Details: 910-962-3195 or http://www.uncw.edu/olli/metopera.html.

Deweys Holiday Store: Staff by members and congregation of Covenant Moravian Church, 2 p.m. located by Regal Mayfaire theater in Mayfaire Town Center, Wilmington. The store will be open through Dec. 24 and features Christmas cookies, sugar cakes, Moravian tea, gingerbread treats, fruitcakes, and church crafts.

Holiday silent auction: 2 p.m. at Mount Arart AME Church, 7601 Market St., Wilmington. Open to the public.

Seasons of Seabelles Fall Concert: 7:30 p.m. at Kenan Auditorium, 515 Wagoner Drive, Wilmington. A capella singing with the UNCW Seabelles, UNC-Chapel Hill Tar Heel Voices, UNCW's Seahawkapellas, and UNCW's High Seas. $5 admission. 910-962-3500.

She Kills Monsters Presented by CFCC Department of Humanities & Fine Arts, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show at Studio Theater Wilson Center. Can homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and supermodel elves help with the grieving process? Sisters Agnes and Tilly Evans werent close, but after Tillys death, Agnes stumbles across her sisters Dungeons & Dragons notebook, and discovers Tilly was a well-known D&D player, passionate about online fantasy gaming. Tickets: $5 students, $10 CFCC faculty/staff, and $12 general public. 910-362-7999 or https://wilsoncentertickets.com/.

Womanless Beauty Pageant: 7:30 p.m. at Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St. All of the contestants are men. Details: http://www.thalianhall.org/.

Darkness: The Enemy Inside: Presented by UNCW Department of Theatre. Darkness is a new hybrid play written collectively by five European playwrights as part of the EU Collective Plays project. This play explores the notion of Darkness that is distinctly Scandinavian and illuminates its kaleidoscopic juxtapositions. 8 p.m. Nov. 23 and 2 p.m. Nov. 24 on the Mainstage Theatre in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building. Tickets $15, $12 senior citizens, UNCW employees and alum, $6 for students (sales tax included). Tickets available at 910-962-3500, online at https://uncw.edu/arts/tickets.html or at the box office.

The Exonerated: Presented by Big Dawg Productions, 8 p.m. Nov. 23 and 3 p.m. Nov. 24 at Cape Fear Playhouse, 613 Castle St., Wilmington. The play explores the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words drawn from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files, and the public record. Admission: $15-$25. Details: https://www.bigdawgproductions.org/ or 910-367-5237.

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