Upcoming

Keep DeKalb Beautiful’s Rain Barrel Workshop. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday. $20/household. Lithonia City Hall, 6920 Main St., Lithonia. Participants will learn how to build rain barrels and leave with an operational rain barrel. All proceeds will benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation as a part of the 2018 Uniting DeKalb for a Cure breast cancer fundraiser. Register: 404-2984080. Keep DeKalb Beautiful’s Public Relations Specialist Victoria Burgos at vrburgos@DeKalbCountyGa.gov, KeepDeKalbBeautiful.org.

Prologue to the Book Festival of the MJCCA. Through Oct. 29. Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA), 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. On Nov. 18, the Book Festival of the MJCCA will begin, celebrating 27 years. This year’s Book Festival will include more than 45 local, national and international authors. Tickets: MJCCA Box Office at 678-812-4005, email BookFestival@AtlantaJCC.org or BookFestival@AtlantaJCC.org

DeKalb Master Gardener Association: “Meeting Ornithophily: Pollinating by Birds” with Georgann Schmalz. 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 22. Free. Northlake-Barbara Loar Library, 3772 LaVista Road, Tucker. Parking and entrance are on Harobi Road in s ide I-285. President of the Atlanta Audubon Society three times, Schmalz will describe how and why flowers adapt to attract birds and discuss hummingbirds and best pollinator plants. DeKalb Master Gardener Association, a volunteer association of about 40 Master Gardeners and friends, is not part of the DeKalb Cooperative Extension Service and receives no public funds. DeKalbGardener@gmail.com, BirdingAdventuresInc.com