The SRU dance department will open its spring semester concert series with "Setting the Pace," including works by guest and student choreographers, at 8 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday in Miller Auditorium.

Tickets cost $10 for general admission, or $5 for SRU students, and will be available at the door. Call 724-738-2036.

• CMU's school of drama will host student directors, designers, actors, technicians and playwrights presenting their own work in "Playground: A Festival of Independent Student Work" through Saturday in and around the Purnell Center on the campus in Pittsburgh. Call 412-268-2900.• The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery hosts ""Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now" through March 8.Admission to the gallery in the Purnell Center for the Arts on campus is free. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Call 412-268-3618 or visit the Web site, www.cmu.edu/millergallery.

• Westminster's chapter of Habitat for Humanity will sponsor a benefit concert featuring The Chris Higbee Project at 8 p.m. tonight in Orr Auditorium on the campus in New Wilmington. The concert was rescheduled from November.Higbee, founder and fiddler of The Povertyneck Hillbillies, has formed this new band that blends the talents of several diverse musicians.Tickets are $5 for Westminster students with ID and $10 for general admission. Call 724-946-7365 or visit the Web site, www.ChrisHigbee.com.• Song Cycles of Contemporary American Composers concert with guest musicians Shawn Roy, bass-baritone, and Chan Kiat Lim, pianist, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in Wallace Memorial Chapel. Admission is free.Call 724-946-7024 or e-mail perttude@westminster.edu for information.