Try these: Vancouver Arts & Music Festival, Camas Comic Con First Friday, King’s Kruz-In,

Brushes and batons

The Vancouver Arts & Music Festival returns to Esther Short Park at Sixth and Esther Streets in downtown Vancouver Friday through Sunday with award-winning musicians, visual artists and performers. The event features three stages, juried art shows, pop-up galleries, dance performances, family activities, food stands and three concerts by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Activities include vendor booths, art demonstrations and an interactive artwork. Kids will enjoy caricature artists, doodle walls, roving entertainers, face painting, balloon art and lawn games. Visit Artists Alley between Vancouver City Hall and the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Sixth Street. More information at vancouverartsandmusicfestival.com.

Costumes and comics

Camas Comic Con First Friday is from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Friday in downtown Camas. The event celebrates comics, sci-fi, cosplay, anime and fantasy. Come dressed as characters from Marvel, DC, anime, Harry Potter, Disney, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Star Wars, Transformers or Mario, to name a few. If you’re a fan of any of these, it counts! Enjoy comic art demonstrations, fandom pin swaps, photo opportunities, Ghostbusters slime making, wandering cosplayers and a “Fandom Fun!” passport activity at all of the downtown businesses. Collectible lanyards will be given to the first 300 people to check in. For more information, visit downtowncamas.com/event/camas-comic-con/.

Roadshow

The 21st annual King’s Kruz-In is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Glenwood Community Church, 12201 NE 72nd Ave., Vancouver. Registration ($20 per vehicle) is from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The show features 300 of Portland and Clark County’s best hot rods and custom cars, live bluegrass music, a barbecue lunch and a snack bar. Kids will enjoy a visit from a balloon artist and Woody the Magic Guy. Car show attendees receive a free lunch and a dashboard plaque. Twenty-one trophies will be awarded, including Best of Show. Proceeds benefit Options360 Women’s Clinic. Attendees should bring nonperishable food donations for FISH of Vancouver. To register, visit glenwoodcc.org.

Trouble in River City

Journey Theater presents “The Music Man,” with shows Friday through August 10 at the Joyce Garver Theater, 1500 NE Garfield St., Camas. The Tony Award-winning musical comedy follows smooth-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he swindles the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy marching band he vows to organize — despite the fact that he can’t tell a trombone from a treble clef. Before he can flee town with the money, he falls in love with Marian the librarian, who turns him into a respectable citizen by curtain call. Shows are at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and August 9. Matinees are at 2 p.m. Saturday and August 10. Tickets are $26 for adults and $22 for children and seniors. All tickets are $2 more at the door. Buy tickets at journeytheater.org.