Rap acts booked at Packard Music Hall

Detroit rappers Skilla Baby, DeJ Loaf and T-Rell will perform at Packard Music Hall on April 25 for the Family and Friends Bash. Skilla Baby’s most streamed songs include “Gorgeous” and “Icky Vicky Vibes.” DeJ Loaf has several songs with more than 100 million streams, including “Me U & Hennessy” with Lil Wayne and “Back Up” with Big Sean.

Andrew Lloyd will host the 6 p.m. show. Tickets are $95.50 and $85.25 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster.

Fitch Drama Club stages ‘Sister Act’ musical

The Austintown Fitch Drama Club presents “Sister Act: The Musical” for four performances.

More than 40 students are featured in the production based on the 1992 movie about a disco singer who goes into hiding at a convent after witnessing a murder.

Show times are 6 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in Fitch HIgh School auditorium, 4560 Falcon Drive. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available online at austintownschools.org and at the door.

Art SWAP set at library in Austintown

The National Youth Advocate Program will have an Art Swap from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County-Austintown, 600 S. Raccoon Road.

The Art SWAP experience encourages participants to create artwork collaboratively, reinforcing the message that “everybody is a footprint in a child’s life.” The events aim to highlight the important role community members play as caregivers, advocates and village supporters. Residents are encouraged to attend, ask questions and explore ways to support local children and families. Go to shorturl.at/EKcxv to register online for the Art SWAP. For more information about becoming a foster or respite parent, contact Courtney Townsend at 330-633-4187 or go to www.nyap.org.

Warren library hosts railroad strike program

Author Mark Strecker will speak about his book “The Great Railroad Strike in Ohio” at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren.

An economic depression starting with the Panic of 1873 made life for railroad workers go from poor to intolerable. Strecker dives into the strike that paralyzed most of the freight train traffic across several states, including Ohio.

Admission is free. Copies of Strecker’s book will be available for purchase

Sips & Scripts presents ‘Rust Belt Trilogy’

“The Rust Belt Trilogy” will be the next offering in Kent State University at Trumbull Theatre’s Sips & Scripts play reading series.

Dale E. Seeds’ play explores personal stories that intersect in various ways in the post-industrial urban landscape of the Midwest. The stories are embedded within place and culture, marked by the forces of memory, music, spirituality, environmental degradation, class and time slippage.

Shiloh Hart directs the reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Modern Methods Brewing Company, 125 David Grohl Alley, Warren Admission is free.

Ohio suffragist is subject of Upton House program

The Upton Association presents a program on Ohio suffragist Frances Jennings Casement at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Harriet Taylor Upton House, 380 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. Alexandra Lausin, executive director of the International Women’s Air & Space Museum in Cleveland, will portray Casement, who was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001 because of her activism in the women’s suffrage movement.

Admission is free, and refreshments will be available a half hour before the program starts.

MVHS immigrant stories series looks at Germany

Wednesday is the deadline to make reservations for the Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s next Stories of Immigrants of the Mahoning Valley dinner and program.

Germany will be the focus of the event, which will include a talk by Wolfgang Wengler, an active member of the local German community; a performance by the Canfield Community Band playing German melodies; and a dinner featuring pork schnitzel and other German delicacies.

It starts at 5 p.m. April 6 at the Saxon Club, 719 S. Meridian Road, Youngstown. Tickets are $35 for $35 for MVHS members and $40 for non-members, and reservations can be made by calling 330-743-2589.