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Food fundraiser: Christ Church at Delaware and Dundaff streets is kicking off its annual winter food fundraiser, featuring frozen pints of homemade soups, and cabbage and noodles. Sales will begin Dec. 4 and run through Lent. All preorders can be picked up every Friday from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Parish congregants make many varieties of homemade soups, which will be sold in frozen pints for $5. Frozen pints of cabbage and noodles will also be available throughout the season for $7. Call ahead at 570-765-3425 to reserve your favorite soup.

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Open house and transfer events: Marywood University will hold an undergraduate open house event as well as several Transfer Tuesday events in the coming weeks and months. Prospective undergraduate students can attend the fall open house on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Fireplace Lounge at the Nazareth Student Center on the university’s campus, and the last campus tour departs at 1:45 p.m. A complimentary continental breakfast and lunch are included in the fall open houses for undergraduates. Additionally, Marywood has set several dates for its Transfer Tuesdays program. These events are for current or former college students, at all stages of their college journey, who are considering transferring to Marywood. In-person visits will be Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Dec. 15 from 1 to 5:30 p.m. and Jan. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A virtual event will take place Dec.1 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Band performance: Performance Music at The University of Scranton will present a concert featuring the university’s Symphonic Band on Nov. 21.The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue, downtown Scranton. Admission is free and the concert is open to the public, with seating on a first-come, first-seated basis. The program will include a variety of works, many of which are transcriptions of orchestral works, and others written specifically for band. The concert will feature transcriptions for band of orchestral works by Mahler, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, and band works by Brant Karrick, Vaclav Nelhybel and Omar Thomas. For information, call 570-941-7624 or visit scranton.edu/music.