Holocaust survivor, chemist and author Inge Auerbacher shared her story of surviving the concentration camps during World War II with the student body at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. (Photos submitted by Kevin Burgun)

Artist Maya Lin's in front of her installation "Above and Below." (Michelle Pemberton / Indy.com)

Wei Hong, director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue and professor of Chinese, demonstrates how a robot at the university's Envision Center is used to write calligraphy characters. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)

1. Confucius Institute grand opening

Starts at 10 a.m. April 25, free, IUPUI, 425 University Blvd., http://www.iupui.edu/~china/events/grand-opening/

"Confucius say ....." -- no, we're not really going to stoop to such juvenile levels, because this event is far too intellectual for that. Just consider some of the symposium topics, such as "The Implications of Confucian Humanism for the 21st Century" (or, for perhaps more mainstream audiences, "Magical Meridians: A Brief Overview of Oriental Medicine"). The institute opened last year, but this event gives the public a chance to tour the facilities, sit in on presentations and attend the inauguration.

2. "The Architecture of Nature," a talk by Maya Lin

7 p.m. April 29, $10 ($5 members, students and seniors), Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, (317) 923-1331

Midwest native Maya Lin was a senior at Yale University when she submitted the winning, yet controversial, design for a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. She's since designed many other influential architectural projects, including the Civil Rights Memorial and the Wave Field. In 2007, the IMA unveiled a commissioned installation by Lin, "Above and Below," on the Fortune Balcony of the Asian art galleries. Lin will return to the museum to talk about how art and nature intersect with her architecture in the Deer Zink Pavilion.

3. Holocaust Remembrance Day

7:30 p.m. April 30, free, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, 600 W. 17th St.

Everyone is welcome to attend this community-wide Holocaust observance. This year, Living Voices will present "Through the Eyes of a Friend," a multimedia performance using live theater and interactive video to tell the story of Anne Frank. There will also be a candle lighting and saying of the Kaddish, with a reception to follow (dietary laws observed).

4. "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"

5:45 p.m. April 29 (part of the Indianapolis International Film Festival), $10, Landmark Keystone Arts Cinema, 8702 Keystone Crossing, www.indyfilmfest.org.

In 2006, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson went to the civil war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo to give voice to the women and girls who have been raped, enslaved and tortured. Following the screening, Jackson will join a discussion of her film, which is one of two finalists for the IIFF's Eric Parker Social Justice Award.

5. Victor/Victoria

April 25 through June 1. 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, $20-$30, American Cabaret Theatre, 401 E. Michigan St. (317) 631-0334, www.actindy.org.

Actress Bobbi Bates (right) tucks her femininity into a tux as she takes on the title role (or roles) of the gender-bending "Victor/Victoria." The musical comedy, opening April 25 at ACT, began as a 1982 film starring Julie Andrews as penniless singer Victoria Grant, with Robert Preston as her pal, Toddy, who gets her a nightclub act by having her impersonate a man impersonating a woman.