Five Things: Hill Top, Waterfire Documentary

Opening day at Hill Top: That’s right – it may be cold outside but EG ice cream institution Hill Top Creamery opens for the season today at noon. Be there!

Story Hour at Symposium Books: Children (and their adults) are invited to Story Hour at Symposium Books . Every week they pick a new story and read it to the kids with animal crackers and fun. Favorite stories are "No Matter What" and "Jungle Explorer." Come early and help pick the story, and better yet, there is a 10 percent additional discount on everything in the store during story hour! 11:30 a.m.

Coastal Growers Winter Farmers Market: The Winter Farmers Market in North Kingstown features many vendors from the EG Farmers Market as well as some others. Miss your Tallulah’s Tacos? You can pick some up at the winter market! You can also pick up produce, meat, baked goods and artisan goods. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lafayette Mill at 650 Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown.

Waterfire documentary: The Southern Rhode Island premiere of the documentary, WaterFire: Art & Soul of a City, takes place Saturday night at the Greenwich Odeum. To read reviews , click here. Two-time New England Emmy award-winning executive producer and former television sportscaster Joe Rocco, in cooperation with WaterFire Providence and its creator, artistic director and award-winning sculptor Barnaby Evans. A team of award-winning broadcast professionals shot and collected more than 50 hours of WaterFire video and commentary from interviews with a variety of professionals from the worlds of art, architecture, history, government and business. Evans and Rocco will be on hand after the screening to talk about the making of this documentary and take questions from the audience. Click here to buy tickets online. The movie begins at 8 p.m. $20.

Circus Smirkus is back: You don’t have to run away to join this circus – you just have to be in third, fourth, fifth or sixth grade. Cirkus Smirkus is back for a second year in a row offering a weeklong after-school circus “boot camp” for kids in grades 3 through 6. (Read about their program last year here.) Students who sign up will learn juggling, tight wire, diabolos, devil sticks, acrobatics and much more – all from a professional Circus Smirkus coach. The program runs from March 18 to March 22 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. at Hanaford Elementary School. The final performance takes place there on Friday, March 22, at 6 p.m. Cost of program: $100 per student. Use the application attached here, or contact Amy Synder at amy.l.snyder@gmail.com.