5 Things You Need To Know Today: May 17

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation.

1. This is the final weekend to see the Materialize show at Fountain Street Fine Art gallery. Gallery is open today, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The exhibit materialize features works by artists Lisa Barthelson and Denise Driscoll, who  combine traditional media with the seemingly infinite supplies of debris and data that flow through daily life.

Following intuitive processes of organization, transformation, and accumulation, they think through their fingers, discovering mesmerizing pattern, unexpected beauty, wry humor, and fleeting balance, cites Fountain Street Fine Art gallery.

Photographs of works in the exhibit are attached to this column.

2. Diosa Dance Yoga Health at 9 Pleasant St is hosting a book signing with Kathi Ortiz at 5 p.m.

3. Saturday is the Framingham Garden Club's annual spring plant sale. Sale will take place at the Academy Building on the grounds of Cushing Memorial Park from 9 a.m. to noon. Sale will include member-grown perennials, annuals and herbs

4. Villari's Family Martial Arts is holding a movie night/parent's night out at 6 p.m. Admission $10.

5. Country-Rock musician Brandon Lepere takes the stage at Nobscot Cafe at 9 p.m.