Shakespeare and fireworks make this a great weekend for on and off-campus events:

Foggy Bottom fanfare:

• You have your pick of on-campus theater this weekend: FPP is performing “Closer” in the Lisner Downstage, and the theater department is staging “Much Ado About Nothing” in Betts Theatre. Tickets for “Closer” are $5 (cash only); tickets for Much Ado are $10.

• “Little India,” a festival and bazaar, will be held in Marvin Center 405 Feb. 20. The event includes food, music and henna tattoos.

District must-dos:

• GW jam band East Coast Caravan will be hosting a release party for their EP “Plantin’ The Seed” tonight at Asylum. Tickets are $5.

• Author Rebecca Skloot will be speaking at Politics and Prose for free Feb. 21. Her first book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” chronicles the life and legacy of Lacks, a tobacco farmer who died from cervical cancer in 1951. Her cells, known as HeLa to thousands of scientists around the world, were the first to self-replicate in a lab, and played an important role in many of the medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. Her children, who live in Baltimore, did not know of their mother’s scientific contribution; many of them do not have health insurance.

• Ring in the Chinese New Year Feb. 21 at a massive celebration in Chinatown, along H and I streets between Sixth and Eighth. The event is free and will feature a parade at 2 p.m. and a firecracker launch at 3:45 p.m.