The Small Business Chamber will hold a power lunch forum featuring Jay Myers of Interactive Solutions speaking on the topic “The Entrepreneurial Mindset” Thursday, Nov. 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Better Business Bureau, 3693 Tyndale Drive. For more information, call Sally Baker Brenner at 748-8889 or visit www.smallbusinesschamber.com.

Launch Memphis and The Leadership Academy’s MemphisConnect will host Ignite Memphis 3 Thursday, Nov. 10, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Memphis Bioworks, 20 S. Dudley St. Sixteen presenters will take the stage for five minutes each, addressing topics ranging from sustainable agriculture to how James Bond ruined the martini. Tickets are $15. For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.ignite3memphis.eventbrite.com.

The Shelby County Brownfields Council will meet Thursday, Nov. 10, at 5:30 p.m. at Hollywood Community Center, 1560 N. Hollywood St. For more information, call the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development at 576-6601.

The Memphis Investors Group will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m. at the Memphis Hilton, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd. Mike Todd, the market manager for Entrust Tennessee, will discuss “How to Buy Real Estate, Notes, LLCs and More Inside an IRA/401K.” Admission is free for first-time visitors and members. Repeat visitors pay $20. For more information, call 414-2729 or visit www.memphisinvestorsgroup.com.

Rotary Club of Memphis Central will meet Friday, Nov. 11, from 11:45 to 1 p.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Dr. Steve Bares, president and executive director of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, will speak. Cost is $15 for nonmembers. To reserve a seat, call Dick Wieland at 270-3778.

Lausanne Collegiate School will host a Veterans Day concert Friday, Nov. 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the school’s Elder Performing Arts Center, 1381 W. Massey Road. Lausanne’s upper school chorus and upper school band will perform, and members of Lausanne’s Oral History Program will present stories collected from interviews with veterans. The event is open to the public.

Playhouse on the Square will present Curtain Up: A Taste of Playhouse Friday, Nov. 11, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Playhouse, 66 S. Cooper St. The evening will include four parties in one night: a Country-Jazzy-Grassy-Tonk party, a Zydeco Party, a Vaudeville Speakeasy party and an Indiepop Jello Shot Hop party. Tickets are $75 per person. For more information or tickets, call 726-4656 or visit www.playhouseonthesquare.org.