GROWN-UP DOWNTOWN: Celebrate the 221st birthday of Tucson's soul with another Downtown Saturday Night. Helping light all those candles will be Homero Cerón and Cool Breeze playing their percussive-rich mix of jazz, Mexican, Spanish and African music at the Ronstadt Center from 7 to 10 p.m. Rafael Moreno and Descarga will perform salsa at a fund raiser for Chicanos Por La Causa from 7 to 10 p.m. on Pennington Street between Scott and Sixth avenues. Shakespearean rogues Thee Tragidiots perform as their swashbuckling selves in Arizona Alley from 8 to 10:30 p.m. The Tucson Friends of Traditional Music fire up a contra and square dance at the Armory Park Center from 8 to 11 p.m., and creative juices flow at the Arts For Me children's exhibit on the corner of Pennington Street and Sixth Avenue from 7 to 10 p.m. Fourth Avenue's Winsett Park hosts Nightfall Avenue, playing original rock and roll, with other bands in action between nearby Fifth and Sixth streets. Youth Storefront, 118 S. Fifth Ave, will also offer music starting at 7 p.m. Call the Storefront at 882-4471. FLOURESCENCE OF LIFE: If you haven't slinked into a mall since Christmas 1986, you'll have a chance to mend your un-American ways Thursday night when Robert Louis Stevenson, modern art and chain-retail collide in Treasure Island, An Adventure in Paradise at Foothills Mall, 7401 North La Cholla Blvd. Sponsored by the Spirit Weavers shop (locally owned), K-HIT Radio, Casino of the Sun and others, the festival runs from 4 to 10 p.m. and will feature an artisans' marketplace, plenty of dancing, raffles, music by Desert DJs, a stage show and even a treasure hunt. A share of the proceeds will benefit the Northwest YMCA. Admission and parking are free for this family event. Call 529-2072 for information. BEHIND BARS: The Red House Theater Project presents Catherine Wells' Prisoners, directed by Hal Melfi, with Gary Tarrants and Eric Anson. Prisoners, the young theater group's second effort, concerns a pair of --you got it--prisoners languishing away in some untamed Third World ratbox, whiling away their days mired in elaborate fantasy. Tarrants plays a grizzled mercenary, Anson the feeble little "Dimwood," and together the unlikely pair create endless imaginative scenarios in an attempt to drown out the constant crack of the executioners rifle beyond their window. Sound familiar? It is and isn't similar to Kiss of the Spider Woman, says Prisoners co-producer Rick Moyer: "It's a roller coaster ride, and just when you think you've got it figured out, you get slammed right up against a brick wall. That's the difference." Prisoners opens at 8 p.m. Friday in the Cabaret Theatre at The Temple Of Music And Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., with repeat shows on Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance, and $7 at the door. For information, call 294-7447.

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