ART

TICK, TOCK, DON’T STOP “Corpse of Time” marks the early beginning of the group show season at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski. The show features paintings and installations by Don Voisine, Patrick Armstrong, Chuck Webster, and Linda Francis, and is curated by Ben La Rocco. Selections include Carol Salmanson’s “Luminous Layers” (2006). Through Saturday, June 9, Thursday–Saturday, 1–7 p.m., Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, 205 Norman Ave. at Humboldt Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-383-9380, free.

DANCE

TAP DANCING YOUNG The Tap City Youth Ensemble dances a free concert at the Capezio’s Flagship store for dance apparel and accessories Guests are invited to bring their own tap shoes and join the ensemble of young hoofers in the finale “Shim-Sham Shimmy” performance. Founded in 2005 by the American Tap Dance Foundation Tap City Youth offers serious young dance students professional training and performing experience at a variety of New York venues. Sunday, 2 p.m., Capezio’s, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, 646-230 9564, free.

FESTIVALS

SWEEP SCENE “It’s My Park! Day,” a day devoted to cleaning and beautifying one of the city’s beloved parks, is celebrated at Prospect Park on Saturday. The city’s residents are invited to join hundreds of volunteers as they fan out across the green with brooms and pails in hand for sweeping, painting, weeding, and litter removal. All participants receive a complimentary T-shirt and key chain. A barbecue and live entertainment hosted by the Unity Day Rally on the Nether mead (a rolling meadow near the park’s center), follows at 2 p.m. The event is organized by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. registration for groups of 10 or more begins at 9:30 a.m., Prospect Park West, between Parkside and Ocean avenues, Brooklyn, 718-965-8930 free.

FILM

A LOVE TRIANGLE IN PARIS As part of its Weekend Classics series, the IFC Center presents “Essential Art House: Janus at 50,” an ongoing tribute to the legendary cinema distributor, including new 35 mm prints of classics from the Janus collection. A screening of François Truffaut’s “Jules et Jim” (1962), a new wave film based on the semi autobiographical novel by the Parisian journalist and art dealer Henri-Pierre Roché, is shown this weekend. The tale begins in Paris in the early 1900s and follows two friends who fall in love with the same woman, Catherine, played by celebrated French actress Jeanne Moreau. A free-spirited Catherine loves and marries Jules, but after World War I, when the trio is reunited in Germany, Catherine falls for Jim. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, noon, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at West 3rd Street, 212-924 7771, $10.75 general, $7 seniors and ICP members.

HOUSE OF BOXES Staten Island based documentary filmmakers Vine Street Works (Gregor Scheer and Elizabeth Way) present their new documentary, “Cardboard Furniture” (2007), which follows French artist Eric Guiomar, who transforms discarded cardboard into light, solid, and fanciful pieces of furniture, combining form with environmental friendliness. The film provides step-by-step instruction on how to make a small furniture piece from start to finish. Friday, 8 p.m., Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Place at Wall Street, Staten Island, 718-727-1135, $2 general, $1 students and seniors, free for children.

MUSIC

ELEVEN HOURS OF MELODY Symphony Space presents its annual Wall-to-Wall Marathon extravaganza, celebrating the 400-year history of Western opera, between 1607 and the present. The all-day event offers a full and varied program of operatic works from Monteverdi to Bellini and Mozart to Bermel, performed by musicians and singers from throughout New York’s artistic community. Wall-to-Wall begins its overview with the birth of opera (an excerpt from Monteverdi’s 1607 Orfeo), and continues through different periods, from Grand Opera to Modern Opera, concluding the day with recent works by Ricky Ian Gordon, Tarik O’Regan, Victoria Bond, and Derek Bermel. Featured events include a bel canto class taught by soprano Renata Scotto. Saturday, 11 a.m.-midnight, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, free.

THEATER

INTO THE WOODS The American Musical Theater Ensemble of the Manhattan School of Music stages its first-ever full-length musical with a performance of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” The popular musical depicts the world of a pair familiar to readers of classic fairy tales. A baker and his wife cannot have a child until they follow the bidding of the witch next door, who instructs them to get, among other things, a cape as red as blood and a slipper as pure as gold. A band of fairy tale characters including Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella assist the couple in their pursuit of happily ever after. Dan Gettinger is musical director of the student production, and a member of the MSM voice faculty, Maitland Peters, is cast as “The Narrator.” Through Saturday, 7:30 p.m., MSM, John C. Borden Auditorium, 120 Claremont Ave., between 122nd Street and Broadway, 917-493-4428, free.

AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE CITY Brooklyn writer James Grant, author of “John Adams: Party of One” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and composer Terry Quinn share their respective works on the second president of America during “An Evening of John Adams in Word and Song,” presented by the Brooklyn Historical Society. While Mr. Grant was writing his book, which was published in 2005, Mr. Quinn was writing his operetta song cycle “John Adams in Amsterdam: A Song for Abigail,” about Adams’s time as America’s first envoy to Holland in 1780. The cycle is based on letters that Adams wrote to his wife during his two-year stay in Europe. Performers include baritone Richard Lalli. Tickets are on sale now. Saturday, 8 p.m., Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., between Clinton Street and Monroe Place, Brooklyn, 718-222-4111, $45 general, $30 members.

TALKS

TOLERATION NATION The American Museum of Natural History presents “In Celebration of Indigenous People” as part of its Global Weekend Program. American Indian singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah performs with Ulali, an American Indian women’s a cappella group, as part of an afternoon devoted to diverse cultures that also includes films and a panel discussion with representatives from the United Nations and indigenous peoples. Saturday, 1–4:30 p.m., AMNH, 175 Central Park West at 79th Street, 212-769-5200, $20 general, $18 members, students, and seniors. For complete information, go to amnh.org.

REVISITING THE OLD MASTERS “Turning Points in Old Master Collecting 1830–1940” is the subject of an afternoon symposium presented by the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection. A panel of expert guest speakers from around the country discusses the shift in artistic tastes and collecting patterns. As one generation of collectors placed a premium on Italian primitives, for instance, another favored British portraiture. Panelists identify turning points in Old Master collecting during the so-called “long 19th century,” and explore the socioeconomic circumstances that made these shifts nearly inevitable. Among the highlights is “I Was To Have All of the Finest: Henry Clay Frick, Jack Morgan, Joseph Duveen, and the Dispersal of the Morgan Collection,” at 4:30 p.m. A professor of history and art history at the University of Chicago, Neil Harris is moderator of the event. A reception follows. Saturday, 2 p.m., the Frick Collection, Oval Room, 1 E. 70 St., between Madison and Fifth Avenues, 212-547-0677, free with RSVP. For complete information, go to frick.org.

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