ART

BROOKLYN STROLL ArtWalk07 is Brooklyn’s fourth annual free outdoor arts festival, organized with public funds by the New York Council on the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. The festival spans Atlantic Avenue through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and downtown Brooklyn. Highlights include an art show at a brownstone on Dean Street that features a wooden sailboat constructed by Jason Gandy in the front yard: The entire brownstone becomes an open house, featuring works by Katie Merz, Paul Benney, Russell Busch, Gabriele Schafer, and Nick Fracaro. The festival’s starting point is one of many empty store fronts that ArtWalk took over to mount shows: The performance art troupe Circus Amok presents its work throughout the day. Shown above is Cannonball Press’s Print Show, displayed during last year’s ArtWalk. Saturday and Sunday, 1–6 p.m., starting point at 533 Atlantic Ave., between Third and Fourth avenues, Brooklyn, free. For complete information, go to atlanticavenueartwalk.com.

BRIGHT MOMENTS, BIG CITY The Tabla Rasa gallery hosts a reception to celebrate the opening of “Bright Moments,” an exhibit of abstract-expressionist oil works by painter Danny Simmons. Mr. Simmons is also a collector and philanthropist who converted a section of his Clinton Hill loft to form his Corridor Gallery, where the work of young artists is nurtured. Saturday, 2 p.m., exhibit through Saturday, October 6, Thursday–Saturday, noon–5 p.m., Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48th St., between Second and Third avenues, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 718-833-9100, free.

WOMEN BUILT TO FIGHT The BravinLee gallery hosts a reception to celebrate the opening of the “Vogue Series,” an exhibit of works on paper by Marcia Kure. Ms. Kure’s technique is inspired by the ancient cave drawings of southern Africa and the Uli wall murals of Nigeria. In this show, Ms. Kure depicts a small army of voluminous female figures using pigment derived from the West African kola nut. The images evoke glamour, even as they present a commentary on the impersonal sexuality of fashion and advertising. Through Friday, July 13, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., BravinLee, suite 211, 526 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-462-4404, free.

SIDEWALKING “The Secret Lives of Streets” is an exhibit organized by 10 Brooklyn high school students who researched how Brooklyn’s streets were originally named. The students used the resources of the Brooklyn Historical Society to complete their research, in a pilot after-school program called Exhibition Laboratory. The teenagers curated the entire exhibit, showing how culture, historic Brooklyn events, and notable Brooklyn residents factored into the naming of the streets. Through Sunday, September 2, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m., Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepoint St. at Clinton Street, 718-222-4111, free.

FAMILY

LITTLE STRINGS Midori & Friends, founded by the violinist Midori, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing music education programs to public school children throughout New York City. More than 100 public school students participate in the second annual Midori & Friends Children’s Music Festival, performing classical, jazz, Latin, and hip-hop pieces. Featured guests include jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, pop classical violin duo Nuttin’ but Stringz, and the African percussion ensemble Forestdance. Storyteller David Gonzalez is the host of the concerts. Saturday, 3 p.m., Borough of Manhattan Community College Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., between Greenwich Street and the West Side Highway, 212-767-1300, free.

TIPPY TOES The American Ballet Theatre’s ABTKids program presents a performance of excerpts from this season’s works, including “The Sleeping Beauty.” ABT’s resident children’s ballerina, Angelina Ballerina, dances the parts, and is available after the show for photographs and autographs. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and 65th Street, 212-362-2000, $25.

FILM

VANISHED WORLD As part of its Film Day series, the Yeshiva University Museum hosts “Jews in Poland, 1930s,” an afternoon screening of movies about Jewish life in pre-World War II Poland. The program is presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit “And I Still See Their Faces: The Vanished World of Polish Jews.” Among the highlights is “Children Must Laugh” (1935), one of few surviving pre-war documentaries about this theme, which screens at noon. “Yiddle With His Fiddle” (1936), a Yiddish musical folk comedy about a penniless man and his daughter who decide to become traveling musicians, screens at 2 p.m. The executive director of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, Sharon Pucker Rivo, introduces the films. Sunday, noon–4 p.m., exhibit through Sunday, June 24, Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-294-8330, free with museum admission, $8 general, $6 students and seniors.

FOOD & DRINK

MOUTHWATERING SPECTACULAR The fifth annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party takes over Madison Square Park this weekend, featuring pitmasters and their handiworks from across the country. Pitmasters this year include Michael Rodriguez from the Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, Texas; Chris Lilly of Big Bob Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Ala.; Ed Mitchell of Mitchell’s BBQ in Wilson, N.C., and John Wheeler of New York’s Rack & Soul. Seminars feature speakers including food writers Jane and Michael Stern and Matt and Ted Lee, restaurateur Danny Meyer, and chefs Fred Thompson and Ron Lieber. Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m., Madison Square Park, between 23rd and 26th streets and Fifth and Madison avenues, 646-747-0584, free, food can be paid for at tables with cash, credit cards, or a BubbaFastPass, $100.

MUSIC

THE CHAPERONE OFF-STAGE As part of its “Live at Lincoln” series, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center Triangle presents a performance and CD signing by cast members of award-winning Broadway show “The Drowsy Chaperone.” In the musical-within-a-comedy, a devoted musical theater fan plays his favorite cast album on a turntable as the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the tale of a brazen stage starlet trying to find her true love. The production features music and lyrics by Tony-award winners Lisa Lambert and Gregg Morisson. Featured guest performers include cast members JoAnne Worley, John Glover, Beth Leavel, and Peter Bartlett. Friday, 5:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.

TALKS

EAT UP ON SCREEN In anticipation of the upcoming NYC Food Film Festival later this month, the James Beard Foundation presents “Beard on Film,” a roundtable discussion featuring directors whose films are featured in the upcoming festival. Filmmakers include George Motz, Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly, and Natasha Dow Schull and Hillevi Zazel Loven. Trailers of the three films are shown. Chef Harry Hawk of the restaurant Schnack provides refreshments. Friday, noon, James Beard Foundation, 167 W. 12th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues 212-627-2308 ext. 243, $35 general, $30 members, $10 students.

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