DANCE

LEAPS AND BOUNDS An ensemble of young dancers from the Juilliard School and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Hell’s Kitchen Dance, perform with famed dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov. The performance marks the troupe’s first New York City performance. Mr. Baryshnikov is the founder of the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a creative laboratory for a community of experimental artists working in the fields of dance, music, theater, film, design, and visual arts. Among the highlights are Donna Uchizono’s “Leap to Tall” and Aszure Barton’s “Come In,” two dances commissioned and created at BAC in 2006. Featured dancers include Hristoula Harakas, Jonathan Alsberry, Shamel Pitts, and Emily Proctor. Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, 3 p.m., Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 212-279-4200, $30.

FAMILY

READ IT UP The Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment is a nonprofit organization that educates children and city dwellers about the built and natural environments of the city. The organization hosts its second annual literary fair, featuring poetry workshops, quilt making, community Monopoly, model building, and mock neighborhood walk throughs with families and students from I.S. 49, P.S. 377, P.S. 375, and P.S. 196. A performance by the children’s indie rock band Audra Rox is also featured. Saturday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., Prospect Park Tennis House, Prospect Park Drive West at 3rd, 9th, and 15th streets, Brooklyn, 718-788-8500, free.

PIRATES OF GRANADA The tenth season of “New Plays for Young Audiences,” a family-friendly stage series, is sponsored by the Program in Educational Theatre at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development of New York University. This weekend, Carl Miller’s “1491” is performed. The production recreates life in Granada during a golden age under the rule of kings and soldiers, and amidst a lost world populated by beggars, musicians, and dancers. Tony Graham is the director of the play. An open discussion with the playwright and creative team behind the work follows Sunday’s performance. Saturday, 3 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, at 3 p.m., NYU, Provincetown Playhouse, 133 Mac-Dougal St., between 3rd and 4th streets, 212-998-5867, $5 general, free for children, high school students, and NYU students.

ADVENTURE ON THE SOUTH RIVER Makor hosts “Rafting on the Delaware River,” a 10-mile guided trip down the Delaware River. Participants are invited to swim and sunbathe in tranquil Class I & II rapids. The following should be brought along: extra clothes, hats, sunscreen, worn sneakers, and, of course, water guns for doing battle along the river. Sunday, 9 a.m., meet at the 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $65.

FILM

WINDSHIELD VIEW The Tribeca Drive-In at Rockefeller Center series presents summer drive-in movies on the center’s Midtown campus. The final installment of the series features the New York premiere of Dean Matthew Ronalds’s “Netherbeast Incorporated” (2007), a tale of vampires set in the world of corporate business. Featured actors include Darrell Hammond, Steve Burns, Judd Nelson, Dave Foley, Jason Mewes, and Robert Wagner. Friday, 6 p.m., Rockefeller Plaza Channel Gardens, between 49th and 50th streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-941-2400, free.

THE EMPTY LIFE OF JULIETTE Jean-Luc Godard’s “Two or Three Things I Know About Her” (1967), is shown at Symphony Space. Mr. Godard, who is frequently credited with being at the forefront of the Nouvelle Vague movement, depicts 24 hours in the life of a Parisian housewife-prostitute. The filmmaker presents a sociological fable about the dangers of selling one’s self to buy happiness. Featured actors include Marina Vlady and Roger Montsoret. Sunday, 8 p.m., Tuesday, 9 p.m., Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $10 general, $6 members.

HAMPTONS

READING RAINBOW Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y., hosts Bookhampton Bookstore’s annual book fair for children, offering discounted books from the reading lists of participating local schools. Balloons, lollipops, and free giveaways are offered. Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Guild Hall, 128 Main St. at Pondview Lane, East Hampton, 631-324-0806, free.

MUSIC

VOICE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE The Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs “SoundScapes,” three concerts to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The Grammy award-winning chorus features junior, prepatory, and intermediate divisions. Among the highlights are five world premieres from the BYC Commissioning Project. Those include a trilogy of works created by composers Paul Moravec, David Lang, and Nico Muhly on the theme of “Myths and Origins,” inspired by such texts and tales as Genesis and Old Norse mythology. Other selections include Joel Martin’s jazz-classical vocal suite, “Fauré’s En Sourdine” and “I Hear a Rhapsody.” A composers’ forum moderated by the education director at the New York Philharmonic, Theodore Wiprud, is at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, and a VIP reception follows the concert. Friday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, 1 University Plaza, between Flatbush and DeKalb avenues, Brooklyn, 718-488-1624, $15 and $35 general, $70 includes entry to VIP reception.

THE BACK OF THE BUS “Mother of Exiles, Daughters of Song” is the theme of this year’s annual spring concert given by the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. The multimedia performance addresses social issues including immigration and civil rights, and features spoken word and projected images. Among the selected works is Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” and “In America,” written by the director of the BWC, Bev Grant. Friday, 8 p.m., Brooklyn Society of Ethical Culture, Very Good Coffee House, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street, 718-230-4999, $10 general, $6 children.

PHOTOGRAPHY

THE ROAD TO CHILDREN Photographers Sterck and Rozo traveled through Spain on a “fertility tour,” inspired by the historical pilgrimage taken by couples since medieval times that walked the Way of Saint James in hopes of bearing children. “From Spanish Chapels to First Born” is an exhibit of abstract photographs taken in Spanish monasteries and churches that marked the couple’s journey before having their first child. Selections include “From Spanish Chapels to First Born #14,” above. Through Saturday, June 30, Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 535 W. 22nd St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 646-230-0992, free.

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

A SMORGASBORD OF FUN The festival and the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy celebrate the first day of summer in the traditional Swedish way, with picnicking, making floral headdresses, a maypole procession, and dancing until dark to traditional fiddle music. Music is provided by Paul Dahlin and fiddlers from Minneapolis’s American Swedish Institute. Dancers include the Barnklubben Elsa Rix ensemble and the Swedish Folkdancers of New York. A co-sponsor of the night is the Consul General of Sweden. Friday, 5 p.m., Wagner Park, Battery Place, between West Street and First Place, 212-267-9700, free.

TALKS

PROTECTING THE PRESIDENCY The New York Military Affairs Symposium presents a lecture by one of its members, C. Kay Larson, “Thwarting a Confederate Coup D’Etat, Washington, D.C., April, 1861.” A Civil War buff, Mr. Larson discusses the defense that the Cassius M. Clay battalion established in front of the White House against renegade Confederates in the middle of the war. Friday, 7 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th Street, 212-817-7000, free.

To submit an event for consideration for the Calendar, please wire the particulars to calendar@nysun.com, placing the date of the event in the subject line.