GOINGS ON : Fledgling, Full-Fledged Dancers to Take Stage : Friday’s concert at the Lobero will feature experienced artists, while youths make the leap Saturday.

Dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Lula Washington Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theater will be among performers in the Gala Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Friday at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre. Tickets are $35 (with reception), $15 (general).

Young dancers will get their chance on the Lobero stage at 8 p.m. Saturday when members of the Montecito School of Ballet, the Santa Barbara Youth Dance Theater and other groups perform to the music of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony. Tickets are $12 (adults), $10 (students and seniors), $7 (children under 12).

Call 963-0761 for tickets to either event. The Lobero is at 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

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For more dance, renowned San Francisco Bay Area choreographer Margaret Jenkins will bring her company to UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall on Saturday for a performance of her first evening-length dance piece, “The Gates (Far Away Near).” The performance will begin at 8 p.m. Admission is $10, $13 and $15. Call 893-3535.

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The festival season at Santa Barbara’s Oak Park will continue Saturday with the 12th Annual Children’s Festival, which is presented by the Family Service Agency’s Child Guidance Clinic in Santa Barbara County. There will be plenty of carnival activities, with entertainment scheduled throughout the day.

Among the many scheduled performers are J. T. and the Zydeco Zippers, the Crawdaddies and Oxnard’s Claddagh School of Irish Dance. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. Call 965-1001. Oak Park is at Junipero Street and Alamar Avenue.

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A blessing of the fleet, tours of a U. S. Navy ship, a creatures of the sea “touch tank,” boat tours and other exhibits and demonstrations will be part of the seventh annual Santa Barbara Harbor Festival on Saturday at the harbor. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. Call 565-3666.

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Experts will gather at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday for a conference on “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Views After Fifty Years.” The program will be held at the university’s Events Center from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Guest speakers will include Frank Gibney, former U. S. Navy Intelligence officer; Miyoko Matsubara, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima; performance artist and activist Pam Meidel; Kathleen C. Bailey, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Stanford University professor Barton Bernstein, a leading authority on the bombing. General admission is $10. To register, call 893-7660.

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Access Theatre will present one-act works by six young playwrights, Saturday and Sunday at Santa Barbara’s Center Stage Theater. The school-age writers were participants in the theater group’s Young Playwrights Workshop. Show times are 1, 3:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 8 p.m. Sunday. Each show will feature three of the six plays. Tickets are $5. Call 564-2063. Center Stage Theater is on the second level of the Paseo Nuevo shopping center at Chapala and De La Guerra streets.

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The Bach Camerata will visit the Santa Barbara Zoo on Sunday for a Mother’s Day performance of Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals,” beginning at 2 p.m. Joanne and Gavin Martin, a husband-and-wife piano duo, will be featured, with narration by King Harris of KEYT.

Before the main concert, students of Santa Barbara’s Music and Arts Conservatory will perform. There will also be a “tribute” to zoo animals that became mothers in the past year. Admission is $5 (general), $3 (ages 2 to 12), free (seniors and children 2 and younger). Call 962-5339 for more information. The zoo is at 500 Ninos Drive.

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Also on Mother’s Day, Santa Barbara’s West Coast Symphony and the West Coast Ballet Company will present the E. T. Hoffman classic “Coppelia,” 3 p.m. Sunday at the Granada Theater. Tickets are $21 (general), $16 (seniors), $11 (students, children, the disabled). Call 966-2324. The theater is at 1216 State St.