Celebrations of Sights, Sounds Dot Agenda

* MUSIC: Violinist Midori and pianist Robert MacDonald team for their only L.A. recital this season at Veterans Wadsworth Theater tonight. . . . The “godfather of world music,” Ravi Shankar, appears tonight at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. . . . Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, fresh from their Paris successes, open the first weekend of their 1996-97 season with Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

* ART: More than 100 artists and art galleries will open their doors to the public this weekend for the “14th Annual Brewery Artwalk” at downtown’s Brewery Arts Complex. Participating artists include Eugenia Butler, Roland Reiss, Michael Salerno, Hoang Vu and Victor Hugo Zayas. The Brewery Arts Complex is located at the Main Street exit off Interstate 5 in downtown Los Angeles. The free event will run Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

* MOVIES: Spike Lee’s “Get on the Bus” (general release) is a heartfelt and celebratory film made in the spirit of the “Million Man March” on Washington that inspired it. It’s a potent dramatization of many of the issues facing African American men, revealed during a three-day charter bus ride from L.A. to the D.C. march. . . . “Jude” (Sunset 5; AMC Century 14; Town Center, Costa Mesa) is a handsome, uncompromising adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s bleak novel “Jude the Obscure,” which glows with the portrayals of Christopher Eccleston in the title role and Kate Winslet as the free-thinking woman he loves. . . . Beyond Baroque in Venice will celebrate Halloween on Saturday night at 8:30 with a program of spooky vintage shorts spanning 1906-37. . . . The AFI Film Fest continues in six venues, highlighted by a 7:30 p.m. screening Saturday at the L.A. County Museum of Art of “Underground,” Emir Kusturica’s monumental allegory on the death of Yugoslavia, which won the Golden Palm at Cannes. . . . Meanwhile, the 15th annual AFI Video Fest begins tonight at 6 and continues through the weekend at LACE. Admission is free to the video fest.

* POP MUSIC: Ozzy Osbourne is the headliner and the honoree at “Ozzfest,” on Saturday at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion. Among the bands paying homage are Slayer, Danzig, Sepultura and Biohazard. . . . Latin pop star Emmanuel plays at Billboard Live tonight.

* THEATER: The commute from L.A. to La Jolla is somewhat longer than a “2.5 Minute Ride,” the name of Lisa Kron’s solo show running through Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse. But this poignant, often funny chronicle of Kron’s odyssey through life--from a Midwestern childhood to a Brooklyn wedding and a haunting journey to Poland with her father--is well worth the trip. . . . Edward Bond’s “Early Morning” at the Evidence Room in Culver City is a timely, wickedly funny exploration of universal consumerism and double standards, set in the court of Queen Victoria. . . . The sixth annual “Noche de Risa y Susto, or Die Laughing” takes place Saturday night at the Veterans Wadsworth Theatre in Brentwood. The benefit for the Latino Theatre Company features guest hosts Maria Conchita Alonso and A Martinez.

* FAMILY: British actor Peter Dennis, acclaimed interpreter of A.A. Milne’s works, celebrates Winnie the Pooh’s 70th birthday with a “Winnie the Pooh Marathon,” a reading for nostalgic adults and older children at the Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery, in five shows on Sunday, from noon to midnight. . . . The historic Vienna Boys Choir kicks off the first of four “KKGO All-Star Matinees” for family audiences, presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Saturday in the Music Center Pavilion. . . . For young children, Storybook Theatre’s “Aladdin and His Lamp” is the ticket. This audience-interactive musical fairy tale opens Saturday afternoon at the grown-up Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. . . . Universal CityWalk will be a ghostly haven for kids and their parents on Casper Spooky Sunday noon-6 p.m. where scary storytelling, a monster makeup station, monster mask-making and a Casper pumpkin patch will be featured. Kids are invited to dress their ghostliest for the Casper look-a-like contest.

* DANCE: Local butoh specialists Oguri and Renzoku perform “The Effect of Salt” tonight through Sunday afternoon in the State Playhouse at Cal State Los Angeles. . . . A living legend of India, dancer-choreographer-historian Kelucharan Mohapatra celebrates his 70th birthday with an Odissi program on Saturday in the Lakewood High School Auditorium.

* JAZZ: Drummer Akira Tana and bassist Rufus Reid lead the smart, finely tuned quintet TanaReid tonight and Saturday at the Jazz Bakery. . . . Saxophonist-composer Jane Ira Bloom leads an ensemble Saturday at the Cal State Northridge Performing Arts Center.

--Compiled by Calendar writers