From Tibetan Song and Dance to Barney

* DANCE: The 55-member Tibetan Institute Song and Dance Ensemble presents a sampler program of cultural relics from the Land of Snows tonight and Saturday at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. . . . Lula Washington Dance Theatre offers the local premiere of “What About Watts” and other repertory Saturday night and Sunday afternoon in the Luckman Theater at Cal State L.A.

* POP MUSIC: The Dave Matthews Band is joined by G. Love & Special Sauce for shows at the Universal Amphitheatre tonight and Saturday. . . . Willie Nelson teams with Leon Russell tonight through Sunday at the House of Blues.

* THEATER: Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories,” a beautifully written multilayered new drama about the shifting dynamics between a writer and her protege, features top-flight performances by Kandis Chappell and Suzanne Cryer at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. . . . With a rowdy, Calypso-Casablanca-type take, Shakespeare’s comedy “Twelfth Night” is a kick at A Noise Within in Glendale.

* FAMILY: “Barney’s Big Surprise,” the dinostar’s lively stage show extravaganza, wraps up its Southland tour today through Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center. . . . “Maria and the Comet,” Mary Mann’s play based on the childhood of the first female American astronomer, is Synthaxis Theatre’s unusual offering at Lankershim Arts Center, Saturday at 2 p.m. in North Hollywood.

* ART: The spotlight is on female photographers this weekend as three prominent artists are the focus of two exhibitions each. Victorian photographs are featured in “Julia Margaret Cameron: The Creative Process” at the J. Paul Getty Museum through Jan. 5 and “Annals of My Glass House: Julia Margaret Cameron” at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont (through Dec. 15). Nudes and still-lifes are included in “Ruth Bernhard: Known and Unknown,” closing Sunday at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, and “Ruth Bernhard: Master Artist Tribute IV,” opening Sunday at Saint Mary’s Hearst Art Gallery in Moraga. An Italian-born photographer who is becoming somewhat of a cult figure is the subject of two exhibitions at UC San Diego: “Tina Modotti: Selected Photographs” and “Dear Vocio: Photographs by Tina Modotti” continue at the University Art Gallery through Jan. 11.

* JAZZ: The romance of bygone Hollywood supplies the inspiration for bassist Charlie Haden’s Quartet West, which appears with a string section Sunday at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Pianist Jacky Terrasson’s trio is also on the bill.

* MOVIES: Producer Arthur Cohn gave director Vittorio De Sica a chance to return to top form with the Oscar-winning “The Garden of Finzi-Continis,” which commences a 25th anniversary revival today at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills and the Town Center 5 in Encino. This superb 1971 film illuminates the tragic predicament of the Jews under Mussolini and tells of a poignant, ill-fated romance as it evokes an insulated, privileged way of life destroyed by World War II. Dominique Sanda and Lino Capolicchio star. . . . Abel Ferrera’s “The Funeral” (AMC Century City) transforms the Mafia melodrama into Greek tragedy as it takes us down the familiar mean streets of the period gangster picture. In a trademark Ferrera mix of extreme ferocity (and here, some raunchy sex) with an extraordinary complexity of character and intricacy of plot, the film tells of the intertwined fates of three brothers (Christopher Walken, Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo). . . . The Sunset 5 is launching tonight at midnight “The Unordinary Madness of Marco Ferreri,” a series of films by Italy’s master of the macabre running through Dec. 1, with Ferreri’s 1983 “Tales of Ordinary Madness,” drawn from Charles Bukowski stories. Ferreri will be present. . . . The UCLA Film Archive’s “Troma-tized!,” a tribute to Troma Inc., longtime purveyors of funny, sometimes gory low-budget schlock, commences Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with the premiere of “Tromeo and Juliet.”

* MUSIC: Opera Pacific revives its production of Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” in English, opening Saturday (and repeated Sunday afternoon) at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. John DeMain conducts; among the participants: Brenda Harris, Karen Morrow and Dom DeLuise. . . . Opening its winter season, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, under conductor Iona Brown, plays at Veterans Wadsworth Theater in Westwood tonight and at the Alex Theatre in Glendale Saturday, also at 8 p.m. Trumpeter David Washburn is soloist. . . . Pianist Eduardus Halim appears in recital tonight at 8 in Schoenberg Hall at UCLA, playing the 24 preludes by Chopin, excerpts from Granados’ “Goyescas” and music by Liszt.

--Compiled by Calendar writers