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7:30 am: Family

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J. Evan Bonifant, 12, of “Blues Brothers 2000,” and Madeline Sweetan, 7, of CBS’ “Everybody Loves Raymond,” join other celebrity kids, personalities and just plain folks to kick off the first 5K Celebrity Kids Walk in Beverly Hills. The event will raise money to benefit Olive Crest Homes & Services for Abused Children. Participants will get a chance to mingle with celebrities, including former Dodgers star Steve Garvey, and get autographs, win prizes or take part in arts and crafts activities before the walk.

* 5K Celebrity Kids Walk is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. in front of the Beverly Hills City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, and continue through downtown Beverly Hills. Registration, 7:30 a.m. Kickoff party, 8:30 a.m. Benefit for the Olive Crest Abused Children’s Foundation. (800) 550-CHILD, Ext. 807.

8 pm: Music

The San Francisco-based male vocal ensemble Chanticleer presents church music by Manuel de Zumaya and Ignacio de Jerusalem, neglected composers of the Mexican Baroque, in the neo-Romanesque and recently retrofitted confines of Royce Hall at UCLA.

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* Chanticleer, Royce Hall, UCLA. $10-$35. (310) 825-2101. Same program is scheduled at San Gabriel Mission on the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series, Sunday at 5 and 7 p.m. and at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, Monday at 8 p.m.

Movies: 2 and 8 pm

The Film Society of Glendale’s landmark Alex Theatre invites you to “fasten your seat belts” for screenings of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “All About Eve” (1950), one of the most memorable of all Hollywood movies. In her definitive role, Bette Davis plays Broadway star Margo Channing, who’s hitting 40 and being undermined by her ambitious young protegee (Anne Baxter). With Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Louis Calhern, Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe.

* “All About Eve,” Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd. Saturday only. $6-$8:50 (818) 754-8250.

All day: Family

Twenty life-size robotic dinosaurs invade Dino Mountain at San Diego Wild Animal Park, transforming the four-acre forest area into “the land before time.”

* Dino Mountain at San Diego Wild Animal Park, 15500 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 2-June 17; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. June 18-Sept. 7. Adults, $21.95; age 3-11, $14.95; age 2 or younger, free. Admission includes entrance to Wild Animal Park and Dino Mountain, the Wgasa Bush Line Monorail tour, Heart of Africa walking safari, shows and other exhibits. (760) 747-8702.

All Day: Antiques

More than 70 international antique dealers will convene at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica this weekend for the third annual Los Angeles Antiques Show. A daily lecture series will feature speakers from the art and antiques world including Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts, Getty Center; Barbara Thornburg, Los Angeles Times Magazine design editor; Frederick J. Fisher, director of Hillwood House and Gardens; and local interior designers. Proceeds benefit the Women’s Guild of Cedar’s Sinai Medical Center.

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* Los Angeles Antiques Show, Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Also Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport, 2772 Donald Douglas Loop, Santa Monica. Admission $15 daily; lectures $10 each. (310) 855-3667.

8 pm: Jazz

Drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers ensemble was a veritable college of jazz knowledge, one that helped launch the careers of such virtuosos as Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis and dozens more. The Legacy of Art Blakey will be celebrated by six of his most prominent alumni--saxophonist Benny Golson, trombonist Curtis Fuller, trumpeter Brian Lynch, pianist George Cables, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash--as all perform from a recent Telarc release recorded live last November at New York’s club Iridium.

* The Legacy of Art Blakey, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles. $27.50-$32.50; students and seniors, $15. (213) 343-6600.

FREEBIE: Dance lessons from Lula Washington Dance Theatre, California African-American Museum, 1-3 p.m. (213) 744-7432.

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