Sat. Best Bets: 8/15

11am: Festival

The Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center will host “L.A. Impacts II,” a daylong family festival celebrating the positive impact local arts organizations have made on the community since the 1992 riots. Activities will include art workshops, a community arts resource fair, dance performances by Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Company, African doll-making, storytelling with David Prather and lectures by writers Riua Akinshegun (“Home Grown Africans”) and Mike Davis (“City of Quartz”).

* “L.A. Impacts II,” 11 a.m.-5 p.m. UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Free with museum admission: Adults, $4.50; seniors and students, $3; UCLA students, $1; children 17 and under, free. (310) 443-7000.

noon Collectibles

The All American Collectors Show returns to the Glendale Civic Auditorium for its 27th year with more than 250 dealers gathering to buy, sell and trade tin wind-up toys, Disney memorabilia, dolls, political Americana, arcade machines, advertising, carousel figures and more.

* All American Collectors Show, noon-7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401 N. Verdugo Road. $5. (818) 980-5025 or (310) 455-2894.

8pm: Pop Music

Has the Spice Girls phenomenon passed critical mass? Can the foursome rev up the girl power without Ginger in the group? The Brits’ first L.A. concerts seem to be coming pretty late in the celebrity cycle, but they don’t call them plucky for nothing.

* The Spice Girls at the Great Western Forum, 3900 Prairie Ave., Inglewood. Sold out. (310) 419-3100. Also Sunday at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion, 2575 Glen Helen Parkway, Devore. $28-$53. (909) 886-8742.

7:15pm / Television

Sid & Marty Kroft, the wacky taste-makers of children’s TV in the 1960s and ‘70s, will be on hand for screenings of some of the best episodes of “H.R. Pufnstuf,” “Sigmund & the Sea Monsters,” “The Bugaloos” and more. Note to baby boomers: This program might just clear up any questions you have about your Generation X kids.

* Sid & Marty Kroft, American Cinematheque’s Greatest Hits, 1993-1998, Raleigh Studios, Chaplin Theater, 5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood. $4-$7. (323) 466-3456, Ext. 3.

11am: Art

Painter and illustrator DeLoss McGraw has drawn inspiration from many writers and poets throughout his career, including William Blake, Lewis Carroll, W.D. Snodgrass, Mary Shelley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barton Thurber and Robert Phillips. “DeLoss McGraw: As a Poem, So Is a Picture,” opening at the Weisman Museum of Art this weekend, transforms the written words of these writers and others into whimsical works of art, as more than 80 paintings and sculptures bring fictional characters to life.

* “DeLoss McGraw: As a Poem, So Is a Picture.” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. Ends Oct. 4. Museum hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission free. (310) 456-4851.

1 & 3pm: Culture

To mark the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II (53 years ago Saturday), the Pacific Asia Museum is presenting a Korean Harvest Festival. The free family day will include taekwondo demonstrations, a village-style masked dance, art workshops and a recital on the dae geum, the Korean vertical bamboo flute. The Korean Cultural Center celebrates with screenings Friday and Saturday of “Karuna,” a 1996 Korean film with English subtitles that explores the desire for Korean unification through one family’s struggles. Director Lee Il-Mok will attend Saturday’s screening.

* Korean Harvest Festival, 1-4 p.m. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. Free. (626) 449-2742.

* “Karuna,” Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m., Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd. Free. (323) 936-7141.

FREEBIE: Bali and Beyond performs native Balinese music, Ivy Substation, Media Park, Culver City, 6 p.m. (310) 253-6640.