all day: Family

Pop on over to Storyopolis for pop-up book activities throughout the day. The day includes a workshop on making 3-D Valentine’s cards, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., a pop-up story time and book signing by David Carter (“Love Bugs,” above), 1-3 p.m., and an advanced pop-up workshop for ages 12 and up at 4 p.m. Also at Storyopolis, an exhibition of antique to present-day pop-up books on loan from the Waldo Hunt Collection in Santa Monica.

* Pop-up clinic, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; pop-up story time and book signing, 1-3 p.m.; advanced pop-up clinic at 4 p.m.: Storyopolis, 116 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood. $6 for each clinic. (310) 358-2512. RSVPs required for each activity. Exhibit continues through Feb. 21.

2 pm: Music

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center’s free “World in Music” series opens for the winter season with a concert of 16th and 17th century works for lute and voice featuring compositions by Monte Verdi, Francesca da Milano and Michelangelo Galilei performed by Musica Angelica director Michael Eagan. The season’s first concert, “Angel Magic,” coincides with the opening this week of the museum’s current exhibition, “The Invisible Made Visible: Angels From the Vatican.” Performances continue through the first of April with Cuban rhythms, Filipino drum music, Irish jigs and more.

* “World in Music Series: Angel Magic,” UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. 2 p.m. Free. (310) 443-7000.

all day: Boats

Evel Knievel is out of the daredevil game these days, but he’s busy turning up as the celebrity spokesman of events around the country. That includes the 42nd annual Southern California Boat Show Saturday through Feb. 15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 800 boats will be shown, highlighted by the debut of more than 40 new models, ranging from luxury yachts to speedboats.

* Southern California Boat Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St. Saturdays, 11 a.m.- 9 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.; Monday-Friday, 1 p.m.- 9 p.m. Adults, $8; children 12 and under, free. (714) 633-7581.

8 pm: Dance

Less than two weeks after his 50th birthday, Mikhail Baryshnikov is presenting his first-ever program of solos at the Wiltern Theatre--choreography by Jose Limon, Mark Morris, Kraig Patterson and Christopher Janney/Sara Rudner. Providing accompaniments and musical interludes will be the five-member White Oak Chamber Ensemble. But Baryshnikov himself adds to the score of the Janney/Rudner collaboration by wearing a wireless transmitter on his chest that makes his heartbeat audible while he dances. It could be beside the point: Who ever doubted that Baryshnikov was dance’s greatest heartthrob?

* Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Chamber Ensemble, Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd. (at Western), Los Angeles. Also Sunday, 2 p.m.; Feb. 11-14, 8 p.m. $15-$60. (310) 825-2101.

8 pm: Music

Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman and his longtime pianist, Janet Goodman Guggenheim, appear in recital in our area for the first time in a few years. His substantial program includes the Sonata No. 4 in C minor by Bach, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 10, Opus 96, and Ernest Bloch’s Sonata No. 2, “Poeme Mystique.” As we go to press, this event is sold out and there’s a lengthy waiting list for tickets.

* Itzhak Perlman and Janet Goodman Guggenheim, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive. Sold out. (562) 916-8500.

8 pm: Theater

Loretta Devine (“Dreamgirls,” “Waiting to Exhale”), James Avery and T.C. Carson head the cast in the Los Angeles premiere of “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” Pearl Cleage’s seriocomic look at the Harlem Renaissance and the social changes of the 1920s and ‘30s, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

* “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Ends Feb. 28. $17.50-$25. (213) 485-1681.

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FREEBIE: CalArts Latin Jazz Ensemble, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, 3 p.m. (213) 223-2475.