Sat. Best Bets: 6/27

8pm / Jazz

The Jazz for Youth Festival features promising young stars like San Francisco-based saxophonist Robert Stewart (now recording for Quincy Jones’ Qwest label), as well as some of the jazz world’s most distinguished names, including pianist Barry Harris, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Art Davis. Poet Kamau Daaood is also scheduled to appear at this fund-raiser for the Leimert Park performance space, the World Stage and its youth programs.

* Jazz for Youth Festival, 8 p.m.-midnight. Vision Theatre Complex, 3341 W. 43rd Place, Leimert Park. $10. (213) 293-2451 or (310) 820-8874.

1pm / World Music

With two days of dance, food and music, the seventh annual Hawaiian Music Festival, Aloha ’98 Concert Jam, is the biggest celebration of Hawaiian culture outside the islands themselves, filled with the sounds of Polynesian chants, drum dances and steel guitars. Among those scheduled to appear are Kapena with Kelly Boy Delima and Cyril Pahinui on Saturday, and Robi Kahakalau, Sean Na’auao and the International Children’s Choir on Sunday. The festival will also feature canoe rides, arts and crafts and a children’s parade.

* Aloha ‘98, Saturday-Sunday, 1-10 p.m. Rainbow Park Lagoon, Long Beach. Two-day tickets $35-$198 (includes luau), single-day tickets $19-$109 (includes luau). Children 11-16, $10 each day; under 10, free. (888) 386-8497.

all day: Festival and Run/Walk

West Hollywood becomes Christopher Street West for this weekend’s Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Pride Celebration. The festival begins Saturday with food and crafts vendors, three entertainment stages featuring a disco dance area, country-western area and the Hard Rock Cafe main stage with continuous live entertainment from Joi Caldwell, Kathy Sledge, CeCe Peniston and others. Get a jump on Sunday’s annual 11 a.m. parade by racing on the parade route in the 9 a.m. 17th Annual 5K/10K Run and Walk for Gay & Lesbian Pride, sponsored by Frontrunners of Greater Los Angeles and Christopher Street West. Proceeds from the walk benefit the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

* Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Pride Celebration, Saturday, noon-midnight; Sunday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. West Hollywood Park, Santa Monica and San Vicente boulevards. $12. (800) 429-4630. 17th Annual 5K/10K Run and Walk for Gay & Lesbian Pride, Sunday, 9 a.m., beginning at the intersection of Santa Monica and La Peer Drive, West Hollywood. $20 registration. (213) 460-2554.

10am / Collectibles

Along with 200 vendors selling memorabilia at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show, more than 100 celebrities from television and film, including Deidre Hall (“Days of Our Lives”), Don Knotts (“Three’s Company”) and author-producer-director Stanley Kramer (“A Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood”), will sign autographs and answer questions.

* Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Beverly Garland Holiday Inn, 4222 Vineland Ave., North Hollywood. $7 daily. Fee for autographs. (818) 980-8000.

1:30pm / Pop Music

The inaugural Lilith Fair was one of the hits of the 1997 summer concert season, surprising skeptical promoters and delighting performers and fans. Tour founder Sarah McLachlan leads the more ambitious second Lilith trek into a stadium setting at the Rose Bowl. The all-female lineup also includes main-stage performers Natalie Merchant, Erykah Badu, the Indigo Girls and Shawn Colvin.

* Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, K’s Choice, Billie Myers, Lhasa, Tara MacLean, Tia Texada and Anna Gasteyer. Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena. $27.05-$52.05. (626) 577-3100.

2pm / Design

Many of today’s retro looks were adapted from styles of the Art Deco years. The Art Deco Society presents the vintage originals in “The Whole Trousseau: Wedding Fashions From the 1920s-1940s,” a show of gowns, fashions and accessories for brides, bridesmaids, mothers-of-the-bride and grooms presented in the historic Art Deco setting of the El Rey Theater and set to music of the era.

* “The Whole Trousseau: Wedding Fashions From the 1920s-1940s,” 2-4 p.m. El Rey Theater, 5515 Wilshire Blvd. $13, includes tea and gift bag. Reservations recommended. (310) 659-3326.

FREEBIE: A.D. & the Soul Company, Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, 6 p.m. (310) 253-6640.