10 & 11 am: Movies

The Laemmle Theatres’ 7th Annual Classic Western Round-Up movie series continues this weekend with “Broken Arrow” (1950), an anti-racist parable that stars James Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget, and “Cat Ballou” (1960), which features a young, Levi’s-clad Jane Fonda as a fetching outlaw queen. Fonda’s co-star Lee Marvin won an Academy Award for his supporting role as the drunken gunslinger Kid Sheleen.

* “Broken Arrow” screens Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Monica 4-Plex, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica. $5 to $8. (310) 394-9741. “Cat Ballou” screens Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. $5 to $8. (323) 848-3500. The Laemmle Theatres 7th Annual Classic Western Round-Up continues weekends at the two theaters through Labor Day.

8 pm: Dance

Heading toward its 20th anniversary as the Southland’s most visible African American ensemble, the Lula Washington Dance Company returns to the “Summer Nights at the Ford” series with a mixed repertory offering both old favorites and previews of coming attractions. The program includes “Mahal Dances” (presented at the Ford last year), “ ‘93” (an excerpt from Washington’s “Circle of Dance”), three works-in-progress (including Washington’s “L.A. View,” recently performed on the Dance Kaleidoscope series), plus “Old-Time Jazz Revue” by Washington’s youth dancers. She recently won a Lester Horton Dance Award for sustained achievement.

* Lula Washington Dance Theatre, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. E., Hollywood, 8 p.m. $7 (children) to $20. (323) GO 1-FORD.

all day: Children

Kidspace Museum opens “InterANTics,” a new interactive exhibit that allows kids to take on the life of an ant as it crawls through leaves. Standing about 16 feet high, the exhibit is designed to be climbed on, under and in between. Industrial cabling covers the exterior for safety, while allowing the illusion of open space.

* “InterANTics,” Kidspace Museum, 390 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Museum hours: Sundays-Thursdays, 1-5 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5; ages 1 and 2, $2.50; under 1, free. (626) 449-9144.

8 pm: Theater

Writer, actor and National Public Radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh performs “Aliens in America,” her darkly comic, semiautobiographical show about growing up middle class and Chinese German in Southern California.

* “Aliens in America,” Tiffany Theater, 8532 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends Oct. 3. $25 to $32.50. (310) 289-2999.

8 pm: Theater

In “Properties of Silence,” a couple in a troubled marriage retreat to a dream landscape into which 17th century Mexican poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is summoned, in a work by Theresa Chavez, Rose Portillo and Alan Pulner presented by About Productions.

* “Properties of Silence,” 2100 Square Feet Theater, 5615 San Vicente Blvd. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m.; Sept. 26, 2 and 7 p.m. Benefit and silent auction, Sept. 18, 7 p.m. $40 (two for $75).Post-play panel discussion Sept. 12, 3:30 p.m. Ends Sept. 26. $12 to $15. (323) 655-TKTS.

all day: Festival

The 19th annual Sunset Junction Street Fair presents three stages with big-name entertainment over two days. Sam Moore and Mike Watt will be among the musical acts performing on Saturday. Mary Wilson, John Doe and Candye Kane are a few of the artists who will entertain on Sunday. The Silver Lake festival also will feature ethnic dancers, arts and crafts, food, games and carnival rides. The entrance fee will help support a program for at-risk youth run by the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance.

* Sunset Junction Street Fair, at the junction of Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards, Silver Lake. Saturday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. $3 donation; ages 12 and under, free. (323) 661-7771.

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FREEBIES:

Balinese, Japanese, Native American and other percussion traditions will be heard at the Different Drummers Festival, Memorial Park, Pasadena. 2 p.m. (626) 449-2742.

Latin jazz band Tolu plays the California Plaza, 300 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. 8 p.m. (213) 687-2159.