5 am: World Music

The passion of devotional music is the focus of the World Festival of Sacred Music--the Americas. For nine days, religious and cultural ensembles from around the globe will perform at some 60 venues throughout Los Angeles. First sessions begin Saturday at dawn at the Senshin Buddhist Temple and Barnsdall Art Park, then spread throughout the city. There will be “A Day of Drumming” at MacArthur Park, and a concert from the Los Angeles Latvian Choir and Armenian Women’s Chorus at the Latvian Lutheran Church. Sunday, the “Sacred Americas Concert” at the Hollywood Bowl includes everything from Tibetan monks to gospel choirs, from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Dalai Lama.

* World Festival of Sacred Music, various locations. Some concerts are free, others are $3 to $40. Through Oct. 17. Opening celebration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Ulali, Halau O Kekuhi, Interdenominational Gospel Choir, the Dalai Lama, others on Sunday, 4 p.m. $10 to $75; four- and six-seat boxes, $500 to $1,500. (310) 208-2784. For complete concert schedule, see Music listings or on the Internet, https:// www.wfsm.org/americas.

8 pm: Art/Architecture

Pasadena Heritage presents its eighth annual Craftsman Weekend. Saturday’s events include two architectural bus tours, lectures by prominent Craftsman movement experts and restoration demonstrations and talks. Walking tours of six significant Craftsman-era houses take place on Sunday. Exhibits by antiques dealers specializing in the Arts & Crafts movement, a furnishings show and sale, and an exhibit of plein-air paintings from the Irvine Museum also will be on display both days.

* Craftsman Weekend. Tickets and free shuttles are available starting Saturday at the Masonic Temple, 200 S. Euclid Ave., Pasadena. Exhibits open Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $10. Saturday bus tours, $40; Sunday house tours, $35 or $40 (includes admission to the exhibits). (626) 441-6333.

8 pm: Theater

Interact Theatre Company serves up a triple helping of French comedies in “Manege Moliere,” three rarely staged plays by the 17th century master of mirth: “The Flying Doctor,” “The Jealous Husband” and “Sganarelle/The Imaginary Cuckold.”

* “Manege Moliere,” Interact Theatre Company, 11855 Hart St., North Hollywood. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends Nov. 14. $20. (818) 773-7862.

10 am: Art

Beatrice Wood may be gone, but Ojai lives on as an artists’ enclave, evidenced in this weekend’s 16th annual Ojai Studio Artists Tour. More than 30 artists will open their studios and homes in this self-guided tour just 90 minutes north of Los Angeles. Featured artists include printmaker and painter Maudette Ball Finck, potter Edward Morgan, mixed-media artist Suzannah Sale, pastel artist Bert Collins and noted potter Otto Heino.

* Ojai Studio Artists Tour begins at Ojai Center for the Arts, 110 S. Montgomery St., Ojai. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $15 in advance; $20 on the day of the tour. Admission is good for both days. (805) 646-8126.

8 pm: Music

Southwest Chamber Music begins its 1999-2000 season with a happy mix: Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Hindemith’s Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, the Duo for Flute and Piano by Copland, Bartok’s “Contrasts” and the Clarinet Quartet by American composer Ronald Caltabiano.

* Southwest Chamber Music. Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. 8 p.m. $10 to $20. Also Tuesday in Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, 200 S. Grand Ave. downtown Los Angeles. (800) 726-7147.

8 pm: Dance

When dramatic modern dance connects with steamy Argentine ballroom traditions, the result is Tangokinesis, both the name of a company and the title of a popular work choreographed by its founder, Ana Maria Stekelman. Previously the director of the Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires, Stekelman started Tangokinesis eight years ago and is currently leading the eight-dancer ensemble on its first extensive U.S. tour. Stekelman likes setting tango moves to unorthodox accompaniments--Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater,” for example--with the dancers’ excellence putting them in “a miss-them-at-your-own-peril category,” according to Dance Magazine.

* Tangokinesis, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, 8 p.m. $15 to $40. (800) 414-ALEX. Also Oct. 15, 8 p.m., in the Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. $30. (310) 456-4556. Also Oct. 19, 8 p.m., in Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara. $12 to $22. (805) 893-3535.

FREEBIES

“A Little Wilde--and Other Victorian Authors,” a children’s show and art workshop, will be at the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (310) 443-7000.

The fourth annual Echo Park Arts Festival includes tours, art exhibits and performances on Sunset Boulevard at LeMoyne Street. 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Also Sunday. (213) 250-4155.