BEST BETS: Sunday 9/5 : 3 & 4:30 pm: Family/Theater

The new Synthesis Little Puppet Theatre is putting on a Renaissance-style puppet show, “The Three Golden Feathers,” based on a fairy tale from Denmark about a poor boy, his magic pony and a beautiful princess.

* “The Three Golden Feathers,” Synthesis Little Puppet Theatre, 4200 Lankershim Blvd., Universal City, Sunday and Monday, 3 and 4:30 p.m. $8. (818) 754-1760.

7:30 pm: Music

“Strike Up the Band” is a mini-festival of band music that brings together two ensembles, the Americus Brass Band and the American Winds Concert Band. Larry Curtis and Richard Birkemeier will conduct this program of music by Sousa, Suppe, Percy Grainger and others; the finale will include fireworks. Trumpeter Allen Vozzutti is the trumpet soloist.

* “Strike Up the Band” plays the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. 8:30 p.m. $1 to $83. Also, Saturday at 8:30 p.m. (323) 850-2000.

8 pm: Music

Founder-leader Gregory Maldonado brings his L.A. Baroque Orchestra to the outdoor Ford Amphitheatre to play suites of dances by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann on a program titled “Baroque Ballroom.”

* L.A. Baroque Orchestra plays at the Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood. 8 p.m. $22 to $25. (323) 461-3673.

8 pm: Music

Drummer Billy Mintz, adept at both jazz and the avant-garde, is a familiar figure on L.A.’s new music scene. Here, he leads his 10-piece Two-Bass Band, an ambitious amalgam of saxophonists, trumpeters, trombonists and, of course, bassists. Also on the bill, the dual percussion team of Brad Dutz and John Holmes.

* Billy Mintz Two-Bass Band, Open Gate Theater’s Sunday Evening Concerts at the Pasadena Shakespeare Company Theatre, Pasadena Mall, 296 Plaza, second level, Pasadena. $10, students and seniors, $5. (626) 795-4989.

noon: Museums

“Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art From the Global Scrap Heap” proves there’s nothing too trashy for the confines of a museum as this award-winning survey of 700 “refabricated” items opens at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. From bread-wrapper rugs to tin-can-encrusted travel trunks culled from urban America to the far corners of the Amazonian rain forest, both universal and individualistic forms of recycling are conveyed in items such as soda bottles and machine parts converted into toys; used lightbulbs made into kerosene lamps, a cloth moneybag quilt and much more.

* “Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art From the Global Scrap Heap.” UCLA/Fowler Museum on the UCLA campus, west of Royce Hall, Westwood. Ends Jan. 2. Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-5 p.m.; Thursdays, noon-9 p.m. Admission, free; parking, $5. (310) 825-4361.

8 pm: Movies

Moxie!, the same folks responsible for the Santa Monica Film Festival, are presenting an outdoor screening of “Cinema Paradiso,” Giuseppe Tornatore’s charming and heart-tugging valentine to the movies. The Italian film, which won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1990, is set mostly in a small Sicilian coastal village in the ‘40s and ‘50s, where Salvatore, a mischievous scamp, befriends the local film projectionist (Philippe Noiret) and begins a lifelong love affair with the silver screen. The two young actors who play Salvatore--Marco Leonardi as a teen and Salvatore Cascio as a child--will break your heart.

* “Cinema Paradiso,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2525 Michigan Ave., Building G-1 (Bergamot Station), Santa Monica. 8 p.m. $TK-$TK. Moxie!, (310) 823-3323.

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FREEBIES: The Getty Center hosts family storytelling at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. outside the museum’s Family Room, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, (310) 440-7300.

The photo exhibit “Golf in Hollywood: Where the Stars Come Out to Play” ends today, Central Library’s first floor gallery, 5th and Flower streets, downtown Los Angeles. 1-5 p.m. (213) 228-7000.