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Art

A re-creation of six interactive displays by noted designers and architects Charles and Ray Eames will be featured in “Mathematica . . . A World of Numbers and Beyond,” opening Sunday at the Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design. The exhibit, which celebrates the convergence of design and science, is a series of ingenious learning tools on celestial mechanics, the laws of probability, the Moebius band, topology, minimal surfaces, projective geometry and multiplication.

* “Mathematica . . . A World of Numbers and Beyond,” Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena. Tuesdays through Sundays, noon-9 p.m. Ends Oct. 1. Free. (626) 396-2200.

5pm

Theater

Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, composer Richard Sherman--he and brother Robert are the award-winning songwriting team behind “Mary Poppins”--and champion barbershop quartet Metropolis will headline Westwood Presbyterian Church’s 15th annual Mission Benefit Musicale. All donations will benefit Los Angeles community assistance programs: PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), Child SHARE and the Westside Food Bank.

* 15th annual Mission Benefit Musicale, Westwood Presbyterian Church, 10822 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. 5 p.m. $25 to $100. (310) 474-4535.

6pm

Family

A free evening of entertainment comes to Orange County via Disney Channel PremEARS in the Park, a traveling caravan featuring games, prizes, appearances by Disney characters, live music and a movie screening. M2M and BBMak will perform in concert before the local premiere of “Quints,” a Disney Channel original movie starring Kimberly J. Brown (“Tumbleweeds”).

* Disney Channel PremEARS in the Park, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (formerly Irvine Meadows), 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine. 6 p.m. Free; parking is $8. (949) 855-6111.

7pm

Pop Music

Cape Breton’s dynamic fiddler Natalie MacMaster will be a hard act to follow, but the Irish band Altan has as good a chance as anyone as it headlines the Hollywood Bowl’s Celtic Journeys concert, which also features Lunasa and the Kennelly Irish Dancers.

* Celtic Journeys, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., 7 p.m. $5 to $85. (323) 850-2000.

7pm

Pop Music

The Kennedys are big in the folk world, but they also can flex their pure-pop muscles, as they do on their latest album, “Evolver.” Pete and Maura bring their ring to McCabe’s, and then take a spot on the International Pop Overthrow festival.

* The Kennedys, McCabe’s, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. 7 p.m. $15. (310) 828-4403. Also Monday at the Gig West L.A., 11637 W. Pico Blvd., 7:30 p.m. $8. (310) 444-9870.

7:30pm

Gospel

The 150-voice Agape International Choir, led by Rickie Byars, returns to the Ford with its diverse spiritual messages. Byars and Michael Beckwith write all the music the ensemble sings.

* Agape International Choir, assisted by the Agape House Band, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. $25. (323) 461-3673.

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Movies

Two film noir classics double up at the New Beverly Cinema for three days. Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 “Out of the Past” pits Robert Mitchum against Kirk Douglas, with Jane Greer as the femme fatale playing them off each other. Director Howard Hawks’ 1946 mystery thriller, “The Big Sleep,” based on Raymond Chandler’s first novel, stars Humphrey Bogart as sleuth Phillip Marlowe opposite his real-life leading lady, Lauren Bacall.

* “Out of the Past” and “The Big Sleep,” New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd., Hollywood. Sunday: “Out of the Past,” 3:20 and 7:30 p.m.; “The Big Sleep,” 5:10 and 9:25 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday: “Out of the Past,” 7:30 p.m.; “The Big Sleep,” 9:25 p.m. $3 to $6. (323) 938-4038.

Freebies

Some of the area’s best high school musicians come together under the banner of JazzAmerica, led by saxophonist-composer-educator Buddy Collette, at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.; L.A., 2 p.m. (310) 440-4500.

The Topanga Symphony performs music by Mozart, Bill Marx, Rossini and Mendelssohn at Topanga Community House, 1440 Topanga Canyon Blvd. 7:30 p.m. (818) 999-5775.