1pm: Festival

A weekend of performances and workshops in folk music as well as dance and storytelling will mark the 19th Annual Summer Solstice Folk Music, Dancing and Storytelling Festival in Calabasas. The event happens Saturday and Sunday, with pre-festival events on Friday. The festival will include more than 100 artists from around the world performing and teaching workshops for beginners and accomplished performers. Food booths, children’s crafts, storytelling, family dancing and sing-alongs also will be offered. Pre-festival events will take place on Friday, including a contra dance, “Scary Stories Concert” and music jam session in the evening and various folk music workshops in the afternoon. A special Celtic music concert and contra dance will take place on Saturday night.

* 19th Annual Summer Solstice Folk Music, Dancing and Storytelling Festival, Soka University of America, corner of Mulholland Highway and Malibu Canyon Road, Calabasas. Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. At the gate, $25; ages 12 and younger, free when accompanied by an adult; after 3 p.m., $15. Pre-festival music workshops, Friday, 1-4 p.m. $60. (Pre-registration only.) Contra dance and “Scary Stories Concert,” Friday, 7:30 p.m. $10; advance tickets, $7. Celtic music concert, Saturday, 8 p.m. Reserved seats, $25; general admission, $15. Contra dance, Saturday, 7 p.m. $10; advance tickets, $7. (818) 817-7756 or (818) 878-3728.

all day: Movies

Eddie Murphy, currently in theaters as a talking donkey in the animated “Shrek,” returns in human form as the animal-conversant physician in “Dr. Dolittle 2.” In the sequel to the 1998 comedy, the doc now has a thriving practice but must help some outraged forest dwellers save their home from human developers and play love doctor for a pair of mismatched bears. Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones and Kevin Pollak co-star for director Steve Carr (“Next Friday”).

* “Dr. Dolittle 2,” rated PG for language and crude humor, opens Friday in general release.

8pm: Theater

A workshop production of “California Scenarios,” a collaborative work by Latino writers, and part of the Hispanic Playwrights Project, kicks off South Coast Repertory’s Fourth Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, a 10-play, two-weekend event of workshop productions, staged readings and Amy Freed’s new main-stage comedy “The Beard of Avon.”

* Fourth Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. “California Scenarios,” Friday, 8 p.m. Call for complete event schedule. Ends July 1. $8 to $49. (714) 708-5555.

8pm: Theater

In “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” classic and new fiction is read by such stage, screen and TV veterans as Billy Campbell, James Cromwell, Jane Curtin, Leonard Nimoy and others. Themes, changing daily, include “An Evening With DoubleTake Magazine: Telling Stories in Fiction and Photographs,” “Fairy Tales--With a Twist: A Program for Children Ages 7 to 11 and Their Adult Friends,” “Love and Longing in L.A.,” “Landscapes and Women: Three Tales by Guy de Maupassant” and “Notions of Devotion.”

* “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” Getty Museum, Harold M. Williams Auditorium, 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 and 7 p.m. $20 ($10 children’s tickets for the Saturday matinee only). (310) 440-7300.

8pm: Comedy

He’s a magician, he’s a comedian, he’s a guy with a headband. The Amazing Johnathan performs at West Hollywood’s Key Club this weekend, doing a show you wouldn’t mistake for David Copperfield’s. See Johnathan, for instance, pull his arm out of its socket. Don’t worry, the guy’s been doing this for some time.

* The Amazing Johnathan, Key Club, 9039 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. (doors open at 7). $25. Call (310) 786-1712.

8 pm: Pop Music

The La Jolla Playhouse is the place where “The Who’s Tommy” began its march toward Broadway and its Tony Awards, and now Pete Townshend is returning the favor, playing two solo concerts as a benefit for its New Plays and Musicals Project.

* Pete Townshend, La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. $1,000 (includes backstage party). (858) 550-1010.

8&9 pm: Dance

The C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) Performance Series continues with an evening divided between two theaters in the Los Angeles Theatre Center: Jacques Heim and company at 8 p.m. in Theatre 1, Dan Froot in his “Shlammer” solo at 9 p.m. in Theatre 3. Choreographer Heim and his Diavolo Dance Theatre specialize in collaborative, metaphorical pieces about modern life that explore a movement vocabulary derived from gymnastics. Interdisciplinary performer Froot has incorporated dancing, texts and saxophone playing in his past projects but remains unpredictable: a loose cannon with plenty of satiric targets. Both won city fellowships for 2001-02, hence this double showcase.

* C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) Performance Series, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown L.A. 8 and 9 p.m. Also Saturday, 8 and 9 p.m. $5 (Arts Card member) to $10 (ticket price includes both performances each night). (213) 485-1681.

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Freebie

* Games, amusement rides, entertainment and food will be key elements of a Three Day Fiesta, Schabarum Regional Park, Albatross Street and Colima Road, Rowland Heights. Friday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (626) 964-3629.