all day: Festival

The traditional Japanese Children’s Day celebration comes to Little Tokyo in the form of sports and art activities for kids and their families. Family Fun Fest kicks off early Saturday morning when kids ages 4-12 fill the streets during a mini-marathon. Participants will be given a pancake breakfast, a goodie bag and T-shirt. Later in the day, children will have the opportunity to learn basketball skills from local college athletes and make Japanese art projects. A 3-on-3 basketball tournament and skills competition and clinic for kids ages 8-13 will take place, as well as a Japanese American art exhibition at the Little Tokyo Doizaki Gallery. Sunday’s activities include the Asian Pacific Art & Crafts Faire and a concert by Hawaii’s the Lim Family at the Japan America Theatre.

* Family Fun Fest, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and nearby areas, 244 S. San Pedro St., downtown L.A. Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost of sporting events varies. Doizaki Gallery admission, $3. Asian Pacific Art & Craft Faire, Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., free. Lim Family concert, Sunday, 4 p.m., $25 and $23. (213) 628-2725.

8 pm: Theater

In Alfred Uhry’s bittersweet comedy, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” a family is pulled apart and mended again in 1939 Atlanta. The 1997 Tony winner for best play, set during the time of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, finds Atlanta’s Jewish elite more concerned with who will be attending the social event of the season.

* “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” Colony Theatre Company’s Burbank Center Stage, 555 N. 3rd St., Burbank. 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends July 8. $25 to $28. (818) 558-7000.

8 am: Fitness

The Revlon Run/Walk for Women is one of the biggest fund-raising events of its kind, raising money to fund breast and ovarian cancer research and prevention programs. Celebrity hosts Dylan McDermott, Melanie Griffith, Karen Duffy and Megan Mullally will oversee the race, expected to attract 60,000 people.

* Revlon Run/Walk for Women, Los Angeles Memorial Colisuem, Exposition Park, L.A. 8 a.m. Registration, 7 a.m. $30 registration. (310) 393-6344.

11 am: Pop Music

Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Planet Asia and Mystic are some of the artists who will appear at Hip-Hop for Consciousness, a benefit to raise legal funds for ‘60s civil rights figure H. Rap Brown. Now known as Imam Jamil Al-Amin, the activist faces charges in Atlanta in connection with the killing of a sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another.

* Hip-Hop for Consciousness,” Watts Labor Community Action Center, 10950 S. Central Ave., L.A. 11 a.m. $23 in advance, $25 at door. (323) 960-1003.

11 am: Theater/Family

24th Street Theatre’s eclectic “Saturday Morning Explorer” family series presents Bennett Schneider, a member of the offbeat, gender-bending Fabulous Monsters theater group, in his decidedly different children’s show, “Bennett Schneider, Unplugged,” a twist on famous and infamous fairy tale females, from Rapunzel to Cinderella.

* “Bennett Schneider, Unplugged,” 24th Street Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St., North University Park, L.A. 1 p.m. For ages 6 to adult. Free; reservations advised. (213) 745-6516.

7:30 pm: Opera

Mark Adamo’s staging of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” comes to the Irvine Barclay Theatre this week, the first of three American works to be staged by Opera Pacific over the next two years. Christopher Larkin will conduct these seven performances, with staging by Peter Webster. In the cast are Kirsten Chavez, Stephanie Woodling, Christina Suh, Natalie Taormina, John Packard and Katherine Ciesinski.

* “Little Women,” Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. 7:30 p.m. $12 to $60. Also, Saturday and May 16, 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday and May 20 at 2 p.m. (800) 34-OPERA.

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FREEBIE

The Second Annual World Music Festival features performances by Son Mayor, Very Be Careful, We the People and the Orange County Klezmers, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Drive. L.A. (323) 343-4060.

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For the 200th birthday of Pio Pico, the Homestead Museum hosts the panel “Revolutionary or Relic” with William Estrada, Roberto Garza, Carlos Soloman and Paul Spitzzeri, at 2 p.m. 1545 E. Don Julian Road, Industry. (626) 968-8492.