Happening Saturday

FAMILY

Ventura Harvest Festival Homemade handicrafts and time-honored tradition take center stage when Ventura’s Seaside Park hosts Harvest Festival, the “original art and craft show.” Visitors are welcome to attend the entire weekend-long festival for one price, meaning three full days of Americana-heavy dining, shopping and entertainment — including the music of the Scott Land Marionettes and HyJinx — for one single-digit price tag. Ventura County Fairgrounds (Seaside Park), 10 W. Harbor Road, Ventura. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sun. $9. https://www.harvestfestival.com.

Circus Vargas In the Cirque du Soleil era, the circus has come to be postmodern performance art of avant-garde costuming and budget-busting stagecraft. Circus Vargas has a bit of that but instead focuses on more classic pleasures under the big top: witty clowning, daring acrobatics and, above all, a sense of fun and accessible spectacle. Westfield Topanga, Victory and Topanga Canyon boulevards, Canoga Park. Times vary. Saturday-Nov. 1. https://www.circusvargas.org.

MOVIES

Counter Culture, Counter Cinema Join the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pacific Design Center and Charles S. Cohen as they present a film festival called Counter Culture, Counter Cinema. The avant-garde festival is co-curated by David E. James and MM Serra and features films that explore the ongoing relationship between offbeat film and counterculture ideas. SilverScreen Theater, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. Times vary, $8 to $10 individual tickets; $45 festival passes. (213) 626- 6222; https://www.moca.org.

BOOKS

Waiting for Jack In a homage to the 1955 Six Gallery reading that put the San Francisco Renaissance on the map, Los Angeles-area poets will read their favorite poems at a one-night celebration of the Beat legacy, “Waiting for Jack.” Produced by Eve Brandstein, Michael C. Ford, Rex Weiner and John Densmore, the readers will include John Harris, Bill Duke, Pegarty Long, Herbert T. Schmidt Jr., Doug Knott, Jerry Garcia, Sarah Maclay, Gail Wronsky, L.K. Thayer, Stephen J. Kalinich and S.A. Griffin, with works by Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, LeRoi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and others. Studio 1520, 1520 2nd St., Santa Monica. 7 p.m. $7. https://www.waitingforjackshow.blogspot.com.

EVENTS

Vintage Fashion Expo From platform shoes and hip-hugging bell bottoms to scandalously short flapper dresses and dangling pearl necklaces, the Vintage Fashion Expo spans more than 125 years of fashion history and has something for every clotheshorse. More than 75 dealers from across the country showcase clothing, textiles, jewelry and accessories from the prim Victorian era to the roaring ‘20s and beyond. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., Santa Monica. 10:30 a.m.- 6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. $10. (707) 793-0773. https://www.vintageexpo.com.