Weekend Events

Classic Films, Original Scores The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra performs the original scores to accompany silent films by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd. Saturday, 3:00 and 8:00. Paramount Center for the Arts

Wizard Workshop for Children Kids in grades three through six can learn how to perform magic tricks from a real live wizard. Saturday, 2:00. John C. Hart Memorial Library

Teatown Lake Hike Learn how land was used in the past by farmers and what impact people have made over the years. The hike will be 5 miles of moderate terrain. Saturday, 10:00. Teatown Lake Reservation

Hands-on Heritage Crafts Visitors can learn about colonial-era life (above). Make your own candles, operate the blacksmith's bellows, and take part in spinning, weaving, tinsmithing, cheese-making, and more. Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 to 5:00. Van Cortlandt Manor

Family First Saturday Explore how sculptors represent ancestors, family members, and people around them through gallery talks and related hands-on workshops for children. Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00. Neuberger Museum of Art

Reptilian Scales and Cold-Blooded Tails Observe live reptiles, while learning what makes them a reptile. This program will be followed by an activity and hike. Saturday, 1:00. Croton Point Nature Center

Grupo Corpo Brazil's most successful dance troupe, Grupo Corpo combines the sensuality of Afro-Brazilian dance forms, the liquid swing of jazz, and the technical prowess of ballet. Saturday, 8:00. Performing Arts Center

Sheep Shearing Weekend Join the livestock crew to watch shearing up close. Then learn how to comb and card wool. Observe spinners and their wheels up close and try your hand at using a drop spindle. Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 to 4:00. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Mark Minkler Jazz Quartet A quartet of veteran New York pros plays straight-ahead jazz at its best. Sunday, 2:00. Croton Free Library

Vernal Pools Join the farm naturalist for a hike to the vernal pools to see the wood frogs and fairy shrimp. Sunday, 1:00 to 3:00. Muscoot Farm

Caramoor Classics The Escher String Quartet performs works by the late Romantic composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, Gruenberg's Four Diversions, and Ravel. Sunday, 4:00. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts