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MOVIE: River Flicks for Kids screens the classic E.T. tonight (a movie that terrified yours truly as a kid), and we're guessing that adults will outnumber the tots. Bring your bike and hoodie (and some tissues, because it's also a tearjerker)! Bonus: free popcorn.

Friday // Sundown (around 8:30 p.m.) // Pier 46 [Charles St] // Free

MUSIC: Deerhunter frontman, Bradford Cox, brings his other band Atlas Sound to the Seaport tonight. Sadly, El Guincho had to drop out as the opener, but the self-described psychedelic, minimalist, punk band Crystal Stilts will be filling their spot.

Friday // 6:30 p.m. // South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // Free

EVENT: This Saturday watch as over 100 men and women compete for the Kingsboro Golden Arm Wrestling Championship for Brooklyn’s Strongest Arm. Coveted titles will be handed out in the novice, amateur and pro categories. Over the top!

Saturday // 12:30 p.m. // Coney Island Boardwalk [between 10th and 12th Streets] // Free

THEATER: HAIR isn’t the only free musical theater in the park right now; a much easier production to get into is the audacious Twelve Ophelias, the first theater piece (and almost certainly the last) to be presented in Brooklyn’s decrepit McCarren Park pool. Woodshed Collective’s “gritty interpretation of the Hamlet myth” features original music by local roots/bluegrass band The Jones Street Boys, who help turn the empty pool into an Appalachian shanty-town where Ophelia has come back to life to try and carve out a new future after her famous drowning. Saviana Stanescu calls it “absolutely refreshing.” – John Del Signore

Saturday // 8 p.m. // McCarren Park Pool [Lorimer Street, between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street, Brooklyn] // FREE

MUSIC: River to River brings the week to a close with an ensemble concert named for one of Cash’s signature songs, “The Big River Project: The Music of Johnny Cash”. The press release tells us that it will feature various musicians performing renditions of both familiar and obscure Cash masterpieces. Artists include Ollabelle, John Doe, X, Jay Farrar of Son Volt, Benevento-Russo Duo, Catherine Russell, Laura Cantrell, The Persuasions, Sway Machinery, Marshall Crenshaw, Raul Midon, and Hymns.

Saturday // 8 p.m. // World Financial Center Winter Garden // Free

Meanwhile, drop what you're doing and head over to Brooklyn for the Most Important Show of the Summer, possibly of your Lifetime. Ghostland Observatory, and their lasers, will be taking over Prospect Park for what's sure to be the biggest dance party Park Slope has ever seen. The Jealous Girlfriends and Bear Hands open.

7 p.m. // Prospect Park Bandshell // Free

COMEDY: The High School Talent Show crew tells us that Estelle Getty Would've Wanted You To Go, so we're passing on the word. The comedy show features: slammin' dance routines, army recruiting, Christian poetry, wild pranks, dirty skanks, and the cool teacher who frosts his hair and wears sneakers to school! It also features the following comedians: Jon Friedman, Sara Schaefer, Abbi Jacobson, Becky Ferreira, Allen Warnock and Andrea Alton!

Saturday // Midnight // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // $5

THEATER: Expatriate, a new play about two African-American performing artists “disillusioned by grief, homophobia, and the black glass ceiling,” has gotten a rave review from the Times. Critic Andy Webster writes, “with all the theater out there, how inspiring it is to be reminded how invigorating an Off Broadway play can be with just two appealing performers, compelling music and a searching, intelligent script.” Of course, anyone familiar with The Debate Society and other “invigorating” Off and Off-Off Broadway companies hardly needs a reminder, but whatever. The point is that poet, playwright and performer Lenelle Moïse has written “a thoughtful narrative laden with observations about childhood, black identity in the United States and abroad, and the cost of show business on performers.” – John Del Signore

Sunday // 7 p.m. // The Culture Project [55 Mercer Street] // $45

FILM: BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents Animation Weekend! For the fourth year in a row, curated programs of international animated shorts will be presented at BAM, including hand–drawn, stop–motion, and CG films. Animation Weekend features highlights from the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival and four programs of films from Animation Block Party, New York’s premiere animation festival.

All Weekend // Various Locations, Brooklyn // More Details Here