As usual there’s loads to do this summer weekend. This list will grow as the day turns to evening.

MOVIES

Friday-Sunday, July 27-29: Animation Weekend at BAM. Now an annual summer tradition, BAMcinématek presents a weekend with two of North America’s greatest animated film festivals.

MUSIC

Friday, July 27: Official after-party for The Head and The Heart at Freddy’s Bar with Ida Blue at 10:30, Les Sans Culottes at 11:00, (e)motion pictures and Dave’s Tyranny.

Sunday, July 29: New Orleans Grooves with DJ Packrat at 5PM at the Fifth Estate Bar on Fifth Avenue.

TELEVISION

Friday, July 27 at 7:30PM: Opening ceremonies of the London Olympics should be worth a gander.

Sunday, July 29 at The Gate: Breaking Bad, Season 5, Episode 3 at 10PM. Get there early to order a beer and get a seat. Fifth Avenue and Third Street.

ART

At the Brooklyn Musuem: The Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes sounds like an intriguing show of the work of a figure I associate with fiction writing. Barnes spent the period between 1913 and her departure for Europe in 1921 living in New York’s Greenwich Village and working as a writer and illustrator for publications including the Brooklyn Daily Eagle andVanity Fair.

At the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts there’s a student curated show called Afrofuturism Imagining Tomorrow. There’s also a film on display called, An Oversimplification of her Beauty by Terence Nance.