Folk Tales and Shadow Puppets

World Tour: Music, dance, masks and puppetry highlight the California Youth Theatre’s “Global Tales--Folktales From the Heart of Many Lands” tonight at Duarte Performing Arts Center. The performance of tales from around the world is the culmination of CYT’s intensive theater arts program with the L.A. County Schools Migrant Education Program, Region X. It includes the Russian folk tale “The Firebird”; “The Bremen Town Musicians,” from Germany; two “Anansi Tales” from Africa; and from China, “Ma Lien and the Magic Paintbrush.”

* “Global Tales--Folktales From the Heart of Many Lands,” Duarte Performing Arts Center, 1401 Highland Ave., Duarte, tonight only, 7 p.m. Free. (310) 657-3270.

World Tour II: Junior Arts Center’s fall season of “Sunday Open Sunday” arts workshops for families explores a “Visiting Cultural Traditions” theme. The season opens Sept. 6 at Barnsdall Art Park, with artist Stuart Vaughan’s “Shadow Puppets,” inspired by the ancient Asian art form. After creating puppet characters, participants can try them out in an original shadow puppet play accompanied by music.

Some of the other workshops are “African Rhythms,” at Leimert Park (Sept. 13) and “Mexican Tin Painting,” at Barnsdall (Oct. 4).

* “Sunday Open Sunday,” various locations, Sept. 6-Nov. 18, Sundays, 2 p.m. Free. (213) 485-4474.