all day / Family

The Big Bunny will join the Los Angeles Zoo’s usual array of exotic animals at Big Bunny’s Spring Fling from Friday through Sunday. For a nominal cost, children can have their photos taken with the friendly, man-inhabited rabbit. Kids can also pet real rabbits, have their faces painted and make bunny ears to wear.

* Big Bunny’s Spring Fling, Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles. Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Zoo admission: $8.25; ages 2-12, $3.25. (323) 644-6400.

all day / Movies

“Amores Perros,” nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar, intertwines three complex stories that meet in a horrific car accident, seen from three wildly different perspectives. Director Gonzalez In~arritu explores the mean streets of Mexico City, veering in and out of surrealism and exposing the harsh realities of modern life. The cast includes Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal and Goya Toledo.

* “Amores Perros,” rated R for violence/gore, language and sexuality, opens Friday in selected theaters.

all day / Movies

Attention all singletons, the Brit lit phenomenon “Bridget Jones’s Diary” makes the transition from bestseller lists to multiplexes this week with Renee Zellweger in the lead role as Helen Fielding’s journal-keeping Londoner trying to cut back on her nicotine, alcohol and calorie intake and land a decent boyfriend. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth co-star as her prospective beaus. Fielding adapted her book along with Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”); Sharon Maguire directed.

* “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” rated R for language and some strong sexuality, opens Friday in general release.

8:30 pm / Pop Music

Djavan Caetano Viana, better known to fans of Brazilian music by just his first name, has been an inclusive force in his country’s music for more than 25 years, incorporating everything from Beatles-like pop to jazz into an always roots-conscious foundation. Djavan wraps up an extensive tour with a performance at Royce Hall.

* Djavan at Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood. 8:30 p.m. $25 to $48. (310) 825-2101.

7 pm / Music

Bach exponent and leader of the Oregon Bach Festival, Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach’s “St. Matthew” Passion with forces including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, vocal soloists Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Matthias Goerne, Christiane Oelze, Ingeborg Danz, Stanford Olsen and Christian Gerhaher in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also assisting: the USC Thornton Choral Artists and the Paulist Choristers.

* Helmuth Rilling, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and assisting artists perform Bach’s “St. Matthew” Passion in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown. 7 p.m. Also Saturday. $10 to $70. (213) 365-3500.

8 pm / Theater

In the world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy “Kimberly Akimbo,” a teenager has a rare condition that causes her to age five times faster than she should, not to mention a hypochondriac mother, a sobriety-challenged father and a scam-artist aunt.

* “Kimberly Akimbo,” South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Ends May 13. $28 to $49, except April 14 matinee, pay-what-you-will. (714) 708-5555.

FREEBIE: Barry Brisk conducts the Beach Cities Symphony in music by Debussy, Dvorak, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov, at 8:15. Linda Wang, violin. At Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, (310) 379-9725.

See the Lakers’ big man in person when Shaquille O’Neal signs his autobiography, “Shaq Talks Back,” at Brentano’s Century City, 8-9 p.m. (310) 785-0204.