Weekend Guide: Crop Mob, Bastille Day Celebrations and More

Friday

Opera NJ presents Operetta Favorites, featuring the greatest hits from the world of operetta. , 7:30 p.m.  

Golandsky Istitute International Piano Festival presents Ilya Itin performing the complete Chopin Preludes, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, La Valse and the world premiere of the work written for him by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 8 p.m.

Saturday

 at Z Food Farm beginning at 10 a.m. Participants will receive Bent Spoon ice cream. Rain or shine. Register by E-mail to mcolli@gmail.com.

Princeton Farmers Market Manager Judith Robinson presents “Healthy Eating: What Is It & How To Do It” at Terhune Orchards, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Call (609) 356-0558 to register.

Celebrate Bastille Day at Grounds For Sculpture with tours of sculpture inspired by French Impressionists. Enjoy facepainting, an Eiffel Tower wire workshop and painting with pastels. Wear a beret and receive half-price admission. 1-4 p.m. Call to reserve a picnic basket (609) 586-0616 ext. 111. 1 p.m.  

Eric Mintel Quartet  perforts at the Summer Music Series, Palmer Square, On the Green, bring your own blanket or lawn chair, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Celebrate Bastille Day with a French Art Song Recital , Westminster Choir College, Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane, 7:30 p.m.

The Golandsky Institute’s 2012 International Piano Festival presents  a Jazz Night! grand finale. Bill Charlap will perform a 90-minute solo concert revealing every perspective of melody, harmony and rhythm at Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 8 p.m. 

Sunday

Eden Family 5K and Fun Run, Walk or run to benefit the organization providing support for educational, residential, employment and outreach services for children and adults with autism. Register online. Rain or shine, 7:30 a.m. 

Join chefs Aaron and Rory Philipson, Culinary Institute of America alumni and co-owners of the Blue Bottle Cafe in Hopewell, for their first-ever cooking class, Whole Foods Market Princeton, 1-2:30 p.m. 

Opera NJ presents Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, Hilarity on the high seas as a humble sailor challenges the Lord of the Admiralty for the love of his captain’s daughter, , 2 p.m.