To do this weekend: Black History celebration, flower show, Lunar New Year gathering

Black History Month celebrations continue, and this weekend at the Northwest African American Museum, it’s the Black Art Takeover. This is a celebration of local black communities and their creatives with a pop-up market, guided museum tours, panels, film screenings, STEM activities for the kids, and lots more. You can enjoy all the activities, food, and music on Saturday from 11-4. Go to naamnw.org for more details.

The Northwest Flower and Garden Festival has returned to the Seattle Convention Center! Get ideas for your spring-cleaning plans and set your yard up for a summer of entertaining and soaking up the sun. You’ll see plenty of design ideas and your chance to pick up just about everything you need to take care of your garden or yard. Get details and tickets at gardenshow.com.

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Weekend events include Lunar New Year at the CID

The Chinatown-International District is hosting a free Lunar New Year celebration at Hing Hay Park this weekend. There will be plenty of vendors, and the event’s website says there will be over 40 food walk destinations to enjoy while soaking in live music and dancing. This is going on Saturday from 11 to 4. More details are available at seattlechinatownid.com. Also, this weekend is the Chinese Expulsion Remembrance Rally and March in the International District. This will also start at Hing Hay Park at 10 AM on Saturday.

Enjoy old movies with a twist! Jet City Improv is putting on Twisted Flicks! This has been a program since 1997, and the idea is to take old “B” movies and combine them with improv, music, and lots more. This weekend’s movie is Masters of the Universe and will be on Saturday at 7:30 PM at the UHeights Auditorium. Get tickets and details at twistedflicks.org.

Short films for Oscar season

Enjoy the Oscar-nominated Short Films at the Grand Cinema this weekend, there’s three different compilations of films across different showtimes throughout the weekend. You can get details on the films, which movies are in each compilation and get tickets at grandcinema.com.

Here’s a cool event for you and the kids: the 32nd Washington State Train Show and Marketplace at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds! There will be impressive model train displays and layouts, workshops that will sharpen your skills as a model maker, and, of course, plenty of vendors to buy things to add to your collection. Not only will there be plenty to see, but this is also a fundraising event for the Snohomish County 4-H Foundation. This event is free for those nine and younger, and tickets and more information are available at UNWclub.com. This is running on Saturday and Sunday.

Paul Holden produces the Seattle weekend events calendar for KIRO Newsradio and a weekly story for MyNorthwest. He also appears regularly on KIRO Newsradio’s “Seattle’s Morning News.” If you know of even more cool things going on in the area, let him know at PaulH@kiroradio.com.