Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

For all ages Rich, Scott, Dave, and Smitty of the Louisiana band Imagination Movers are equally inspired by Captain Kangaroo and classic rock, enough to thrill the kid and the pop-music- lover in any of us. The jumpsuited TV guys who like to figure things out bring their infectious beats - and Nina, Warehouse Mouse, and Choo-Choo Soul - to live shows at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. at the Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow Streets, Upper Darby. Tickets are $18.75 to $45. Call 610-352-2887.

Chamber music The dazzling violinist Augustin Hadelich plays works by Debussy, Toru Takemitsu, Poulenc, Schnittke, Brahms, and Sarasate at 3 p.m. at the Philadelphia Musuem of Art, 26th Street and the Parkway. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080. . . . The Philadelphia Trio plays an intriguing recital of works by Mozart, Saint-Saens, and Zemlinsky at 3 p.m. at the Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 S. Valley Forge Rd., Devon. Tickets are $18; $15 for seniors; $13 for students. Call 610-664-0346.

Monday

Ready to rock Sacha Gervasi's 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil follows the travails of a Canadian heavy-metal band (called, uh, Anvil) as members try to keep up their chops while working day jobs in construction and driving a delivery van, endure a disastrous European tour (174 fans show up at 10,000-seat arena), and pour everything they have into one last make-or- break recording session in hopes of finally making the jump from cult favorites to stardom. The funny and ultimately uplifting film is a portrait of artists committed to giving their all, forever, to their musical vision. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St. Tickets are $10. Call 215-545-4400.

Tuesday

Making movies Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc is a landmark achievement

in which the pioneer filmmaker developed camera and lighting techniques that became essential to motion- picture artistry to this day, while maintaining an expressionism distinctive to the director. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $10. Call 610-527-9898.

Wednesday

Storms of life Born in Chester and raised amid poverty and violence, Ethel Waters went on to stardom as a singer and actress (she was nominated for an Oscar in 1949). Author Donald Bogle tells her story in his biography Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters. He discusses his work at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

Thursday

Sci fi The estimable Andrew's Video Vault offers up another surprising double bill: First, from Finland, Risto Jarva's 1969 A Time of Roses, in which a historian from the future (2011!) working on a film about the life of a late- 20th-century centerfold, falls in love with his subject against the backdrop of an unfolding disaster at a nuclear plant (visionary!). The second film is the Roger Corman-produced Humanoids from the Deep, a 1980 exploitation horror flick in which monstrous-

but-conflicted fish-men stalk a fishing village attacking women. The films screen at 8 p.m. at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. Admission is free. Call 215-573-3234.

Balanchine and beyond Two of George Balanchine's best-known works - the Stravinsky collaboration Agon and the Gershwin-powered Who Cares? - are performed by the Pennsylvania Ballet, with a new work by Benjamin Millepied, at the Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday,

2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $139. Call 215-893-1999.

On the case The sensational violinist and singer Joan Wasser is

Joan as Police Woman

. She performs her avant-pop gems (we recommend her newest, the retro-soul anthem "The Magic") at

the Tin Angel

, 20 S. Second St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $12. 215-928-0770.

Out of the East The Network for New Music performs works by contemporary Japanese composers Dai Fujikara and Toru Takemitsu inspired by the music of Debussy at International House, 3701 Chestnut St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $20; $15 for seniors; for $10 students. Call 215-848-7647.

On the beat The troupe Rennie Harris Puremovement brings its mix of hip-hop and modern dance to the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, 300 S. Broad St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are

$34 and $46. Call 215-893-1999.