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Cirque de Cordova this Saturday, mushroom foraging on Sunday

Inspired by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Walking Sculpture exhibition, try out these playful walking strategies with trained Simply Circus instructors on Saturday, August 8. No experience necessary. For ages 8 and up.

• Stilt-walking lesson and tour — 11 a.m. Experience the Sculpture Park from new heights! Lesson is followed by a guided stilt tour of the Sculpture Park. $12 for members, $20 for nonmembers. Register online by August 5.
• Tightrope walking lesson — 2 p.m. Test your physical and mental balance! Lesson includes walking tightropes at varied heights in the Sculpture Park. $12 for members, $20 for nonmembers. Register online by August 5.

On Sunday, August 9 at 10:30 a.m., join Walking Sculpture artist Wendy Jacob and the Boston Mycological Club, the oldest mycological club in North America, for a mushroom hunt in the Sculpture Park. Search the grounds for mushrooms and other fungi at 10:30 a.m.; reconvene at noon to identify findings. Bring a basket and a brown bag lunch. Free program for all ages.

Films of Marguerite Duras

August begins a new Lincoln Library Film Society series called “Authors on Screen” with a program of films written, adapted from, and even directed by the French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), an accomplished French playwright, film director and screenwriter. Screenings are at the Lincoln Public Library on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. For more information, email lincolnlibraryfilmsociety@gmail.com

• Tuesday, August 4 — Hiroshima, Mon Amour. France and Japan, 1959. In French, Japanese and English with English subtitles (90 minutes).
• Tuesday, August 11 — The Sea Wall (Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique). France and Cambodia, 2008. In French with English subtitles (111 minutes)
• Tuesday, August 18 — The Truck (Le Camion). France, 1977. In French with English subtitles (75 minutes), preceded by Black Night, Calcutta (Nuit Noire, Calcutta). France, 1964. In French with English subtitles (24 minutes)
• Tuesday, August 25 — Mademoiselle. France, 1966. In French and Italian with English subtitles (103 minutes).