FISHING CLINICS AT PIER 5, BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK (Friday, 4-6 p.m.; Aug. 17 and Sept. 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.). At least one bucolic activity doesn’t require young New Yorkers to leave the city. Several local organizations offer fishing, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has joined them this summer with these free drop-in rod-and-reel clinics, which teach participants how to tie line knots, bait hooks and cast. (The conservancy provides the equipment.) Even some aquatic species might approve: Nothing is destined to be eaten, except the bait — sandworms and pieces of clam — and little anglers will use only circular hooks, which don’t harm the fish. Presented with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the clinics function as citizen science projects that collect data on water quality and marine organisms’ health; fish are measured, observed and then released. But before saying goodbye to their catches, children can expect close encounters with species like striped bass, bluefish, perch, American eels, dogfish sharks and the memorable-looking (and -sounding) oyster toadfish. LAUREL GRAEBER

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RAVE THEATER FESTIVAL: ‘THE PERFECT FIT’ (Aug. 11, 4 p.m.; Aug. 12, 6 p.m.; through Aug. 23) and ‘911 GNOMES: A CHRISTMAS EMERGENCY’ (Aug. 14-15, 3 p.m.; through Aug. 18) at Teatro LATEA. This new Lower East Side festival is devoted to emerging playwrights, and you don’t get much more emergent than Joshua Turchin. Only 12, Turchin is the composer, book writer, lyricist and co-star of “The Perfect Fit,” a musical about a teenage actress who considers renouncing her dreams after the mother of one of her competitors sabotages her latest project. Recommended for theatergoers 4 and older, this developmental production is already a hot ticket: All dates are currently sold out, but the box office is maintaining a standby list, and a performance may be added. Shellie O’Neal’s play “911 Gnomes,” also for family audiences, begins with an interesting premise: Santa’s staff is as vulnerable to nasty viruses as the rest of us. When all the elves get the flu right before Christmas, the North Pole has to turn to garden gnomes to finish the holiday preparation. They kind of look the part, but can they do the job? The festival invites you to find out in this vicarious escape from the August heat.

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‘SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE’ at the Museum of the Moving Image (through Aug. 11, noon). Just when you thought all the good superhero jobs had been taken, along comes a film that proves that you can have not just one but multiple Spider-Men (and even Spider-Women). That situation requires many dimensions and an alteration of the space-time continuum, but those issues pose no problem for this animated picture, which this Queens museum is showing in 3-D as part of its series Summer Matinees: Fantastic Worlds. Here, though, the fantastic world is also contemporary Brooklyn, where the newest Spider-Man happens to be Miles Morales, a middle school student of black and Latino heritage. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, “this may be the first ‘Spider-Man’ feature to qualify as a great New York movie, drawn from the life of the city rather than outdated stereotypes,” A. O. Scott said in his review in The New York Times last year.

718-777-6888, movingimage.us

‘STORY PIRATES FAMILY FLAGSHIP SHOW’ at the Cherry Lane Theater (Aug. 10, 11 a.m.). A child’s vivid imagination is a true treasure, and that’s what the Story Pirates steal — or rather borrow — in their endlessly amusing work. Soliciting tales from kids, the company turns the submissions into sketches that combine the original plots, ideas and characters with music, sets and costumes created by the troupe. This show will feature numbers from the ensemble’s new album, “Backstroke Raptor,” which includes tunes like “A Hamster’s Workday” and “The Giraffe Didn’t Know,” along with excerpts from the Story Pirates’ podcast. But come prepared: The group also promises to improvise comic bits based on suggestions from the audience.

866-811-4111, storypirates.com