SUMMER ART MONDAYS: WHIMSICAL STRINGED INSTRUMENT at the Jewish Museum (July 8, 1-4 p.m.). Auditory art has a long history of inspiring visual art, and vice versa. This drop-in program, part of a family series taking place every Monday in July, lets children engage in that symbiosis. (Online registration is recommended.) They will be encouraged to explore the museum’s current shows, especially “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything,” which features Cohen’s music and a variety of videos, photographs and other works that reflect his songs. Young visitors will then use materials including cardboard, long tubes, colored wire, rubber bands and rice to design and build their own stringed instruments and shakers.

866-205-1322, thejewishmuseum.org

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‘TEEN TITANS: RAVEN’ at Barnes & Noble, Union Square (July 9, 7-9 p.m.). For writers, delving into the pasts of superheroes can be as enticing as envisioning their futures. Consider “Teen Titans: Raven,” a new graphic novel from DC Ink, a young-adult publishing imprint of DC Comics. Written by Kami Garcia and illustrated by Gabriel Picolo, the book reimagines the origins of Raven, a.k.a. Rachel Roth. Here, she is a 17-year-old whose memory has been severely damaged as a result of injuries suffered in an accident that killed her foster mother. Garcia and Picolo will attend this free celebration — admission is first come first served — where they will sign books, answer questions and talk about Raven’s journey toward self-discovery. The authors Meg Cabot (“The Princess Diaries”) and Danielle Paige (the Dorothy Must Die series) will join them.

212-253-0810, stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2675

‘35 YEARS OF TMNT’ at the Paley Center for Media (through July 14). Cowabunga, dudes! Many turtle species are long-lived, and the heroes of this animated television franchise help prove it. Nickelodeon, the network home of the current incarnation, “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the cartoon characters with this exhibition, which traces the foursome’s evolution from their comic-book origins through multiple TV series and feature films. In addition to the show’s posters, products and visual timeline, young fans of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello can enjoy related craft activities and screenings each weekend. This Saturday and Sunday the center will present “Out of the Sewers,” episodes in which the turtles pursue adventures that take them beyond New York City’s underground pipeline.

212-621-6600, paleycenter.org

‘TOMBOY’ in Tompkins Square Park (July 5, 8:30 p.m.). This movie’s plot may strike you as somewhat Shakespearean: The heroine pretends to be a boy for her own convenience, only to find herself attracting the affections of a popular girl. In this 2011 feature by Céline Sciamma, however, the principal characters aren’t young women, but 10-year-olds. Led by Zoé Héran, who portrays the titular rebel, Laure — she calls herself Mikael after her family makes a summer move to the suburbs — the young actors give the story “messiness, joy and life,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The New York Times. Screening in French with English subtitles as part of Films on the Green, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy’s free outdoor screening series (the rain date is Saturday), “Tomboy” explores both gender identity and the complicated consequences of deception.

frenchculture.org