5 things to do this weekend, including a satirical play and an animated film festival

Like many children, I briefly dreamed of becoming an archaeologist. It sounded pretty incredible to travel and find dinosaur bones for a living (that was the extent of my knowledge of the field at the time). For anyone else excited about archaeology, there will be a fair at Harvard this weekend. If that doesn’t pique your interest, there’s also a comedic play about disability representation, a women’s animated shorts film festival and more in Greater Boston this weekend.

“It’s a Motherf**cking Pleasure” tells a satirical tale about the disabled community guilting non-disabled people into giving them money. A PR firm called Rize is accused of ableism, so they hire a blind influencer named Ross. His goal is to take advantage of the non-disabled community through a campaign showing “blind experiences” to seeing people. The play by disability-led theater company FlawBored previously ran at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Soho Theatre NY. FlawBored creators Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani and Chloe Palmer star in the production. The show is around 60 minutes and tickets range from $10 to $38.50. [Check out our spring theater guide for more recommendations.]

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is showing a decade of visual artist Hugh Hayden’s work in his first solo exhibition in New England. Titled “Home Work,” the exhibition explores the seemingly comfortable but ultimately spiny and unsettling truth of the American Dream. The show features works like a wooden school desk with rusty, sharp gardening tools emerging from all sides and a small house covered in branches. On Thursday, Hayden will sit down with assistant professor Muna Güvenç and Gannet Ankori, the director and chief curator of the museum, to discuss his work and the idea of the American Dream as it is portrayed in art. [Check out WBUR senior reporter Amelia Mason’s feature on Hugh Hayden’s work. For more exhibits, visit our spring visual arts guide.]

MassArt and Merging Arts Production will host a festival celebrating short animated films by women this Saturday. Womanimation! highlights 14 films from all over the world. Some of the productions include festival jury award winner “Les oiseaux (The Birds)” by animator Christel Hortz about a storytelling mother, and audience award winner “Becarias (Interns)” directed by Marina Donderis, Núria Poveda and Marina Cortón about three girls struggling with paying rent. The total run time for the event is 85 minutes. The screening begins at 3 p.m. at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is free to attend.

Mount Auburn Cemetery started the first ever artist-in-residence program at a cemetery in 2014. The Friends of Mount Auburn will celebrate the work of nearly 30 artists, ranging from dancers to directors, who have exhibited onsite over the last decade. Former artists-in-residence Patrick Gabridge, Ira Klein, Jennifer Lin, Carolyn Oliver, Eden Rayz, Fatima Seck, Lonnie Stanton, Todd Thibaud, Liz Walker and Debra Wise will perform. There will also be a gallery showcasing work by previous visual and interdisciplinary artists-in-residence Resa Blatman, Madge Evers & Thierry Borcy, Billy Hickey, Zhonghe ‘Elena’ Li, Roberto Mighty, Simone Nemes, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, Markel Uriu and John Williams. The performance will be two and a half hours at the Story Chapel Visitor Center. Tickets are $17.85 for members and $23.18 for non-members.

Become an archaeologist for a day at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Visitors can chat with real archaeologists studying ancient Egyptians, Incas and prehistoric peoples. They will also be able to learn lab techniques for identifying animal bones, create stone tools, use augmented reality to enter an ancient tomb and more. The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East is free, and tickets to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology range from free to $15.