25 things to do this weekend

Sunday

Freaks Village 2011
Day two of the outdoor dance party, held at a site near Mt. Takao, features live performances by Vakula and Azari & III, culminating in a tag-team DJ set by Stateside party-starters Garth and Thomas Bullock. Read more

Ningyo Kanshasai
There's something inescapably odd – not to mention rather charming – about this annual rite at Meiji Shrine, in which Shinto priests liberate the spirits from toys that have reached the end of their lives. Read more

L'Homme qui Plantait des Arbres
Studio Ghibli's tribute to two-time Oscar winner Frédéric Black – featuring somewhere in the region of 1,000 original artworks and drawings by the Canadian animator – wraps up today at the MOT. Read more

Sebadoh
If recent years have taught us anything, it's that influential indie groups never stay dead. So it was with Dinosaur Jr. – the slacker noise rock gods who reformed in 2005 – and so it was with Lou Barlow's other band. Read more

Nisennenmondai
Following a relentless summer gig schedule, these minimal hypno-rockers should be well prepared for their upcoming US tour with Battles. Their last Tokyo date prior to that is being billed as a 'disco night'. Read more

Yokohama Oktoberfest 2011
After four seasonally slipshod efforts here in Tokyo, the Kanto region is finally getting an Oktoberfest that actually happens in October. Enjoy 70-odd beers in the grounds of Yokohama's Red Brick Warehouse. Read more