Cheap$kate: FREE events in NYC this weekend

Scotland Run & Festival and Tartan Day Parade
Dust off those bagpipes and bust out your best kilt for the 10th annual Scotland Run & Festival and Tartan Day Parade. Celebrate all things Scotland at the FREE festival, featuring performances by Scottish musicians, an outdoor survival tips seminar, Scottish-themed photo booth with props and trip giveaways. (It will cost you to register for the run.) Then stick around for the Tartan Day Parade, featuring pipers and Grand Marshal Kevin McKidd. (Saturday, FREE, Festival: 8 a.m.-noon, Central Park - Mineral Springs, Central Park West & W. 69th St.; Parade: 2 p.m., Sixth Ave. from W. 45th to W. 55th sts., scotland.org/celebrate-scotland/scotland-week, nyctartanweek.org)

Art Discussion

‘Inside Cultural Fluency’
Stop by the BRIC Rotunda Gallery Thursday night for “Inside Cultural Fluency,” a discussion with the exhibition artists and curator of the public program “Cultural Fluency: Engagements with Contemporary Brooklyn,” on display now at the gallery. The discussion will center around inhabiting and impacting the city through art. (Thursday night, 7-9 p.m., FREE, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St., Brooklyn, bricartsmedia.org)