Tashaki Miyaki- Facts of Life
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/14-3/17/19)-
Thursday
1720 is hosting 45 Live with performances by Lord Finesse, Peanut Butter Wolf, J Rocc, Prince Paul, and special guests
MOCA Grand Avenue is showing Babette Magolte’s film The Sky on Location with the artist in attendance for the event
Tobe Nwigwe is performing at The Regent Theater
Downtown LA Artwalk returns with open studios and gallery shows
Friday
Refest Los Angeles 2019, is a salon that “explores innovative strategies in participatory performance that catalyze social change”. It is being hosted by Navel and CultureHubLA and will have interactive installations, performances and “experiences” by LA artists and artists from CultureHub’s global community (free with RSVP)
Odd Nights at The Autry includes a market, live music, food trucks, and the galleries at the museum stay open until 9pm ($5)
Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is free on Fridays from 6-9pm for Shark Lagoon Nights
Jeffertitti’s Nile are playing a free show at Zebulon with special guests
Saturday
Tashaki Miyaki are playing a free show at the Highland Park Bowl with Magic Wands, The Mercury Wheel, and Miguel Mendez & The Yoga Elite
LAMAG is hosting a free screening of Mariah Garnett’s film Trouble, a documentary about her relationship with her Northern Irish father who she met as an adult. The screening also includes a Q&A with the artist to follow plus snacks and drinks.
There’s a free ten hour Bach Marathon happening at Union Station, with various concerts taking place throughout the station
Artist Silke Otto-Knapp will be in conversation with Darby English, University of Chicago’s Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and the College, at Regen Projects at 2pm, in conjunction with Otto-Knapp’s exhibition Land and Sea at the gallery
Actor/ Director Alex Cox will be at the Egyptian Theatre to speak between screenings of Repo Man and his recent film Tombstone Rashomon
Sam Valdez and Rodes Rollins are playing at the Moroccan Lounge
New York Night Train with Jonathan Toubin, the all night dance party of uncommon soul music on vinyl, is happening at Zebulon
Sunday
LACMA is hosting a free lecture at 1pm by Sarah Kelly Oehler, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, and organizing curator of Charles White: A Retrospective (currently at the museum), on the artist’s formative years in Chicago
Zebulon is having a free screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film Barry Lyndon
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a Patrick Swayze double feature- Road House and Point Break
CLAVVS are playing at The Echo with Tigercide and a special guest