JULY 21
Regan Farquhar, better known as Busdriver, has built an ironclad rep for being a chop-maestro and style monster. Busdriver is a torch bearer for the early ’90s Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene.
MUSIC: House DJs Jason Eldredge of KCRW and Scott Silva spin. Jason Eldredge is the host of KCRW’s Accidental Rhythm program and Scott Silva is the former host of KCRW’s Connections program.
FOOD AND DRINK: Light fare at Patinette Café and outdoor cash bar
SCREENING: Music videos from Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival
ARTMAKING: Workshop with artist Jamie Sweetman
SCREENING: Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist
Filmed at Tuttle’s home in New Mexico, his studio in Manhattan, and the galleries at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the film offers an intense, intimate portrait of the artist’s working process.
TOUR: Exhibition walkthrough with a MOCA educator. Space is limited to 20. Sign up at the information desk inside the galleries beginning at 6pm.
MUSIC: Featured performance by Busdriver
SCREENING: Music videos from Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival
SPOKEN WORD: Rubén Martínez
Martínez has often collaborated with musicians. He was featured as a spoken word artist on MTV Latino with Mexican rock heroes Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio, and performed with Los Illegals and Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) in sold-out shows at the House of Blues and the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood. He has composed and performed works included on albums such as Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals (Ark-21 Records, 1997) and The Roches’ Zero Church (Redhouse Records, 2002). He is currently at work on a solo album.
His books include Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City (powerHouse, 2006) with photographer Joseph Rodríguez, and The New Americans (The New Press, 2005), the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series of the same name. East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A., a book of photographs by Joseph Rodríguez with text by Martínez, was published by powerHouse Books in 1998. The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond (Vintage Departures), a collection of his essays and poetry, was published in 1993.
SPOKEN WORD: Sholeh Wolpe
Sholeh Wolpe is the author of Sin—Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), The Scar Saloon (Red Hen Press, 2004), Rooftops of Tehran (Red Hen Press, Jan. 2008) and a poetry CD featuring poems read by the author to traditional Persian music (Refuge Studios). Her poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide and have been translated into several languages. Sholeh was born in Iran but spent most of her teen years in the Caribbean and Europe, ending up in the U.S. where she pursued Master degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles.
TOUR: Exhibition walkthrough with a MOCA educator. Space is limited to 20. Sign up at the information desk inside the galleries beginning at 6pm.
SCREENING: Found Sounds Bahia and Colors of a Creative Culture
David Zucker’s documentaries explore how artists in Bahia, Brazil give discarded materials new life as musical instruments and works of art, bringing music and paint to the people.
TOUR: Exhibition walkthrough with a MOCA educator. Space is limited to 20. Sign up at the information desk inside the galleries beginning at 6pm.