DJ Paul V. is an eclectic mixmaster, club promoter, and music review writer. He has been spinning music in alternative dance clubs since 1981. Since 2005 he has been a fixture at INDIE 103.1FM, providing his mashup tracks for “The Mashup Of The Day” and “The Smash Mix.”

MUSIC: House DJ Jean-Christophe Chamboredon of Milan Records/Chicooligan Records
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 Karthik Pandian
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 DJ Paul V.
SCREENING: Music videos from Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival

SPOKEN WORD: Liz González
Liz González is the author of the limited edition chapbook Beneath Bone, published by Manifest Press. Her poetry, fiction, and memoirs have been published widely. She is the assistant editor of the online magazine Speechless the Magazine. She teaches writing at Long Beach City College and creative writing through UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and in private workshops.

SPOKEN WORD: Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place is is a writer and lawyer, author of a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel, Dies: A Sentence, and a chapbook, Figure from The Gates of Paradise, published by Woodland Editions/Five Fingers Review. Her nonfiction book about sex-offenders and the morality of guilt will be published by Other Press, and her novel, La Medusa, is forthcoming from Fiction Collective 2. Place is executive editor and co-founder of Les Figues Press, publisher of the TrenchArt series of experiments in literature. 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.

MUSIC: House DJ Jean-Christophe Chamboredon of Milan Records/Chicooligan Records
SCREENING: Los Angeles Now and Mixed Feelings: San Diego/Tijuana

Phillip Rodriguez’s documentaries examine the changing ethnic makeup of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Los Angeles Now is an artful evocation and investigation of the metropolis as it comes of age and wrestles with its history and its future. The film examines the cultural and intellectual activity of one of the world’s most influential places at a moment of profound change. The film includes conversations with a broad range of Los Angeles figures, from acclaimed actor Salma Hayek and businessman/philanthropist Eli Broad to renowned author and essayist Richard Rodriguez and Cardinal Roger Mahony.

Mixed Feelings: San Diego/Tijuana is a documentary about the San Diego-Tijuana region and its inevitable transnational future. Conversations with scholars, planners, and architects from both cities open a window into the unprecedented dialogue now occurring on the U.S./Mexico border. Set to hip Nortec music—with an artful use of digital technology—the documentary creates a space where binaries blur and opposites invert.

Phillip Rodriguez is the founder of City Projects, an organization dedicated to creating sustainable programs that will both educate and entertain today’s broad and diverse audiences. Rodriguez is also a Senior Fellow for Documentary Filmmaking at the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Rodriguez is currrently working on a one hour documentary titled, Brown is the New Green. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Rodriguez has an M.A. in Latin American Studies (Honors) and an M.F.A. in Film and Television from UCLA. He also studied Art History and Spanish Literature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is a former Senior Research Fellow for The Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. In 2006, Rodriguez received the first annual USA Broad Fellow Prize. This annual award, made by United States Artists (USA) honors the country’s finest living artists.

TOUR: Exhibition walkthrough with a MOCA educator. Space is limited to 20. Sign up at the information desk inside the galleries beginning at 6pm.