Four young gentlemen were born to eight parents. One from New York, One from Louisiana, and the rest from California. Through a series of fortunate events (broken bones, concussions, divorces, successful marriages, siblings, fishing trips, and dreams), the boys all found their way to Los Angeles. The California boys had already known each other from University, and moved there together. The New Yorker moved because it was time to move, and the New Orleanite, moved because of the weather. Then through jobs, and girlfriends the fellows came to realize that they wanted to do something more with their hands, so they built bridges, and verses, and pre-choruses. The four guys are now The Deadly Syndrome, where all have a hand in writing the music.

DJ Steve Aoki Kid Millionaire has risen from throwing impromptu concerts in his living room while a student at UC Santa Barbara in the late 90s to become one of the most sought after DJs in the country. Deemed the music tastemaker by those in the know, his ear for music, paired with his ability to drop party rocking beats, has championed dance floors night after night. Whether providing the indie soundtrack to his wildly popular Tuesday night at Cinespace in LA or dropping the biggest party hits at Hollywood’s LAX and NYC’s Marquee, Steve Aoki has become a jack-of-all-trades. Between his daily treks touring the country (and lately as far a field as London and Japan,) he manages to run one of the most respected indie labels in the country, Dim Mak, as well as promote his own nights in LA and NYC featuring any band looking to make it.

MUSIC: House DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Sunday night’s PART TIME PUNKS at The Echo in Echo Park

Michael Stock and Benjamin White, DJs and hosts of PART TIME PUNKS will spin tracks spanning the history of D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself) music rooted in punk, dub, pop, jazz, and ska. These sounds were made cheap, quick, and are rife with contradiction. Their set of scratchy sounds—from the brink of collapse and Xerox music made to last—is inspired by the current exhibition Poetics of the Handmade.

PART TIME PUNKS is a club created and run by DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White that takes over the noted Echo Park live music venue, The Echo on 1822 Sunset, every Sunday night. The night focuses heavily on obscure and classic music coming out of America, the UK and Europe from 1978 to the present: Punk, Post-punk, Punk-funk, New Wave, No Wave, Indie-Pop, Twee, Grunge, Electro, Minimal-Synth, Shoegaze and Baggy.
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 David McDonald
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: Dim Mak Records presents featured performances by The Deadly Syndrome and Steve Aoki
SCREENING: Music videos from Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival

SPOKEN WORD: Aleida Rodríguez
Aleida Rodríguez is a poet, essayist, and artist born in the rural town of Güines, Cuba. Her first book of poems, Garden of Exile, won both the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the PEN Center USA 2000 Literary Award. Garden of Exile was also chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies nationwide since 1974, and, more recently, in England, Wales, and The Netherlands. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the inaugural Greg Grummer Award in Poetry from George Mason University, a poetry fellowship from the California Arts Council, and the Brody Arts Fund literature fellowship from the California Community Foundation. She was a founding editor and publisher of rara avis and Books of a Feather (1978–84), the first women-run literary endeavor in Los Angeles (for which she received a Mayor’s Certificate of Appreciation). She lives in Los Angeles, where she freelances as an editor and translator, and teaches the occasional poetry workshop.


SPOKEN WORD : B. H. Fairchild

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 DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Sunday night’s PART TIME PUNKS at The Echo in Echo Park
TOUR: Exhibition walkthrough with a MOCA educator. Space is limited to 20. Sign up at the information desk inside the galleries beginning at 6pm.