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WHAT: TarFest Art Show
WHERE: Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., (323) 936-7141
WHEN: Friday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission to opening reception is FREE!

Held every year since 2003, TarFest is an annual festival of emerging film, music and art held at the La Brea Tar Pits and the surrounding Museum Row in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. Kicking off this year's TarFest is the TarFest Art Show, which features 45 pieces by 38 artists selected by Howard Fox of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. TarFest continues through the weekend with film and music festivals on Saturday, October 4 and a one-mile run on Sunday, October 5. [Info source]

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WHAT: 10th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival
WHERE: Various venues along Colorado Blvd., (323) 254-5295
WHEN: Saturday, October 4, 5:00 p.m. to midnight
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

If you don't want to spend $40 to attend the Detour Music Festival this weekend, check out this year's Eagle Rock Music Festival for FREE! ERMF will feature 50 local bands with appeal to lovers of indie-rock, world-music, folk, punk, and experimental music. Some of the highlights include Earlimart, Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, and Radar Bros. A festival map and schedule may be viewed here. [Info source]

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WHAT: Fowler in Focus: Ancient Ceramics from Colombia and Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos / Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: Landscape of Mexican Migration
WHERE: UCLA, Fowler Museum
WHEN: Both exhibitions open this Sunday, October 5; Museum will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

This weekend brings the opening of two new exhibitions at the Fowler Museum. "Fowler in Focus: Ancient Ceramics from Colombia" features more than 40 examples of ancient ceramic works of the peoples of Colombia. The works in this collection are from the Muñoz Kramer collection and are meant to foster study into the origins and development of the indigenous societies of lower Central and upper South America between B.C.E. 500 to C.E. 1500. [Info source] "Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos / Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: Landscape of Mexican Migration" considers Mexican migration into the United States as seen through Chicano/Mexican visual arts. Works in this bilingual exhibition include paintings, works on paper, photographs, video and installations. The title phrase of the exhibition--"Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos"--is taken from a popular dicho or saying in Mexico and in Chicano/Mexican communities in the U.S., which refers to the superficial judgments made about people solely based on appearances. [Info source]