Celebrate the Fillmore District of San Francisco in the 1940's and 50's and the early 60's where Bebop jazz cross-pollinated with the Beat Movement and avant garde film making to make a dynamic scene.� The exhibit includes a phograps from the time with celebrities who frequented the clubs, including Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Lady Day and many others.� Also included are Harry Smith films with music by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and poetry of African American beatnik Bof Kaufman.

This exhibition showcases six African American artists and one artists' collective whose works explore how the actions and ideologies of the civil rights movement continue to be relevant today. Exhibiting artists are: Deborah Grant, Leslie Hewitt, Otabenga Jones and Associates, Adam Pendleton, Jefferson Pinder, Nadine Robinson and Hank Willis Thomas. Originally organized by the High Museum in Atlanta, After 1968 is the companion exhibition to Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement which will be present concurrently at the Skirball Cultural Center.

The exhibition features fourteen multi-media works by fifteen artists who present visions of what a sustainable and civil futuremust address for a healthy tomorrow. Exhibiting artists are: Kim Abeles, Jane Castillo, Abdelali Dahrouch, Joyce Dallal, Charles Dickson, Graham Goddard, John Halaka, Nobue Betty Kano, Kwahuumba and Seneferu, Sonia BasSheva-Manjon, Yong Soon Min, Dominique Moody, John Outterbridge and Ingrid Von Sydow. An Idea Called Tomorrow will be on view both at CAAM (1) and the Skirball Cultural Center (2).

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What does tomorrow hold? Participants write a short story or poem about their hopes and dreams to be placed in a decorated time capsule to save and open at a lter date. RSVP 213-744-2024.

Artists from An Idea Called Tomorrow talk about contemporary issues and possible ways in which to take action to ensure a better future.

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Learn how artists use images from popular culture to create new art and later make your own from borrowed images.

Join us on Martin Luther King Weekend as we celebrate the inspiration of one man's dream, his past presence and continued legacy. View film screenings of his speeches and experience perfomances on our main stage with artists representing our diverse community, with Jeffrey Anderson Guner and Harlem Le as co-hosts.  visit www.caamuseum.org for latest performance listings.  Coincides with the formal King Holiday.  Intepreted for the hearing impaired.

Normally closed on Monday, CAAM opens for the MLK Holiday at 11am, and begins the day by participating in the annual Kingdom Day Parade around 9 am. Come view the parade which begins at Westen Avenue, travels up Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. to Crenshaw Blvd. south ending at Vernon Avenue in Leimert Park. CAAM's parade car will feature special guests hosted by CAAM's Deputy Director Woodburn T. Schofield, Jr. Following the parade, join us back at CAAM for a piece of our birthday Cake for King. These festivities, free cake, speech screening and open exhibitions, are becoming a family tradition at CAAM. For performance details, visit www.caamuseum.org.� For parade information call 310-537-4240.

Renowned artist Dominique Moody, featured in An Idea Called Tomorrow, leads a workshop in which participants envision and create a prototype house of their own using recycled materials. RSVP 213-744-2024.

Join us for something fun and healthy. Learn some of the most popular soul line dances with J&J Soulful Steps as you groove to soulful sounds. The class is great for beginners as well as those who are epxerienced steppers. Do something good for your body and tap into your soul! RSVP 213-744-2024. This program offered at the California Science Center in conjunction with the presentation of America I Am.

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Diverse young voices debate and discuss the topic "The United States Federal Government should pay reparations for slavery". The debate teams are from Walton Middle School, Compton, and Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles.

Join us for an encore screening of this documentary on San Francisco's famed Fillmore District.