As noted elsewhere around here, I’m up to my neck in it, so I’ve got one thing to recommend this weekend, the Wattstax/Dave Chapelle’s Block Party mashup by Edgar Arceneaux that’s part of MOCA’s Cinemoca series. Both movies are excellent, and both are important. When the now-defunct San Pedro Film Society put together a Black History Month Film Festival back in the day, my primary reason for doing the project was to show Wattstax, essentially a post-riots documentation of the biggest concert that ever happened in LA (with the exception of the US festival), which no one seems to really know about. I cannot state just how amazing the performances by the Bar Kays, the Staples Singers and Issac Hays are in that film. Go see the mashup, do your funky dance and then make sure to catch the straight Wattstax action as soon as you can.

At MOCA, Saturday, June 21, 7-11 PM - $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors and free for kids under 12 and MOCA members.

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