10am & 1 pm

Family

It’s no yolk! Kids can search for dino-sized Easter eggs at the Natural History Museum’s Dinosaur Easter Egg Hunt. The first 50 children ages 4 to 10 at each session will hunt for eggs, win prizes and receive free child’s admission to the Natural History Museum, the Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits or the Petersen Automotive Museum. After the dino egg hunt, families can learn more about the prehistoric creatures in the museum’s “Dinosaurs!” exhibit and dig for fossils in a working paleontology lab.

* Dinosaur Easter Egg Hunt, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Exposition Park. Museum admission free to first 50 children to arrive. Museum admission for adults, $8, students and seniors, $5.50; children ages 5-12, $2. (213) 763-3238.

8pm Jazz Fusion

Few instruments travel as well between pop and jazz as the guitar and the saxophone, and this double-bill of “smooth” jazz artists sponsored by radio station 94.7 KTWV--The Wave proves it. Featured are longtime Luther Vandross guitarist Doc Powell, who spices his play with R&B; touches, and Hawaiian-born saxophonist Michael Paulo, whose sound is equal parts island sunshine and urban soul. Like jazz with a beat? This is your show.

* The Wave at Wadsworth with Doc Powell and Michael Paulo, Veterans Wadsworth Theater, Wilshire Boulevard at 405 Freeway, Brentwood. $20-$35. (310) 825-2101.

8pm Pop Music

Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin comes into her solo acoustic stand at the Coach House as the holder of Grammy Awards for record and song of the year, both for “Sunny Came Home.”

* Shawn Colvin, the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. $26.50. Through Tuesday. (714) 496-8927.

8pm Festival

The Cuban American Cultural Festival kicks off with “A Night to Remember,” featuring performances by Lazaro Galarraga and his ensemble of Afro-Cuban dancers, Paquito D’Rivera and his quintet, and tributes to percussionist Chano Pozo, actor Andy Garcia and bandleader Israel Lopez. The festival, presented by the Redondo Beach Cuban American Cultural Institute, continues Sunday with an art exhibition of international and local Cuban artists opening at the La Mirada Art Gallery, and in the coming weeks with literary conferences, concerts, carnivals and film screenings.

* Cuban American Cultural Festival, Saturday-May 3. “A Night to Remember,” Saturday, 8 p.m. Wilshire-Ebell Theatre, 4401 W. 8th St., Los Angeles. $15-$25. (310) 973-8669 for information; (213) 939-1128 for tickets. Art exhibition, Sunday-April 19. La Mirada Art Gallery, 15040 Imperial Highway, La Mirada. Free. (562) 943-5846.

8:30pm Jazz & Spoken Word

Poet Kamau Daaood is the voice and conscience of South-Central’s creative community, not only an artist in his own right but a behind-the-scenes force for creative opportunity in Leimert Park and beyond. Here he joins with An Army of Healers, a nine-piece ensemble including flutist James Newton, saxophonist Michael Session, pianist Horace Tapscott and vocalist Dwight Trible to raise funds for various Crenshaw-based arts organizations.

* An Army of Healers With Kamau Daaood, Vision Theater, 3341 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles. $12 in advance, $15 at the door. (213) 751-9898.

7pm

Theater

Academy Award-winning Chris Tashima (“Visas and Virtues”), Jason Scott Lee (“Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”), Lauren Tom and Michael Paul Chan (“The Joy Luck Club”), Nobu McCarthy, Jude Narita, Amy Hill and Jennifer Paz (“Miss Saigon”) are among more than 70 Asian American actors, dancers, singers and musicians who will perform at the Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches’ fund-raiser, “Star Night, Star Bright.” The nonprofit “A3M” registers bone marrow donors, who are badly needed to help Asian American patients with leukemia and other blood-related diseases.

* “Star Night, Star Bright,” Japan America Theatre, 224 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Saturday, 7 p.m. $35 (tax-deductible; includes post-show reception). (213) 473-1661.

FREEBIE: Children’s movie series, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, 11:30 a.m. (213) 485-4581 for reservations.