8 pm: Pop Music

The music-movie interface is in the spotlight at LunaPark, where 10 acts--including the eclectic Nil Lara, Canadian singer-songwriter Holly McNarland and ska-peddlers Skanic--get together for Indie Music Night, an offshoot of the concurrent Los Angeles International Film Festival. (More on the Film Festival in Screening Room, Page 18.)

* Agnes Gooch, Holly McNarland, Autumns, Nil Lara, Skanic, Joanna Deseyne, Brad Mitchell, John Easdale, Kim Fox, Coal at LunaPark, 665 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood. $10. (310) 652-0611.

All day: Family

Performing pigs, a Tennessee Walking Horse Show and more than 1,000 birds, goats, llamas, reptiles and other animals will be part of the ninth annual America’s Family Pet Expo at the Fairplex in Pomona. Bird owners will even have a chance to dress up like their birds during a look-alike contest. Pet adoptions, new pet products and services and seminars also will be featured.

* America’s Family Pet Expo, Fairplex at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; also Saturday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Adults, $7; seniors, $5; children 6 to 12, $2. (800) 999-7295.

7 pm: Classical Music

For the first time since before Esa-Pekka Salonen was born, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will play in San Pedro. The venue: Warner Grand Theatre, downtown in the harbor-side community. The program: a mixed bill of Bach, Copland and Mendelssohn, plus a duet from concertmaster Martin Chalifour and principal viola Evan Wilson. Said to be acoustically wonderful, the converted vaudeville house is being tried out for subsequent concert use. On Saturday the Philharmonic returns to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to launch its Gyorgy Ligeti celebrations, on a program also offering music by Bach and Haydn.

* The L.A. Philharmonic, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performs in Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, at 7 p.m. $5-$15. (310) 548-7466. On Saturday, the orchestra plays another program in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., 8 p.m. $8-$63. (213) 850-2000. Repeats Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

All day: Art

Labeled degenerate by Nazi Germany and too avant-garde by Hollywood’s studio system, the abstract animation of Oskar Fischinger nevertheless revolutionized filmmaking. “Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry” offers a rare opportunity to view early films from the 1920s and ‘30s, as well as abstract paintings and drawings by the pioneering Modern artist, whose works and philosophy extended to artists ranging from Leopold Stokowski to John Cage. On May 2, the Jack Rutberg Gallery presents a evening of Fischinger films, narrated by film scholar William Moritz and the artist’s widow, Elfriede Fischinger.

* “Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, 357 N. La Brea Ave. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ends May 30. Free. (213) 938-5222.

All day: Movies

In 1994, Kurt Cobain’s suicide rocked the alternative music world. In 1996, Courtney Love’s moving performance as Althea Flynt in Milos Forman’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt” rocked the film industry. In January, Nick Broomfield’s controversial documentary, “Kurt and Courtney,” rocked the Slamdunk Film Festival in Utah. On Friday, Broomfield’s documentary, which features a lengthy and bizarre interview with Love’s father and other odd characters associated with the grunge icons, finally opens in Los Angeles at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5. (Expect crowds.)

* “Kurt and Courtney,” Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Call for show times. $5-$8. (213) 848-3500.

7:30 pm: Movies

With its program dubbed “Shorts!,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 10 films nominated in the live-action and animated-short-film categories in the recent Oscar sweepstakes, including the winning entries, the animated “Geri’s Game” and “Visas and Virtue,” about Japan’s “Schindler.” The program launches a new edition of “Academy Standard Screenings.”

* “Shorts!,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. $3-$5. (310) 247-3600.

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FREEBIE: Bassist Art Davis, pianist John Hicks and drummer Billy Higgins at LACMA, 5:30 p.m. (213) 857-6000.