8 pm: Dance

Each a winner of the Lester Horton Award for past choreographic projects, folklorist Gema Sandoval and modernist Loretta Livingston team up for the first time in a full-evening tribute to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez: “Si, Se Puede/Yes, You Can” at Cal State L.A. Commissioned to celebrate the campus’ 50th anniversary, the piece inaugurates the choreographers’ Fronteras (Borders) Project, an attempt to combine dance forms and audiences. In addition, “Si, Se Puede” enlists composer Gerardo Tamez of Los Folkloristas, actress Angelica Aragon, the Mariachi Mexicapan and Sandoval’s Danza Floricanto USA.

* “Si, Se Puede/Yes, You Can,” Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State Los Angeles, 5151 University Drive. Also Sunday, 3 p.m. $15-$32.50. (213) 343-6600.

7 & 8 pm: Dance

Returning to the scene of the grime, Heidi Duckler’s locally based Collage Dance Theatre revives its 25-minute site-specific satiric extravaganza “Laundromatinee” at Launderland in Culver City. First performed 10 years ago in Santa Monica, the piece involves eight women whirling atop washers and diving into dryers to celebrate the coin-op as the mental and emotional matrix of American culture. Warning: Do not try this at home--or anywhere else, for that matter. And though the dancing is free (courtesy of the Culver City Arts Committee), don’t expect to wash your clothes for nothing.

* Collage Dance Theatre, Launderland, 11124 Washington Blvd., Culver City. 7 and 8 p.m. Free. (818) 784-8669.

10:30 am: Benefit

Mann’s Chinese Theatre is known for hosting ceremonies honoring Hollywood celebs, but the Purina Pets for People Pet Party will honor celebs’ furry friends. Cats and dogs will join their celebrity owners to lend their hands (and paws) to a cement Pawprint Wall of Fame to raise money for L.A.’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. For a contribution of $20, guests will receive a kit to make personalized hand and paw-print stones similar to those created at the ceremony.

* Purina Pets for People Pet Party, Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Forecourt of the Stars, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. 10:30-11:30 a.m. (310) 226-3024.

10 am: Architecture

As the first African American member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Southern California architect Paul R. Williams was a pioneer in his field. During his prolific career, which lasted from the 1920s through the 1970s, he designed more than 3,000 projects in Los Angeles, including the Beverly Hills and Ambassador hotels, Chasens and Perino’s restaurants and Saks Fifth Avenue. Karen E. Hudson, director of the Paul R. Williams Archives and author of two books about her grandfather, will discuss his work in “A Tribute to Paul Williams,” a program sponsored by the Pasadena Historical Museum in commemoration of Black History Month. The lecture will be set in one of the Pasadena-area 1920s Monterey Colonial homes he designed.

* “A Tribute to Paul Williams.” Address provided with ticket reservation. $10 for museum members, $15 for nonmembers. (626) 577-1660.

8 pm: Spoken Word

With Our Words, a storytelling collective of six Los Angeles-based spoken-word artists--Milbre Burch, Vicki Juditz, Karen Golden, Kathleen Zundell, Leslie Perry and Angela Lloyd--celebrates the forthcoming Women’s History Month with “Goddesses, Goodwives and Gossips: Tales of Womenfolk.” The storytelling program will include tales that feature women in a variety of roles from the traditional and mythical to the literary and modern.

* “Goddesses, Goodwives and Gossips,” Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills. For ages 12 and over. $10. (213) 933-4614.

8 pm: Theater

In a rare performance, “An Evening With Marcel Marceau” features the legendary mime and his Bip the clown alter ego--whose silent and varied misadventures began in 1947, the year Marceau created the character.

* “An Evening With Marcel Marceau,” Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. $30-$50. (213) 365-3500; (213) 380-5005; (714) 740-7878.

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FREEBIE: Local teens perform the play “Lady White Snake,” Los Angeles Central Public Library, Meeting Room B, 2 p.m. (213) 228-7290.