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8 pm: Pop Music

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If Elvis were still alive, he’d start collecting Social Security this week. That’s right--his 65th birthday falls on Saturday, and on Sunday the 15th annual Elvis Birthday Bash marks the occasion at the House of Blues. Among the Southern California rock ‘n’ roll stalwarts surveying the songbook of the King are the Sprague Brothers, James Intveld, the Paladins, Pearl Harbour, Levi Dexter, Johnny Legend, Ronnie Mack and Swamp Dogg.

* The Elvis Birthday Bash, House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 8 p.m. $15. (323) 848-5100.

4 pm: Music

The musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein--”Oklahoma!,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I”--gave birth to a bounty of beautiful songs. Sing-along leader Judy Wolman offers you a starring role when her next “Sing! Sing! Sing!” gathering explores these and other pieces from the Rodgers and Hammerstein collection. Wolman furnishes song sheets and motivation; you supply the pipes.

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* “Sing! Sing! Sing!” with Judy Wolman, the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. 4 p.m. $15. (310) 271-9039.

12:30 pm: Children

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Sheila and Wally Weisman Family Sunday series continues with “Art Discovery,” a hands-on workshop focusing on the different time periods and cultures represented in the museum’s permanent collection. Children 5 and younger can create works of art at their own pace in the Toddler Tarp located at Hancock Park, on the recently renovated stretch of green behind LACMA that encircles the La Brea tar pits.

* The Sheila and Wally Weisman Family Sunday series is held weekly at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 12:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. (323) 857-6515.

1 pm: Children

For the child who has been recently wowed by “Toy Story 2” or the mouse in “Stuart Little,” the “Prince of Egypt: Create Your Own Cartoons” workshop at the Skirball Cultural Center could be just the thing. After viewing an exhibition of drawings, paintings and stills from the film, kids will hear from an animator from DreamWorks, and then learn how to make cartoon flip books of their own.

* “The Prince of Egypt: Create Your Own Cartoons,” Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. 1 p.m. Workshop, $4. General admission, $8; seniors, $8; ages 12 and younger, free. (310) 440-4500.

all day: Movies

If you like your comedy with a little edge, head to the New Beverly for a decidedly non-saccharine double bill: Hal Ashby’s “Harold and Maude,’ a screwball romance about a 70-year-old motorcycling mama (Ruth Gordon) and a rich, suicide-obsessed teen (Bud Cort), and “The Loved One,” Tony Richardson’s mordant satire of Los Angeles funeral rites (based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel). Rod Steiger, Milton Berle, John Gielgud, Roddy McDowall and Liberace star.

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* “Harold and Maude” and “The Loved One,” New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd. Friday: “Harold and Maude,” 3:20 and 7:30 p.m., “The Loved One,” 5:10 and 9:20 p.m. Monday and Tuesday: “Harold and Maude,” 7:30 p.m., “The Loved One,” 9:20 p.m. $3 to $6. [[SINCE THIS IS A SUNDAY ITEM, DOES IT START SUNDAY OR PLAY ON SUNDAY?]]

(323) 938-4038.

1 pm: Culture

In an unusual double bill, the Tuvan Throat-Singers perform alongside champion wrestlers at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art. Mixing music and sport, the program showcases the rare singing style known as khoomei, which produces two or more sounds simultaneously. The concert will be paired with Tuvan-style wrestling, which features wrestling and “the dance of the eagle.”

* The Tuvan Throat-Singers. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, 1 p.m. Museum members, $15. Nonmembers, $20. (714) 567-3600.

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FREEBIE: Fowler Museum director Doran H. Ross presents the slide-lecture “Music in the Life of Africa: A Curator’s Perspective,” Fowler Museum on the UCLA campus. 2 p.m. (310) 825-4361.

Paraguayan harpist Alfredo Rolando Ortiz performs at Caltech’s Dabney Lounge; park at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena. 3:30 p.m. (888) 2-CALTECH.

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