11am Family

The Skirball Cultural Center’s Purim Arts Festival features art workshops where kids can create hats, masks, noisemakers and crowns; entertainment by singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman, clowns, jugglers and magicians; a Hamantashen Baking Contest; and face-painting, dress up and gallery tours.

* Purim Arts Festival, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $8 (includes museum entry); $7 with canned-food donation; under age 12, free. (323) 655-8587.

2pm Movies

In memory of its late founder, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage will continue its monthly “Gene Autry: 20th Century Cowboy” series with the 1947 western “The Last Round-Up.” After the screening, Ron Andrade, a Native American of the La Jolla tribe who was tribal liaison and community partnership specialist for the U.S. Census Bureau, will talk about conditions on California reservations today.

* “The Last Round-Up,” Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Wells Fargo Theater, 4700 Western Heritage Way, 2 p.m. Museum admission: $3 to $7.50. Admission to screening: $4 to $5. (323) 667-2000.

2 & 3:30pm Music

The Peruvian guitarist Jorge Caballero, the young musician who won the first-ever guitar competition from the prestigious Naumburg Foundation, plays in the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series at the MacFarlane Estate in San Marino.

* Jorge Caballero plays at the MacFarlane Estate in San Marino, 2 and 3:30 p.m. $45 to $68. Sold out.

5pm Theater

In the musical comedy/courtroom thriller “The People vs. Mona,” a small Southern town’s “bad girl” is accused of the murder of her record producer-husband 10 hours after their wedding and finds herself in a “trial of the century.” By Jim Wann, Ernest Chambers and Patricia Miller.

* “The People vs. Mona,” Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., 5 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 5 and 9 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends April 16. $13.50 to $42.50. (800) 233-3123.

6pm Jazz

The inventor of swing will be honored at the 11th Annual Tribute to Count Basie when drummer Frank Capp and his 15-piece Juggernaut big band break out the charts written for the Count by late Juggernaut co-founder Nat Pierce. The dance concert will feature rising vocalist Tierney Sutton. Other standouts scheduled to appear with the band include saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Herman Rilery, cornetist Bill Berry and pianist Gerald Wiggins.

* The 11th Annual Tribute to Count Basie, Irvine Mariott Hotel, 1800 Von Karman Ave., Irvine, 6 p.m. $25. (949) 553-9449.

6:30 & 8:30pm Pop Music

Few singers have ever combined accessibility and activism like Holly Near, whose pure voice and pop instincts could have made her a mainstream fixture but whose dedication to the women’s movement and other progressive causes instead made her a cult hero and an agent of change. Emerging from a yearlong sabbatical marking her 50th birthday, Near gets back into gear with two sets at McCabe’s.

* Holly Near, McCabe’s, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. $17.50. (310) 828-4403.

Freebies

Musician and author Ian Whitcomb explores the history of the ukulele at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 E. Don Julian Road, City of Industry, 2 p.m. (Seating on first-come basis beginning at 1:30 p.m.) (626) 968-8492 or https://www.homesteadmuseum.org.

The Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra plays music by Martinu, Prokofiev and Bruckner at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre, 4401 W. 8th St., 4 p.m. (310) 859-7668.