12:15 pm

Movies

Julie Dash’s 1991 film “Daughters of the Dust,” about a turn-of-the-century Gullah family, screens as part of the Museum of Television & Radio’s observance of Black History Month. The Gullah were descendants of West Africans brought to America by the slave trade and who maintained their heritage while living on the Sea Islands off the South Atlantic coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Dash’s story is about one family preparing to leave their home and move North.

* “Daughters of the Dust,” Museum of Television & Radio, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. 12:15 p.m. Sunday, free with museum admission, recommendation donation $3-$6. (310) 786-1000.

2pm

Music

Ever reinventing herself, American soprano Kathleen Battle appears with a chamber ensemble led by harpsichordist-conductor Anthony Newman at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Her program includes music by Handel, Bach, Dowland and Purcell.

* Kathleen Battle, Anthony Newman and ensemble perform in Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, at 2 p.m. $24. (714) 740-7878.

2pm

Theater

Estelle Harris of “Seinfeld” and Robert Mandan star in a staged reading of “Love, It’s Ageless,” William Derringer’s romantic comedy, directed by Richard Hochberg, that begins in a supermarket. The performance is part of the “Play-Ful Sundays” series of celebrity readings of comedies by Jewish writers.

* “Love, It’s Ageless,” Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, 15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel-Air, Sunday at 2 p.m. $15. (310) 476-9777, Ext. 203.

3pm

Theater

In “The Adventures of Connie Chancla,” Maria Elena Gaitan performs her seriocomic, multimedia solo performance as a “barrio historian,” conducting a tour through more than 150 years of borders, barriers and stereotypes.

* “The Adventures of Connie Chancla,” Jean Delacour Auditorium, Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd., L.A., Sunday at 3 p.m. For adults and teens ages 15 and up. Free, but reservations advised. (213) 763-3534.

8 & 10pm

Pop Music

It’s been two years since MeShell Ndegeocello’s last album, so fans of the fiery singer-songwriter’s edgy R&B; figure to pack the Conga Room when she previews material she’s been recording for her upcoming collection--which could come as soon as this summer.

* MeShell Ndegeocello, the Conga Room, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 8 and 10 p.m. $20 to $50. Also Monday at 8 and 10 p.m. (323) 938-1696.

6pm

Pop Music

Here’s a DJ act with a little name recognition for pop fans: Lazy Dog is the duo of Everything But the Girl co-leader Ben Watt and his partner Jay Hannan, who bring to midtown Los Angeles the dance mixes they deliver regularly in west London. * Lazy Dog, Cafe Club Fais Do-Do, 5257 W. Adams Blvd., L.A., 6 p.m. $20. (323) 932-9034.

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FREEBIE:

The Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra presents a “Mostly Strings” program of works by Haydn, Britten and Stravinsky, Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center’s Magnin Auditorium, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. (310) 859-7668.

Wayne Reinecke conducts works by Wagner and Schumann on the latest Rio Hondo Symphony program with soloist Marek Szpakiewicz, who plays the Cello Concerto in E minor by Elgar, at Whittier High School Auditorium, 12417 E. Philadelphia St., Whittier. 3 p.m. (562) 947-5907.