2 pm: Tribute

C. Bernard Jackson was the type of man who made a mark on the city. And Sunday, the city will mark the place where Jackson, the co-founder of the Inner City Cultural Center, did his work. The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department will dedicate the corner of Pico Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue as C. Bernard Jackson Square, a spot that was the birthplace of the ICCC. Afterward, a tribute called C. Bernard Jackson

all day: Art

The Los Angeles of artists’ wild imaginations and keen observations is on view in “Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art,” a large exhibition of representational art opening Sunday at the Laguna Art Museum. Dramatically lighted urban scenes by Lauren Richardson and James Doolin bump up against film-related images by Christian Vincent, a painted elegy about the 1992 riots by John Nava and portraits by Salomon Huerta.* “Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art,” Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Sunday to Jan. 13. Thursdays to Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Adults, $5; seniors and students, $4; children 12 and under, free. Free on Tuesdays. (949) 494-8971.

all day: Leisure

It’s a last chance for motor sports fans this weekend as the final big race of Southern California’s season takes place Sunday at Fontana. CART ends its racing calendar with the California 500, at 12:30 p.m. at California Speedway.

* California 500, California Speedway, San Bernardino Avenue, Fontana, 12:30 p.m. $39 to $105. (800) 944-RACE.

3 pm: Family

Celebrating literature and language, Beyond Baroque’s “Children’s Poetry Sunday” invites children to read their favorite short poems or a one-page story and presents a performance by word lover Calef Brown, author and illustrator of such zany rhyming children’s books as “Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks” and “Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers.” * “Children’s Poetry Sunday,” Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Old Venice City Hall, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. Sunday at 3 p.m. $5; children under age 10, free. (310) 822-3006.

Freebies

* Donna Sternberg and Dancers presents “Speaking With Our Bodies,” a lecture-demonstration on dance expression, at the Westside Academy of Dance, 1711 Stewart St., Santa Monica. 2:30 p.m. (310) 260-1198.

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* Endre Balogh is the guest soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Topanga Symphony, Jerome Kessler conducting, at Topanga Community House, 1400 Topanga Canyon Blvd., at 3 p.m. Kessler will also lead Schubert’s Third Symphony and Cimarosa’s Overture to “Il Matrimonio Segreto.” (818) 999-5775.