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all day Festival

Approach and hear the sounds: gospel, jazz, blues, reggae, doo-wop, hip-hop, slave hollers and Native American chants. Draw closer and breathe in the enticing aromas: of gumbo, ceviche, rice and peas, black beans, fried plantains, falafel, fou-fou and barbecue. Then, when you can see the striking array of colorful African garb, elaborate displays of fine arts and crafts, you’ll know that you have arrived at the Los Angeles African Marketplace & Cultural Faire. Now in its 17th year, the marketplace runs weekends beginning Saturday through Sept 1. The theme of the annual event is “Celebrating Africa’s Global Legacy,” and to that end there will be trade and travel expos, literary, technology and restaurant pavilions, children’s, educational and health villages, short films, a soccer tournament, games, continuous live entertainment, and more than 200 arts and crafts and trade vendors.

African Marketplace & Cultural Faire, Exposition Park, Figueroa Street south of Exposition Boulevard. L.A. Saturdays and Sundays, Aug. 17-Sept. 1; also, Friday, Aug. 30; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. $5; $3 for seniors; children younger than 10, free. (323) 734-1164, (213) 847-1540 or www.africanmarketplace.org.

4 & 5pm Family

Long-time favorite acoustic duo Trout Fishing in America--6-foot-9 guitarist-vocalist Ezra Idlet and 5-foot-5 1/2 bassist-vocalist Keith Grimwood--give a free outdoor concert as part of the Getty Center’s “Outdoor Giggle and Wiggle” series. They’ve been playing music together for 25 years; kids’ music has just been an 11-year-diversion. Their newest family CD, “inFINity,” received a 2002 Grammy Award nomination for best musical album.

Trout Fishing in America, J. Paul Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A. Saturday, 4 and 5 p.m. Free. (310) 440-7300.

7:30pm Music

Prize-winning Chinese pianist Ying Zhang makes her local debut at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, assisted by the New West Symphony and conductor Boris Brott. Zhang will play Saint-Saens’ Second Piano Concerto and Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante. The orchestra will play Bizet’s “Carmen” Suite No. 1.

Pianist Ying Zhang with New West Symphony, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, 7:30 p.m. $47-$102. (213) 365-3500.

8pm Dance

A new performance series titled “Caught Between: Dancing for Camera and Live Audience” unites choreographers and film-or video-makers in collaborative projects that let the audience experience dance in two ways at once. A hot, close-up, technological perspective on dance co-exists and interacts with the immediacy and three-dimensional presence of theatrical dancing in pieces created by some of our most daring multimedia artists. Participating choreographers include Stephanie Gilliland, Rosanna Gamson, Kitty McNamee, Jamie Nichols, Lauren Winslow-Kearns, Nina Kaufman, Alex Magno, Nina Winthrop and the tireless Deborah Brockus, caught between producing this event and choreographing for it.

“Caught Between: Dancing for Camera and Live Audience,” Ivar Theatre, 1605 Ivar Ave., Hollywood. 8 p.m. Also Sunday, 7 p.m. $20 (advance purchase), $25 (day of performance). (310) 645-9419.

all day Art

Hungarian artist Peter Forgacs combines his film-based work with materials from the collections of the Getty Research Institute and other lenders to create the multimedia interactive installation “The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River,” opening Saturday at the institute. Forgacs, in collaboration with the Labyrinth Project at USC’s Annenberg Center for Communications, addresses the displacement of ethnic groups in Germany through sound, moving images, large-scale projections, touch-screen maps, and archival materials such as postcards, photo albums, and a three-volume illustrated survey of the Danube published in 1726.

“The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River,” Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery and Lecture Hall, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood. Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Ends Sept. 29. Free. (310) 440-7300.