The Dwell Guide to Events in Your City

Wednesday, April 23

At this AIA event today, four architects discuss the process of remodeling and re-designing mid-cenutry modern homes homes. On Sunday, May 4 the AIA follows with with a tour of the homes discussed tonight. 6-8 p.m.; DSI Entertainment Systems, 635 N. Robertson Blvd.; (213) 639-0777; www.aialosangeles.org

Thursday, April 24

Polish cinema didn’t stop with Roman Polanski’s The Pianist: This eleven-day film fest celebrates the features, animated films, and shorts emerging from Polish directors, like opening night flick Lejdis by Tomasz Konecki. Through May 4. www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php

Friday, April 25

To compliment MOCA’s exhibit of Allan Kaprow’s postwar assemblages and collages, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art recreates his 1967 installation Fluids. Over the weekend, 30 foot walls built from ice blocks will melt in twenty Los Angeles locales. Through 27 April. www.lacma.org/art/ExhibFluids.aspx

As Passover recently reminded us, good things can happen in the desert. This weekend, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival takes music lovers to the dunes, with performances by Prince, Sia, M.I.A, Death Cab for Cutie, Portishead, Alison Goldfrapp, Aphex Twin and more. Through April 27. Empire Polo Field, 81-800 Ave 51; http://coachella.com

Saturday, April 26

The Festival of Books, co-hosted by The Los Angeles Times and UCLA, brings together over 450 authors for a weekend of writing workshops, discussion panels, and a children’s programs. Through April 27. www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks

Ex-pats get a little taste of home during BritWeek 2008, a fortnight of screenings and pubcrawls, along with LA Galaxy celebrity soccer and performances by Kate Nash, Duran Duran, and others. Through May 31. www.britweek.org

Photographers Eric Curry and Jeremy Kidd play with urban landscapes digitally, creating layered, ethereal portraits of our cities and their architecture. UC Riverside California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main St (Riverside); (951) 827-4787; www.cmp.ucr.edu

Sunday, April 27

Last Chance: The Orange County Museum of Art closes The Imaginary 20th Century, an interactive art installation of 2,200 images illustrating the trials and tribulations of a woman wooed by five suitors in 1901, each with his own vision of the century to come. Through April 27. 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach; 949-759-1122; www.ocma.net

California Art Club, one of the oldest organizations in the U.S., showcases the multi-media work of 184 contemporary artists, winners of its 97th annual juried competition. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 East Union St., Pasadena; (626) 568-3665; www.pmcaonline.org

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