The Wende Museum is brilliant at pairing historical cultural objects from the Cold War era with salient contemporary art, music, film, and literature ? and this weekend is no exception. While their current exhibition Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe (on view through October 20) answers the question of what was on TV in the Soviet Bloc, Saturday afternoon also affords the chance to turn off the telly and pick up a book. Actually, one of hundreds of books, as they welcome dozens of regional independent publishers and literary organizations for the free, all-day?Small Press Book Festival organized by Vagabond Press and featuring writing and publishing workshops, poetry, readings and more from eclectic sources including Beyond Baroque, Tia Chucha Press, Angel City Press, Poets&Writers, LARB and the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum.

Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City; Sat., Sept. 21, 11 a.m.4:30 p.m.; free. wendemuseum.org.