Jazz Bliss Brazil

July 7,  4 pm 

Plummer Park

7377 Santa Monica Blvd

Jazz Bliss Brazil is an exciting eclectic ensemble pulsating with the vibrancy of classic American Jazz and the music of the Americas - chiefly Brazil. The quintet features the warm and engaging Carol Bach-y-Rita, singing in both Portuguese and English, and the lyrical saxophone & flute of Robert Kyle. Joining them are guitarist Mitchell Long, bassist Hussain Jiffry, and drummer/percussionist Walter Rodriguez - three of the brightest stars on the "World Music" scene.

  Trouble in Chiozza 

Classical Theater Lab

Free Theater in the Park

July 6 - July 28

Saturdays and Sundays, 4 pm (90 mins)

Kings Road Park

1000 N. Kings Road

The City of West Hollywood presents Trouble in Chiozza by Carlo Goldoni with translation by Robert Hoyem, directed by Louis Fantasia. Set in a rustic Italian fishing village, this rollicking romp is about two rival families with daughters of marrying age and the young fishermen who come to court them.  Admission free. Reservations recommended. (323) 960-5691.

 Second Thoughts

SST Productions

Free Theater in the Park

Saturdays at 7 pm

Sundays at 2 pm

July 13, 14, 20, 21

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

The City of West Hollywood presents Second Thoughts, written, directed, and featuring Tony-nominated Tony Tanner. A wry and rueful musical romp for all ages that critics have called "a treasure" with "toe tapping rhythms."

Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival

July 13, 1:30 pm

Directors Guild of America

7920 Sunset Boulevard

The City of West Hollywood in collaboration with OUTFEST presents the screening of BrideGroom. Director Linda Bloodworth Thomason ("Designing Women") navigates the romantic highs of Tom and Shane's relationship - until tragedy strikes. A remarkable feature about love, loss and the courage to stand up for same-sex equality, the film has won the Heineken Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tickets $13. Free parking available at the Directors Guild of America. For more information, click here.

 Klezmer Juice 

July 21,  4 pm

Plummer Park

7377 Santa Monica Blvd

Klezmer Juice is vibrant Yiddish soul imbued with musical influences both old and new from around the world. Representing a new generation of Jewish soul musicians, the youthful group members see themselves as torchbearers of an ancient traditional craft that unites generations in spirit, offering fresh interpretations of traditional tunes. This concert is sponsored by LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky

Everything Loose Will Land

Through August 4th

MAK Center for Art and Architecture

835 N. Kings Road

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Taking its name from the notorious Frank Lloyd Wright quip, "Tip the world on its side, and everything loose will land in Los Angeles", Everything Loose Will Land argues that L.A.'a infamous "looseness" provided a medium for exciting developments in art and architecture.

William Sweetlove Exhibition

June 2013 - October 2013

Median of Santa Monica Boulevard at Holloway.

An outdoor exhibition of colorful and joyous animal sculptures by Belgian artist William Sweetlove will grace the Santa Monica Blvd.  near Barney's Beanery.  

 "Living in Limbo, Lesbian Families in the Deep South." West Hollywood Library
625 N. San Vicente Boulevard 
Presented as part of the One City One Pride Queer Arts Festival, this was the first full exhibition about the LGBT community to be shown at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama, whose mission is to promote civil and human rights worldwide through education. The public display of the work marked photographer Carolyn Sherer's "coming out" and that of a number of other participants. This exhibit will be on display through Wednesday, July 10, 2013 during regular operating hours at the West Hollywood Library. (M-Th 11-7, Fr-Sa 10-6).