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PrEP: The Choice of the Next Generation
Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30-9 pm
West Hollywood Library
Community Room
Join us for a community dialogue on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and the future of men's health.
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International Games Day
Saturday, November 16, 2-4 pm
Join us for International Games Day! Come play a variety of board games, card games and xbox Kinect. For teens 12-18.
Teen Book Club
Beauty Queens, Libba Bray
John Green and David Levithan
November 21, 4:30-5:30
Women and Books Club
First Tuesdays monthly
7 pm, Community Room
Tuesday, Nov. 5
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Lambda Lit Book Club
Last Tuesdays monthly, 7pm, Community Room
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Alysia Abbot
November 26, 7 pm
Life Writing Workshop, Wednesdays weekly,
2 pm, West Hollywood Room. For info, call JFS at
(323) 876-1717
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Tom of Finland
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Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland
Nov. 2 - Jan. 26
Opening Reception
Nov. 9, 6-9 pm
Nov. 9, 7:30-10:30
Larrabee St. @ Santa Monica
Nov. 17, 3 pm
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Sunset Strip
Find out all that's happening on the Sunset Strip, from music gigs at the various clubs, to book readings at Book Soup, to laughing out loud at The Comedy Store. View the calendar here.
 Visit WehoVisit Weho has listings for all over Weho, including intimate music gigs, promotions at the hotels and entertainment in the bars. View the calendar here. |
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Weho Pickup!
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Fri. & Sat. Eves, runs along Santa Monica Blvd.,
from Robertson to Fairfax
8 pm - 3 am, every 15 mins.
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Upcoming Events
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West Hollywood Halloween Carnival, FREE
Thursday, Oct. 31, 6-11 pm
One of the world's largest Halloween celebratio
ns, the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. along Santa Monica Boulevard from Doheny Drive to La Cienega Boulevard. The City is offering a free, safe and hassle free way to get to the party this Halloween. "FrankenRide" is a special shuttle that will stop at all Metro bus stops along Santa Monica Boulevard between [roughly] Plummer Park and La Cienega Boulevard (Fuller and Croft), beginning at 6:30 p.m. and running approximately every 15 minutes until 1:00 AM. For more information, please call (323) 848-6510.
 soundSpark, FREE
Saturday, Nov. 2, 12 pm
West Hollywood Library Children's Theater
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) with the City of West Hollywood is pleased to present soundSpark, a children's concert series at the West Hollywood Public Library, taking place on the first Saturday of each month. For more information, please visit http://www.sassas.org or call 323-960-5723.
Specters of Godard, FREE 
Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
835 N. Kings Road
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to present Specters of Godard, a panel discussion considering film and video works by post-conceptual artists who trace their origins to the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard. Organized and moderated by Dr. Juli Carson, Associate Professor at UC Irvine and director of its Critical and Curatorial MFA program and the University Art Galleries, the panel will include filmmaker and installation artist Kerry Tribe, Israeli-American artist Michael Moshe Dahan, and artist and curator Constanze Ruhm. Selections from the panelists' films will lead off the conversation. For more information, visit here.
 Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland
Nov. 2- Jan. 26, FREE
MOCA PDC
8687 Melrose Ave.
MOCA presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the art and collaborations of Bob Mizer (1922-1992) and Touko Laaksonen, aka "Tom of Finland" (1920-1991), two of the towering figures of twentieth century erotic art and legendary pioneers of Post-war gay culture. The exhibition will feature a selection of Laaksonen's iconic and masterful drawings and books, alongside Mizer's photographs, films, and examples of his groundbreaking magazine Physique Pictorial-where drawings by "Tom of Finland" were first published in the United States in 1957. For more information, click here.
DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made Symposium
Friday, Nov. 8, All Day, FREE
West Hollywood Design District 
West Hollywood
DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made is a one-day design symposium presented by the West Hollywood Design District to inspire and encourage integral design. Captains and enthusiasts of the design industries are invited to engage with one another and cross-pollinate, through a series of events that will combine the intelligence and beauty of good design. For more information, including session locations, click here.
Transgender Awareness Month: Film Screenings
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2-4 pm, FREE
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
A collection of the best short films from the LA Trans Film Festival, co-sponsored by LA Trans Film Festival. Films include: Transdroids (directed by Britt Dunn), Remember Me in Red (directed by Hector Ceballos), Putting the I in Trans (directed by Steen Star), Make a Mate (directed by Jennifer Jordan day), La Santa (directed by Mauricio Lopez), The Thing (directed by Rhys Ernst), Lee (directed by Roland Wiryaman), Genderfreak (directed by Rebecca Louisell). For more information, visit www.facebook.com/tgfilmfest.
Art & Physique Circa Bob & Tom at ONE Archives Gallery & Museum Opening Reception, FREE
Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-9 pm
ONE Archives
626 North Robertson Boulevard
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives presents Art & Physique Circa Bob & Tom at the ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, an exhibition exploring the social and historical context surrounding erotic art and physique photography during the 1940s, 50s and 60s on the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art's retrospective Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. For more information, click here.
3rd Annual West Hollywood GoGo Dancer Appreciation Day Festival & Competition 
Saturday, Nov. 9, 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Larrabee Street at Santa Monica Boulevard
Come out for the 3rd Annual West Hollywood GoGo Dancer Appreciation Day Festival! In conjunction with the MOCA PDC Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland exhibit, this year's theme is Tom of Finland. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/wehogogofest.
Colibri Competition, FREE
November 16, 17, & November 23, 24, 9 am-9 pm
Fiesta Hall, Plummer Park 
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
The competition will take place 16, 17 and 23, 24 November 2013 in Plummer Park's Fiesta Hall. The competition is open to young artists between the ages of 5 and 21 years inclusive. Every year the number of participants grows, among them representatives of various ethnic and cultural communities, including young participants from Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, which makes the competition more exciting.For more information, please call (323) 848-7988 or email us at [email protected].
MOCA Panel Discussion: "The Shaping of Desires", FREE
Sunday, Nov. 17th, 3pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
In conjunction with Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland, MOCA presents a lively conversation exploring artistic investigations and representations of bodies, sexualities, and genders. Artists Heather Cassils, Monica Majoli, and A. L. Steiner will share their perspectives in this engaging discussion.Reservations strongly encouraged; sign up at moca.org. FREE admission; FREE parking with validation. For more information email: [email protected].
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Wednesday, Nov. 20th 
West Hollywood Library Autocourt
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
Event hosted by the West Hollywood Transgender Advisory Board. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed all across the world on November 20th. An outdoor reception that will include speakers from the community, City representatives, various transgender performers, and will conclude with the reading of the names of transgender people who have passed due to hatred and violence. Refreshments will be available. Admission is free. Validated parking available. Spanish and sign language interpreter available. For more information, click here.
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Opportunities
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Getty Graduate Internship Program, applications now being accepted! The Getty Graduate internship program is now accepting applications for their many graduate internships. Deadline October 2. For more information, visit here.
LarkGallery Online Call for Artists and Musicians:
 "Find Your Roots" LarkGallery Online, in collaboration with the City of West Hollywood and the Russian Advisory Board, will bridge the culturally and religiously diverse, multi-generational community of Weho East with a two-month art exhibition full of educational activities exploring the global roots of each culture's art. For information on how to submit artwork, visit here. Deadline is November 1, 2013.
LA County Arts Commission Grants
The Commission contracts about 200 arts organizations annually through the Organizational Grant Program (OGP) to provide arts services. Applications are accepted annually between the months from October to December. For more info, visit here.
SEEFEST 2014 is open for submissions! Do you want to have your film seen in Los Angeles next year? The 9th edition of SeeFest will take place May 1-5 and we welcome you to our festival. The only requirement is that the film is about, or related to the region of South East Europe. For more information, click here.
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Ongoing Exhibitions
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Clive Barker's Worlds and Words
Exhibition, FREE 
West Hollywood Public Library
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
This new exhibit explores the artwork and writing of Clive Barker. The exhibit will include never before seen artwork by Clive Barker, historic hand-painted movie posters, and images of handwritten manuscripts by Clive that provide a glimpse into the process behind his writing. The exhibit will be on view through January during regular library hours (M-Th, 11-7; Fr-Sa, 10-6) and is free. For more information please visit www.weho.org/arts or call 323-848-6377.
Sam Falls, FREE  Plummer Park 7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
Sam Falls has produced his first public sculpture with LA><ART as part of the City of West Hollywood's Art on the Outside Program. The work will be on view at Plummer Park on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Falls' public sculpture will be on view concurrently with a site-specific installation at LA><ART and a concurrent billboard on La Cienega Boulevard. Inspired by the history of minimalist sculpture, Sam Falls is invested in experimentation with process and materials, and in applying photographic operations to the realm of sculpture. Falls has created a post-minimalist UV powder coated aluminum sculpture whose paint will fade in the sunlight over time.
Cosimo Cavallaro's Love Your Bean, FREE
Ramiro Gomez's The Caretakers, Los Cuidadores, FREE
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