City of West Hollywood - Arts Briefs

 September 25, 2013

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Teen Book Club

Thursday, September 26,

4:30-5:30 pm

Don't Expect Magic

Pizza and snacks will be provided. Parents, list of ingredients is available.  

Author Kathy McCullough will be joining in for discussion! 

 

Women and Book Club

First Tuesdays monthly

 7 pm, Community Room

 Join us in discussing

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed 
 

 Lambda Lit Book Club, Last Tuesdays monthly, 7pm, Community Room

Join us in discussing
 Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alive Saenz

 

Life Writing Workshop,  Wednesdays weekly,

2 pm, West Hollywood Room. For info, call JFS at
(323) 876-1717

 

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Local Museums/Galleries
 

 
 

 

Guy Hepner

 

Hadid Gallery

 

Hamilton Selway 

 

Illoulian Contemporary 

  

LA Gay & Lesbian Center

IDENTITY/RETROSPECT

Alexandra Gibson, through November 2 

 

Leica Gallery

 Astrid Kirchherr, Early Beatles Photos through October 19

 

 

Louis Stern Fine Arts 

Chris Johanson
  
  
  
 
 
Wall Street Gallery

West Hollywood Arts & Culture in the News

  

Game, Set, Site: Reflecting on "At the Oasis"


Fantasia goes for Goldini in West Hollywood Park Play

 

LA Times - Street Artists Brighten West Hollywood Library

 

Vimeo-Shepard Fairey Documentary

For More Events
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.
  
Don't forget to visit the Sunset Strip Farmers Market every Thursday, from 6-10 p.m. For more information, click here.
  
Visit Weho
Visit Weho has listings for all over Weho, including intimate music gigs, promotions at the hotels and entertainment in the bars. View the calendar here.
Upcoming Events

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For A Living Planet 

Friday, Sept. 27, 5:30 

City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 

The West Hollywood Library Foundation will be screening A Fierce Green Fire, the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, looking at fifty years from conservation to climate change. Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisers like biologist E. O. Wilson, A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st.  The film has won dozens of festivals around the work. The welcome reception will begin at 5:30 pm; film at 6 pm; talk at 7:45 pm; reception at 8:30 pm. Admission is FREE, RSVP is encouraged. To RSVP, click here


12th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair

Sunday, Sept. 29, All Day

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd. 

West Hollywood Book Fair celebrates its 12th year of featuring literature, music, culinary arts, and more on Sunday, September 29th. This year's festival will feature a free outdoor showing of the the remastered film 
Singing in the Rain. Admission is free and bicycle and stroller valet will be provided. There will be a FREE shuttle service, the "Book Ferry," provided for Book Fair attendees. The shuttles will run from Plummer Park down Santa Monica Boulevard from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., running every 15 minutes and will stop at every metro station. Shuttles will drop off or pick up at all MTA stops along Santa Monica Boulevard. The last return shuttle to Plummer Park will leave West Hollywood Park at 8:45 p.m. following the movie screening of Singing in the RainFor further info, visit  www.westhollywoodbookfair.org.

 

 Nina Reyoyr in Conversation with David Ulin
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 7-9 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
A lively conversation between the author of The Age of Dreaming and David Ulin, respected author and LA Times Book Critic. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here
 
WHAP! Lecture Series: Literature and the Political
Friday, Oct. 4, 8-9:30 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
This event continues the MA Aesthetics and Politics program's ongoing investigation of literature's relation to the political with a workshop and an evening reading. MA Aesthetics and Politics faculty Douglas Kearney and MFA Creative Writing faculty Janet Sarbanes read from their work in poetry and fiction. Admission is free. Validated parking available in the 5-story West Hollywood Park Parking Garage. For further information and a full schedule of lectures, please, click  here or call (323) 848-6460. TTY for the deaf and hard of hearing at (323) 848-6496.  
 
  Secrets, Scandals, Sordid Stories, and the Silver Screen 
Friday, Oct. 4, 7-9 pm 
City Council Chambers 
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.  
A panel of fiction and non-fiction authors take a fun and serious look at Hollywood's colorful history. The Panel will be moderated by Alex Espinoza and features Henry Scott, Carol Wolper, and Kathleen Sharp. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
 
soundSpark 
Saturday, Oct. 5, 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) is pleased to announcesoundSpark, a children's concert series at the West Hollywood Public Library, taking place on the first Saturday of every month starting on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 12 pm. The series premieres with free performances by Archie Carey and Odeya Nini at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 at 1pm and 3pm. For more information, please visit 
http://www.sassas.org or call 323-960-5723.
 
Hollywood Places
Saturday, Oct. 5, 4-5 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
Don Seligman speaks about the places that we important to early Hollywood, as chronicled in his recent book on the Silent Movie Era, Los Felix and the Silent Movie Era. This talk will be accompanied by a book signing. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here

 

Hollywood Pictures
Saturday, Oct. 5, 5-6 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
Tom Gregory Presents "Talking Pictures", a presentation based on his unique collection of vintage signed photos from Hollywood's yesteryear. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here

 

Matthew Shepherd is a Friend of Mine Screening

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30-9:30 pm

PDC Silverscreen Theater

8687 Melrose Ave. 

This powerful new documentary tells the story of Matthew Shepard, whose murder made headlines around the world and set the stage for historic anti-hate crime legislation. Directed by a close personal friend, the film comes on the 15th anniversary of Shepard's death and examines the dangers of hatred and intolerance through a truly personal lens. Please join us for a screening of the film and conversation with filmmakers Michele Josue and Liam McNiff. For more information, including how to RSVP, click here

 

A Little Joy of a Bungalow Reception

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7-9 pm 

MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House

835 N. Kings Road

In an early letter, Pauline Schindler wrote, "One of my dreams, Mother, is to have, some day, a little joy of a bungalow, on the edge of the woods and mountains near a crowded city, which shall be open just as some people's hearts are open, to friends of all classes and types..."  A Little Joy of a Bungalow is then an exhibition of site-responsive works by Molly Corey, Andrea Lenardin-Madden, and Escher GuneWardena Architecture, where each project examines the experience and historic social environment of the Schindler House in

 consideration of Pauline Schindler's legacy. 

 

Silent Movie Screening

Saturday, Oct. 12, 4-6 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
Silent film screening featuring Sessue Hayakawa, who was the real-life inspiration for The Age of Dreaming. For parking info and event details, visit 
www.weho.org/arts.  To RSVP for this FREE event, click here
 
Classical Theater Lab's Night at the Iguana
Saturday, Oct. 12, 3 pm
Great Hall, Plummer Park
7377 Santa Monica Blvd
Come out for a FREE performance of the famous Tennessee Williams play, Night at the Iguana, directed by Rod Menzies and performed by City of West Hollywood's Resident Company Classical Theater Lab. 
Opportunities

Winter SoundsWinter Sounds 2014

The City of West Hollywood continues its free Winter Sounds concert series to be held between January and March of 2014. We encourage applications from both new and established performance groups/musicians in all styles of performance - classical, contemporary, jazz, folk, traditional, world. The deadline is October 3, and the application and guidelines can be found here.

 

LA County Arts Commission seeks Los Angeles County artists for its Civic Artists Pre-Qualified Lists. Applications due October 16, 2013. Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List Benefits include: being shortlisted, commission promotion, benefits of being published, exposure, and support. For more information, including how to apply, visit: www.lacounty.culturegrants.org. 

 

Cal Humanities 2013 California Documentary Project  grants are now available at www.calhum.org. CDP supports film, radio, and new media projects about California subjects and issues that are suitable for national audiences through broadcast and/or distribution. Grant amounts range from $10K-50K. This year's deadline is October 1.

 

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

 

Los Angeles Arts Association Call for Artists

Los Angeles Art Association 2013 Open Show, LAAA's signature survey exhibition featuring the very best in emerging art. Deadline for Entries: 5 pm Friday October 11, 2013. Open to all artists of any media. Juried by Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For information, visit here.  

Ongoing Exhibitions
Cosimo Cavallaro's Love Your Bean

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Love Your Bean, an installation created by Cosimo Cavallaro, consists of three large-scale sculptures, designed in the shape of jelly beans placed in West Hollywood Park. Cosimo worked with fabricator Jack Brogan over the course of a year to test a wide variety of materials and methods. Brogan's detailed style had a large impact on the trademark "Finish Fetish" work from 1960s Los Angeles. For more information, visit

 
Ramiro Gomez's The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores)

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd. 

The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores) is an art installation of brightly painted workers installed as a series of figurative murals in West Hollywood Park. Ramiro Gomez, a West Hollywood resident, is known for making visible the "invisible" workforce of westside communities by installing life-size cardboard cutouts of nannies, gardeners, valet workers and housekeepers in and around West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and other westside locations. Both eye-catching and thought provoking, we invite you to visit his multi-part figurative mural found between the basketball courts and tiny tots building. For more information, visit www.weho.org/arts.  
  

Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Exhibition

West Hollywood Library

625 N. San Vicente Blvd

In Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, author/photographer Robert Landau showcases an era when rock was the most important music ever recorded; when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture. The exhibit will be on view through mid-October during regular library hours. For more information about the Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip exhibit, visit www.weho.org/arts or call (323) 848-6377.

Arts and Cultural Affairs information and programming is brought to you by the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission.  For more information on the arts in West Hollywood, visit www.weho.org/arts or call 323/848-6883.