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The Friends of the West Hollywood Bookstore is providing a limited number of free books, or support your local bookseller and purchase one from Book Soup!
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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 Kelly 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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Guy Hepner Hadid Gallery Hamilton Selway Illoulian Contemporary LA Gay & Lesbian Center Leica Gallery Astrid Kirchherr, Early Beatles Photos through October 19 
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Chris Johanson
15 Galleries on 2nd Floor designLAb, Sept 18., 5-8:30pm Wall Street Gallery |
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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 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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Meet the Artist
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 For his new art installation at West Hollywood Park, The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores), Ramiro Gomez brings to life real-life nannies Daisy, Elsa, and Lucy whom Ramiro met while working as a nanny himself. The fourth male character in the composition is based on several gardeners he has seen working in West Hollywood Park or at the Pacific Design Center across the street from the park. All four of the characters highlight his mission make visible the "invisible" workforce of the westside and to highlight the loving efforts by so many to maintain our beautiful gardens and help raise children in the City.
When asked, "What if anything does the City motto, The Creative City, mean to you?", Ramiro responded,
"West Hollywood provides an invaluable amount of inspiration for me. Coming from a creatively starved city like San Bernardino, here I can simply go for a walk around my neighborhood, or venture along Melrose Place and find something to paint about. The Creative City motto means
that I also can find the essential support as an artist to pursue my creative efforts, such as my current work up at West Hollywood Park, to help bring a new perspective to the city and it's residents."
For more information on Ramiro, including an artist profile and information about his artist reception, click here.
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Upcoming Events
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 designLAb
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 5-8:30 pm
Pacific Desingn Center
8687 Melrose Ave.
designLAb is pleased to present 15 new contemporary art and design exhibitions opening Wednesday, September 18 from 5:00 - 8:30 PM in the PDC'S Blue Building, second floor. Highlights include more than 20 large format "abstractions" by renowned contemporary architectural photographer Durston Saylor, a retrospective of abstract modernist painter Elizabeth McCord (1914-2008) at See Line Gallery, and sculptures by Molly Larkey in the Blue Lobby. More info here.
 Mazer Lesbian Archives presents Karin Kallmaker Saturday, Sept. 21, 3pm
West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Karin Kallmaker's lesbian fiction novels include the Goldie and Lammy award-winning 18th & Castro, Just Like That, The Kiss that Counted, Maybe Next Time and Sugar and span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy. A Stonewall Library and Archives Distinguished Author, she was awarded the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award in 2011. http://www.mazerlesbianarchives.org
Reception for Ramiro Gomez's
The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores)
Saturday, Sept. 21, 4-6 pm
West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
The City of West Hollywood presents Ramiro Gomez's The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores), a new 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. A reception will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21 near the mural. For more information, click here.
 Human Rights Speakers Series
"Human Rights in Post-Election Iran"
Monday, Sept. 23, 7-9 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Boulevard
Co-sponsored by the National Iranian American Council and Human Rights Watch, this panel consists of Homa Sarshar, an author, journalist and lecturer; Faraz Sanei, a researcher for the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch; Jamal Abdi, Policy Director for the National Iranian American Council; and Ali Shakeri, an Iranian businessman and activist, and a Community Advisory Board member for the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at UC-Irvine. Click here for more info.
IDENTITY/RETROSPECT 
Photographs by Alexandra Gibson
Opening Reception Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7-9 pm
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Advocate & Gochis Galleries
1125 N. McCadden Place
The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Advocate & Gochis Galleries present IDENTITY/RETROSPECT, a retrospective exhibition of photographs by photographer and filmmaker Alexandra Gibson. The exhibit includes selected images from many of her photo series, including From the Outside In, For Consumption Only, A Study of the Nocturnal Spirit, as well as from her extensive work as a journalist.Free Admission. Gallery Hours M-F, 6-10 pm, S- 9-5 pm.
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. For further info, visit
Weho Reads
Sept. 29 - Oct. 12
The City of West Hollywood is pleased to announce the first ever Weho Reads, a community-wide celebration of reading and literature. Modeled after the National Endowment for the Arts' successful The Big Read program, Weho Reads presents a week of special events, panels and book discussions inspired by this year's featured book, The Age of Dreaming by local author Nina Revoyr. The Age of Dreaming is part historical novel, part mystery, and part story of unfulfilled love, all told through the voice of a forgotten star who must gradually come to terms with his past.
- Sunday, September 29: West Hollywood Book Fair. West Hollywood Park from 10:00am-6:00pm
- Tuesday, October 1: West Hollywood Women's Book Club. West Hollywood Library Community Room from 7:00-8:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 2: Nina Revoyr in conversation with David Ulin. City Council Chambers at the Weho Library from 7:00-9:00 pm
- Friday, October 4: Secrets, Scandals, Sordid Stories and the Silver Screen. City Council Chambers at the Weho Library from 7:00-9:00 pm.
- Saturday, October 5: Double Feature- Hollywood Places / Hollywood Pictures. City Council Chambers at the Weho Library from 4:00-6:00pm.
- Special Bonus Event! Saturday, October 12: Silent Movie Screening. West Hollywood Library Community Room from 4:00-6:00 pm
For directions and information on parking and how to RSVP for these events, click here.
Matthew Shepherd is a Friend of Mine Screening
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30-9:30 pm 
Pacific Design Center Silverscreen Theater
8687 Melrose Ave.
The powerful new documentary Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in October, 1998. His murder made headlines around the world and set the stage for historic anti-hate crime legislation. Directed by a close personal friend and produced by a former Facing History student, 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.
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 Winter 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 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.
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.
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.
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| 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
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, including RSVP information, visit www.weho.org/arts or call (323) 848-6377. |
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