City of West Hollywood - Arts Briefs

 November 6, 2013

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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
 
Other Community Events
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.
  
Veteran's Day Celebration
 Monday, November 11, 11 am
Sal Guariello Veteran's Memorial
@ The Library

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

  

 

 Lambda Lit Book Club

 Last Tuesdays monthly, 7pm, Community Room

Just Kids, Patti Smith

November 26, 7 pm

 

Life Writing Workshop, 

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

  
Weds weekly, 11:15am & 3:30pm
  

 

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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 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.

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Guy Hepner

 

Hadid Gallery

 

Hamilton Selway 

 

LA Gay & Lesbian Center

 

 Leica Gallery

 Andy Summers, Del Mondo

Opening Reception Nov 9, 6 - 8 pm

Closes Jan 4. 

 

 

Louis Stern Fine Arts 

 

MAK Center/Schindler House

 

Manny Silverman  

 

Tony Smith, MAZE

Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland 

 

  
 
designLAb, Nov 15
Wall Street Gallery

 

 Wonderland LA  

 

 

Weho Pickup!
 
Fri. & Sat. Eves, runs along Santa Monica Blvd.,
from Robertson to Fairfax
 8 pm - 3 am, every 15 mins.
Upcoming Events
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 info, visit www.facebook.com/tgfilmfest or call 323-848-6371. 

 

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 of Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. For more information, click here.  

  
 3rd Annual West Hollywood GoGo Dancer Appreciation Day Festival & Competition, FREE 

Saturday, Nov. 9, 7:30 - 10:30 pm

Larrabee Street at Santa Monica Blvd.

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.

  

designLAb receptions, FREE

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, 5-8:30 pm

Blue Building, Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave.

designLAb hosts five receptions per year with the generous support of Charles Cohen. Approximately 10-15 galleries have open receptions during the evening. Highlights for November include Barzloff, Molly Larkey, Scarpa's venetian glass sculptures and of course the the Tom of Finland exhibit at MOCA PDC next door. More info here.

 

Colibri Competition, FREE

November 16, 17  & November 23, 24, 9 am-9 pm

Fiesta Hall, Plummer Park

7377 Santa Monica Blvd. 

The competition, which is open to young artists between the ages of 5 and 21 years or age, will take place
on November 16 &17 and 23 & 24 in Plummer Park's Fiesta Hall. 
Participants include youth from Russia, the Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, amongst other diverse areas. For more info, please call (323) 848-7988 or email [email protected].

 

  MOCA Discussion: "The Shaping of Desires", FREE

Sunday, Nov. 17th, 3pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd

Hosted by the City of West Hollywood, and in conjunction with the Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland exhibit, 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. RSVPs are strongly encouraged. For more information.

 

Transgender Day of Remembrance, FREE
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 6:30 pm
West Hollywood Library Autocourt
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
  
CalArts WHAP! Lecture: Science and its Fictions, FREE
Friday, Nov. 22nd, 8 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
Armen Avanessian, Amanda Beech, and Reza Negarestani discuss how and why aesthetic adventures in literature and art capture the scientific and aspire to the status of scientific inquiry-and how, in turn, philosophical theory and cultural practices often run the risk of aestheticizing science. For more information, click here
  
Opportunities

Art Goes Electronic with the City of West Hollywood is  sponsoring this free opportunity to have your work shown on a digital billboard on Sunset Boulevard, to be seen by thousands daily. Themes for the first quarter of 2014 include street art, African-American History Month, and Women's History month. For more info.

 

Getty Graduate Internship Program, applications now being accepted! The Getty Graduate internship program is now accepting applications for their many graduate internships. Deadline December 2. For more information, visit 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, visit here. 

 

RFP-Public Art Consultant - The City of West Hollywood is seekingCity Logo  written proposals from qualified individuals and firms to work as a Public Art Consultant/Project Coordinator to provide administration and management of the public art project for the West Hollywood Park Phase 2 Master Plan Implementation.

 

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.

Our Public Art
Clive Barker's
Worlds and Words Exhibition
Sam Falls

Cosimo Cavallaro's

Love Your Bean

 

Ramiro Gomez's

The Caretakers

 

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

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.