Arts Briefs -September 04, 2013

Have you seen the City of West Hollywood's newest art installation at West Hollywood Park, Cosimo Cavallaro's Love Your Bean? Have you wondered who is behind those wonderful, enormous jelly beans?

Cosimo Cavallaro was born in Montreal in 1961, the son of Italian immigrants. During the 80s and 90s, Cavallaro worked as a television commercial film director, winning numerous prestigious awards. His newest installation, Love Your Bean, takes the recognizable shape of jellybeans, merging color and form with sensuous ferocity. Working alongside master fabricator Jack Brogan, Cavallaro has, over the course of a year, tested a wide range of materials and methods to

refine an impeccable surface with intense colors. Cavallaro's jellybeans resonate with an unbridled sense of humor and joie de vivre entirely his own.

All Events

Cosimo Cavallaro's Love Your Bean Opening Reception

Thursday, Sept. 5, 5:30-7 pm

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

The City of West Hollywood and Cosimo Cavallaro invite you to the official opening of the highly anticipated and newest art installation Love Your Bean. Love Your Bean, an installation created by Cavallaro, consists of three large-scale sculptures, designed in the shape of jelly beans placed in West Hollywood Park. For more information, visit

www.weho.org/arts.

Vickie Shaw: The Almost 20th Anniversary Tour

Saturday, Sept. 7, 8 pm

Renberg Theatre

1125 N. McCadden Place

Standout Productions and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center present a one-night-only evening of stand-up comedy with Vickie Shaw at the Center's Renberg Theatre. For tickets, visit lagaycenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300.

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.

The Early Beatles Collection By Astrid Kirchherr

Opening Reception Saturday, Sept. 7, 6-8 pm

Leica Gallery Los Angeles

8783 Beverly Blvd.

Leica Gallery Los Angeles is proud to announce its second exhibition, "The Early Beatles Collection," by iconic photographer Astrid Kirchherr. This exhibition, presented in partnership with Rock Paper Photo and Ginzburg Fine Arts, represents a powerful array of images of the legendary rock band The Beatles, many of which have never been seen before. An opening reception will be open to the public on Saturday, September 7, from 6 pm to 8 pm with the exhibition continuing through October 19. Complimentary valet will be available. For more information, click here.

Hero's Helping Heros

Benefit Concert to Support Our Troops

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 7-10:30 pm

House of Blues

8430 Sunset Blvd.

Join hosts Pauley Perette (NCIS) and Jack Osbourne for a celebrity filled "Evening of Rock Music" and "Rock Royalty" in support of Cops 4 Causes. For information on musical guests and tickets, visit www.cops4causes.com.

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.

West Hollywood Book Fair

Sunday, Sept. 29

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

West Hollywood Book Fair celebrates its 12th edition on Sunday, September 29th. This year's festival will feature literature, art, music, performance and an outdoor showing of the film Singing in the Rain. Admission is free and bicycle and stroller valet will be provided. For further information, visit

www.westhollywoodbookfair.org.

Weho Reads

Sunday, Sept. 29-Saturday, 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 books 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.

Opportunities

Weho Writes is a program in which West Hollywood residents who are writers (published or self-published) may sign up to exhibit, share and sell their work for 1-3 hours each in a shared exhibitor space at the Book Fair on Sunday, September 29, 2013. This opportunity is provided FREE of charge by the City of West Hollywood. To participate, you must be a West Hollywood resident and have work to exhibit. Book Fair staff will review your application and notify you of its acceptance. The deadline to submit an application is Wednesday, September 4, 2013. Notifications will be sent out by September 15th, 2013. For more information, click here.

Cal Humanities 2013 California Documentary Project grants are now available at www.clahum.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.

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The 2013-2014 City of West Hollywood Arts and Culture Grants are now available. For applications, click here. Deadline, September 12, 2013.

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.

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.