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Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland
closes Jan. 26
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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, December 3
Fiction Ruined My Family
Jeanne Darst
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
Branding Workshop
Dec 11, 7-8:30 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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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. 22, 8 pm West Hollywood Library Community Room625 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.
Marilyn- My Secret!
Nov. 22 through Dec. 21, Fridays at 8pm, Sundays at 6 pm
Macha Theater 
1107 N. Kings Road
Back by popular demand, Odalys Nanin & Willard Manus's Marilyn- My Secret is back at the Macha Theater! Come out to see LA WEEKLY's pick of the week! From an unwanted orphan, to a bit player to a sex Goddess, the passion and secret of Norma Jean revealed! For more info, click here.
Colibri Competition, FREE 
November 23 and 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 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]
World AIDS Day Concert, FREE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 7:30 pm
Colburn School Zipper Hall
200 S. Grand Ave.
Co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood as part of its World AIDS Day celebrations, this concert honors Robin Smalley, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, featuring LeVar Burton. The Concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Zipper Hall. For more information and to RSVP, please visit www.aidsresearch.org/wad2013.
West Hollywood Library Foundation: Dallas Buyer's Club 
Sunday, Dec. 1, 1 pm
Silver Screen Theatre, Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave
Join the West Hollywood Library Foundation and special guests: Dr. Michael Gottlieb (noted researcher and physician, discoverer of the first cases of AIDS); Dr. David Hardy (noted local HIV physician); and Rachel Winter (producer of the film). For more information and to purchase tickets ($25) please visit www.whlf.org or email [email protected].
 MOCA Discussion: "Making Models of Homomasculinity" FREE
 Sunday, Dec. 1, 3 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd
Hosted with the support of the City of West Hollywood's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, on World AIDS Day, also known as Day With(out) Art, MOCA invites you to a special panel discussion on the artistic and cultural significance of Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. Join Dennis Bell, President of the Bob Mizer Foundation, Durk Dehner, President of the Tom of Finland Foundation, as well as artists Richard Hawkins and John Sonsini, for this timely conversation moderated by MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson. The talk is in conjunction with the concurrent MOCA PDC exhibition Bob Mizer / Tom of Finland. Click for more information and to RSVP.
World AIDS Day: AIDS/LifeCycle Candle Light Vigil, FREE
Sunday, Dec. 1, 5:30pm 
West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
AIDSLifecycle will present a candlelight vigil in honor of all of those who lost their lives. For more information please visit www.weho.org.
Men on Film: Black MSM, Media and HIV, FREE
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 11 am - 1 pm 
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
"MEN ON FILM: How Media Depictions of Black MSM Impact HIV Infection Rates" will be the topic of a community forum to be presented by the Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. A panel discussion will explore the role film, television, rap music and other forms of popular media play in the construction and maintenance of social and cultural attitudes toward Black MSM, and how those attitudes may influence behaviors that can lead to HIV infection. For more info and to RSVP, click here.
World AIDS Day Event: The Criminalization of HIV, FREE Wednesday, Dec. 4, 7-8 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. The City will sponsor The Williams Institutes' panel discussion, The Criminalization of HIV. Currently, 33 states including California have criminal statutes that make it illegal to expose another person to HIV. How do these laws criminalize people living with HIV/AIDS? Is it possible to reduce HIV transmission without stigmatizing those who have the virus? http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/events/upcoming-events/hiv-criminalization-wad-2013 .
soundSpark, FREE
SASSAS
Saturday, Dec. 7, 12 pm
WeHo 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. This month's concert will feature vocalist Odeya Nini and bassoonist Archie Carey. For more information, please visit http://www.sassas.org or call 323-960-5723.
WENDE Museum: From Red State to Golden State Film, FREE
Saturday, Dec. 7, 4 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
The City of West Hollywood in collaboration with the Wende Museum presents a preview screening of the documentary From Red State to Golden State: Soviet Jewish Immigration to the City of Angels, An Oral History. The documentary follows several Jewish families who left the former Soviet Union to settle in Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Free admission and free parking validation. |
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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 seeking 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. |
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Our Public Art | |
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Clive Barker's
Worlds and Words Exhibition
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Sam Falls
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Cosimo Cavallaro's
Love Your Bean
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Ramiro Gomez's
The Caretakers
Congrats to Ramiro Gomez, West Hollywood artist, whose work has just been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego! |
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