An Evening of New Work by Amina Cain and Laida Lertxundi

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 7 pm, FREE

MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House

835 North Kings Road

Amina Cain will read from her newly released book Creature, a collection of stories exploring the territories of pleasure/suffering as landscape/house, with characters who seem to share a single heartbeat. Laida Lertxundi will be showing her most recent films: The Room Called Heaven and Ustkor: Either/Or. For more information, click here.  

Jazz Standards and Originals with Josh Nelson, FREE

Winter Sounds

Saturday, Jan. 11, 4 pm

City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Josh Nelson, born and raised in Southern California, maintains an active and creative schedule as a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and recording artist. He has performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, and Ernie Watts, to name a few. For more information and to hear music samples by Josh Nelson, click here.

MOCA to ONE: Art Walk and Tour, FREE

Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland at the MOCA Pacific Design Center, Art & Physique Circa Bob & Tom at the ONE Gallery

Sunday, Jan. 12, 2-5 pm

MOCA Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave.

Come and join MOCA Pacific Design Center and ONE GALLERY for and Art Walk and Tour at the Pacific Design Center, followed by a reception at One Gallery, all featuring Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. The tour will be given by Durk Dehner, President, Tom of Finland Foundation and John Sonsini, LA Artist and Assistant to Bob Mizer. For more information, click here. 

Artist Reception for photoLA's Round Hole, Square Peg, FREE

Thursday, Jan. 16, 7 pm

photoLA

6585 Santa Monica Blvd. 

Round Hole, Square Peg is an open-call, juried photography show, conceived with the intent to question and acquire a new queer visual aesthetic for the 21st century. The show will have its debut at the opening night of Photo LA, January 15th 2014, headlining the Artist's Corner Gallery and Book booth at the fair. After Photo LA, the show will move to the Artist's Corner Gallery in Hollywood, California, and run until the end of February. For more information, click here. 

The Mismatch Game 

Jan. 17 & 18 at 8 pm, 19 at 7 pm

Renberg Theater at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza

1125 N. McCadden Place

 The long-running hit cult comedy, The MisMatch Game, returns for a very special weekend in January. General Admission is $15 dollars. Tickets are available at www.lagaycenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300. 

Southwest Chamber Music, Music for Two Harps, FREE

Winter Sounds
Saturday, Jan. 25, 4 pm

City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Join Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music for an afternoon of exhilarating harp duets, featuring musicians Alison Bjorkedal and Allison Allport. 
This program is part of the Music Unwrapped series, informal and interactive performances that are designed to break down the barriers between musicians and audiences of all ages. For more information, and to hear music samples by Southwest Chamber music, click here.

An Evening with Julie Goldman

Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 pm

Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place 

Come out to see one of the hottest young comedians working today: the hilarious Julie Goldman. A star on LOGO's The Big Gay Sketch Show, Goldman returns to the Renberg Theatre in style! General admission is $20. For ticket information visit www.lagaycenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300. 

What Is Political Art?, FREE

CalArts

Friday, Jan. 31, 4 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

This event inaugurates a two-year research collaboration between Birkbeck (University of London), CONICET/Belgrano University (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and the MA Aesthetics and Politics Program. This project provides a platform for the encounter between academics and artists working on issues of memory, violence, the post-colonial condition, current democratic struggles, and other forms of contemporary aesthetico-politico interventions in a variety of contexts, specifically in Latin America and the US. For more information, visit here.  

The Beast of Times

Jan 31, Feb 1 at 8 pm, Feb. 2 at 7 pm

Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place 

Come out for an encore weekend of performances of The Beast of Times, written and performed by the award-winning queer Xicana playwright and performer Adelina Anthony with a contributed monologue performed by Sri Lankan-American transgender performance artist D'Lo. Admission is $20 dollars. For tickets, visit www.lagaycenter.org/theatre or by calling 323-860-7300. 

One Woman Says No, FREE

Two readings of a work by Tony Tanner

Feb. 1 at 7 pm, Feb. 2 at 3 pm

Plummer Park Community Center

7377 Santa Monica Blvd. 

Come out and enjoy Tony Tanner's musical vision of Aristophanes' classic Lysistrata, a show full of laughter and warmth.