|
City of West Hollywood - Arts Briefs
October 9, 2013 |
|
|
Laurel Avenue
Community Input | |
The City of West Hollywood has a public outreach process to develop community-generated vision concepts for potential future uses of the City owned property at 1343 North Laurel Avenue.
We want your input. The first step is the online survey, followed by a workshop on Oct. 12.
For more information, visit:
|
|
Follow us @ artbeatweho! |
For the most up-to-date program information:
And for pretty pictures:
|
|
Join Our List |  |
|
@ The Library
|
Teen Book Club
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green and David Levithan
October 24, 4:30-5:30
Women and Book Club
First Tuesdays monthly
7 pm, Community Room
Lambda Lit Book Club, Last Tuesdays monthly, 7pm, Community Room
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Alysia Abbot
October 29, 7 pm
Life Writing Workshop, Wednesdays weekly,
2 pm, West Hollywood Room. For info, call JFS at
(323) 876-1717
For more library events click
|
|
Local Museums/Galleries | |
Guy Hepner
Hadid Gallery
Hamilton Selway
Illoulian Contemporary
LA Gay & Lesbian Center
IDENTITY/RETROSPECT
Alexandra Gibson, through November 2
Leica Gallery
Astrid Kirchherr, Early Beatles Photos through October 19
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Wall Street Gallery |
|
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. until October 24th! 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. |
|
Weho Pickup! | | |
Fri. & Sat. Eves, runs along Santa Monica Blvd.,
from Robertson to Fairfax
8 pm - 3 am, every 15 mins. |
|
|
|
Upcoming Events | |
Matthew Shepherd is a Friend of Mine Screening
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30-9:30 pm 
PDC Silverscreen Theater
8687 Melrose Ave.
This powerful new documentary tells the story of Matthew Shepard, whose murder made headlines around the world and set the stage for historic anti-hate crime legislation. Directed by a close personal friend, the film comes on the 15th anniversary of Shepard's death. The free screening is followed by a talk with the filmmakers. For more info and to RSVP, click here.
Classical Theater Lab's Night of the Iguana
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2 pm
Great Hall, Plummer Park
7377 Santa Monica Blvd
Come out for a FREE performance of the famous Tennessee Williams play, Night of the Iguana, directed by Rod Menzies and performed by the City of West Hollywood's Resident Company Classical Theater Lab. For more info: http://www.classicaltheatrelab.org/
 Silent Movie Screening
Saturday, Oct. 12, 4-6 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Come and enjoy a screening of the hit Cecil B. Demille silent film The Cheat featuring Sessue Hayakawa , the real-life inspiration for The Age of Dreaming. This is a Weho Reads event, a community-wide celebration of literature, although reading this year's book is not a prerequisite for enjoying the event. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
MAK Center: A Little Joy of a Bungalow
Opera: Sunday, Oct. 13, 4:30 pm, $20/$12
Reception: Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7-9 pm, free 
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
835 N. Kings Road
In an early letter, Pauline Schindler wrote, "One of my dreams, Mother, is to have, some day, a little joy of a bungalow, on the edge of the woods and mountains near a crowded city, which shall be open just as some people's hearts are open, to friends of all classes and types..." A Little Joy of a Bungalow is then an exhibition of site-responsive works by Molly Corey, Andrea Lenardin-Madden, and Escher GuneWardena Architecture, where each project examines the experience and historic social environment of the Schindler House in consideration of Pauline Schindler's legacy. More info at www.makcenter.org
PAWS/LA Pet Art Auction
Sunday, Oct. 20
Bonham's
7601 W. Sunset
PAWS/LA presents a live and silent auction of contemporary artwork, including works by Ed Ruscha, Robert Longo, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, Charles Arnoldi, Gwynn Murrill, Brad Howe, Kenny Scharf, Joe Andoe, among others. For more info visit: www.pawsla.org
 "Early Fairytales" Puppet TheaterSunday, Oct. 27, 11 am - 1pm
Great Hall, Plummer Park
7377 Santa Monica Blvd
Puppet Theatre on Wheels will give a presentation of 3 timeless tales in both Russian (at 11 am) and English (at 12pm). The Kolobok, (a traditional Russian and Ukrainian pie/ small bread), suddenly becomes animated and escapes from grandmother and grandfather. Chicken Ryaba lays a golden egg instead of a real egg. The Giant Turnip shows the power of group efforts. All three fairy tales are the first ones that little ones learn in the Russian and Ukrainian cultures. For more info and to RSVP click here.
 WHAP! Lecture Series: Stiegler Workshop
Monday, Oct. 28, 3-6 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Part of the West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics program, this event marks Bernard Stiegler's second visit to the MA program. One of France's foremost contemporary philosophers, and the author of many books, Bernard will run a workshop about themes that are central to his writings. In collaboration with UCLA, and with the support of the French Consulate of Los Angeles and City of West Hollywood. More info here.
"Call Me Kuchu" film screening  Tuesday, Oct. 29, Time TBDWest Hollywood City Council Chambers 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. "Call Me Kuchu" documents the work done by LGBT activists in Uganda in 2010 - 2011, including the last year of local activist David Kato's life and the aftermath of his murder. This free film screening is presented by The Global Forum on Men who have Sex with Men and HIV (MSMGF), a global program supported by AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). For more info click here.  Halloween Carnaval Thursday, Oct. 31, 6-11 pm One of the world's largest Halloween celebrations, the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. along Santa Monica Boulevard from Doheny Drive to La Cienega Boulevard. A kid's costume event will be held on Oct. 26 in West Hollywood Park.
soundSpark
Saturday, Nov. 2, 12 pm
West Hollywood 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. For more information, please visit http://www.sassas.org or call 323-960-5723.
|
|
Opportunities | | |
LA County Arts Commission seeks Los Angeles County artists for its Civic Artists Pre-Qualified Lists. Applications due October 16, 2013. Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List Benefits include: being shortlisted, commission promotion, benefits of being published, exposure, and support. For more information, visit: www.lacounty.culturegrants.org.
LarkGallery Online Call for Artists and Musicians:  "Find Your Roots" LarkGallery Online, in collaboration with the City of West Hollywood and the Russian Advisory Board, will bridge the culturally and religiously diverse, multi-generational community of Weho East with a two-month art exhibition full of educational activities exploring the global roots of each culture's art. For information on how to submit artwork, visit here. Deadline is November 1, 2013.
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.
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.
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. |
| 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
Ramiro Gomez's The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores)
West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
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 in West Hollywood Park. For more information, visit www.weho.org/arts.
LAST CHANCE: CLOSING SOON! 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, visit www.weho.org/arts or call (323) 848-6377. |
|
|
|
Weho Reads 9/29-10/12 | | |
The City of West Hollywood invites you to join us for our final event of Weho Reads... a screening of a silent movie starring Sessue Hayakawa, inspiration behind this years book, Nina Revoyr's The Age of Dreaming.
If you missed out on reading this year's book, don't worry! Reading the book is not a requirement for enjoying the events! |
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. |
|
|
|
|
