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Weho Reads 9/29-10/12
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The City of West Hollywood invites you to join us for our first ever Weho Reads!
Our events are centered around 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!
Sessue Hayakawa,
Early Hollywood Hearthrob and the real-life inspiration for The Age of Dreaming!
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The City of West Hollywood has begun 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!  For more information, visit: |
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Fri. & Sat. Eves, runs along Santa Monica Blvd.,
from Robertson to Fairfax
8 pm - 3 am, every 15 mins. |
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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
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Local Museums/Galleries
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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 |
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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. |
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Upcoming Events
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 Nina Revoyr in Conversation with David Ulin
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 7-9 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
A lively conversation between the author of the award winning The Age of Dreaming and David Ulin, respected author and LA Times Book Critic. Revoyr was inspired by real Hollywood stories, the beginnings of racism in old Hollywood and the history of the silver screen. Join us as they discuss her inspiration for the book, old Hollywood, and her life as a writer. Light refreshments will be served. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
Secrets, Scandals, Sordid Stories, and  the Silver Screen
Friday, Oct. 4, 7-9 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
UNSOLVED MURDERS! LOVE GONE WRONG! FIND OUT THE TRUTH! A panel of fiction and non-fiction authors and Hollywood insiders take a fun and serious look at Hollywood's scandalous, salacious, and shocking history. The panel will be moderated by Alex Espinoza and features Henry Scott, Carol Wolper, Kathleen Sharp and John Barkworth. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
WHAP! Lecture Series: Literature and the Political
Friday, Oct. 4, 8-9:30 pm 
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
This event continues the MA Aesthetics and Politics program's ongoing investigation of literature's relation to the political with a workshop and an evening reading. MA Aesthetics and Politics faculty Douglas Kearney and MFA Creative Writing faculty Janet Sarbanes read from their work in poetry and fiction. Admission is free. Validated parking available in the 5-story West Hollywood Park Parking Garage. For further information and a full schedule of lectures, please, click here or call (323) 848-6460. TTY for the deaf and hard of hearing at (323) 848-6496.
soundSpark
Saturday, Oct. 5, 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) is pleased to announcesoundSpark, a children's concert series at the West Hollywood Public Library, taking place on the first Saturday of every month starting on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 12 pm. The series premieres with free performances by Archie Carey and Odeya Nini at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 at 1pm and 3pm. For more information, please visit
Hollywood Places
Saturday, Oct. 5, 4-5 pm 
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Don Seligman speaks about the places that we important to early Hollywood, as chronicled in his recent book on the Silent Movie Era, Los Feliz and the Silent Movie Era. This talk will be accompanied by a book signing. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
Hollywood Pictures 
Saturday, Oct. 5, 5-6 pm
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Tom Gregory Presents "Talking Pictures", a presentation based on his unique collection of vintage signed photos from Hollywood's yesteryear and his knowledge of Hollywood history and folklore. For parking info and event details, visit www.weho.org/arts. To RSVP for this FREE event, click here.
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 and examines the dangers of hatred and intolerance through a truly personal lens. Please join us for a screening of the film and conversation with filmmakers Michele Josue and Liam McNiff. For more information, including how to RSVP, click here.
A Little Joy of a Bungalow Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7-9 pm 
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.
Classical Theater Lab's Night at 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 at the Iguana, directed by Rod Menzies and performed by City of West Hollywood's Resident Company Classical Theater Lab.
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. For parking info and event details, visit
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Opportunities
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 Winter Sounds 2014
The City of West Hollywood continues its free Winter Sounds concert series to be held between January and March of 2014. We encourage applications from both new and established performance groups/musicians in all styles of performance - classical, contemporary, jazz, folk, traditional, world. The deadline is October 3, and the application and guidelines can be found here.
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, including how to apply, 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 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.
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| 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. 
The Caretakers (Los Cuidadores) is an 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. For more information, visit www.weho.org/arts.
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. |
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