City of West Hollywood

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April 16th, 2014

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Women and Books Club

First Tuesdays monthly

 7 pm, Community Room

  

 

 Lambda Lit Book Club

 Last Tuesdays monthly, 7pm, Community Room

 

Life Writing Workshop, 

Weds weekly, 2 pm, Weho Room. For info, 323-876-1717

  
Weds weekly, 11:15am & 3:30pm
  
 
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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 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.
Local Museums/Galleries
 

 

Guy Hepner

 

Hadid Gallery

 

Hamilton Selway 

 

LA Gay & Lesbian Center

 

Lead Apron

 

 Leica Gallery

Craig Smetko

April 17- May 25

 

 

  Louis Stern Fine Arts 

 

MAK Center/Schindler House

 

 

Manny Silverman  

 


Jacob Hashimoto: Gas Giant 
 EZTV
  

Wall Street Gallery

 

Wonderland LA 

 

WeHo Area Theatres
  
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Opportunities

Open Call for Artists! 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 vary according to month. For more info, click here.

 

CMG Film Festival Call For Entries. Filmmakers are invited to submit their work for inclusion in the fall festival. New this year: there will be a jury and jury awards. For more information, including submission form/release, visit www.cmgfilmfest.com. 

 

Call For Artists! Los Angeles Art Association & the City of West Hollywood are proud to announce a Call for Artists for 'Out There: I Do' a  special exhibition 

celebrating marriage equality during West Hollywood's Pride Month One City One Pride festival.  LAAA Artists can submit up to 3 pieces for free. Fee for non-members is $35 up to 3 pieces. Each additional entry is $5 up to 5 total. To submit, click here and read all guidelines carefully.
World Book Night - April 23

 World Book Night 2014

Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2-8 pm
Locations around West Hollywood
Volunteers will be handing out free books as part of West Hollywood's celebration of World Book Night. This year 25,000 volunteers will gift half-a-million books nationwide with the purpose of reintroducing light or non-readers to books. Follow us on twitter at @artbeatweho and facebook at www.facebook.com/artbeatwesthollywood to receive updates on our giveaway locations. For more information or to volunteer as a book giver, click here. 

Library Community Meeting RoomUpcoming Events
Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival

Saturday, Apr. 19, 12 pm - 9 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Presented with support from the City's Transgender Advisory Board, this spring showcase is $10 in advance and $15 suggested donation the day of. For film listings visit the Transgender Film Fest Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TGFilmFest.  

 

An Afternoon with Samantha Geimer and David Kukoff, FREE

Saturday, Apr. 19, 3 pm - 4:30 pm

Library Community Meeting Room

625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
Please the Library as authors David Kukoff and Samantha Geimer discuss their books. In her searing memoir about the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, The Girl, Samantha Geimer breaks a virtual thirty-five year silence to tell her story.  Children of the Canyon, by David Kukoff, tells the story of David, a boy growing up in LA's fabled Laurel Canyon neighborhood as the 1960s counterculture is coming to an end. The authors will sign copies of their books that will be sold at the conclusion of the program. www.colapublib.org/libs/whollywood 

 

City Council Reorganization and Installation, FREE City Logo

Monday, Apr. 21, 6 pm

Vista Lawn at Plummer Park

7377 Santa Monica Blvd. 

Join us for the City Council reorganization and installation of John D'Amico as Mayor and John Heilman as Mayor Pro Tempore. There will be works presented by artists Steven Reigns and Yelena Zhelezov and a gamelan performance. www.weho.org

 

Lambda Literary Finalist Reading, FREElambda

 

Tuesday, Apr. 22, 7 pm

West Hollywood Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 

The Lambda Literary Foundation will host the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Los Angeles/West Hollywood area Finalists Reading at the West Hollywood Library. 

Confirmed readers: Ann Roberts, Aaron Hartzler, Joyce Thompson, Marshall Thornton, Charles Jensen, Roberta Degnore, Lynn Ames, Ali Liebegott, Adelina Anthony, Felice Picano, Trebor Healey, Daniel Rivers, Veronica Reyes, Bill Konigsberg. www.lambdaliterary.org

 

Earth Day Film Screening, FREE

Tuesday, Apr. 22, 7 - 8:45 pm

Library Community Meeting Room

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.  

Please join the Library for an Earth Day screening of "Unacceptable Levels," a documentary which examines the unseen threat of toxic chemicals in our daily lives.  Filmmaker Ed Brown interviewed some of the top minds in the fields of science, industry, government, law and environmental advocacy. This program is being sponsored by the Green Lifestyles Network. Parking validation will be provided. For more information, click here. 

 

WHAP! Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms
Friday, April 25th, 3 - 8 pm 
 Library Community Meeting Room 

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
For the intellectual crowd, 3-6 pm, Workshop with sociologist Pascal Gielen about "the ethics of art". 8 pm, Lecture by Pascal Gielen about "Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms", with Matias Viegener as respondent. For more info click here.
 
Author Reading and Talk with Kirsten Moeller, FREE

Wednesday, Apr. 30, 7 - 8 pm

Library Community Meeting Room 

625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 

Join us for an author talk with Kristen Moeller as she discusses her new book What Are You Waiting For? Learn How to Rise to the Occasion of Your Life.   Through the sharing of authentic personal stories and profound life lessons, Kristen Moeller explores our pervasive human tendency to wait for life and to look outside ourselves for answers. Ms. Moeller will sign copies of her book which will be for sale at the conclusion of the program.  Parking validation will be provided.  

 

BODIES in BLOOM, FREE

BLOOM 10th Anniversary

Thursday, May 1, 7 pm

Library Community Meeting Room

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Featuring Brent Armendinger, Blas Falconer, Charles Jensen, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, and Peggy Shinner. For more information, visit http://www.bloomliteraryjournal.org/. 

 

The MisMatch Game

Friday, May 2, 8 pm, and Sunday, May 4, 7 pm

L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre

1125 N. McCadden Place

The Mismatch Game has become a cult favorite, drawing a multitude of fans to their irregularly scheduled gigs at the Renberg Theatre, this year featuring Jackie Beat, Drew Droege, and Nadya Ginsburg among others. With kitschy prizes for volunteer contestants from the audience, it's time to dig out that leisure suit for an affectionate, irreverent, race parody of '70s game show insanity. Tickets available online for $15 at www.lagaycenter.org/boxoffice or call 323-860-7300. 

 

Outfest West Hollywood Series presents SHOWTIME'S "Penny Dreadful", FREE

Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Join us for a special sneak peek at Showtime's provocative new series, in which some of literature's most famously terrifying characters including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly re-imagined in a whole new light have become embroiled in Victorian London. Don't miss this first look at one of the year's most eagerly anticipated new series! For more information, visit http://www.outfest.org/weho-series/. 

 

Classical Theatre Lab "The Way of the World", FREE

Saturday, May 17, 2 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Classical Theatre Lab presents a reading of "The Way of The World" by William Congreve. For more information visit: http://www.classicaltheatrelab.org/. 

 

One City One Pride

Love = Love : 5 Year Road to Marriage Reception, FREE

Thursday, May 22, 7 - 9 pm

West Hollywood Library

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Join us for the kick-off of One City One Pride 2014! David McCoy is a filmmaker and photographer for the Love Is Love documentary and community awareness project which follows grassroots LGBT activism in Southern California. This exhibit is a selection of 22 prints from his 56,000 photo collection, highlighting everyday people in West Hollywood and the Greater LA area fighting to repeal Prop 8. For more info, visit www.weho.org/pride. 

 

Hollywood Master Chorale

Voices of Freedom

Saturday, May 31, 4 pm

West Hollywood Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

With the theme, "I Do,"  The Hollywood Master Chorale joins the City of WeHo in celebrating the hard won fights for freedom through a variety of musical selections.  You are invited to a concert, which will renew our hopes  for freedom everywhere. Tickets are $15/$20. For more information, visit

www.hollywoodmasterchorale.org 

 

ONE NIGHT: EZTV, LA ACM, SIGGRAPH, and Digital Art in West Hollywood, FREE

Saturday, May 31, 8-11pm

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

ONE Archives, EZTV, LA ACM SIGGRAPH, and the City of West Hollywood present "One Night", an evening of performance and large-scale digital projections in West Hollywood Park. The event will showcase historical digital experimentations alongside contemporary work and performances. For more information, visit: http://one.usc.edu/category/exhibitions/current. 

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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.