City of West Hollywood - Arts Briefs

 October 23, 2013

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Other Community Events
Breast Cancer Awareness Talk with Dr. Armando Giuliano
Thursday, Oct. 24
8:30 am - Complimentary Breakfast
9-10 am - Talk and Q & A. 
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
 
PrEP: The Choice of the Next Generation
Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30-9 pm
West Hollywood Library
Community Room
Join us for a community dialogue on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and the future of men's health. 
 
@ 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

Tuesday, Nov. 5

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

  

 

 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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Tom of Finland 
& Bob Mizer
Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland
Nov. 2 - Jan. 26

 
ONE GalleryArt & Physique Circa Bob & Tom
Opening Reception 
Nov. 9, 6-9 pm
 
Nov. 9, 7:30-10:30
Larrabee St. @ Santa Monica
 
Local Museums/Galleries
 
 
 

 

Guy Hepner

 

Hadid Gallery

 

Hamilton Selway 

 

Illoulian Contemporary 

  

LA Gay & Lesbian Center

IDENTITY/RETROSPECT

Alexandra Gibson, through November 2 

 

Leica Gallery

 

Louis Stern Fine Arts 



Gone Tomorrow
Richard Colman

 
 
Wall Street Gallery

West Hollywood Arts & Culture in the News

  

Game, Set, Site: Reflecting on "At the Oasis"


Fantasia goes for Goldini in West Hollywood Park Play

 

LA Times - Street Artists Brighten West Hollywood Library

 

Vimeo-Shepard Fairey Documentary

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.
  
LAST CHANCE! Don't forget to visit the Sunset Strip Farmers Market Thursday, from 6-10 p.m. Last night of the year!  For more information, click 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.
Weho Pickup!
 
Fri. & Sat. Eves, runs along Santa Monica Blvd.,
from Robertson to Fairfax
 8 pm - 3 am, every 15 mins.
Ongoing Exhibitions
Love Your Bean
 
The Caretaker
(Los Cuidadores)

 

Upcoming Events

Dramalicious

Saturday, Oct. 26., Scene Slam at 2 pm, Play Reading Festival at 3:15, FREE

Plummer Park

7377 Santa Monica Blvd.

Come out for ALAP's big fall event, Dramalicious! We'll have a Producer/Director/Playwright Exchange, a Scene Slam, the popular Playwright's Playpen and will close it all with our annual Reading Festival. Opportunities for actors, directors, producers and, of course, playwrights! Click here for more information. 


 Mad Scientist Spooktacular: Halloween Youth 

Carnival, FREE

Saturday, Oct. 26, 2 pm- 5 pm

West Hollywood Park

647 N. San Vicente

Come out to the Halloween Youth Carnival! There will be mad science experiments, arts and crafts, face-painting, costume-contests, magic show, game booths, and lots of treats available for tots to 12 year olds. Special zone for "Lil Monsters" for children under 5. For more information, please call West Hollywood Park at (323) 848-6534. 

  

"Early Fairytales" Puppet Theater, FREE
Sunday, 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, FREE
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. For more information, click here.
  
"Call Me Kuchu" Film Screening, FREE 
 Tuesday, Oct. 29, 7 pm
West 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). To RSVP for this event, click here.
  
 Halloween Carnaval, FREE
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, FREE
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.
  
 Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland
Nov. 2- Jan. 26, FREE
MOCA PDC
8687 Melrose Ave.
MOCA presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the art and collaborations of Bob Mizer (1922-1992) and Touko Laaksonen, aka "Tom of Finland" (1920-1991), two of the towering figures of twentieth century erotic art and legendary pioneers of Post-war gay culture. The exhibition will feature a selection of Laaksonen's iconic and masterful drawings and books, alongside Mizer's photographs, films, and examples of his groundbreaking magazine Physique Pictorial-where drawings by "Tom of Finland" were first published in the United States in 1957. For more information, click here
 

DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made Symposium

Friday, Nov. 8, All Day, FREE
West Hollywood Design District
West Hollywood

DIEM: Design Intersects Everything Made is a one-day design symposium presented by the West Hollywood Design District to inspire and encourage integral design. Captains and enthusiasts of the design industries are invited to engage with one another and cross-pollinate, through a series of events that will combine the intelligence and beauty of good design. For more information, including session locations, click here.

 

Transgender Awareness Month: Film Screenings

Saturday, Nov. 9, 2-4 pm, FREE

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd

A collection of the best short films from the LA Trans Film Festival, co-sponsored by LA Trans Film Festival. Films include: Transdroids (directed by Britt Dunn), Remember Me in Red (directed by Hector Ceballos), Putting the I in Trans (directed by Steen Star), Make a Mate (directed by Jennifer Jordan day), La Santa (directed by Mauricio Lopez), The Thing (directed by Rhys Ernst), Lee (directed by Roland Wiryaman), Genderfreak (directed by Rebecca Louisell). For more information, visit www.facebook.com/tgfilmfest. 

 

Art & Physique Circa Bob & Tom at ONE Archives Gallery & Museum Opening Reception,FREE

Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-9 pm

ONE Archives

626 North Robertson Boulevard

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives presents Art & Physique Circa Bob & Tom at the ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, an exhibition exploring the social and historical context surrounding erotic art and physique photography during the 1940s, 50s and 60s on the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art's retrospective Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. For more information, click here.  

  
 3rd Annual West Hollywood GoGo Dancer Appreciation Day Festival & Competition

Saturday, Nov. 9, 7:30 - 10:30 pm

Larrabee Street at Santa Monica Boulevard

Come out for the 3rd Annual West Hollywood GoGo Dancer Appreciation Day Festival! In conjunction with the MOCA PDC  Bob Mizer + Tom of Finland exhibit, this year's theme is Tom of Finland. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/wehogogofest.

Opportunities

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.

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.