City of West Hollywood

Arts Briefs 

April 2nd, 2014
Budget Fair
Be a part of building your City the way you want it! We need your input! Join the City of West Hollywood to learn about and provide input on each division's proposed projects and program's, including arts programming. Come out TODAY, April 2, from 5-8 pm at Plummer Park in Rooms 5-6 for the West Hollywood Budget Fair. Can't make it? Take the budget survey here and make your voice heard! 
 
Poster Contest
We invite any and all artists to create a poster proposal that celebrates the theme of this year's One City One Pride Arts Festival, "I DO". The selected winner will win an award of $300 and the opportunity to display their artwork to thousands of people as part of the One City One Pride promotional campaign. For more info, click here.   

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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

 

Teen Book Club

Last Thurs monthly, 4pm, Weho 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
 

The Last Paintings By Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian
Opening Reception April 3rd, FREE

 

 

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
  
 Hollywood in Post War Italy: Film Posters From Italy and the Cohen Film Collection

 
Wall Street Gallery

 

Wonderland LA 

 

WeHo Area Theatres
  
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Volunteer for World Book Night

World Book Night 2014

Wednesday, Apr. 23, all day
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. 

Upcoming Events
Outfest West Hollywood Screening Series presents an Evening with Guinevere Turner  

Wednesday, Apr. 2, 7:30 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Join Guinevere Turner for an evening of clips and discussion of her career to date, including acting in cult classics like Chasing Amy, Preaching to the Perverted and The Owls and contributing to the memorable screenplays for American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page and Bloodrayne. Presented with support from the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. To buy tickets, visit www.outfest.org/weho-series . Tickets are $10, $6 for Outfest members.

 

Women's Leadership Conference 

Kick-Off Event Screening: Friday, Apr. 4, 7 - 10 pm
Pacific Design Center, Silver Screen Theatre
8687 Melrose Ave.
Conference: Saturday, Apr. 5, 9 am - 4:30 pm 

West Hollywood Park 
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

The first night of the Conference will open with a film screening of "Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert". The conference is a day-long event geared towards women with a keynote panel on Women in the Arts & Media. For more information, visit: www.weho.org/visitors/events-in-the-city/women-s-leadership-conference.

 

soundSpark by SASSAS, FREE
Saturday, Apr. 5, 12 pm

West Hollywood Library Children's Theatre

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) with support from the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission presents soundSpark, an interactive, experimental children's concert series at the West Hollywood Public Library, taking place on the first Saturday of each month. Admission is free. For more information, please visit www.sassas.org  or call 323.960.5723.

 

Buratino, Puppet Theatre on Wheels, FREE

Sunday, Apr. 6, 11 am

Room 5/6, Plummer Park Community Center

7377 Santa Monica Blvd.

Buratino

is based on the book The Golden Key (1936) by Aleksey Tolstoy. According to Tolstoy, he had read the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi as a child but, having lost the book, started re-imagining it many years later in an attempt to come up with bedside stories for his own children. The resulting story turned out to be so original, that he decided to publish it, and Buratino quickly became popular among children in the former Soviet Union, and remains so to this day.Presented in Russian with an English synopsis. For more information, please visit: www.puppettheateronwheels.com .

 

*Also, on Wednesday, Apr.16th, from 3:30- 4:30 pm, Puppet Theater on Wheels will present The Three Little Pigs in English at the West Hollywood Library! Come out an enjoy the show. FREE

 

Laughing Matters: 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, Apr. 6, 7 pm 

Renberg Theatre

1125 N. McCadden Place

A one-night-only salute to director Andrea Meyerson's first film, Laughing Matters , on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of it's release. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion. For more information and tickets, click here. 
 
The Art of Storymaking for the 21st Century, FREE
Saturday, Apr. 12, 9 am - 12 pm
Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. 
The Art of Storymaking will be a free workshop, led by artist and art educator Debra Disman, owner of Artifactory Studio in Santa Monica. Disman will teach hands-on techniques in visual arts, crafts, and creative writing. Using these skills, participants will design their own one-of-a-kind books. This event is sponserd by the Friends of the West Hollywood Library. Additionally, the onsite FOL bookstore will be having a book sale the same day. All books will be 50% off from 10 am - 5 pm. 
 
Public Sculpture Reception: Look-see, Anna Sew Hoy, FREE
Saturday, Apr. 12, 2:30 pm
Kings Road Park
1000 North Kings Rd. 
Please join the City of West Hollywood for a reception and unveiling of the newest sculpture in King's Road Park: LAX >< Art's Anna Sew Hoy's Look- See.  The reception will include light refreshments. There is free parking on the surrounding streets and at the King's Road parking structure. 

 

SASSAS presents AD HOC #10: Shackle Affair w/ Young/Day

Sunday, Apr. 13, 7 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

SASSAS and the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission presents 'AD HOC #10: A Shackle Affair with Young/Day'Shackle is Anne La Berge on flute and electronics and Deckard on laptop-instrument. Their aim is to explicitly and subtly exploit shackling in both concept and material. In the Shackle Affair, guests play with Shackle and the Shackle System. The guests for this set are Andrea Young on voice and electronics and Michael Day on prepared turntable.  To purchase tickets ($10/$8) please visit www.sassas.org.

 

Computer Love: Digital Art in West Hollywood ONE, FREE

Tuesday, Apr. 15, 6:30 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition EZTV: Video Transfer, this panel discussion will consider the history of computer art in Southern California and its relationship to digital media and large-scale projection art today. The discussion will look at the overlapping histories of the alternative video gallery EZTV and ACM SIGGRAPH, and how these two groups fostered experiential digital art practices during the 80s and early 90s when computer graphics and digital imagery were in their infancy.For more information, visit http://one.usc.edu/computer-love. 

Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival

Saturday, Apr. 19, 12 pm - 9 pm

West Hollywood City Council Chambers

625 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Mark your calendars! $15 dollars for a full days worth of screenings. Tickets can be purchased at the door. To stay up to date with information, visit the Transgender Film Fest Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/tgfilmfest. 

 

Shades

Fridays and Saturdays, 8 pm, Sundays, 6 pm

Mar. 28 - Apr. 19

Macha Theatre

1107 N. Kings Rd.

Miguel is a troubled high school student who enjoys taunting gays. When a gift from his second-base girlfriend ends up changing his life forever, he is set off on an often comedic course of self-acceptance of his own sexuality. Going gay has never been this dysfunctional. For tickets, visit: www.machatheatre.org. 

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. New this year: there will be a jury and jury awards. For more information, including submission form/release, visit www.cmgfilmfest.com. 
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.