On the 4th the Venice Canals Association is having a Party with the most excellent Bonedaddys,
near the West end of Linnie Canal Court, after you crash that, come down to the
undisclosed location for some jammin.
The Jaya Mural is being restored - Video
Ann Arens article about the Jaya Mural on the Voice of the Canals Website
Mujeres de Colores @ SPARC
Beyond Baroque
826LA Publishes Walking Through Walls
electric lodge - Creative Music Festival
3 theaters you can walk to
Brave New Films: NEW -> Supermarket Swindle
070707 at Altelier
2 Public Art RFPs!
Voice in the Well
Inti-Illimani at the Ford
Columbian Festival at the Ford.
Topanga Peace Alliance: World Social Forum
July 4th Impeachment Picnic
Propaganda III, Mental ehnancement, Halfway to Cleveland, Jesus General, Get Rebranding!
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Mujeres de Colores at SPARC - 685 Venice Blvd, 310-822-9560
Kim creates characters that are part real, part imagined. The beautifully rendered paintings are constructed from her memories of specific women and draw on imagery from super heroes, fashion, and other contemporary female identities. She manipulates these various codes to suggest political, social and personal narratives.
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beyond baroque 681 Venice Bl 310-822-3006
12 July, Thursday - 7:30 PM
BEYOND ACADEMIA: LECTURES ON LIVING LANGUAGE - featuring BRENDAN CONSTANTINE
BEYOND BAROQUE kicks off its BEYOND ACADEMIA POETRY LECTURE SERIES based on the idea that learning about poetry is for everyone and not just for college students. The series starts with a lecture by LA-based poet and teacher BRENDAN CONSTANTINE. His lecture will cover the history and use of a certain word - one you still can't use on the radio - and its connection to and ownership by poetry. Beyond Academia is curated by Carlye Archibeque and Richard Modiano.
15 July, Sunday - 7 PM
Poets Beyond the Half Shell: 12 by TWELVE, with SA GRIFFIN, SCOTT WANNBERG and BRENDA YATES
Join us for a publication reading for 12 by TWELVE with SA GRIFFIN, co-editor of the best-selling Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thundersmouth); SCOTT WANNBERG, poet and Dutton's bard/clerk extraordinaire; and BRENDA YATES, an LA-based poet. Hosted by CARLYE ARCHIBEQUE and RICHARD MODIANO. Open sign up 6:30, 2 poem limit. FREE.
19 July, Thursday - 7 PM
The 2007 NEWER POETS at the DOWNTOWN CENTRAL LIBRARY
Join us for an annual celebration of LA poets hosted by Beyond Baroque and the LA Poetry Festival. From Beyond Baroque: DENNIS CRUZ began writing poetry and performing it in 1999 guided by the voices of his surrogate fathers. He has performed at Timothy Leary's home and was kissed on the lips by Gregory Corso. YVETTE JOHNSON has published two chapbooks called Poem and Other Poems and Bluffs. MITCHELL UNTCH has been featured at Dutton's and was recently published in White Pelican Review. From the LA Poetry Festival: 2006 PEN Rosenthal Fellow EVANGELINE GANADEN has translated the poetry of Charles Harper Webb into Tagalog/Philippino for the anthology Open Windows. The work of NYU's MFA program grad FRANKIE DRAYUS appears or is forthcoming in Third Coast, VOX, Barrow Street and Passages North. BETH RUSCIO received the 2006 Patricia Bibby Scholarship to the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program and, as actress, won the L.A. Drama Critics' Circle Award and Best Actress/Short Film at the 2006 Method Fest. FREE (parking under the library costs a little).
20 July, Friday - 7:30 PM
MARY KITE & the VEACHETTES, JACK COLLOM, and GLORIA FRYM
MARY KITE is author of The Bamboo Librarian and Promenade Through A Precipitous Park (Blue Press). She has collaborated with Anne Waldman (Fleuve Flâneur, from Erudite Fangs) and with Kenward Elmslie (Spilled Beans: A Conversation, Kenward Elmslie & Mary Kite with Drawings by Joe Brainard, from Skanky Possum). Her work has been featured in CHAIN, square one, Rain Taxi and The Poetry Project Newsletter. She will be joined by Justin Veach, of High Energy Constructs. JACK COLLOM's most recent collections of poems include The Busking Book (Baksun), Exchanges of Earth and Sky (Fish Drum), and Extremes and Balances(Farfalla/McMillan & Parrish). His major collection, Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955-2000, was published by Tuumba Press in 2001. His books include Little Grand Island, Arguing with Something Plato Said, 8-Ball, and Entering the City. His essays on teaching and collections of children's poetry appear in Moving Windows and Poetry Everywhere. GLORIA FRYM's last book of poems, Homeless At Home, won an American Book Award. She is author of two collections of stories, Distance No Object and How I Learned, and several volumes of poetry, and essays, reviews and articles on literature, photography and media. Her latest book is Solution Simulacra (United Artists). “Gloria Frym's solutions tread the water of a flood inundating what we once considered our life” - Ammiel Alcalay.
21 July, Saturday - 7:30 PM
Spirit of Southern California Poetry Series
HONORING THE WORLD STAGE
The Spirit of Southern California Poetry Series honors THE WORLD STAGE, one of Southern California's leading cultural institutions, in Leimert Park. The Stage was founded in 1989 by late jazz drummer Billy Higgins and poet and arts activist Kamau Daáood. Hosted by Next...Magazine's G. Murray Thomas and Beyond Baroque's Amélie Frank, our celebration will spotlight the Stage's visionaries - MICHAEL DATCHER, JAWANZA DUMISANI, PETER J. HARRIS, the late MERILENE MURPHY, IMANI TOLLIVER, and CONNEY WILLIAMS, and Stage co-founder, KAMAU DAAOOD.
27 July, Friday - 7:30 PM
All Acoustic: HENRY MORTENSEN, MIKE MOONVES, and Friends
MIKE MOONVES plays bass in the New York band Chief and sang and played guitar in the LA bands Energy Club and Royal Orange. He's been writing songs for years and is happy to return to acoustic guitar and harmonica for tonight. HENRY MORTENSEN has performed spoken word but this is his first music showcase. His influences range far and wide but this performance is mainly a combination of folk punk rock and glam rock. His poetry chapbook Beginning is a BB bestseller.
28 July, Saturday - 7:30 PM
Code Pink WOMEN FOR PEACE Presents: Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now, with GAYLE BRANDEIS and DIANE LEFER
Join us in exploring "Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now," with GAYLE BRANDEIS - winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Her novel is Self Storage (Ballantine/Random House), a post-9/11 story of a woman buying and reselling of storage unit contents, launched on a path of self-discovery. DIANE LEFER's California Transit (Sarabande) examines the difference between justice and law in Southern California, "land of dislocation and assimilation." Oscar Hijuelos praised Lefer as "one of the most gifted and witty writers around."
29 July, Sunday - 7 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: THE VOICE, with BECKY ALLEN, JULIE ADLER, SYLVIA DESROCHERS, and KIRA VOLLMAN
Come for an evening of LA vocal artists revisiting and recreating landscapes and atmospheres of sound, cinematic mood, and questions of where they are or are not. BECKY ALLEN, sound artist/composer, worked on Bill Viola's work Ocean without a Short and Sharon Lockhart's film Pineflat. JULIE ADLER, singer, composer, visual artist and writer, has performed at RedCat, Highways, and is a collaborator with sound/visual artist Jacki Apple. SYLVIA DESROCHERS is a singer, actor and opera director. She was last seen in Richard Foreman's "What to Wear" at RedCat. KIRA VOLLMAN, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and visual artist, co-founded Non Credo, with Joe Berardi, has been a member of Fat and Fucked up, and worked with Kid Congo Powers (ex-Cramps), Kraig Grady, and Jeff Gauthier.
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826LA has just released Walking through Walls, a collection of narratives and poems by the students of the Los Angeles School of Global Studies. The largest 826LA publication to date, Walking through Walls features (among other things) multiple trips to the emergency room, numbered verses reaching out to a bulimic friend, a rake named Country, and one hybrid love poem/ode to turtles.
If you're interested in picking up a copy, email us; books cost $15 plus shipping.
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electric lodge 1416 Electric Ave.
TEMENOS: SACRED SPACE – A creative music festival
July 6-8 – Friday-Sunday, 8 pm - $10 Fri., $15 Sat. & Sun.
Friday: Life Force Trio plus Double Duo (Ralph Jones & Joshua Spiegelman, woodwinds - Brahim Fribgane & Adam Rudolph, percussion); Sat./Sun.: World percussion ensemble VASHTI returns to the Lodge.
No advance reservations: Cash only at the door. Visit: www.metarecords.com/new.html.-----------------------------------------------------------
Check out these plays, you could walk or bike there.
http://www.powerhousetheatre.com/
http://www.pacificresidenttheatre.com/
http://www.edgemarcenter.org/Edgemar/newTheater_SceneBites.html
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Brave New Films
Dear friends in Southern California,
When we finished Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, we knew the fight was far from over but didn't know what the next step would be. Then we discovered a recent UC Berkeley Labor Center study showing that in the last three years, up to 20,000 fewer children of grocery workers have access to the company's health care. While the cost of living is soaring in SoCal, our grocery workers are getting pay cut after pay cut. These folks have not seen one penny in raises in over five years!
It's time to hold the employers at Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons accountable for their greed. These companies made record profits of over $8.3 BILLION last year.
David Dillon, Jeff Noddle and Steve Burd are the CEOs in charge (otherwise known as The Gang of 3) Last year they took home bonuses that amounted to $27.2 Million! That money went directly into their pockets while the families that keep the stores running can't afford even basic, human needs.
We've launched a campaign (with a short film, of course!) to help the grocery workers negotiate a fair contract over the next few weeks. We'll keep the heat on until the 3 guys that make the decisions make the right one.
Watch the video: http://supermarketswindle.com/
We know that when you drive by your local Ralphs, Vons or Albertsons things look fine from the outside, but behind closed doors people are getting seriously swindled. The corporate supermarket chains have already announced their intention to lock out all their workers if there is a work stoppage, so it's time for us to show them what the consequences will be if they take such a reckless move.
Please sign the pledge not to shop at Ralphs, Vons, or Albertsons stores if they force a lockout or strike.
Sign the pledge: http://supermarketswindle.com/pledge.php
What happens here in southern California will have a ripple effect across the country. These local stores are part of the larger grocery industry that is becoming less and less responsible to their employees. This type of corporate greed is having catastrophic effects on communities across the country. Let's set the example here at home and make a difference nationwide.
Thank you for doing something,
Christopher Sprinkle, story producer
and the Brave New Films team
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"070707"
Because no one can resist the magic of the numbers, EPS atelier is hosting 070707, a free afternoon event featuring gallery talks from "Family Garden" artists Jennifer Everhart, Jennifer Vanderpool, Jennifer Wolf and Elizabeth Paige Smith; spoken word from Milo Martin; music from Matt Ellis and a special performance by "Family Garden" artist Amy Kaps.
The program is scheduled at short intervals throughout the afternoon, so that anyone staying at the gallery longer than 20 minutes will be able to catch something of interest, or can feel free to spend the whole afternoon.
"070707" Curated by Flavorpill's Shana Nys Dambrot
"070707" is a continuation of "Family Garden" show co-curated by SND and EPS
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Dear Artists/Friends,
Following are two public art projects that may be of interest to you. If you have any questions regarding public art, please feel free to contact me.
1. Los Angeles, CA – Deadline: July 6, 2007
Scope of Project: Create artworks at station entry “gateways” and over seating modules at station platforms.
Anticipated Budget for Each Artwork: $125,000 to $275,000 depending on station configuration.
Information: http://www.metro.net/about_us/metroart/ma_opportunities.htm#TopOfPage
2. Redwood City, CA – Deadline: October 1, 2007
Scope of Project: Design, build, and install artistic bird baths
Information: http://www.redwoodcity.org/government/bcc/cultural/callforartists.html
Sincerely,
Louis E. Greenwald
Choi & Greenwald
3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2700
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (213) 251-1777
Fax: (213) 251-1790
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Voice in the Well
Greetings, I'm grateful to one and all for making last wednesday night's show
at Warszawa so exciting and memorable!
My hat's off to one and all and I hope that you'll join us, again, on
Wednesday Evening, July 25th at sundown for
"JULY IS IN YOUR EYES, DARLING"
The Voice In The Well Ensemble will conjure up Noel Coward's BLITHE SPIRIT
& Mews Small, Brad Kay & Gang return with their Vaudeville Hit Parade for an Encore!
(We've also invited Jamie Shuey & The Cinema Girls & Kathy Leonardo)
Have A Bright and Lovely Culturally Inspired Summer,
Eric Vollmer
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Summer Season at the Ford
Del Mate Productions proudly presents
Inti-Illimani
celebrating freedom and equality in their 40th anniversary concert at the FORD AMPHITHEATRE
Friday, July 13 at 8:00 p.m.
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Colombian Festival of Traditional,
Contemporary, and Popular Music
They are on sale at the theatre or at the telephone: 323 461-3673
Tickets:
www.fordtheatres.org
323 461-3673
Taller Arte y Cultura
www.myspace.com/tallerarteycultura
www.myspace.com/artandcultureworkshop
Presented by Art and Culture Workshop / Taller Arte y Cultura
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Topanga Peace Alliance Presents
''THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A WEEK IN VENEZUELA''
A documentary film
With Filmmaker & Former TruthOut Journalist
CHRIS HUME
The World Social Forum is a powerful global event that seeks to take on the massive problems facing our world today from the ground up rather than from the top down. People from all over the world gather every year to create solutions to global warming, endless war, the lack of decent health care and the erosion of our basic rights... As the world's most powerful leaders gather behind an impenetrable wall of security deciding our fate for us, the World Social Forum seeks to take back this decision making process and return it to the people of the world.
Friday, JULY 6th , 2007 7:45 p.m.
YOGA DESA 120 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Topanga 90290
Pinetree Circle Center across from the Post Office
Located 4 miles north of PCH, on the right
Donation $10.00 (Bring drinks/snacks to share)
RSVP to Julie: (310) 455-9389 - Juliemagic@aol.com
Topanga Peace Alliance is a non-partisan peace and justice organization committed to non- violent conflict resolution www.TopangaPeaceAlliance.org
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Why: To Urge Los Angeles City Council, Santa Monica City Council and CA State Congressional and Assembly Representatives to Pass a Resolution Calling for the Impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney
When: Wednesday, July 4th, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: 8124 W. Third Street (at the "Peace Center" located by Crescent Heights & 3rd Street) ; 11 am inauguration will be immediately followed by picnic at nearby La Cienega Park from 12-3 pm.
Leaders of the Westside Greens, the Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Greens, and the Santa Monica Democratic Club will officially inaugurate the Los Angeles Impeachment Center to be followed by speakers who will address strategies and ideas relating to the impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. The Impeachment Center will coordinate phone banking, letter writing, meeting sessions and civil disobedience actions relating to Impeachment. It will provide Impeachment related resources available for distribution. Lawn signs, bumper stickers and other literature will be made available to all who attend. Volunteers will discuss tactics relating the Impeachment of both Bush & Cheney.
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Propaganda III http://www.flickr.com/photos/startpropaganda/
http://www.edge.org/ - get your mind working
then expand your thinking at http://www.ted.com/talks
Are these Venetian Bands going Halfway to Cleveland to meet Dennis Kucinich?
http://cdbaby.com/cd/halfwaytc
http://www.mp3.com/artist/halfway-to-cleveland/summary/
I love art online: http://www.xulsolar.org.ar/xulobras.html
Jesus's General http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Get rebranded! http://www.37signals.com/enormicom/index.html
