Maureen Cotter Saturday at beyond baroque
Broad Humor Fest at Electric Lodge
7 Dudley Cinema
Carnivale Benefit Sunday eve
Pots and Pans Protest Federal Bldg Sunday
Suzy Williams Monday Temple Bar
Bright in August Cabaret Wednesday Warszawa
826 LA Drop in tutoring
Nature Interrupted - 18th Street.
Adbusters
LA Women in Music Top 10 - Karen Hart
Venice Music Fest Sept. 16
Abbot Kinney Fest Sept, 30
ONE MORE TIME, Come One Come All
By popular demand, I'll again be hosting live JAZZ (by The Grown Up Robots, no less) and a BARBEQUE this Friday, August 17 from 6-10pm.
Bring something to throw on the grill... or just bring yourself and enjoy.
Robin's Scupture Garden . 1632 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
310 709-7826
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beyond baroque
18 August, Saturday - 7:30 PM
An Evening with MAUREEN COTTER
MAUREEN COTTER returns for her summer tale-spinning extravaganza at BB. Cotter has been working for the past five years writing about the first twenty-five years, developing the work in BB's Tuesday Creative Non-fiction workshop. She's a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse, a long time Venice resident and civic activist, and has been called "the Deviant Diva of Venice."
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3 DAYS/ 21 FILMS/ 1000 LAUGHS
THE BROAD HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL, celebrating comedies written and directed by women, unspools in Venice, California, August 24-26, 2007. Screenings of feature-length and short films, a screenplay lab and industry panels as well as the opening night party and closing night awards will be at the Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, California 90291.
Fest co-directors Susan di Rende and Kaat Cleenewerck created the Broad Humor Film Festival. A director and writer of comedies, di Rende says she was "surprised to learn that there are no festivals celebrating funny female filmmakers." So, she says, she and Cleenewerck decided to "broadly go where no broad has gone before and start our own."
In its second year, the festival received more than 70 entries of comedy films and screenplays from as far away as Australia. Awards will be given in the following categories:
FILM CATEGORIES: Best Feature, Best Short, Best "No Budget" Feature, Best "No Budget" Short, Audience Award
SCREENPLAY CATEGORIES: Screwball Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Comic Fantasy, Character Comedy, Farce, Comic Short
Sponsors include Global Beer,Hollywood Creative Directory, Jungle Software, Write Bros., Metromint Water and Wolfe Video. contact: info@broadhumor.com
For more information, visit www.broadhumor.com.
For festival tickets and passes, visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2552
For media passes, please provide valid media ID at festival ticket office on Friday, August 24.
~ ALSO AT THE electric lodge
Shakti Dance Company presents
STREE KATHA
August 17-19 – Friday at 8 pm; Saturday-Sunday at 7 pm - $25 general, $18 students w/ID.
Three tragic heroines from the Ramayana—their untold stories in original choreography by Mythili Prakash.
For reservations, call 310-823-0710, press 2#~ ALSO AT THE electric lodge
GREEN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
September 7-8 - Friday-Saturday
Electric Lodge presents its first annual environmental film festival, highlighted by the "Sustainable Drive-In"--an outdoor screening without the cars..
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7 DUDLEY CINEMA - films & live events at SPONTO Gallery, 7 Dudley Ave, Venice, 310-306-7330, free admission, 8:00pm, www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema Come early - seating is limited & pre-shows
WED, Aug 29. ROGER BEEBE: EXPERIMENTS, DOCUMENTS, WISECRACKS - Beebe's films have been deemed "goofy, startling and important"..."implicitly and explicitly evoking the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand & Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs capture the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America." Including S A V E (‘06, 5m) a riddle posed in the form of architecture. (ROCK/HARD PLACE) (‘05, 6m) why do postcards of Morro Bay avoid the nearby gargantuan power plant with 3 towering smoke stacks? THE STRIP MALL TRILOGY (‘01, 9m) Beebe’s super-8mm symphony liberates color, sound and form from the sprawling consumerist landscape of postmodern America. Beebe's honest visual poetry transforms ugliness into beauty, and busts apart the mind-controlling code of relentlessly commercial space and reconfirgures it into a landscape of beautiful color and form. FAMOUS IRISH AMERICANS ('03, 8m) a hyperflat exploration of race and the limits of binary thought. Plus live music 7pm: MOSES CAMPBELL, aspiring teenage musicians with vibrant originals.
WED, Sept 5. THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF CHARLES R. GARRY ('07, 60m) Hrag Yedalian (in person) inspired documentary on Black Panthers attorney Garry, who's remembered as "the defender of the depised." His valiant ways shined in some of the most important political trials of the 1960s. REPORTER ZERO ('06, 25m) is the first documentary film about journalist Randy Shilts' groundbreaking AIDS reporting and the struggles he faced trying to get the nation and his community to reckon with the devastating truth about the disease. "Filmmaker Carrie Lozano's provocative film isn't content to document a crucial historical moment, but delivers a sharp poke at those complacent about the disease's continuing devastation." -SF Weekly. Plus more Black Panther films. Plus 6:30 live music: GWP - Greg Cruz, West Parker & Petr Hromadko's soulful blues & country.
SAT, Sept 15. JAZZ FUNK FEST 7pm - live music: BSP, Freddy Ginns & Eric Ahlberg - free yer ass & yer mind will follow TUES, Sept 18. VENICE BEACH FREE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL happytrailershd.com
WED, Sept 19. BENNY ZENGA FILMS: THE WINKING CIRCLE ('06, 50m) Zenga's films nurture the unending power of human creation and live up to his mini-manifesto: "The Wisdom of the 3 Beans - Create Everywhere, Be A Fool, Redeem Everything." Arising from a small town in rural Ontario, which is slowly being absorbed by subdivisions of commuters & chain stores, friends rally together to celebrate their individuality and eccentrify the world. With trick bikes, art cars, skateboarding, and daredevil stunts. SKI BOYS ('06, 9m) Zenga mashes experimental with extreme sports revealing bizarre footage of "folk stunt" artists in inventive boldness and hilarity. And more new Benny Zenga shorts. Plus: MarkXFarina's HOW TO NAVIGATE 2 ('06, 22m) mashes up the Who, Punks, the Monkees, the Doors & Pipi Longstocking to illustrate how life imitates Pop art imitating Pop music. MXF's RODNEY BURNS ('07, 6m) includes the making of QUICKSAND by Preston Webb, a short Venice film about the troubles of romance. Plus 7pm live music: JOY RIPPEL, Venice Blues Mama
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CARNEVALE! VENICE BEACH MASQUERADE BENEFIT
The Venice Artists Forum in association with the Venice Chamber of Commerce is throwing a costumed Masquerade benefit party to raise money in an effort to return the Carnevale! to the streets of Venice at the Air Conditioned Lounge/Venice on Sunday, August 19th from 8 PM to 2 AM.
POTS & PANS PROTEST TO END THE WAR
Organized by the Raise Hell for Molly Ivins Campaign (www.raisehellformollyivins.org)
Sunday, August 19th, - 10:00 am to 11:00 am
West Los Angeles Federal Building
11000 Wilshire Blvd. (at Veteran Ave.)
Bring Pots and Pans
(signs will be provided as well as pots and pans for people who need them.)
We will Peacefully and Loudly Demand
that Congress act to end the War in Iraq
The Raise Hell for Molly Ivins Campaign (www.raisehellformollyivins)
Was organized in response to the final column of Molly Ivins, the recently passed syndicated columnist from Texas who challenged people to "Raise Hell...Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge...We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding
STOP IT, NOW!".
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SUZY WILLIAMS and HER SOLID SENDERS play LIVE JAZZ and BLUES on
Monday, August 20 at TEMPLE BAR, 1026 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, 310-393-6607, templebarlive.com, doors open at 8:00pm (two sets at 8:30 & 9:30 pm). Admission is $10. Celebrate being alive with Suzy and her swinging 8-piece band evoking the rockin' dance music of Louis Jordan, and the release of Suzy & The JTones new ten inch record/cd (jtonerecords.com). More info:310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com Visit: http://www.puddingbench.com/suzy.htm Also, catch'em here on Sept 24 and October 29, 2007
The SENDERS include: Kahlil Sabbagh (bandleader and vibes), Brad Kay (piano), Dave Jones (bass), Nick Scarmack (drums), Danny Moynahan (sax), Dan Heffernan (sax), Dan Weinstein (trombone) and Corey Gemme (trumpet).
Suzy Williams has played Carnegie Hall with Stormin' Norman Zamcheck, performed with Moses Pendleton's Pilobolus dance troupe, and has worked with Van Dyke Parks, Buster Poindexter, Marc Shaiman, Nicholas Ray among many others. Bette Midler, Horace Silver, Roosevelt Sykes, Ann Magnuson, Eubie Blake and Hadda Brooks have praised her passionate singing and vibrant energy.
Please check out Suzy Williams on youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-GrEQsEKA Suzy & Her Solid Senders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O5cMz
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Voice in the Well:
"BRIGHT IN AUGUST CABARET"
Wednesday, August 22, '07 7:45-9:45pm
Join us in the cozy, European-style Courtyard Patio of
Warszawa Restaurant
1414 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 90405
(It's on the southwest corner of Santa Monica Bl & Lincoln Bl,
just a half mile north of the # 10 FREEWAY. Street Parking
There's a $5.00 Suggested Door Donation
and a Cash Bar and Polish folks to take your delicious Food Orders!
We'll begin with new songs and lyrics by Kathy Leonardo,
Then Songcologist Gary Gordon will satirically review our situation
Then, Christina Linhardt will sing from her new VOODOO PRINCESS CD
Then, Jacqueline Mahoney may sing an Aria or two...
And, Mews and Brad and their special guest performers will take us on a moonlight musical cruise!
Produced by Mews Small & Eric Vollmer and Voice In The Well Productions
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826 LA 685 Venice Bl. Drop-in tutoring starts again on Monday, September 10. Free for students 6-18, tutoring takes place Monday through Thursday, 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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Free Panel Discussion for "Nature (Interrupted)"
Monday, August 27, 2007, 7:00-8:30pm
18th Street Arts Center presents a special panel discussion for the gallery exhibition, "Nature (Interrupted)," a group show of contemporary artists dealing with Man's manipulation of Nature. The evening will feature four of the six artists in the show along with Curator Pam Posey and Moderator Kristina Newhouse.
"Nature (Interrupted)" is an exhibition of works by Maura Bendett, Jeff Cain, Joyce Campbell, Christine Nguyen, Orlan, and Lothar Schmitz and curated by Pam Posey. The work of these six artists blurs the distinctions between the natural and the manmade, the real and the imagined. Maura Bendett's wall sculptures of botanical growth gone awry hover between fantasy and anxiety.
"Nature (Interrupted)" runs through September 14. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm. 18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica. For more details, go to www.18thstreet.org.
Next ArtNight Will Be Our Largest Event of the Year!
Please join us for our largest event of the year:
ArtNight at 18th Street on Saturday, September 29, 5-8:30pm.
We will feature free concert performances by Bobby Matos Afro-Cuban Jazz and the California Choro Collective, opening receptions for "Incognegro", new mixed media artworks by Mark Steven Greenfield, and "Guatemalan Forced Migration," refugee photos by Manuel Gil, and international and local artist open studios. We will also be highlighting the arts in Santa Monica with info tables and presentations by a dozen local arts and community organizations.
The event and exhibits will be sponsored by the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, James Irvine Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Crossroads School of the Arts and Sciences, Hpnotiq, and IZZE.
Come join the fun!
Jan Williamson, Executive Director
Clayton Campbell, Artistic Director
18th Street Arts Center
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Hundreds of cars crawling along a freeway, commuters funneled into giant people-moving machines, a close-packed crowd with nowhere left to go - everyday scenes in a society noteworthy for the tedium it imposes on its members. A new short video from Adbusters at http://www.adbusters.org offers a dissection of modern life, using a Situationist slogan that first appeared as graffiti scrawl in 1960s Paris. In the 40 years since, things have hardly improved.
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GINA/Los Angeles Women In Music Top 10 Finalists
Just click here to log on at 1:00:
www.411Gina.org
Sat August 18, 2007 1 PM FREE Roland Corporation
www.karenhartmusic.com
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Sunday September 16 - Venice Music Festival http://www.vchcorp.org/upcoming.htm
September 30, 2007 23rd Annual Abbot Kinney Festival
