Fwd: Public Works Improvisational Theatre & Voices in the Well

Public Works Improvisational Theatre presents a Voice in the Well event It's Gonna Take A Lotta Love   Thursday, February 18, 2010   Warszawa Restaurant [ATTIC] 1414 Lincoln Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90401 * (323) 330-5448   Producer ERIC VOLLMER hosts an Evening of Music & Spoken Word, [Comedy provided by DANA SNOW and Drama by CARMEN VEGA] In the spirit of a Euro-style Salon where everyone gets into the act!   KAITLIN FERRELL, DOUG SPIRIT, MORGAN WILDAY & LEE BOEK present scenes from the One-Act plays of John Patrick Shanley such as "Let Us Go Out Into The Starry Night" and FRANK STRASSER MAGDALENA CIECIERSKA reprises her role as NINOTCHKA and sings     $7.00 Door Donation  - Desserts - Artists Reception

tooNITE at Talk Stick

Please join us-
Special sneek of nu ROBOT film tonite at 7:15pm SHARP at Talking Stick
before the JOHN CAGE film at 730  http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
Live improv music and film by MAP from 6-715pm all Freeee
(also i need folks to participate in Sam Beckett nite on April 9 at
Bey Barq, let me know if you are interested)
thanks, gerry fialka
laughtears.com
EYE AM NOT A ROBOT - Mark X Farina & Gerry Fialka's 14 minute film
probes the percept of technology "being alive" by evoking early
Russian film and Constructivism. Cultural icons from James Joyce to
Robby the Robot to Marilyn Monroe are your humanoid guides through new
art technologies. Can machines surpass humans in the creative process?
How are robotics restructuring patterns of social interdependence in
Art, Science and Nature? Cine-poets Farina & Fialka reframe our
collective compliance in anthropomorphizing media as art forms. In the
spirit of McLuhan's mosaic writing, this collage film propagates
mythic thinking, in the Jungian sense, where people mime cues from
technology used by millions. By flipping the art museum video
installation experience into media yoga, one can download morphic
resonance into the nervous system as a Zen experiment. What is the
future of art and artificial intelligence? See the likeness &
difference in Anticipatory Mindfulness and Android Meme. Summon the
impossible by retooling what Derrida calls "the absence of presence."
"The future of the future is the present." - McLuhan. "I wouldn't be
seen dead with a living work of art." - Museum curator. Having
screened parts one and two of Farina & Fialka's TOTO MEME series in
2008 & 2009, FIA completes the trilogy with EYE AM NOT A ROBOT for the
entire month of march, ate hours per day- The Flint Institute of Arts.
February 2010 events info:
Feb 15, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, John Cage Film with Frank Zappa
& Noam Chomsky http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
Feb 20, SAT, 6-10pm: JAZZ FUNK FEST at The Talking Stick
http://www.laughtears.com/jazzfunkfest.html
Feb 22, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels
http://angelssantamonica.com/ with NICK ARIONDO
Feb 26, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
Howard Zinn doc
March 2010 events info:
March 2, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
March 5-14 Suzy tours east coast with Stormin Norman, email
zamcheck@aol.com for info
March 8, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL- Vision-Core II Experimental Films
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
March 13, SAT, 2-6pm: MESS with http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
with Ronald X Censor & Reverend Dan
March 15, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA - Dumpster Diving & Forest
Ackerman Films, http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
March 18-31 Gerry tours Michigan with workshops & events, email
pfsuzy@aol.com for info
March 26, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
March 29, MON, 8:15-11:15: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels http://angelssantamonica.com/
April 2010 events info:
April 6, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
April 9, FRIDAY, 7:30pm: MESSIN' With SAMUEL BECKETT at Beyond Baroque
http://www.beyondbaroque.org/
April 10, SAT, 3-6pm: MESS with Barry Smolin http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
April 12, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - Scoop Wes Nisker film
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
April 14, WED, 7:30 - 10:30pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys
http://www.laughtears.com/
April 13-22: Gerry tours southwest New Mex and AZ
April 19, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, Fierce Light -activist film
Noam Chomsky meets Burning Man
http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
April 26, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels
http://angelssantamonica.com/
April 30, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
(probably with Craig Baldwin)
May 2010 events info:
May 4, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
May 10, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - The FOLKSINGER- killer blues film
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
May 12, WED, 7:30 - 10:30pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys http://www.laughtears.com/
May 15, SAT, 3pm: MESS with DOUG HARVEY, LA Weekly art
critichttp://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
May 17, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, Antero Ali & Blues Films
http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
May 24, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels http://angelssantamonica.com/
May 28, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
May 29, SAT, 7-10pm: SUZY & HER SOLID SENDERS at The Talking Stick
http://www.laughtears.com/suzy1.html

Parlor Performance's presents Marc Maron & Teresa Tudury Monday, March 1st! New Zealand Funny Lady Deb Filler Sat. March 27!

Parlor Performance Update! Entertaining ideas from the historical to the hysterical!   Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com * (310) 476-6735  Parlor Producer's note!  I've been given the go-ahead to use the underground recital hall (although I can not utter its prior name!) at Fields Pianos while they await the arrival of a new tenant. I'm thrilled to be hosting the March 1st show there with Marc Maron & Teresa Tudury and will know in a day or two about the fundraiser for Haiti relief and Roy Zimmerman. Deb Filler's show remains at Temple Akiba in Culver City -- plenty of room for all!  Please contact me for press comps, additonal information and/or to set up an interview.    In a nutshell ! Details in boxes below -- please note various venues! * Mon., March 1... Soulful, funny chantuese Teresa Tudury (Janis meets Bette!) & late-night favorite Marc Maron * Sat., March 27 @ 7:30pm... New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export -- DEB FILLER!  * Carla Zilbersmith interviewed on ABC News re ALS calendar -- and as motivational speaker!  * Stay tuned! Possible show w/ singing political satirist Roy Zimmerman * Stay tuned! Big night of comedy & cabaret being planned for mid-March for Haiti & disaster relief   Monday, March 1st at 7:30pm * $20 / $15 w/ RSVP by 2/22  Fields Pianos Recital Hall * 12121 W. Pico (1 door w. of Bundy), level P2 * Park free in lot!   Laughing Matters: An Evening of Serious Comedy (some of it with a melody & strings attached!)   with   sublimely neurotic (& oddly lovable!) late-nite favorite Marc Maron and soulful, comic chanteuse Teresa Tudury   Marc has appeared in countless clubs, performing arts centers, films, and off-Broadway. He hosted an Air America Radio show for four years featuring interviews with personalities cultural and political -- and currently hosts the popular podcast WTF? http://www.wtfpod.com   Engaging his audience as a storyteller, Marc is known for his incisive cultural and political commentary, mystical ruminations, and neurotic insights into human nature. Born in New Jersey and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Marc started his comedy career in the late 80s in Hollywood, as a doorman at the famed Comedy Store. Marc has appeared on just about every TV show that will allow comics, from The Late Show with David Letterman to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he is a special favorite.       TERESA TUDURY started writing songs at age 12 and was performing in San Francisco nightclubs by the time she was 15. She has played on and off in the Bay Area for years, and for almost two decades was based in Los Angeles where in addition to music gigs, she wrote comedy and worked as a character actress on stage and screen.  With a deep, sultry voice that magnetizes audiences, and a scathing comedic wit to match, Teresa is a consummate performer who pours out her original songs with power, verve, passion, and disarming humor. Teresa's voice has been described as a cross between Bette Midler and Bonnie Raitt (LA Weekly). Her vocal stylings are perfectly complemented by her bluesy guitar playing.   Teresa has recorded or performed with such greats as Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, Lyle Lovett, Taj Mahal, Leo Kottke and Bonnie Bramlett. Now residing in Sonoma County, she continues to perform and write new material.   REVIEWS...   "It's not clear yet whether singer/comedienne Teresa Tudury is another Tracey Ullman, a new Sophie Tucker or a revitalized Bea Lillie. Her utterly madcap performance...managed to include reference to all of the above-and then some. Tudury is taking risks all over the place, with none of the stiff and predictable inhibitions of a too-established performer...What we're talking about here, folks, is a star in the making."  -Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times   "Undiscovered gems are a rarity in a city where folks are always on the lookout for the next big thing, but...there's a performer who is perched on the cusp of better things. Her name is Teresa Tudury, and she...is making her reputation the old-fashioned way: She's earning it." -John Carmen, Daily Variety   Hear her hilarious Last Heterosexual Female at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf39dQAsfno  & Please Put Mrs. God on the Phone at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZpeKoacrzc&NR=1 More at www.teresatudury.net

Parlor Performances in association with Temple Akiba presents New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export! DEB FILLER      Saturday, March 27 at 7:30pm at Temple Akiba in Culver City   "Magnificent... hilarious... to miss her would be madness." New Zealand Herald  "Consistently clever...extraordinary...tour de force." Philadelphia Enquirer "I was laughing, crying, thinking, feeling...magnificent!" Boston Globe    Described alternatively as warm, gifted, a consummate performer and a complete chameleon, the New York Times says "she has turned to theatre, to writing, to art, in an effort to sort through the experience of growing up in a family with memories too terrible to speak of." Deb's comedic genius should leave no fan of Tracy Ullman or Lily Tomlin disappointed!   Please consider buying a block of seats for friends, charity, professional &/or social groups! (If you'd like to circulate this to friends & associates, I'll be happy to e-mail you a more forwardable-friendly flyer.)   Temple Akiba * 5249 South Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, CA    Such a deal!  $20 ($15 for groups of 8 or more!) w/ RSVP by March 1 Please RSVP ASAP to assure seats! All available seats $25 after March 1   RSVP & Info: Jeannine Frank * (310) 476-6735 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com Learn more about Temple Akiba at admin@templeakiba.net     Please take note!     In addition to being the subject of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING (a documentary by Academy Award director John Zaritsky) the beautiful, brilliant, sassy and brassy ALS stricken artist Carla Zilbersmith has (from her wheelchair and with virtually no use of her limbs) mastermided an amazing 2010 Calendar (ALS: Always Looking Sexy) featuring a courageous ALS-stricked individual each month (from teen years to seniors) in a pose from the movies. All proceeds are tax-deductible and support ALS research. Carla was interviewed by ABC TV about this project. More info at: https://alwayslookingsexy2010.alscommunity.org/GroupSite/tabid/54/albumid/278/view/ViewAlbum/Default.aspx Says Carla: It's a funny, sexy, full of life, full of love calendar which will remind you each time you go to write down an appointment how unbearably lucky we all are to live on this beautiful planet.  Read Carla's extraordinary blog at www.carlamuses.blogspot.com. More on the film at www.leavethemlaughingfilm.com .

Planet Siqueros at SPARC: Alfredo Lopez and Friends, Mexican Traditional Music. Also Ann Polhemus.

Stefani Valadez Ensemble at the Talking Stick Saturday 2/14

Urgent! Inside Out Needs Your Support!

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Please take five minutes to help us fight potential budget cuts that will seriously undercut our service to youth throughout Los Angeles.   On Friday, January 29th, the City of Los Angeles' Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) released a mid-year financial report.  The 157 page document calls for immediate cost-saving measures including instructing the Department of Cultural Affairs to notify Contractors that 2009-10 grant funding is no longer available and to work with the City Attorney's Office to begin termination of existing contracts where services have not yet been provided. That means all grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs for this year will no longer be available, even if already committed.  This is a sizable amount of funding for Inside Out. This motion will go before Council for a vote tomorrow - Wednesday, February 3rd. We all understand that the City of Los Angeles, like the rest of the country is in the midst of an economic recession.  However, grants made by the Department of Cultural Affairs stimulate jobs, our local economy and yield a minimum of a $8.00 return on investment.   Stakeholders are encouraged to write a letter to your council member. Take two minutes and send your city council member an email. Remind your Council Member that the arts: *Make money * Attract tourists * Attract businesses * Arts, like parks, are for everyone This motion will go before Council for a vote this Wednesday, February 3rd. Show the City Council the power of the arts community. Attend the Council meeting and provide public comment. We need to remind the Council of just how important the arts are to Los Angeles. Please forward this information to your friends and networks and post it on Facebook to encourage others to take action.

Fwd: Los Angeles arts in crisis. We need action!

Take Action Now. Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is in Jeopardy. TOMORROW: On Wednesday, February 3rd, L.A. City Council's Budget & Finance Committee will put forward a motion to dissolve Cultural Affairs. Click here to view the agenda packet. We are inviting the community to an open forum discussion. Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm Location: 132 S. Beaudry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dear friends and supporters, As you may already know, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is being threatened with catastrophic budget and staff cuts. Staff reductions of 24-48% have been proposed, as well as the total elimination of the $2.2 million in grants that the Department awards annually. This includes grants that have been awarded for the rest of this year, which may include funding for Venice Arts. In addition, the City of Los Angeles Budget and Finance Committee has put forward a motion that could eliminate any obligation to fund the Department of Cultural Affairs at all.   We don't have to tell you about the valuable programs and organizations that will be adversely affected by this action. The arts in Los Angeles are a 14.8 billion dollar industry. For every dollar spent by the Department of Cultural Affairs, eight dollars are generated directly in jobs for artists and businesses. This doesn't even take into account the value of the arts to society overall. If you have any questions about the value of the Department's programs view Alex's story, as only one example of the potential impact of arts engagement in a young person's life. Special thanks to Angel's Gate Cultural Center for their advocacy in this effort.   We need your help and we need it now! Yours Sincerely, Venice Arts Staff Venice Arts is supported by generous contributions from foundation, corporate, and individual supporters, members of our BUSINESS ART CIRCLE, and: WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW: Click below to send a letter Online: You can write a letter online via the Arts for LA website. You can also contact your councilmember's office directly, via the Cityof Los Angeles website. Motion #56  to the Budget and Finance Committee was presented by council members: Eric Garcetti Jan Perry Dennis Zine Bernard Parks Greig Smith Paul Krekorian. If these are council members in your district, please consider letting them know how much you support the Arts in Los Angeles.