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LAaLALand Events List
Saturday, October 20th
MCW Miracle Mile Art Walk
More than 40 art galleries will participate in the newly formatted “Miracle Mile Art Walk” to be held on the third Saturday of each month in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles. The Holly Trolley shuttle, sponsored by the Office of 4th District Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, will make a continuous loop stopping at participating galleries.
12pm-5pm
Miracle Mile
Los Angeles, CA
www.midcitywest.org
Closing Night of the Photo Essay Show “Tenacity” by Harris Hartsfield
Critically acclaimed actress CCH Pounder and her husband Boubacar Kone have a fabulous museum of contemporary African art, a rare achievement in African continuity from the private sector. The PounderKone Artspace provides a creative conduit between continents and cultures.
FREE with RSVP
4pm Artist Talk
5-7pm Cuisine tasting by Chefs Frank Roman & Trevor Cook
RSVP @ (323) 913-2247
Pounder Kone Art Space
3407 Glendale Boulevard
Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA 90039
http://www.cchpkas.com/cch.htm
Kids Day L.A.
A free family festival dedicated to the children of Los Angeles that mixes fun attractions with practical advice and resources for parents and other caregivers. There will be sports clinics, entertainment featuring children, arts and crafts, a wall climbing apparatus, food booths, and more.
FREE
10am-5pm
Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center
3980 S. Menlo Ave.
Los Angeles
1-888-LA PARKS (527-2757)
www.laparks.org
"Immigrant Punk" Group Exhibition
The exhibition, whose title was inspired by a song by the punk group Gogol Bordello, is homage to a particular facet of the immigrant experience. Participating artists include Bask, John Casey, Ken Garduno, Douglas Alvarez, Martina Secondo Russo, Nicoz Balboa, Andre Firmiano, Pogo, Nina Nichols, Angela Penaredondo, Claudio Parentela, Sam Saghatelian, Glynnis Reed, Jasko and Hagop Belian.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 20th from 7:00 – 10:30pm
Exhibit thru: October 20, 2007 - November 10, 2007
Black Maria Gallery: Atwater Village
3137 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
(323) 660-9393
www.blackmariagallery.com
This 7th Annual festival is held by Theatre of Hope's 'Youth Spirit' division, providing a free day-long opportunity for kids and their families to experience hands-on arts workshops and family entertainment to promote cross-cultural understanding and a love of the arts. Arts activities will include Dia de los Muertos Puppets; Quilting; Mexican Tin Art; Tibetan Peace Flags; Drawing Boats, Planes, Trains & Things; Middle Eastern Chamsas; Creating Book Marks and a Free Book Giveaway; Poetry with a Purpose; Music; Dance and more!
FREE
10am-4pm
Noho Arts District
11430 Chandler Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
(818) 782-0470
www.thaw.org
ALL WEEKEND
The 2007 Calabasas Pumpkin Festival
Zoom Go-Karts & Other Low Cost Rides & Games, Plenty of Delicious Food, Plus A Beer Garden, Cars From The Movies & TV (Saturday only), Classic Car Show (Sunday only), Craft Marketplace, Free Live Stage Shows, Free Shuttling Available Along Lost Hills Rd.
Saturday, October 20th, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, October 21st, 10am - 5pm
Free Admission & Parking
http://www.calabasaspumpkinfestival.com/
Street Fair Along Lost Hills Rd.
Games & Rides at Juan Bautista De Anza Park
3701 Lost Hills Rd.
Calabasas, California
Event Entrance & Parking at Lost Hills Rd. & Agoura Rd.
101 Freeway - Exit Lost Hills Rd. in Calabasas
ONGOING…
PLEASE TAKE A NUMBER
New York City welfare recipients have broken into their local welfare office after hours and created their own system, "Well Faire." As they let go, all rules are off, and these citizens really tell what fare they would pay to be well. PLEASE TAKE A NUMBER is a collection of characters standing at the crossroads of passivity and leadership. Find out what it means to fight for survival and individuality when you are told to PLEASE TAKE A NUMBER!
Experience an authentic piece of New York City on the left coast! This highly acclaimed show is written and performed by Nia Orms & directed by Oz Scott and IS BACK FOR 5 WEEKS ONLY!!!
GET TICKETS AT: WWW.GOLDSTAREVENTS.COM
MORE INFO AT: WWW.NIAORMS.COM
New Images of Identity
The Armory is presenting recent explorations of racial identity in work by multicultural artists as part of the SKIN/Art & Ideas Festival. A growing number of artists of color have more than one cultural heritage, either ancestors from different parts of the world or even forbears who were Caucasian. As a result, their self-expression through art has become more complex. The images explore the idea of race from more than one culture, using not only personal experiences, but also the connections to larger social and political issues to investigate their diverse ethnic backgrounds. The artists included in the exhibition are Layla Ali, Iona Rozeal Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Dihn Q. Le, Yoshua Okon, Lezley Saar, John Trevino, and Kara Walker.
FREE
Thru October 31st
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 793-8171
www.artideasfestival.org
”Incognegro”
"Incognegro" includes multimedia photographs, paintings, and sculptures that appropriate and represent historic minstrel images and critiques race issues that are apparent through blackface performance. The show features 14 new works by Greenfield made over the past four years that have not been previously exhibited in Los Angeles that flirt with the line between racism and political correctness. The exhibition includes lenticular prints juxtaposing minstrel portraits, paintings featuring iconic accoutrements from vintage minstrel "how to" guides, photo portraits of contemporary blackface performers, and a series of motorized outdoor sculptures that literally inflate the artist's distinctive forms of provocation. Mark Steven Greenfield studied at Otis Art Institute, received his B.A. from California State University, Long Beach and his MFA from California State University, Los Angeles. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Director and Curator of the Watts Towers Arts Center. He led the 1998 U.S. delegation to the World Cup Cultural Festival and was a 2002 Getty Visiting Scholar. Mark continues to have an active life as a visual artist, exhibiting throughout the United States and abroad.
Currently, he teaches drawing, design, and art history at Los Angeles City College and is Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery for the Department of Cultural Affairs.
FREE
Monday-Friday, 11am-5:30pm
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica ,CA 90404
(310) 453-3711
www.18thstreet.org
Blacks In and Out of the Box
This exhibition celebrates historic photography and showcases cutting edge photographic explorations by artists through an African American lens. It illuminates the importance of California as a space and place that has permitted getting out of the box. The show features unique early photographs from the Steve Turner collection, as well as contemporary images from photographic artists and videographers living or trained in California.
FREE
Thru December 30, 2007
Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm
California African American Museum
600 State Dr., Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(213) 744-7432
www.caamuseum.org
