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THIS WEEK’S SELECT LAaLALand PICKS::::
Africa's Legacy in Mexico @ Laband Art Gallery Now thru Nov.18
Backed by Smithsonian, the big dogs of art and culture, Tony Gleaton has garnered rave reviews for his exhibit Africa's Legacy in Mexico---forty-five black and white photographs from a series of portraits of African Mexicans circa 1980 and early 1990s. Gleaton's artwork is what one would call an eye-opener because he makes an effort to dispel racial stereotypes through his artwork. He conducts massive research similar to a historian or journalist; delving for pertinent information before working on his pieces. "This is not journalism," Gleaton recently told Los Angeles Times. "I am making art. I'm trying to craft a photo. I don't record moments. I make a statement." In the exhibit, visitors will get to see the lives of descendants of African slaves shuttled to Mexico by the Spanish colonialists in the 1500s.
Admission and parking is Free
http://www.lmu.edu/Page27600.aspx
until Sun 11/18
Laband Art Gallery-LMU campus
1 LMU Drive
Westchester, CA
Native Voices at the Autry's 2007 Festival of New Plays
Heart-wrenching family drama, comedic teen angst, a killer on the loose, and a superhero with a trusty sidekick fill the stage at Native Voices at the Autry's 2007 Festival of New Plays. A cast of talented Native American actors will read the four new plays before a live audience. Admission is free. Reservations requested: 323.667.2000, ext. 354.
Friday, Nov. 16, 8 pm
Salvage by Diane Glancy (Cherokee)
A Native American family struggles to survive an accident. For mature audiences, age 14 and up.
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2 pm
Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Nation)
When Kenny and Martin draw bizarre topics for a school project, they decide to combine them into "Teaching Disco Square Dancing." Can they work together to finish the project and graduate from middle school or will stereotypes and teen angst undermine their determination? This event is suitable for family audiences.
Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 pm
Native Skin by Bret Jones (Muscogee/Creek)
A murderer is running rampant through New Hope, Oklahoma. For mature audiences, age 14 and up.
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2pm
The Further Adventures of SUPER INDIAN, a Radio Play by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo/Creek)
Don't miss the next installment of Super Indian: faster than a rez rocket—stronger than bingo balls—more potent than wet socks! For "kids" of all ages, from 1 to 92!
@ Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Cross Streets: 5 freeway / N. Zoo Drive
(323) 667-2000
Free
www.nativevoicesattheautry.org
GRAND DELUSION
This biting black comedy imagines a secret confab of world leaders in the days immediately preceding World War One. The year is 1914. The world is on the brink of war and chaos, and a few good madmen are shaping the fate of future generations boldly. With a cast that includes Kurt Fuller (Anger Management, Scary Movie) as Kaiser Wilhelm, Xander Berkeley (George Mason on 24) as Czar Nicholas and Timothy Omundson (Judging Amy, Psyche) as the Austrian foreign minister, it's a dark and hilarious depiction of how the gears of diplomacy - including intrigue, deception, gingerbread cookies, the ghost of Edward VII and a talking wildebeest - just might have turned, changing history forever.
Recurs every Fri, Sat, Sun, November 17, 2007 - December 15, 2007
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 4 pm
The Lost Studio
130 S. La Brea
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 960-4441
$20, Special $5 preview Nov 16th
www.reddogsquadron.com
Friday, November 16TH::::::::::::::::::::::
Fridays Off the 405
This once a month, after-work event mixes art and entertainment and boozy conversations where you can socialize, tour the galleries, and revel in the end of the workweek. It's all so casual and spontaneous. Always live DJ-spun music and a lovely little cash bar.
Free
Parking: On Site and Paid Lot. $8
Beer and Full Bar
Audience: 21+
@ J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH:::::::::::::::::::
Atwater Village Farmer's Market
Every Sunday, rain or shine, get out to Atwater for the freshest of the fresh.
Free
3250 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323-463-3171
Free public parking is across the street from the market at Larga Ave. and Glendale Blvd.
25th Annual Garifuna Settlement Day
This festival marks the arrival of Garifuna (Afro-Carib) ancestors from St. Vincent to Belize, a dangerous exodus taken to ensure that their rich culture remained intact.
8am-6pm
@ St. Raphael Church Yard
946 W. 71st St.
Los Angeles, CA
Free
323-234-8202
World City featuring Inca Son
World City is the Music Center's FREE, ongoing performance series featuring internationally renowned artists sharing their culture through dance, music, song and storytelling. Plus, free arts workshops for children after each performance (there are 2; at 11am and 12:30pm.) This one features Inca Son, which means sound of the Incas, plays the centuries-old music of the Andes of Peru. This world-renowned company includes a full array of musicians and dancers and will also feature the fascinating scissors dance. It's a great FREE way to spend a Saturday morning.
Free
11am to 2pm
@ Keck Amphitheatre at Walt Disney Concert Hall Music Center
111 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-972-4396
http://musiccenter.org/education/worldcity.html
Conversation with... Suzan-Lori Parks
Enjoy an inspired dialogue with one of America's most prolific writers, Pulitzer Prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks ("Top Dog/Under Dog"). In her newest work for the hit musical "Ray Charles Live!" Parks charts the deepest parts of The Man in a moving and triumphant story. Moderated by Iona Morris, Assistant Director "Ray Charles Live!" -- this lively pair shares all about the evolution of Parks' creative journey. Celebrate Suzan-Lori Parks Day with music and cobbler & ice cream on the patio at 12 noon! This is expected to be a sell-out - so buy today!
$5.00 tickets – General Admission. For tickets call box office, purchase
online or in person.
INFO: Box Office 626-356-PLAY Pasadena Playhouse
Noon & 1:00 pm
www.pasadenaplayhouse.org
Japanese Language Class for Adults
Want to learn some basic Japanese phrases for your work, for your upcoming vacation, for your business trip to Japan, or an American born Japanese but didn't get an opportunity to learn some basic Japanese? Well, this is the place for you. Come to the museum to enjoy a time to get an introductory lesson on the following: Japanese history Japanese culture Japanese language for adults
1pm-2:15pm
$6 adults, $3 children
@ Martial Arts History Museum
24406 Main Street (formerly San Fernando Road)
Santa Clarita, CA 91321
(661) 255-3322
www.MAmuseum.com
Ears are Burning, Children are Learning: National Children's Book Week at California African American Museum
An array of "teachers" – including multicultural published children's authors, storytellers, fine artists and craftspeople as well as a hip-hop dance troupe and walk around characters—mesmerize and enchant children at a free program. The event is held for one purpose—to promote the joy of reading. Ears Are Burning, Children Are Learning, now in its sixth year, was created to celebrate National Children's Book Week and to encourage literacy among children. Child actors Tequan Richmond and Imani Hakim (Everybody Hates Chris) make appearances at the event, reading and informing youth (and parents, too) about the importance of reading.
1-3:30pm; Museum is open 10am-5pm. Kid Friendly: The program is geared towards kids, ages 5-12.
Free
@ California African American Museum
Parking lot entrance at 39th & Figueroa Sts.
600 State Dr.
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(213) 744-7432
www.caamuseum.org
'Creative Growth' - group show
Oakland's Creative Growth Center has brought a little piece of themselves down for an extended stay in Los Angeles' Lost & Found Gallery. Featuring work by Dwight Mackintosh, Dan Miller, Donald Mitchell, Aurie Ramirez, Kerry Daminakes, Dinah Shapiro, William Tyler and Ramon Avalos. Opening reception will be from 4-8 p.m. at Lost & Found, with an afterparty and a screening of some of Creative Growth's short films to follow at HKM Productions located at 1641 N. Ivar St.
Lost & Found Gallery
6318 Yucca St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-856-5872
Free
Black Market at Black Maria
Black Maria hosts a group show disguised as a crafty bazaar.
Free
@ Black Maria
3137 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323-660-9393
7:30pm through Jan. 5, 2008
Scion Presents: Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime
Scion, in conjunction with Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding members of the band DEVO, presents RUGS DURING WARTIME AND PEACETIME at Scion's 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery. This show is an exploration of the imagery we choose to bring into our homes and how we interact with it for the purposes of comfort and peace-of-mind rather than an esoteric sense of art for art's sake. Mothersbaugh's love of art started early in his childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind. After he received his first pair of correctional glasses Mothersbaugh had a new view of the world that inspired his obsession with imagery and illustrations. His first works, which he began creating in the late 60s and into the 70s, consisted of many different mediums, predominantly drawing and printmaking. He participated in local showings, and received recognition for his work in his home town of
Akron, Ohio.
The opening reception takes place November 17, 7:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
@ Scion Installation LA Gallery
3521 Helms Ave. (at National)
7-10pm
Free
Virtuosic Siblings: Berlin - Los Angeles Festival of Film and Art
The dynamic creative exchange between the Berlin-based artists-in residence of Villa Aurora and their Los Angeles counterparts is showcased in a series of "film couplets"—a unique screening program that reflects the mutual influences and reciprocal relationships between Berliners and Angelenos, but also their productive oppositions. Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Rosa Barba, Thomas Florschuetz, Eva Grubinger, Natascha Sadr Haghighian/Judith Hopf, Laura Horelli, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Köner, M+M, Carsten Nicolai, Julie Orser, Corinna Schnitt and Klaus Weber, among others. Many of the works presented in this program were developed as part of artist residencies at Villa Aurora.
8:30 PM
@ Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)
631 West 2nd Street @ Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 237-2800
$9 (students $7)
www.redcat.org
Black Market at Black Maria
Black Maria hosts a group show disguised as a crafty bazaar.
Free
@ Black Maria
3137 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323-660-9393
7:30pm through Jan. 5, 2008
Scion Presents: Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime
Scion, in conjunction with Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding members of the band DEVO, presents RUGS DURING WARTIME AND PEACETIME at Scion's 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery. This show is an exploration of the imagery we choose to bring into our homes and how we interact with it for the purposes of comfort and peace-of-mind rather than an esoteric sense of art for art's sake. Mothersbaugh's love of art started early in his childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind. After he received his first pair of correctional glasses Mothersbaugh had a new view of the world that inspired his obsession with imagery and illustrations. His first works, which he began creating in the late 60s and into the 70s, consisted of many different mediums, predominantly drawing and printmaking. He participated in local showings, and received recognition for his work in his home town of
Akron, Ohio.
The opening reception takes place November 17, 7pm-10pm
@ Scion Installation LA Gallery
3521 Helms Ave. (at National)
7-10pm
Free
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th::::::::
Pasadena Doo Dah Parade!
This is a spoof of the more famous "other parade" in Pasadena. About 1,500 participants in over 100 "marching" groups appear in Doo Dah's annual event toasting madness and mayhem! This year's parade includes the BBQ Hibachi & Grill Team, the "Hairy" Krishnas, Doo Dah Random Dancers, The Synchronized Men's Napping, and more.
11:30am-1:30pm
@ Raymond and Colorado Sts.,
Old Pasadena
Free
626-205-4029
www.pasadenadoodah-parade.info
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Ice Skating at Pershing Square
Just because it doesn't ever get really cold (by East Coast standards) doesn't mean you can't pretend it's really cold! Come downtown and ice skate! If you squint, it's just like a mini Rockefeller Center! Just a lot quieter! Make noise!
From Nov. 15 - Jan. 21
@ Pershing Square
530 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-847-4970
One hour sessions: $6 Skate rental: $2
213-847-4970
Women, Water and Wells: Photographs of West Africa by Gil Garcetti
In 2001, photographer Gil Garcetti traveled to West Africa for the first of what would be several visits to the continent. Enthralled by the land and the people, Garcetti became deeply committed to raising awareness of and funds for safe water in the region. Thus was born Women, Water and Wells, a selection of sixty-two striking photographs from his forthcoming book, Water is Key (Balcony Press). Garcetti's rich black-and-white photographs reveal the link between water and human health in West Africa, as well as the dramatic economic and public welfare successes that can be achieved when safe water is delivered to villages.
Women, Water, and Wells captures the challenges, successes, and hopes of people—particularly women—who are faced with the daily task of providing safe water for their families and communities. The exhibition begins with several landscapes from Niger, Ghana, Mali, and Burkina Faso, and then chronicles the important work of non-governmental organizations in the struggle to provide healthy drinking water and to eradicate a variety of diseases linked to unsafe water. Later sections show the beauty and joy of locating safe water sources, and the numerous ways that safe water benefits peoples' lives through sanitation and health, education, economics, and agriculture.
Proceeds from the sales of Water is Key will benefit the Pacific Institute an Oakland, California-based think tank dedicated to protecting the natural world.
Through November 25, 2007
@ Fowler Museum at UCLA
Park in Lot 4; Enter from Sunset Blvd.
308 Charles E. Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Guatemalan Forced Migration: Photos by Manuel Gil
Description: Guatemalan Forced Migration consists of a series of photographs of Guatemalan forced migrants that challenge the normative approach to photographing refugees by mainstream media and international humanitarian organizations that stereotype women as domestics and men as bread winners. Manuel Gil's photography, created in collaboration with writer Oscar Gil-Garcia, explores gender relations within contemporary society and transnational migrant communities. The project is a timely study that provides a critical response to the current U.S. anti-immigrant sentiment by increasing awareness of how forced migrants play a central role in the formal and informal labor economic sectors in host societies.
Through November 30, 2007
M-F, 11am-5:30pm
@ 18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 453-3711
Free
www.18thstreet.org
Incognegro: New Works by Mark Steven Greenfield
"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.
Through November 30, 2007
M-F, 11am-5:30pm
@ 18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 453-3711
Free
www.18thstreet.org
