Must be in 4 places tonight
SPARC - maquiL.A. reception
PatriotS Act - Peace Press Film - Valley College
Voice in the Well at Warzsawa
Venice Contemporary - 60 Artist Reception
beyond baroque
electric lodge
Parlor Performances
7 Dudley Cinema
Help Pete Seeger get the Nobel Peace Prize
S. Brian Wilson at Venice United Methodist
Joselyn Wilkinson Drum Workshop - TODAY
Tom Tedecso - Jazs Guitar at Cafe Laurent
Paul Literal @ SPONTO Apr 4
Franny and Howlett Smith Harmony Choir - Sunday
Earth Day April 14 SM 3rd street mall,
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SPARC Gallery presents the art exhibition
maquiL.A.Opening Reception: Saturday March 24
7-10pm
SPARC Gallery
685 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA, 90291
310-822-9560
www.sparcmurals.orgWorks contemplate Los
Angeles as the largest producer of garments using
sweatshop labor in the US. Factories on the corners
of downtown LA, just blocks away from million dollar
lofts, reveal conditions similar to those in the
Philippines, the Mexican borderlands, Guatemala and
other free-trade manufacturing zones.
This exhibition focuses NOT simply on reflecting this
issue artistically, but on presenting SOLUTIONS to the
issue of labor, gender and immigration abuses
associated with the maquiL.A. industry. Works
imagine how our current city could arrive to be a place
where conscious labor and consuming practices
prevail. Whether they are feasible or entirely science
fiction proposals, the point is to explore artistic
production as an imaginative exercise to bring us
closer to social change.
maquiL.A. is a multi-media women’s show that
incorporates installation, photography and painting.
Some works included focus on existing social
struggles and their impact on communities, for
instance The South Central Farm. Other artists
consider the power of the thrift store, recycling, re-
using and re-fashioning goods. Overall, this exhibition
reflects on conscious modes of production,
consumption and action in a city where material
wealth and waste must be questioned. Transnational
organizations around the world work diligently to find
answers to social problems and bring them into
fruition, this exhibition invites artists to contribute to
these efforts.
maquiL.A. is curated by UCLA graduate
student Ana Guajardo.
Artists include:
Christi Burgos, Yreina Cervantez, Elena Esparza,
Ofelia Esparza, Emilia Garcia, Ana Guajardo, Susie
Lundy, and Charlene Medina.
Also featuring works from the Center for the Study
Political Graphics collection,
www.politicalgraphics.org
*maquiL.A.- a play on the word maquila,
which means to manufacture.
Maquiladoras are multi-national manufacturing plants
located on the Mexican border. Here, the word
maquiL.A. emphasizes L.A. to draw parallels between
labor conditions affecting women in Mexican factories
and those located in downtown L.A.For further inquiries please contact Ana Guajardo
(p) 323-292-1433
(e): oralearte@hotmail.com
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PatriotS Act...PEACE PRESS: the People's Printing Collective
FILM Screening! FREE Valley College
premiere Saturday March 24, 2007 7pm
Main Stage Theater Los Angeles Valley College
5800 Fulton Avenue Valley Glen CA 91401
This film was created in partnership with LAVC's Art
Department and the Center for the Study of Political
Graphics (CSPG) and in conjunction with CSPG's
poster exhibition Made in L.A.: Posters of
Peace Press which premiered at Los Angeles
Valley College in March 2005.
Q & A with Cast & Crew following screening
Free admission and parking in student lots,
Fulton at Oxnard, LAVC is between Burbank,
Coldwater and Woodman.
For more information call 818.947.2620
Call for Volunteers and Interns!
For more information call CSPG at 323 653-4662
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Join CSPG mailing list!
http://ui.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=oi&m=1011181350183
email: cspg@politicalgraphics.org
phone: 323-653-4662
web: http://www.politicalgraphics.org
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In honor of women, Eric Vollmer and Voice in the Well Ensemble will be presenting "Women of the World" this Saturday March 24th at 7:15 pm at Warsawa Restaurant(upstairs in the Loft) 1414 Lincoln Blvd. There will be readings and music by some very talented women, including me. I will be playing 2-3 songs. - Kathy Leonardo (Also Erin Grayson and many others)
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DEITY GROUP / VENICE GRIND / CANNIBAL FLOWER ARE PROUD TO INVITE YOU TO:
THE VENICE CONTEMPORARY'S (LA)
FIRST ANNUAL SPRING INVITATIONAL Fine art exhibition this Saturday night.
For full event details click the link below.
http://www.thevenicecontemporary.com/exhibitions.html
Featuring more than 60 top artists!
DJs Special Live musical guest
The VENICE GRIND special featured artist.
Live Painting (Venice Grind Graff Yard)
CANNIBAL FLOWER ART & PRINT SHOW and More!
Opening Reception: Saturday March 24, 2007
7pm to 11pm
THE VENICE CONTEMPORARY
12222 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90066
www.thevenicecontemporary.com
There is no admission fee.
Complimentary beverages brought to you in part by Dewar's, AGWA,
Absente, Red Bull. Bartending by The Heroes of Paradise.
Best, Bill Lucas - Co-Founder
The Venice Contemporary 12222 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles ca 90066
310-621-7152
Bill_lucas@deitygroup.com
http://www.thevenicecontemporary.com/exhibitions.html
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beyond baroque
24 March, Saturday - 7:30 PM
Readings from the BEYOND BAROQUE WEDNESDAY POETRY WORKSHOP
Come join us for a reading with participants of the Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop. With workshop attendees and facilitators.
30 March, Friday - 7:30 PM
FRED MOTEN and CLAUDIA RANKINE
FRED MOTEN is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota) and of two chapbooks, Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000) and, with Jim Behrle, Poems (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002). He teaches at USC. CLAUDIA RANKINE is author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf), PLOT, The End of the Alphabet, and Nothing in Nature is Private. Her work has been published in Boston Review, TriQuarterly, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. She co-edited (with Juliana Spahr) the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan).
31 March, Saturday - 7:30 PM
AYA and DAVID MELTZER
The poet AYA was part of the early Beat scene in S.F./Venice. She published Matrix: for She of the New Aeon, and her books include Way of the Warrior Priestess, Marks of Asha, Zen Love Poems, Dragon Songs, Marrying Myself and She Arising (Tree). She appears in Women of the Beat Generation and in documentaries by Mary Kerr and Philomene Long. DAVID MELTZER’s books include Beat Thing (La Alameda) and he was editor and interviewer for San Francisco Beat: Talking with Poets (City Lights). With Steve Dickison, he co-edits Shuffle Boil. David’s Copy, his selected poems, was published in 2005 by Viking/Penguin; David Meltzer: Poetry W/ Jazz, was re-issued by Sierra Records. Meltzer edited Tree mag and Tree Books. His critical books on jazz are seminal.
1 April, Sunday - 5 PM
Open Reading with RACHEL KANN and DOUGLAS RICHARDSON
RACHEL KANN is a poet, author, and multi-media artist. DOUGLAS RICHARDSON is the managing editor of poeticdiversity.com. His debut collection is Sugar Fish (Sacred Beverage). Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN. Sign-up 4:45 PM. FREE.
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electric Lodge
Shakti Dance Company presents:
DANCE YATRA
March 23-25 – Friday-Saturday, 8 pm; Sunday, 7 pm.
Tickets (at the door) - $25, $18 for students with ID; Advance tickets - $20, $15 for students with ID.
Dancers and musicians from
Special Children’s performance (by children for children): Sunday, March 25, 1:30 pm. Adult tickets for matinee - $18 (1 accompanying child, free); Group tickets for matinee (6 or more children) - $8/child, $10/each accompanying adult.
For further information, e-mail danceyatra@yahoo.com. For reservations, call 310-823-0710, press 3#.
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apartment A presents:
AN EVENING IN DEFENSE OF DELIGHT
March 30-May 5 – Thursday-Saturday, 8 pm - $22
Apartment A presents another provocative evening of original short plays. Inspired by a Jack Gilbert poem, six writers explore the necessity of finding life,
beauty and delight in an often tragic world.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world -- from “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert
For further information, visit apartmenta.org. For reservations, call 310-823-0710, press 2#.
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SCOTT KELMAN DELIBERATION CELEBRATION
April 1 - Sunday, 4pm-9pm (RSVP requested).
A passing of one generation to the next.
A day to share. To deliberate. To be in empathy. Yielding to our community of, to, through Scott Kelman.
What Scott has given us--What Scott created without creating--What Scott revealed through empathy. A community without reaching, without rushing.
Each, in mirror, in counterpoint, sprung a family within, woven, discovered in our vast city of
Come to be, this is grand. And/or come with an offering of a riff, words, sound, music, a story, a movement, a jam.
Yielding through deliberation.
It is all about recovery.
**If so inclined to give--please no flowers. Rather, support Scott's performance space and group in
brooklyn bay, 1825 SE Franklin, Bay K,
If planning to attend, please RSVP at livearts@electriclodge.org.
---------------------------------------------------7 DUDLEY CINEMA shows the following films 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
Parlor Performances @ Steinway Hall * Late March - April Calendar!!
Friday, March 30 * Singing political satirist Roy Zimmerman
Tuesday, April 10 * More musical mischief from Madison Wisconsin's
favorite satirical sons -- The Prince Myshkins!
Thursday, April 26 * Tickling Adam's Rib -- An EVEning w/ Five
Ferociously Funny Females (Betsy Salkind, Vicki Juditz, more TBA!)
All shows @ 8pm * $25 cash/check
PARLOR PERFORMANCES @ STEINWAY HALL presents...
Friday, March 30 @ 8pm * $25
America’s favorite Singing Political Satirist
ROY ZIMMERMAN's “FAULTY INTELLIGENCE”
"...lacerating wit… keen awareness of society's foibles... a latter-day
Tom Lehrer." LA Times
"I congratulate Roy... for reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." Tom
Lehrer
Zimmerman is always looking for the common thread that unites us all --
and he thinks he's found it: FAULTY INTELLIGENCE (his latest collection
of scathing but tuneful satire)! Zimmerman classics (Saddam Shame,
Psychedelic Relic, Chicken Hawk) will be joined by new tunes about Dick
Cheney, NSA wiretaps, Creation Science and Abstinence-Only Education!*
More at www.royzimmerman.com
Tuesday, April 10 @ 8pm * $25
More musical magic and political satire – Madison’s Best!
THE PRINCE MYSHKINS!
..lacerating wit… keen awareness of society's foibles... a latter-day Tom
Lehrer." LA Times
"I congratulate Roy... for reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." Tom
Lehrer
The Prince Myshkins (Rick Burkhardt & Andy Gricevich) have been
performing original political music together since 1995. Their unique
folk/cabaret sound, detailed instrumental work and hilarious,
sophisticated lyrics have provoked laughter and thoughtfulness in
audiences all over the US. They are frequently heard on NPR and Pacifica
stations. “Sing Out” magazine calls them “brilliant,” and folk music hero
Charlie King says, “their CDs are my favorite recordings of the last
millennium.” Recent songs tackle the occupation of Iraq, talk radio, the
Bush administration as seen from outer space, and the intersection of
existentialist philosophy and Interstate 5! * More at
www.princemyshkins.com
Thursday, April 26 @ 7:30pm * $25
Fundraiser for the Culver City Democratic Club!
TICKLING ADAM’s RIB:
An EVEning with Five Funny Females!
Line-up in the final planning stages but be prepared for serious laughter
(sometimes to a melody!) Musical comedian Ronnie Jayne hosts, Betsy
Salkind & more TBA soon!
Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (one door w. of Bundy *
Level P2) * Park free in lot!
All shows @ 8pm * $25 /$20 (RSVP a week or more in advance) * cash or
check at the door!
Contact Jeannine Frank at (310) 476-6735
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From: Judy Branfman
Subject: The petition to get Pete Seeger nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
Long-time civil rights activist and co-founder of the Freedom Song Network, Eleanor Walden has organized a petition to urge the American Friends Service Committee to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize. It is hard to think of someone who would deserve this honor more. I ask all of those who have joined us for Soup and Song concerts to visit the web page Eleanor has set up and sign the petition. Here is the overview of the petition that Eleanor wrote:
Pete Seeger has been a crusader for Peace and Social Justice over the
course of his 83 year lifetime. As a prominent musician his songs,
messages and performance style have worked to engage other people,
particularly the youth, in causes to end the Vietnam war, ban nuclear
weapons, work for international solidarity, and ecological
responsibility. It is time that a cultural worker receives the
recognition that this work has great influence and global reach, that it
is not only a medium of entertainment but of education, compassion and
fraternity.
The website address is:
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3774
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An Evening with S. Brian Willson - Sunday, April 1st,
7:00 PM - Venice United Methodist Church - "Can We The People End Our
Addiction to Empire as a Way of Life?" - Host Frank Dorrel
"Can We The People End Our Addiction to Empire as a Way of Life"?
An Evening with Renowned Vietnam Veteran & Peace Activist S. Brian Willson
Sunday, April 1st, 7:00 PM Venice United Methodist Church 1020 Victoria Avenue, Venice
Hosted by Frank Dorrel Music by Andy Manoff
$10 Suggested Donation
This will be a fund raiser for the new film
"A Single Woman" Based on the life of Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin
http://www.nevada-shakespeare.org/asinglewoman.html
www.brianwillson.com
Call: 310-838-8131 for more information
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Drum Workshop - Come and Play! - 2-3:30pm
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Holy Nativity Church
6700 W. 83rd Street, Westchester CA 90045-2730
Price: $10, or $5 for children
Drum Workshop with Joselyn, founder of ADAAWE, focusing on African
Djembe and Kpanlogo drum technique and rhythm. We also improvise, and
find our own voice through rhythm (and we have a ball). Call
310-967-4426 to reserve. Repeats once a quarter.
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Temple Bar
Spirited Women in Music - 9:00PM (ADAAWE plays at 10:30PM)
1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica CA
310-393-6611, www.templebarlive.com, Price: $10
Spirited Women in Music Night - presented by Temple Bar owner, Netty
Ryan. Also featuring poetic diva Sonja Marie and more! PLEASE mention
ADAAWE at the door!
"ADAAWE is 7 women strong of the drum & voice, who perform an
uplifting fusion of African rhythm, Gospel & original funk.",
www.adaawemusic.com
Music on itunes
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=25201684
Sincerely, Joselyn Wilkinson - Calabash Productions ...evolution through music
www.joselynwilkinson.com
Music on itunes
Joselyn & wild roots: Shape Shifting
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=48731913
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Thomas Tedesco Solo Jazz Guitar
Performing At Café Laurent - French Cooking At Its Best
4243 Overland Ave. @ Barman Culver City, CA 90230 (310) 558-8622
Sunday Jazz Brunch March 25, 2007 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Plenty of Street Parking
www.thomastedesco.us
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Paul Litteral & Friends: Once again we're back at Sponto Gallery. This gig will be featuring the very talented Paul Litteral on Trumpet. We'll be playing an array of jazz, standards and who knows what else Paul has lined up for us. Also in the band: Vinnie Caggiano - guitar, Alfred Johnson - Keys, Lauri Reimer - vocals, percussion, Eric Ahlberg - bass
4/04/2007 6:30-7:30 PM Sponto Gallery 27 Dudley Ave, Venice, California 90291
Cost: free /donation/tips
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From Franny:
i'm still singing with HOWLETT SMITH'S fantastic
professional "Harmony Choir", and performing in his
amazing original musical/cantata "The Carpenter". all
are welcome as always.
this sunday, march 25th at 2pm we are singing in a
beautiful church in pacific palisades:
CORPUS CHRISTI
15100 SUNSET BLVD
PACIFIC PALISADES 90272
FREE ADMISSION/free-will offerings appeciated
more info 310-454-1328
love, blessings and gratitude to all,
xoxox franny
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