Los Angeles Visionaries Assocation upcoming events

Here are some brief highlights from LAVA's calendar – visit http://lavatransforms.org for full details and new additions.

We hope you can joinus for some of these Visionary-hosted events. If you can make just one each month, make it our Sunday Salon from noon to 2pm (next one is this Sunday, 4/25). This is a regularly scheduled lunchtime gathering held on the last Sunday of each month at Clifton's Cafeteria, and it's where the LAVA will really start flowing, as we get to know each other better over confetti-flecked jello and other delights.

* FRIDAY, APRIL 23 *

The Art of Bleeding with The Fuxedos and Friends:
A night of music and mirthful mayhem featuring Visionary Al Ridenour's AoB ensemble. The festivities kick off with a set from Santa Barbara's Oso, followed by the wickedly squirmy comedy of The Art of Bleeding with their distinctively inappropriate mélange of kiddy show characters, fetishized nurses, puppets,vintage school films, gruesome displays and ghastly revelations, all wrangled under the moniker: "Magic Ambulance Theater," plus The Fuxedos, billed as America's favorite surreally hilarious, theatrical punky storytelling art rock band and The Blasting Company debuting an electronic-infused, turbo-folk version of their big Balkan brass band sound. Spaceland, Silverlake, 8:30pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/artofbleeding410

* SATURDAY, APRIL 24 *

Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's L.A. bus tour
focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. Come take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars and liquor stores, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by LAVA founder Richard Schave. $58, departs from Philippe's, Chinatown, 12pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/buk0410

* SUNDAY, APRIL 25 *

Sunday Salon:
LAVA's monthly brunch gathering on the third floor of historic Clifton's Cafeteria in Downtown Los Angeles is a loosely structured gathering featuring conversational salons, short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another. If you're interested in joining LAVA as a creative contributor or an attendee, we recommend Salon attendance as an introduction to this growing community. Curated conversational salons start at 1pm hosted by Visionaries Anthea Raymond (Oral History in Media), Allon Schoener (What is LA?) and Michael "Crimebo the Clown" Perrick (topic TBA). Free! Clifton's Cafeteria, Downtown, noon-2pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/salon410

The Flâneur & The City:
this post-Salon walking tour hosted by LAVA founder Richard Schave offers an informative stroll through one of Downtown's overlooked gems, the Dutch Chocolate Shoppe with its incredible Batchelder tiles. Re-adapted numerous times since piping hot caldrons of cocoa kept Angelinos warm on those cool winter nights, we will try to trace the palimpsest of this city treasure. Topics include the proposed revisions to the city's Cultural Heritage Ordinance, the impact these would have on a space such as the Chocolate Shoppe, and a history of the storefront from 1914 to the present. Free - reservations required at the link below. Clifton's Cafeteria, Downtown, 2:30pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/chocolateflaneur

War Child Show:
LAVA Visionary David Caldwell presents his spectacular signature art work on the evening of LAVA's monthly Sunday Salon. Enjoy yourself downtown until nightfall, then head over to Caldwell's Arts District loft, where there will be complementary wine and snacks and a most unusual multi-media presentation.War Child is a Monumental Sculpture. An Installation in the form of a Magically Elaborate Altar. 14 feet high, 40 feet wide, and 26 feet deep, It gives Birth to a 40 minute Experience. A Video, Sound, and Light Show Performance.T he Video Juxtaposes Manipulated Images,Of Nature, Civilization, Creation, and Destruction. War Childs 3 Dimensional and Technical Wizardry, Entice the Audience on a Journey. The Paradigm of Duality, That Shapes Human Existence. A Synthesis of Multiple Systems,War Child becomes a Living, Breathing, Speaking, Organic Entity. All of the Technology is Embedded,and Fully Integrated into the Performance. The Living Installation Impacts, Space, Sight, Sound, and Memory. A Shifting, Constantly Changing Environment, Envelops the Audience, and Transports Them, to Another Dimension. Free! David Caldwell's loft, Downtown, doors 7:30pm, show 8pm, no late entry. Info at http://lavatransforms.org/warchild

* MONDAY, APRIL 26 *

McSweeney's Issue #34 Launch Party:
Pre-reserve your copy of the venerablequarterly, then pick it up at a party with food and drink at Stories, featuring discussion with contributors Nick McDonell and Teddy Wayne, and musical guest The Blasting Company Issue 34 features new stories of shipwrecks, kidnappings and bad vacations, by Anthony Doerr, Daniel Handler, and T. C. Boyle, letters about wine and Hawaii from John Hodgman and Sarah Vowell, self-portraits drawn by the likes of Michael Martone, Michel Gondry, and Sarah Silverman, and, in a standalone volume, Nick McDonell's stunning exploration from within the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq. Free! 826LA/EchoPark Time Mart/Stories, Echo Park, 7:30pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/mcsweeneys34

* SATURDAY, MAY 1 *

Visionaries collide as Crimebo the Clown makes an incredibly strange, yet somehow endearing, guest turn on Esotouric's Pasadena Confidential crime bus tour
hosted by Visionaries Kim Cooper, Joan Renner and Richard Schave. The Crown City masquerades as a calm and refined retreat, where well-bred ladies glide around their perfect bungalows and everyone knows what fork to use first. But don't be fooled by appearances. Dip into the confidential files of old Pasadena and meet assassins and oddballs, kidnappers and slashers, Satanists and all manner of maniac in a delightful little tour you WON'T find recommended by the better class of people! $58, departs from South Pasadena, 12pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/pasadena0510

* SATURDAY, MAY 8 *

The Visionaries of Esotouric return to host the Blood and Dumplings crime bus tour.
A criminal and gastronomical excursion into the San Gabriel Valley, Blood & Dumplings rolls through Alhambra, Temple City, Monterey Park, Rosemead and El Monte, revealing dozens of weird, forgotten crimes and oddities from the valley's past. Highlights include the mysterious Man from Mars Bandit, the lesbian couple whose bickering over spending cash resulted in one pumping the other full of downers until she died, the young bride who spent her wedding day buried under her parents' house, the battling neo-Nazis of El Monte, Phil Spector's spooky castle and the little bar where James Ellroy's murdered mother Jean had her last drink. The tour includes a selection of dumplings from one of the San Gabriel Valley's best Chinese restaurants. $58, departs from Lincoln Heights, 12pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/bnd0510

Opening night for The Air That I Breathe (Take a Stroll through the Unseen Forest),
new works with paper, paint, and wood by artist Michael Gullberg, at Visionary Amy Inouye's Future Studio. Organic forms are painted on reclaimed wood, then combined with carved elements to create sculptural paintings. Drawings and studies will also be included. “In his paintings, Michael’s imagery rides the line between surrealism and abstraction. His beings, birds, animals, plants and landscapes remind us of this world but lead us into the spiritual world of our dreams and imaginations – the place where our true selves and our own "salvation" lies. His paintings take time to digest and require the viewer to meditate with eyes open. Images make themselves more apparent over time and with repeated viewing. Like music floating in our minds, his paintings allow our imaginations to drift in thought and memories. And just as we do with music, we take away our own individual meanings and interpretations of each of his paintings" Free, Future Studio, Highland Park, 7-10pm. Info at http://lavatransforms.org/theair

* SUNDAY, MAY 9 *

Maja's Magic School:
third lecture in the new Second Sundays @ 6 For Sorcery series from Visionary, White Witch and esoteric scholar Maja D'Aoust is on the theme of "The Magic of God: Kabbalah & Changing Matter With a Word." $5, Besant Lodge, Hollywood, 6pm. Info http://lavatransforms.org/mms510

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