Here are some brief highlights from LAVA's calendar – visit http://lavatransforms.org for full details and new additions. We hope you can join us 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 Salon: September 26). 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.
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Event: Staged reading of ART
start time: Thu, 09/23/2010 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Moveable Theatre Company presents: ART by Yasmina Reza Translation by Christopher Hampton A Staged Reading, Directed by Holly Witham Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. With: John Balma, Nicholas Hosking, J. Todd Howell
Benefitting LACE www.welcometolace.org & Being Alive http://www.beingalivela.org/
For Reservations & info please call 323 957 1777 Or visit: www.welcometolace.org
L.A.C.E. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood 90028
Phone: 323 957 1777
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Event: Staged reading of ART
start time: Fri, 09/24/2010 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Moveable Theatre Company presents: ART by Yasmina Reza Translation by Christopher Hampton A Staged Reading, Directed by Holly Witham Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. With: John Balma, Nicholas Hosking, J. Todd Howell
Benefitting LACE www.welcometolace.org & Being Alive http://www.beingalivela.org/
For Reservations & info please call 323 957 1777 Or visit: www.welcometolace.org
L.A.C.E. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood 90028
Phone: 323 957 1777
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Event: Aztec Hotel Paranormal Meetup
start time: Fri, 09/24/2010 - 8:00pm - 11:59pm
Join us at historic and reputedly haunted Aztec Hotel for a night of speakers on paranormal related topics, including LAVA Visionary Sarah Troop from the Boyle Heights Paranormal Project. Following the lectures, join in as we run a paranormal investigation of the Aztec Hotel.
Hosted by 3 A.M. Paranormal
Other speakers include Louis Gonzalez and Nicole Strickland
$15.00 per person
Aztec Hotel
311 W. Foothill Blvd.
Monrovia 91016
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Event: Esotouric's The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour
start time: Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
"This bus tour... has established itself as an L.A. classic." -The Los Angeles Times
The Black Dahlia murder in 1947 is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What Jack the Ripper is to London, the Torso Killer to Cleveland, the Black Dahlia is to L.A. And yet unlike those other cases, the name Black Dahlia refers not to the killer, but to the victim. What was it about Elizabeth Short that keeps her the object of obsessive fascination by writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, cops and readers, more than sixty years after she was slain?
The Real Black Dahlia Crime Bus Tour seeks to answer this question by intimately exploring the last weeks of Elizabeth Short's life, asking not "who killed her?" but "who was she?"
The tour takes us from the human hustle of Main Street to the serene lobby of the Biltmore (the second-to-last place she was seen alive), to the newspaper offices and the Greyhound station where she checked her bags, and concludes at the site where her bisected body was found in Leimert Park and with a little known suspect who lived nearby.
From the few personal possessions she left behind to the friends who scarcely knew her, from the mass hysteria of the investigation with its fruitless leads, wacko suspects and false confessions, the tour reveals all that's known about this enigmatic black-haired girl who reinvented herself at whim, and shows how she came to be the unfortunate symbol of her time and place.
The Biltmore Hotel
515 S Olive St
Los Angeles 90013
Phone: 323-223-2767
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Event: LAVA's Sunday Salon
start time: Sun, 09/26/2010 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
On the last Sunday of each month, LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather on the third floor of the historic Clifton's Cafeteria in Downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring 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. We also recommend the shortbread.
Special program at the September 26 Salon: LAVA Visionaries will host curated conversations and presentations at tables around the room. More details will be posted closer to Salon-time.
Presentations include:
• A table discussion hosted by Visionary Madame Pamita on the subject of Tarot Reading, Euphonious Prognostication, Wax Cylinder Recording and Medicine Shows. Madame Pamita has been billed as Queen of the Carnival Sideshow Fortune Tellers and reads tarot, tea leaves and crystal ball at events all over the Los Angeles area. Following her presentation, Madame Pamita will be offering private tarot consultations for a nominal fee.
• Visiting from Canada, multidisciplinary artist and entertainer Robert Dayton will be showing and discussing the results of his latest visual art series "For The Ladies" where he conducted a public survey asking anyone - no matter their gender - who identifies as a lady: "What would you, as a lady, like to see depicted in my art (or, more simply, art in general)?"
• Visionary The Ukulady, as seen in The New York Times and heard singing The OGs' theme song on NPR, will present an entertainment program of ukulele and toy accordian tunes, and will discuss the insidious and inspirational celebrity and pop-culture integral to the cute, but slightly distasteful, poncho-tankini-outfit of Los Angeles.
Stick around the neighborhood post-Salon, as Visionary Anthea Raymond hosts an open studio and conversation with Visionary photographer Gary Leonard, at his gallery just down Broadway.
Clifton's Cafeteria is at 648 South Broadway, near the corner of 7th Street. There are numerous paid parking lots nearby, and the closest Metro station is Pershing Square. Clifton's is online at http://www.cliftonscafeteria.com
Clifton's Cafeteria
648 South Broadway
Los Angeles 90014
Phone: 323-223-2767
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Event: Raise Your Mystic Fire Through Pranayama – A Yoga Breathing Course Part 2
start time: Sun, 09/26/2010 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Prana, which comes from the Sun, is that holy power which permeates all life and is necessary in everything that you do. The control of this energy is crucial in the raising of the mystic power of Kundalini. In this 2-part course you will learn ancient techniques passed on through the ages to potentize the intake of prana through the air. These exercises have been chosen by a modern Master of Yoga, Dr. George King, for the Western student. In this course you will be taught a powerful and balanced series of pranayama exercises by a long-time disciple of Dr. King.
Presented by Brian C. Keneipp, Executive Director of The Aetherius Society
Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door:
Included in the class cost is the book, Contact Your Higher Self Through Yoga, which contains these exercises as taught by Dr. George King. (Subtract $5 if you already own the book.)
The Aetherius Society
6202 Afton Pl.
Los Angeles 90028
Phone: (800) 800-1354
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Event: Gary Leonard Studio Open House and Talk
start time: Sun, 09/26/2010 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
LAVA Visionary Gary Leonard has been taking photos on the streets of Los Angeles for over forty years. His images include iconic shots of punk rockers, politicians, and entertainers. He's lately turned his attention to Downtown, where he now has opened his own gallery Take My Picture. Gary's also recently revived his "Take My Picture" column on the widely-read LAObserved.com
On September 26th, following the monthly Sunday Salon and just a brisk walk south from Clifton's, Leonard opens his gallery for a special showing and artist talk moderated by fellow LAVA Visionary Anthea Raymond. Leonard will share the stories behind some of his iconic photos. The conversation will also include David Leonard, Gary's videographer-producer son who's now studying at UCLA.
Take My Picture
860 South Broadway
Los Angeles 90014
Phone: 213-622-2256
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Event: MAKING CHANGE STORE at 18th. Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
start time: Sat, 10/02/2010 - 1:00pm - 6:00pm
The MAKING CHANGE store will open on Oct. 2nd. at a beer/art/music fundraising event at 18th. Street Arts Center in Santa Monica (18th. Street and Olympic). The store will present art and craft by Los Angeles artists who create with a focus on political and environmental art. Posters, sculpture, drawings, assemblage, cards, calendars and books are just a few of the diverse items to be found in the store. The store will be open from October through December 23rd. 2010 from noon to 6pm Wed. through Sat. and I hope you will stop in.
18th. Street Arts Center
1639 18th. Street
Santa Monica 90404
Phone: 310-453-3711
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Event: Esotouric's The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California Nightmare
start time: Sat, 10/09/2010 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can’t eat the sunshine, recent emigré James M. Cain found a kernel of truth and his voice, which would eventually distill through his novels, ”The Postman Always Rings Twice,” “Mildred Pierce” and “Double Indemnity” and subsequent film adaptations into the unique American genre: Film Noir.
How did this East Coat sophisticate go from managing editor of “The New Yorker” to populist novelist accused of writing dirty books? The tour explores Cain’s L.A. from Hollywood to Glendale and along old Route 66, and includes illuminating visits to Forest Lawn Memorial Park (a Glendale institution and site of the funeral of Mildred Pierce’s “other” daughter, Ray), the Glendale Train Station where the “Double Indemnity” murder plot played out, and the punch line to a Billy Wilder joke so subtle, it’s taken 63 years for anyone to get. The tour will also cover the artisans who transformed Cain’s tales into film, including Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner, each an important contributor to the Film Noir canon.
Philippe's
1001 N Alameda St.
Los Angeles 90013
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Event: Maja's Magic School: The Familiar & the Magic of the Animal
start time: Sun, 10/10/2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, hosts a new metaphysical lecture series held on the second Sunday of each month in the historic Annie Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Maja is the librarian at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, where she lectured for four years, the co-author of "The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One Of Seven Hermetic Laws, Here are the Other Six" and hostess of the Maja's Mysteries series of Esotouric bus adventures. The theme of tonight's lecture is: The Familiar & the Magic of the Animal.
Annie Besant Lodge
2560 N. Beachwood Drive
Los Angeles 90068
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