Thursday, November 11, 2010

LAVA Sunday Salon in LA Nov. 28

On Sunday, November 28, LAVA (The Los Angeles Visionaries Association) presents an afternoon of free cultural exploration in Downtown L.A. with the monthly Sunday Salon gathering at Clifton's Cafeteria at 648 South Broadway (noon-2pm) SALON INFO: http://lavatransforms.org/salon1110

Launched in February by Richard Schave and Kim Cooper -- the founding Director and Curator of the Downtown Art Walk non-profit -- the creative consortium LAVA (The Los Angeles Visionaries Association) is fast establishing itself as one of the city's most intriguing arts collectives, with a calendar packed with compelling, offbeat urban events and a growing list of notable Visionary contributors.

LAVA's Sunday Salon has become one of the hottest (free) tickets for urban explorers seeking intelligent conversation, connection and inspiration‹not to mention Clifton's famous home cooking. The Sunday Salon returns to Clifton's Cafeteria on Sunday, November 28 from noon-2pm, and all are welcome to dine together and socialize, or attend four different presentations by LAVA Visionaries.

11/28 SALON PRESENTATIONS
(all appearing between 12-2pm, with exact times/schedules to be announced)

1) Collaborative functional artist and LAVA Visionary A. LAURA BRODY, freshly back from KC, MO (where she's been helping start up Pistol Threads' new fashion line) will demonstrate live performance draping with re-purposed fabrics, staples and scissors. It's live, full-contact sculpture! If you've already seen her first LAVA demonstration at the June 2010 Salon, this is a different style, redefined by her recent public drapings for Kansas City's infamous Dr. Sketchy's burlesque life drawing classes. Get a preview (filmed by Don Maxwell and presented by Pistol Threads' Christel Highland) at
http://vimeo.com/15717235.

At the Salon, Laura will be creating 2+ full garments which she'll later re-create as patterns. The patterns will then be used as part of the upcoming fashion line for Dreams By Machine. While she'll be bringing in a model for this process, audience participation is encouraged. If you have the time, come and be draped... and yes, commissions are welcome. Just bring your ideas in with your bodies! Photos and video of Laura's June 2010 Salon appearance are at
http://lavatransforms.org/pleatsandplayers

2) LAVA Visionary MICHAEL RISNER will have a show and tell presentation on the archives of a local Japanese-American photographer which he accidentally rescued from Craigslist and certain destruction. There are well over 100,000 individual photographs in this rescued archive. Discover the beauty and art of the this amazing archive, with images from weddings to funerals, baby portraits to community events. Risner will explain his plans for preserving and displaying the archive while showing off some highlights from the collection. To learn more about Michael's discovery, see this L.A.Weekly feature
http://www.laweekly.com/2010-09-30/columns/rescuing-a-legacy/

3) LAVA Visionary EVA MONTEALEGRE, who at at a past Salon discussed her crime fiction, returns to the Sunday Salon wearing her fine artist's hat. She will bring paintings from her Topanga home studio gallery, share her artist's adventure and talk about the development of her style with a focus on her recent oil painting series LUMINOSITY. The work in this series is created with layers of textures and colors evoking sometimes explosive flows of energy. Eva's intent is to capture energetic "truths," and to create a dance of color and form that manifests in a dreamlike conveyance of everything from whimsy to drama. For more about Eva, see
http://www.evamontealegre.com

4) Quirky Songstress and LAVA Visionary THE UKULADY returns to Clifton's with a Salon program of interactive craft-making & new songs, including the world premier of "Cutie's Theme Song," the solo anthem for 90-something blogging sensation Barbara "Cutie" Cooper of The OGs, newly single after 73 years of marriage following the death of her husband Harry "Pop Pop" Cooper. More about The Ukulady is at
http://www.theukulady.com/
and her original OGs blog theme can be heard at
http://www.the-ogs.com

ABOUT LAVA: Through participation in LAVA, a select group of creative professionals come together to promote cultural programming that speaks to the urban experience while promoting positive public space. LAVA's creative partners share a love for L.A. and unique ideas for exploring it in their work. Formed by social historians RICHARD SCHAVE and KIM COOPER --proprietors of Esotouric bus adventures and until recently the Director and Curator of the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk -- LAVA brings together L.A.'s most visionary promoters, artists, writers and thinkers.

Applications from prospective LAVA members are being taken at
http://lavatransforms.org/apply

To learn more about LAVA, please visit
http://www.lavatransforms.org

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