LAVA offers special Sunday Salon Oct. 30

Weird Hollywood Lore and Circuit-Bent Electronic Sound Poetry at LAVA's free
Halloween Sunday Salon

WHAT: On Halloween Sunday, October 30, LAVA (The Los Angeles Visionaries
Association) presents an afternoon of free cultural exploration in Downtown
L.A. with the monthly Sunday Salon gathering upstairs at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club (new location) at 431 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90014
(noon-2pm)

COST: Free, but see detailed instructions for attendees entering this event
held in a private club at the link below and later in this press release

SALON INFO: http://lavatransforms.org/salon1011

Launched in February 2010 by Richard Schave and Kim Cooper--the
proprietors of Esotouric bus adventures and 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, and
this month's program is sure to delight.

After 19 Salons at Clifton's Cafeteria, ongoing renovations to that historic
restaurant have inspired the Sunday Salon to move to a new venue just two
blocks west, in a private room at the equally historic Los Angeles Athletic
Club. The Sunday Salon happens at LAAC on Halloween Sunday, October 30 from
noon-2pm, and all are welcome to dine together and socialize, while enjoying
compelling presentations by LAVA Visionaries.

PRESENTERS AT THE OCTOBER 30 SALON (all appearing between 12-2pm, with exact
times/schedules to be announced at the event)

1) In keeping with the Halloween theme, we welcome LAVA Visionary JOE
OESTERLE, author of the newly-released "Weird Hollywood" and the classic
"Weird California" and "Weird Las Vegas." Joe will be reading some spooky
stories from his books as well as sharing anecdotes from his weird road
travels. Joe also promises to bring along one of the real life Weird
Hollywood characters featured in his latest book. The multi-talented Joe
Oesterle is a former Senior Editor of "National Lampoon," a visual artist,
musician, animator and curator of the strange and marvelous. After his
presentation, Joe will be signing copies of "Weird Hollywood."

For video from Joe Oesterle's January 2011 Salon appearance, see the link
below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4P7G2jrCA#t=18m46s

For more about Joe Oesterle, visit
http://joeartistwriter.com/

2) Then two LAVA Visionaries collaborate to prove that science and art can
play well together as evidenced in "Circuitry & Poetry." LAVA Visionary JEFF
BOYNTON's DIY electronics accompany LAVA Visionary MONA JEAN CEDAR¹s
communicative arts of dance, poetry and sign language. More black art than
science, circuit bending entails the subversive act of ripping open
inexpensive electronics devices -- ranging from children's toys to
professional keyboard instruments -- exposing their circuit boards, and
attacking their vulnerable insides by poking, probing, and prodding in the
spirit of exploration to search for new sounds which are then activated at
will. Mr. Boynton's deep classical music background influences his
performances on these ingenious circuit-bent instruments, providing a
soundscape over which Mona Jean Cedar performs.

Ms. Cedar creates her
singular multi-layered approach to spoken word and movement by composing and
choreographing with sign languages, both American and foreign. Concurrently
cryptic and clearly communicative, the highly visual nature of sign language
exponentially increases the expressiveness of the poetry and the dance.
Together their unique talents create performances that astound with sound,
pique with poetry and delight with dance.

For more about Jeff Boynton's circuit bending experiments, visit
http://www.blankstare.biz/CBpage.html

For more about Mona Jean Cedar's poetry and sign language artistry, visit
http://www.pasdasl.com/

INFORMATION FOR LAVA ATTENDEES: The Los Angeles Athletic Club is located at
431 West 7th Street, on the north-east corner of 7th and Olive Streets. When
you enter the Athletic Club, inform the person at the desk that you are
there as a guest of club member Richard Schave attending the LAVA event.
They will sign you in, and send you upstairs to the fourth floor.

It will be
possible to order light meals of sandwiches in the 8th floor snack bar,
however, please note that service will be slower than at Clifton's, and that
arriving early and ordering promptly will be very helpful.

We recommend
parking under Pershing Square at Fifth and Olive, which is also the nearest
Metro Station. If you order food, the Athletic Club will validate for their
parking lot.

Photos and video from some recent Salons are here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lPdqRcXVs
http://lavatransforms.org/salonvideo311
http://lavatransforms.org/hauntsandhorrors
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardschave/sets/72157623729484726/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardschave/sets/72157624174080520/

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 the 1947project time travel blog
series (including On Bunker Hill and In SRO Land) -- 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