New Play Reading Festival at Boston Court Theatre
Boston Court’s 13th Annual New Play Reading Festival presents exciting new works in progress, a wide variety of genres, with an emphasis on works which are theatrically and visually arresting, and textually rich. Tickets are FREE and reservations are strongly recommended.
Join artistic directors Jessica Kubzansky & Michael Michetti, and literary manager Emilie Beck for a preview and discussion about this year’s plays.
Where: Boston Court
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
Website: http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/343/new-play-reading-festival-preview
Sunsets of Tulum at Distant Lands
Join bestselling travel writer Ray Bartlett, who will read from his debut novel, Sunsets of Tulum. Like the protagonist in his novel, many people arrive in Cancun with little to no understanding of how rich the area is beyond the ridges of the resort. Learn more about this incredible part of the world from someone who knows it like the back of his hand.
Please RSVP at website or call 626-449-3220.
Where: Distant Lands Bookstore
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 20 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105
Website: http://distantlands.com/events/
90X90: Wirecutter at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Join the Wirecutter Collective to celebrate the release of PAPERS: a chapbook, featuring poets Bridgette Bianca, Amanda Wang, and Rebecca Lee, and artist Ana Chaidez. We can’t wait to see this work out in the world. We’ll also get to hear from a guest of each poet.
Event is curated by Rocio Carlos & Rachel McLeod Kaminer.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/wirecutter/
Mime Workshop at CAAM
Join us to explore how to read, and then rewrite, our cultural stories without saying a word. Brent Blair, a specialist in the methods of Augusto Boal, founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, will present a workshop on silent expression—then the stage is yours!
Please RSVP at website or call: 213-744-2024.
Where: California African American Museum
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 600 State Dr., Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Website: http://www.caamuseum.org/web_pages/programs.htm
Author Lisa Manterfield at Pages Bookstore
Please join us for an evening with Lisa Manterfield, author of The Smallest Thing. The very last thing 17-year-old Emmott Syddall wants is to turn out like her dad. She’s descended from ten generations who never left their dull English village, and she’s moving to London and swears she’s never coming back. inspired by the historical story of the plague village of Eyam, this contemporary tale of friendship, community, and impossible love weaves the horrors of recent news headlines with the intimate details of how it feels to become and adult—and fall in love.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/lisa-manterfield-author-event-0
Aparna & Friends at the Hammer Museum
Join us for a Night of Subjective Comedy and Performance, as part of our Bureau of Feminism series. Organized and led by comedienne Aparna Nancheria, this female-only comedy extravaganza features special guests Marlena Rodriguez, Erin Lennox, and Naomi Ekperigian.
Cash bar.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/07/aparna-friends-a-night-of-subjective-comedy/
Live Again Project at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear Michael Eselun for An Evening of Inspiring Stories, relating to those affected by the cancer experience.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Nancy Lynee Woo at Redondo Poets Event
Redondo Beach Poets welcomes featured poet Nancy Lynee Woo, and also offers its weekly Open Mic at Coffee Cartel.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets/
90×90: The Wandering Song at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Celebrate! Activate! Investigate!
Tia Chucha Press is proud to present The Wandering Song, an anthology of Central American writers living in the United States. It features work that captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latino groups, but also offers its own unique narrative. Featuring: Susana Aguilar-Marcelo, Iris de Anda, William A. Gonzalez, Cynthia Guardado, GusTavo Adolfo Guerra Vasquez, Adolfo Hernandez, Rossana Perez, and William Archila.
Event curated by Harold Terezon.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/tbdtu-718-8pm/
Lilliam Rivera at Felipe de Neve Branch Library
Join us for our Summer Author program for Teens, and connect with Lilliam Rivera, author of The Education of Margot Sanchez. Refreshments will be served and lucky winners will receive a free copy of her book!
Where: Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 2820 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: http://lfla.org/events/summer-author-lilliam-rivera
Mystery Authors at Beverly Hills Public Library
Join us to hear A Midsummer Night’s Mystery, featuring Cara Black, Hannah Dennison, Naomi Hirahara, and Kwei Quartey.
The authors will discuss their books, their writing process,a nd the inspiration for the stories and characters.
Where: Beverly Hill Public Library
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 444 N. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Website: http://http://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/1655786119506987946/mystery2017.pdf
Jade Chang & Annabelle Gurwitch at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear Jade Chang, in conversation with Annabelle Gurwitch, (Wherever You Go, There They Are) discuss and sign The Wangs Vs. the World, a debut novel with a humorous take on immigration. Both authors are LA-based and their books have the underlying theme of immigration. Both books are humorous but relatable, and perfect for summer reading.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/jade-chang-conversation-annabelle-gurwitch ..
Spoonbenders at Book Soup
Join us to hear Daryl Gregory, discuss and sign Spoonbenders, the story of a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. Gregory delivers a stunning laugh-out-loud new novel about a family of gifted dreamers and the invisible forces that bind us all.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/daryl-gregory-discusses-and-signs-spoonbenders
Karin Esterhammer at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Karin Esterhammer discuss and sign So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam, about the decision, after job losses and the housing crash, how the author and her family left LA to start over in an unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City’s poorest districts—and where she ultimately found joy without Western trappings.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Paul Madonna at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Paul Madonna discuss and sign On to the Next Dream, a series of drawings and stories which evoke the sense of vertigo induced from being forced from his home, and the roil of emotions he felt as he entered the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. This book captures the spirit of not just San Francisco, but the cultural epidemic now spreading to cities around the world.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/paul-madonna-discusses-his-book-next-dream
90×90: Little Tokyo Cultural Spine #1 at Various Little Tokyo Sites
Celebrate! Activate! Investigate!
In this four-part series that takes us through Little Tokyo streets and venues, we will explore what is called the “Cultural Spine” of the neighborhood.
Curated and produced by traci akemi-kiriyama, LTSC SLT
Where: Various Little Tokyo Streets & Venues
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Various Locations, Little Tokyo, CA
Website: http://90x90la.com/tbdtu-718-8pm/
Janelle Brown, with Eden Lepucki, at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear YA author Janelle Brown, in conversation local YA author Eden Lepucki, (Woman No. 17) discuss and sign Watch Me Disappear, a story about the disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life, who went on a solo hike and vanished from the trail. Brown is also the author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and This Is Where We Live. Lepucki is also the author of the novel, California.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/janelle-brown-edan-lupicki
Chalk Rep’s Open Circle: Play at the Last Bookstore
Join us for an evening of performances, speakers, and ritual, including new writing by Humanitas Award-winning comedy writer Andrea Wachner. We also invite you to share and respond with words, movement or music during our Open Share segment.
Please RSVP at Website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
90X90: Ramadan Reading at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Ramadan is a time of reflection and prayer and for some of us—poetry. Poetry-a-Day-for-Ramadan is a space for poets to share their Ramadan poems or prose or paint or music daily. Today we share those reflections.
Curated by Taz Ahmed
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 321 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/ramadan-readingth-720-8pm/
Richard Lange at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Richard Lange read from his new book, The Smack, the story of a con man down on his luck who crosses paths with a sweet hooker who’s tired of the streets, and they try for one last score. Complications ensue!
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/richard-lange-reads-his-new-novel-smack
Las Lunas 3rd Anniversary at Avenue 50 Studio
You are cordially invited to celebrate the three-year anniversary of Las Lunas Locas, a self-identified womyn’s writing group based in Los Angeles.
There will be cake.
There will be music.
And certainly there will be words.
Bring your people. Meet our people.
This is also a fundraiser to support the epic Southwest Tour of 2017.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://us.eventbu.com/los-angeles/las-lunas-locas-three-year-anniversary/3778533
90×90: Non-English Zines at Otros Libros
Zines are made in ALL sorts of languages, not just in English (no matter what the Broken Pencil Zine Awards has to say about it).
On this day we will celebrate many of these titles and zinemakers.
Event curated by Seite Books.
Where: Otros Libros
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 2006 E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: http://90x90la.com/non-english-zinesf-721-8pm/
Book to Art Club at Glendale Brand Library
The Book to Art Club combines reading, discussion, and art making. Create a project based on themes from the book, The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro.
Where: Brand Library, Glendale Public Library
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 10:30 am – 12 pm
Address: 1601 West Mountain St., Glendale, CA 91201
Website: http://glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/25254/125
Antoinette Portis at Children’s Book World–Children’s Book Event
Please join us to hear author/illustrator Antoinette Portis for a reading of her delightful new book, Now, a drawing demonstration, and an activity. Now is a stunningly illustrated, clever, and poignant picture book, and follows a little girl as she takes you on a tour of her favorite things.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
90X90: IMPACT: symposium on art + gentrification at Cielo Galleries/ Studios
Please join us for IMPACT, a symposium on art and gentrification and its meanings for art and communities.
Curated by Robin Grearson and the 90x90LA team
Where: Cielo Galleries/ Studios
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time:11 am
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/gentrification-symposiumsa-722-11am/
Play Reading Series at Boston Court
Please join us for a reading of Hitler’s Tasters, by Michele Kholos Brooks, the story of how three times a day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country by being Adolph Hitler’s food tasters. What do they want to discuss as they wait to see if they will live another day?
Where: Boston Court
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/344/hitlers-tasters
Lincoln and Mexico at Dominguez Adobe Museum
Join us as we host book editor Mikel Miller, who will present Abraham Lincoln and Mexico: A History of Courage, Intrigue and Unlikely Friendships and its author Michael Hogan. The book covers twenty years of history, beginning in 1846 and continuing through the Civil War. There will be a &A and book signing.
Where: Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 1 pm
Address: 18127 S. Alameda St., Compton, CA
Website: http://dominguezrancho.org/2017/06/21/speaker-series-july-2017/
Play Reading at Boston Court
Join us for a reading of This Floating World, by Tira Palmquist, a story about a woman of means crashing her car in no-man’s land, and then finding herself taking a long, strange trip home. This story takes place on the margins between suburbia and wilderness, here and there.
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 2:30 PM
Address: 70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA
Website: http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/345/this-floating-world
Poetry at the Montrose Library
The Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga Monthly Readings presents readings from Dorothy Skiles and Marlene Hitt. This program will also have two Open Mic segments, and sign-up is available for those who wish to read their poems.
$3 donation appreciated.
Where: Montrose Library
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2465 Honolulu Ave., Montrose CA
Website: http://villagepoets.blogspot.com/
Spectrum Poetry Performance at Santa Catalina Library
Join us to hear featured poets published in Spectrum 11: Long Poem Haven. (Send up to three poems, each between 40 to 100 lines in length including stanza breaks, and a 5o word bio to us by July 1st).
Saturday Afternoon Poetry is curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Play Reading at Boston Court
Join us for a reading of Sweet Maladies, by Zakiyyah Alexander, a dark play set in the time of Reconstruction, and inspired by Jean Genet’s, The Maids.
Where: Boston Court
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 90027
Website: http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/350/sweet-maladies
Tristine Rainer at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Tristine Rainer in conversation and reading her book, Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anais Nin. In 1962 eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anais Nin’s West Village apartment. this chance meeting would change her life and begin her years as Anais’ accomplice, keeping her secrets—including that of her bigamy—even after the passing of her husbands.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/tristine-rainer-discusses-her-book-apprenticed-venus
Michael Connolly at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear the #1 Bestselling Author Michael Connelly with his new book, The Late Show, featuring his new character, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard. Connelly is the author of 29 previous novels, including the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, and is executive producer of the TV series Bosch.
Please RSVP at Website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
90X90: Our Hood Is Not For Sale at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Casa Solidaria del Sur/Solidarity House of the South, Dreamers of South Central LA and Cielo galleries/studios are all located on stolen Tongva Land. We recognize that our resistance against gentrification is interconnected with the Tongva/Native Peoples resistance to continued colonization and genoside.
As we/our communites resist gentrification we ask:
Who was here before us?
How did we get here?
Who is here now?
Who ‘owns’ the properties in South Central?
Who is posting all those ‘We Buy Houses/Fast Cash’ signs all over South Central?
Who is activley resisting gentrification in South Central?
Do you know something about the history of South Central LA?
Are you concerned about the gentrification of South Central?
Have you experienced gentrification in your hood?
Do you have information you would like to share?
We invite people from South Central and beyond to join us as we discuss gentrification and make our own creative signs to post as a direct response to the bombardment of ‘We Buy Houses/Fast Cash’ signs all over South Central LA.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/tbd-workshopsu-723-5pm/
La Palabra Reading Series at Avenue 50 Studio
Join us to welcome the sauna of July and enjoy some cool paletas.
Join our circle and hear the words of our featured artists:
T Sarmina is a queer Xicanx child of migrant field workers, writes with these identities in mind, and works at 826LA. T’s work appears in Coiled Serpent, ITWOW and elsewhere.
Kirin Khan is a Pukhtuna writer from Alberquerque, New Mexico whose work explores immigration, violence and belonging. se is a 2016 VONA Voices alum, a 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, and she is currently working on her first novel.
Joseph Rios was born and raised in Clovis, California and his first book, Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations, is forthcoming from Omnidown. He is a VONA Voices alum, and a Macondo and a CantoMundo fellow. He lives in Los Angeles.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 2 pm 4 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Nebraska Girl Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for our monthly Open Mic event, hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
Sign-ups begin at 1:30 pm.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Cindy Rinne & Friends at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Cindy Rinne read from Listen to the Codex, twenty eight poems that stitch a tale intersecting ancient mythology with science fiction.
The Native Blossoms Chapbook Series embraces poetry of place, experience and connections to the natural landscape, the untamed, the indigenous.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/cindy-rinne-reads-listen-codex-special-guests
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