90X90LA: Facilitating Spaces at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Facilitating Spaces 101: not ‘what’, but ‘where’ are we doing[?]
first comes the space
then comes facilitating
or
first comes facilitating
then comes the space
What draws us to particular spaces? What do we know about the space before and after we choose it? Who was here before us? Who is us? Where is us? What are we doing here?
Either way, the spaces we choose to hold our events in are determined by a number of factors, but are those factors aligned with equitable intentions? This workshop/discussion hopes to convince you, to persuade you, to con you, into thinking deeply about the space your program occupies.
We’ll run through the many components/factors/variables of operating in a space. Whether it’s a workshop, a classroom, a reading, an art exhibit, or a musical experience – we need spaces! Incorporating thoughtfulness and mindfulness will not only help to make your event more meaningful and engaging, but it also fosters inclusive practices that in the long run can build equity in art/communities.
This workshop/discussion is part one in the [equity in community building series] and facilitated by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/facilitating-spaces-101-equity-in-community-building-814-7pm/
Cadence Collective’s Poetry Party at Fox Coffeehouse
In this months’ Poetry Party Open Mic with Featured Readers we will host George Hammons and liz gonzales. Come sign up and read your poems during our open reading.
George Hammons was born in San Francisco, and lived in Phoenix before moving to Compton as a teen. He graduated from Verbum Die High School in Watts and studied writing at Cal State San Bernardino. His poems have been published in American Mustard (anthology), Cadence Collective (Sadie Girl Press) and the Pacific Review (CSUSB). His new chapbook from Arroyo Seco Press will be available at the reading.
liz gonzalez is a fourth generation Southern Californian and grew up in the San Bernardino Valley. Her poems have appeared in Askew Poetry Journal, Cultural Weekly, and in the anthologies 2016 Writing from Inlandia, The Coiled Serpent, and Wide Awake. She directs Uptown Word & Arts in North Long Beach and teaches creative writing through Angels Gate Cultural Center and the UCLA Extension Writers Program.
This event is co-hosted by Murray Thomas and Sarah Thursday.
Where: Fox Coffeehouse
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 437 W. Willow St., Long Beach, CA 90806
Website: http://www.facebook.com/CadenceCollectiveLBP
Michelle Kuo at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Michelle Kuo, discuss and sign Reading with Patrick: A Father, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship. Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived at the rural town of Helena, Arkansas as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. This child of Taiwanese immigrants shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and personal awakening. Though she loses some students to truancy and gun violence, she is inspired by some, such as Patrick. Then, after leaving Arkansas to attend law school, on the eve of her graduation, she learns Patrick has been jailed for murder, and she returns to Helena to try to work with him and correct her “mistake.” Little by little, Patrick grows into a confident, expressive writer and dedicated reader. This is an inspirational story of coming of age in both a young teacher and a student, and a meditation on education, race and justice.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Nate Dern at Book Soup
From the senior writer at Funny or Die, and former director at Upright Citizens Brigade, comes a collection of absurdist, hilarious stories and essays on relationships, technology, and contemporary society. Nate Dern’s razor sharp eye examines a wide variety of topics, from an open letter to Charles Manson, to a long overdue missive from Leif Erickson to Christopher Columbus. Walt Whitman even teaches a spin class.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/nate-dern-discusses-and-signs-not-quite-genius
Write Away at Fairview Branch Library, SMPL
Join us to gain support and encouragement in your writing efforts from fellow writers in this writer’s meet-up and workshop.
Where: Fairview Branch Library, SMPL
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2101 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24312
90X90LA: Community, Values Statements at the Annenberg Beach House
Join the discussion, part of a trio of August panels titled Values Statement. This one is about the arts in the context of community/community building, how the process of embedding art creation within, in correspondence with, and in reaction to communities, affects the work being created as well as its presentation and consumption.
Panelists include:
Hiram Sims (Community Culture Initiative)
Terry Wolverton (Writers at Work)
Peter Woods (WLP, Quality Collective)
Iris De Anda (Eastside Café)
Curated by Chiwan Choi
Bring your perspective and join in the discussion!
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 451 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://90x90la.comcommunity-value-statements-815-630pm/
Chiara Barzini, with Jonathan Ames, at Book Soup
Join us to hear Chiara Barzini, with Jonathan Ames, discuss and sign Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, the coming of age novel which takes place mere weeks after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. In this story nineties Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in a poignant and ruefully funny tale of a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Anya Kukafka at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us as Anya Kukafka reads from her debut book, Girl in Snow, the perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller of misfit characters who illustrate the answer to the question: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? This book is an unforgettable reading experience and introduces a singular new talent.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/danya-kukafka-discusses-and-signs-girl-snow
Tom Perotta at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Tom Perotta discuss and sign, Mrs. Fletcher. This is his acclaimed new book which is a provocative and wildly funny look at parenthood, the empty nest, and sex in suburbia. This is a coming of age tale is refreshingly not the eighteen year old son, but the forty six year old mother, and of awakening in unexpected places.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/tom-perrotta-reads-his-new-novel-mrs-fletcher
Soul Central Writers Workshop at South Central Healin Artz
Join us every Tuesday to write. Bring anything you would like to work on, including: notebook full of writing, random papers where you’ve scribbled ideas, poems, stories, lyrics, or anything unwritten that is calling you to be written.
Hosted by Anna Lilia Urena
Where: South Central Healin Artz Space
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 5139 S. Main St., West Hollywood, CA 90037
Nick Ute at Los Angeles Central Library
Join us to hear Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ute talk about his incredible career. Nick was born as Huynh Cong Ut in Long An, Vietnam in 1951. In 1966 he joined the AP in Vietnam after his older brother, also an AP photographer, was killed in combat. He was wounded three times in the 1970 Cambodian invasion, and his iconic photo of Kim Phuc, running from her napalm bombed village, was taken June 8, 1972. Ut now lives in L.A., has recently retired from AP, and is still in touch with Kim Phuc, now living in Canada. In 2012 Ut became the third person inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 12:15 pm – 1 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/photographers-eye-nick-utick-ut
Author Talk with Siel Ju at Westwood Branch Library
Join us to hear Los Angeles author and writer Siel Ju discuss her novel Cake Time, a novel in stories, in a program for adults and seniors.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-siel-ju
Walter Stahr at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Walter Stahr discuss and sign Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Stahr is also the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, about Lincoln’s Secretary of State.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
90x90LA: Guess Who’s Cooking Dinner at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Join us for Guess Who’s Cooking Dinner: Narratives from the Periphery, curated by Skira Martinez, Stephanie Para and Susan Parks. This will be a candid conversation on the food stories that are never told, invisibilized, or shut out of popular writing and media.
Susan Parks is a chef, writer, the owner of Revolutionario North African Tacos, and a podcaster at The Smoking Korean.
Stephanie Para is a chef consultant, writer-editor, and owner of HoneyButterLA and a podcaster on Mexican food and beverage conditions, experiences and diasporic stories.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3210 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/panel-on-foodwritingmemory-816/
Chiara Barzini at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear Chiara Barzini discuss and sign, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake. This debut coming-of-age novel has an Italian twist and takes place weeks after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Journaling at Pico Branch, Santa Monica Library
Journaling offers a tremendous benefit to the mind, body and spirit. Join us as we write from prompts in this workshop for adults. No writing experience is necessary. Bring a pen or pencil and your willingness to experiment on the page. Journals will be provided.
Where: Pico Branch Library, SMPL
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24162
Art Block Zone Workshop by DSTL Arts at Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Please join us on the third Thursday of each month as we make a Teen Zine during our Teen Council meetups hosted by DSTL Arts. We will be creating an Art Block Zine to be published and added to our library.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Apprenticed to Venus at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Tristine Rainer discuss and sign her book, Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anais Nin, a revealing look at the mentorship and manipulation of Anais Nin. In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anais Nin’s West Village apartment, and this chance meeting began her years as Anais’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences becoming a fixture of her inner circle. this book brings to life a seductive and entertaining character in literary history.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Christine Pelisek at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear investigative journalist Christine Pelisek discuss and sign The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central, with writer and editor Joe Donnelly. This is the story of their breaking the cover story in the L.A. Weekly on the longest running serial killer west of the Mississippi, neighborhood fixture Lonnie Franklin, Jr., a man who had been killing women since the 1980s. Pelisek connected the dots in 38 possibly linked homicides, many of which were of prostitutes or drug addicts, and society’s lack of concern for these victims.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Jarrett Kobek, with James St. James, at Skylight Books
Jarrett Kobek reads from his novel, The Future Won’t Be Long, and discusses it with James St. James, author of Party Monster and Freak Show. This story follows Kobek’s debut novel last year, I Hate the Internet, and it’s a provocative, ecstatic story of friendship, sex, art, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East village, 1986-1996. This euphoric, propulsive novel has a rare vitality, and is an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change and save our lives.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jarett-kobek-reads-his-novel-future-wont-be-long-james-st-james
90X90LA: Shadows: Beyond the Rainbow at Cielo
This event of speculative fiction readings from queer authros brings together features:
C.B. Lee is a bisexual writer based in California and writes young adult, science fiction and fantasy books. Not Your Sidekick was a Lambda Literary Awards finalist in 2017.
Martin Pousson, is an American novelist, poet and professor, born and raised in the Cajun French bayou land of Acadiana in Louisiana. Black Sheep Boy won the 2016 NEA Fellowship for the Arts, among many other prizes.
Carlos Allende writes fiction, humor and comedy, and horror/ he is the author of Love, or The Witches of Windward Circle, a horror farce set in Venice, CA throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Event curated by: Shades and Shadows.
Your hosts are Lauren Candia and Xach Fromson.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/shades-and-shadows-beyond-the-rainbow-817-8pm/
Backyard Busk at Art Share LA
Please join us for a grassroots eclectic event that hosts musicians, authors, poets, comedians, and artists of all kinds. The event is free but all donations go to Education Through Music-Los Angeles, which partners with inner city schools to promote music as part of the core curriculum. With each event we aim to provide at least one student with a year’s worth of music classes.
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://artsharela.org/event/backyard-busk-art-share-l-a/
Beatles Anthology at Book Soup
Please join us for an anthology of essays from a chorus of 29 luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. These essays, arranged chronologically, explore the poignant intersection between Beatles history and personal history. Those included, from Roz Chast to Jane Smiley to Rosanne Cash, show the breadth of the band’s impact.
Presenting these works will be editor Andrew Blauner, and contributors David Hajdn and Mona Simpson, in conversation with David Ulin.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
90X90LA: Sestinas for Selena at Civic Center Studios
Celebrate! Activate! Investigate!
Join us for the second of this three event series that celebrates music with poetry, and poetry with music. We will be introduced to the sestinas, a structured poem developed by a 12th century troubadour. These poets will write sestinas written after songs by the iconic Selena.
Curated by F. Douglas Brown and Joseph Rios
FULL Bar open all night. Guest DJs to follow.
Where: Civic Center Studios
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 207 South Broadway, Suite One, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.comsestinas-for-selena-818-8pm/
90x90LA: Women Who Submit at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Are you a poet, essayist or fiction writer? Have you been crafting beautiful work, but are unsure how to get that work out into the world? Do you have a goal of seeing your work in a top tier journal? Then join Women Who Submit leaders for a discussion and crash course in cover letters, journal tiers, submission calendars, tracking, and resubmitting.
Facilitated by Women Who Submit
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/women-who-submit-sa-819-10am-1pm/
Stacey Alysson at Children’s Book World
Join us to hear yoga instructor and author Stacey Alysson lead a kid’s introduction to yoga! Her charming new book, Parker Pig Goes to Yoga, is a children’s yoga book aimed at teaching mindfulness and yoga, all while having fun doing animal yoga poses. Benefits of yoga to kids include increasing strength, flexibility, focus, concentration, confidence and giving children the tools to calm their bodies.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Author Program at Little Tokyo Branch Library
Join us to hear author Barry Lancet present and sign Spy Across the Table, an international PI thriller plot that keeps readers engaged and guessing until the very end. The author draws on his familiarity with the local terrain, history, martial arts and Japanese culture to create an East-West adventure that informs as it thrills.
Please call 213-612-0525 to RSVP and the first 60 people to respond will be accommodated. Books are available for purchase and autographs.
Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 11 am
Address: 203 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-barry-lancet-0
History of Comic Books at West Valley Regional Library
Join us to hear Warren Jaycox and Scott Fresina present a graphic exploration of the history of comic books and comic book art.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 19036 Vanowen St., Reseda, CA 91355
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/history-comic-books-and-comic-art
Author Program with Ona Russell at Brentwood Library
Join us for author and speaker, Ona Russell, PhD, present The Truth of Historical Fiction. In the era of “alternative facts” does good historical fiction remain a reliable source of truth? How? Why? What can an imaginative account of the past reveal that a conventional one cannot? Bring your suspicions, and join us in exploring this timely and entertaining subject.
Where: Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 11820 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/truth-historical-fiction
Night Class with Victor P. Corona at Book Soup
In conversation with photographer Parker Day, author Victor P. Corona presents Night Class: A Downtown Memoir. NYU sociologist Corona sought a new education, where night classes held in galleries, nightclubs, bars and stoops taught him about love, loss, and the living possibilities of identity. Transforming himself from dowdy professor to glitzy club-goer, he immersed himself in downtown’s dazzling tribes of artists and performers hungry for fame.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/victor-corona-discusses-and-signs-night-class-downtown-memoir
Saturday Afternoon Poetry at Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Join us to hear featured poets, Anna Broome, Seven Dahr and Tin Tipton, plus we will have our Open Reading.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
JoAnna Novak at Skykight Bookstore
Join us to hear JoAnna Novak discuss and sign I Must Have You, a debut novel about thirteen-year-old Elliot, a self-appointed “diet coach” who teaches her classmates how to survive on one stick of gum per day to get heroin-chic, Kate Moss thin. Her best friend and former “client” is now dating a nineteen-year-old drug dealer and transfers her obsession from food to sec with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Elliot’s mother Anna, a capricious poetry professor has a drug addiction and eating disorder of her own. This book is the story of what happens one three-day weekend in an explosion of desire, hunger, and lost innocence.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/joanna-novak-reads-her-debut-novel-i-must-have-you
An Evening with a Holocaust Survivor at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear Lessons of the Past present An Evening with a Holocaust Survivor, with Robert Geminder and Gabriella Karin.
Robert was born in Poland and his normal life ended when the Nazis forced his family from their home. Robert, his mother and father, would be the only family members to survive the war. during his six years in occupied territory he escaped form the Stanislaw Ghetto and once again from a train that was just 100 yards from entering the gates of Auschwitz.
Gabriella was born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and her safe changed at age fourteen. She was first hidden in a Catholic convent with fake papers, and then for nine months by a gentile lawyer who risked his life to provide her with a safe haven from the Nazis.
Please RSVP at website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Molimau Book Signing at Art Share LA
Join us to hear the thought-provoking loving poet Molimau, “The Usolosopher,” read and sign Usolosophy: Poetic Soulpieces. Coming from the Long Beaches of Samoa, you will not want to miss this free event. RSVP at Eventbrite link at website.
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: 801 East 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://artsharela.org/event/molimau-book-signing-art-share-l-a/
90x90LA: awQward Camp: A Teach In at Cielo Galleries/Studios
This is a teach-in for trans and queer artists of color. This is a space for novice and experienced artists. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in performance and writing exercises, get tools to become a more sustainable artist and hit the stage to share some of their work.
See website for a detailed schedule of the day’s activities.
Moderators/ Curators: Skira Martinez and J Mase III
***This event is a Trans and Queer People of Color ONLY Event/Space***
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/awqward-camp-tqpoc-artist-teach-in-su-820-10am/
30th Annual Pat Pincus Poetry Fest at Brentwood Library
Join the Friends of the Kaufman Brentwood Branch Library for an afternoon of poetry readings by local poets at the 30th Annual Pat Pincus Poetry Fest, moderated by Pat Olson and Flo Chootiner.
Where: Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 11820 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/30th-annual-pat-pincus-poetry-fest
Sunday Tea with Three Authors at Gatsby Bookstore
Sunday Tea with Three Thought-Provoking Authors features:
Richard Bausch will read and sign Living in the Weather of the World: Stories, where he once again proves himself a modern master. These thirteen tales plumb the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the violence of suicide and despair, the complexities of divorce and infidelity, the fragility of love.
Anna Leahy and Douglas Dechow, one a poet and the other a scientist, will disuss and sign Generation Space: A Love Story, and their belief that love for each other and love of space are inseparable. Told by the two authors in alternating chapters, part memoir and part homage to the spirit of exploration, this is a celebration of a shared passion.
Where: Gatsby Books
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/book-signings/
Greeting From Los Angeles at Book Soup
Pease join us as Peter Moruzzi presents and signs Greetings from Los Angeles, a fascinating tour of the city through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads and other vintage ephemera, accompanied by the author’s candid and insightful commentary.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/peter-moruzzi-presents-and-signs-greetings-los-angeles
Gustavo Arellano Panel at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Gustavo Arellano lead a panel discussion of Murales Rebeldes: L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege. The Chicano civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s protested the social, political and educational inequalities in Mexican American communities across the country, primarily in the southwest. The muralists took to the streets with their art, creating works that expressed cultural pride, political activism, and challenged the status quo. These murals reinvigorated communities, expanding into new genres and locations.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Moonday Poets at Flintridge Bookstore
Join us for a Moonday Poetry reading and hear:
Deborah Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America and moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group. She has published over 900 haikus and four chapbooks of poetry, including highway of sleeping towns, as well as short stories and a short memoir.
Richard Jarrette is the author of Beso the Donkey; A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances; and The Beatitudes of Ekaterina. His books have been used as texts in MFA courses.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Website: http://www.rattle.com/instore-events/2017/8/20/moonday-poetry-deborah-kolodji-richard-jarrette
Alicia Malone at Book Soup
Pease join us as Alicia Malone presents and signs Backwards and in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film, a history of women in film that tells the stories of many trailblazers who were instrumental in the success of American cinema from the very beginning. Throughout Hollywood women have been revolutionizing, innovating, and shaping how movies are made, and their stories are highlighted here.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
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