Matt de la Pena & Superman: Dawnbreaker at Vroman’s Bookstore – YA Event
Join us to welcome author Matt de la Pena to present and sign his new DC Icons book for young readers, Superman: Dawnbreaker (DC Icons Series).
When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger, better than everyone around him. But he wasn’t raised to show off, and drawing attention to himself can be dangerous. Plus, it’s not like he’s earned his powers… yet. Lately it’s been difficult to keep his heroics in the shadows, and before he can save the world, he must find a way to save Smallville.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/matt-de-la-peña-discusses-and-signs-superman-dawnbreaker
David Lee & The Difficulty of Being Blue at the Huntington Museum
Internationally renowned botanist David Lee, emeritus professor at Florida International University, discusses blue pigments in plants and why they are so rare. David Lee is the author of Nature’s Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture.
Where: Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Museum
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108
Website: http://www.huntington.org/events/difficulty-being-blue?sd=1553565600&ed=1553569200
Lisa Ludwinski & Sister Pie at Fiona Bakery
Lisa Ludwinski, owner and head baker at Sister Pie, in conversation with Nicole Rucker, owner and baker at Fiona Café, will present and sign her book, Sister Pie. This bursting ewith personality cookbook shows how a band of sister bakers are helping make Detroit sweeter one slice at a time from a little corner pie shop in a former beauty salon on the city’s east side. No one leaves without a slice, even those who don’t have money in their pockets. This book contains 75 of her most-loved recipes for sweet and savory pies and other bakeshop favorites, pays homage to the motor city, and includes 75 phots and charming line illustrations.
Where: Fiona Bakery
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 339 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://www.nowservingla.com/events/2019/3/25/sister-pie-lisa-ludwinski
Ruben Santiago-Hudson & Lackawanna Blues, et al at USC
Join us to hear a conversation with artist and playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson, one of the most accomplished theatre artists of his generation, in conversation with USC professor David Roman. The Tony-award-winning actor, playwright, and director will discuss his inspirations and accomplishments, including the revival of his Obie Award-winning Lackawanna Blues, at the Mark Taper Forum.
This program is free and open to the public.
Where: USC Massman Theatre (Drama Center)
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 2:30 pm
Address: 1029 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/listing.php?event_id=1497085
PEN America Los Angeles Book Club & Whereas at USC
Join us at our March book club event to discuss PEN America Literary Award winner Layli Long Soldier’s book Whereas. This event will be hosted by author Joseph Rios (Shadowboxing), and Sideshow Books offers a 20% discount on book club titles..
This program is free and open to the public.
Where: Blu Elefant Café
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2024 Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018
Website: http://pen.org/event/los-angeles-book-club-whereas/
Elisa Callow & The Urban Forager at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Elisa Callow, in conversation with Minh Phan, discuss her book, The Urban Forager: Culinary Exploring on LA’s Eastside..
Callow is the former Director of the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and loves to find connection between the arts and community. She also spent time living in the Philippines and Maylasia in her youth, and now enjoys foraging and exploring all that LA has to offer.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/erwin-raphael-mcmanus
Dr. James Penner & Heather Dundas & Foucault in California at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear authors Dr. James Penner & Heather Dundas, both good friends of the recently passed Simeon Wade, discuss and sign Wade’s book, Foucoult in California.
This book is the account of the 1975 long Memorial Day weekend they spent experimenting with psychotropic drugs to find Truth, and in its humorous prose vaults readers into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia, and a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Stephanie Bennett & Johnnie B. Bad at Book Soup
Please join us to welcome Stephanie Bennett, in conversation with Tom Adelman, to present and sign her book, Johnnie B. Bad: The Making of the Movie Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll: Everybody Knows the Music But Few Knew the Man. This book was compiled as an oral history and celebrates the complete story of an enduring and embattled icon.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Black Women and the #MeToo Movement at the Hammer Museum
Join us to hear a panel of Black Women Artists examine how race influences which sexual abusers do and don’t face consequences for their misdeeds. They will compare the outrage about Harvey Weinstein, whose victims were primarily white, with the relative indifference toward R. Kelly, whose victims are primarily black.
The panelists include:
Kenyatta Tisha Barnes, co-founder #MuteRKelly, Legislative Lobbyist for State of Georgia, and health programming planner.
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, American historian and author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.
Rashida Jones, American film and TV actress, comic book author, screenwriter, and occasional singer, is also the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton.
Dee Barnes, (Sista D), is and American rapper and former TV personality. She hosted a radio show on KDAY, and was host of Fox’s hip hop show Pump It Up.
Jamilah Lemieux is an African American columnist, cultural critic, and editor, and became the VP of News and Men’s Programming for Interactive One, Part of Radio One, in 2016.
Moderator Kimberlie Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of race theory.
This program is free and open to the public.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/03/black-women-and-the-metoo-movement/
Samira Ahmed & Internment at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Samira Ahmed, in conversation with Brandy Colbert, discuss and sign her new novel, Internment.
In this book, the author takes a long, hard look at how history can repeat itself and how we must not let it. It paints a bleak picture, but manages to stay inspiring and hopeful, in depicting Islamophobia and young people who fight against bigotry and promote social change.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/samira-ahmed-reads-her-new-novel-internment-brandy-colbert
Redondo Poets Open Mic at Coffee Cartel
Please join the Redondo Poets to welcome this week’s feature, Martha Stothard and participate in their weekly Open Mic. Redondo Poets is recommended by Mike “The Poet” Sonksen, and has been a mainstay of the Los Angeles Poetry scene for 20 years.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
Soapbox Sessions Open Mic at Maui Sugar Saloon
Soapbox Nation’s adventure began in 2006 when founder, Jason Brain, started an open mic at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Encino, CA. This event for musicians, poets, and comedians began slowly building a word-of-mouth following and really hit its stride in 2008. Now Soapbox is at a different location, but still in the Valley.
Where: Maui Sugar Saloon
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 12 pm
Address: 18389 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA 91356
Website: http://www.facebook.com/SoapboxOpenMic/
Da Poetry Lounge-Open Mic
About: All you have to do is put your name on the signup list. The first half signup happens outside before doors open (around 8ish). Signing up for first half does not guarantee entry, so stay in line! For the second half signup, line up next to the microphone on stage during the five minute break in between halves and wait for the list to get to you. Keep in mind that each half has its own signup list. So if you don’t get called during the 1st half, you need to re-signup for the 2nd half. Sorry, you can only perform at one half per night. They usually call up about 12-15 people each half at an Open Mic, depending if they have a special feature or not. Sadly, they cannot guarantee that all who signup will read. So, remember: arrive early. There is a TIME LIMIT. You have 3 minutes at the mic to do your poem. Please be respectful of time as we try to accommodate as many people as possible.
Where: The Greenway Court Theater
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 9 pm – 12 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://dapoetrylounge.com/visiting-dpl/slam/
Rachel Ignotofsky & Women in Science at Glendale Central Library – Kids Event
Please join us to hear author Rachel Ignotofsky present and sign Women in Science. This charmingly illustrated and educational book highlights the contributions of fifty notable women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) form the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking, singular artwork, it celebrates the intrepid women who paved the way for the next generation of females working in the sciences.
Where: Glendale Central Library
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205
Website: http://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/women-science-book-talk-rachel-ignotofsky
Mike Postalakis & LA By Mouth: The Essential Guide go Eating in Los Angeles at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author Mike Postalakis present and sign his book, LA by Mouth: The Essential Guide to Eating in Los Angeles. There are over 8,000 restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area. But how do you narrow it down to the best of the best? This book will appeal to visitors and Angelenos alike.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Antonio Gonzalez & Architects Who Built Southern California at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Antonio Gonzalez present and sign Architects Who Built Southern California, the stories of the people behind some of Southern California’ most iconic buildings.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Deconstructing Scenes Writing Workshop Series at LA Writers Group Headquarters
Please join us for the next in our series of writers workshops on Scene Writing: Setting & Subtext, and learn how to write better settings and examine the role of subtext in scenes, with Nicole Criona.
Where: LA Writers Group
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1728 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Unit B., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Website: http://www.lawritersgroup.com/workshops/setting-032719/
William E. Jones & I’m Open to Anything at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author William E. Jones, and hear him read and discuss his debut novel, I’m Open to Anything. This is a perverse and explicit new take on the coming-of-age novel, set in bohemian Southern California in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/william-e-jones-reads-his-debut-novel-im-open-anything
Carol Anne Perini & Inexplicably Irrational Book Tour at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Carol Anne Perini, and hear her read and discuss her new book of short stories, Inexplicably Irrational. She will be joined by guest authors Penelope Lowder, Jaha Zainabu, and Wendy Rainey to present a night of storytelling and more.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: /http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Black Women’s Electoral Strength in an Era of Fractured Politics at the Hammer Museum
Join us to hear a panel of Black Women Artists examine Harriet Tubman’s Political Will: Black Women’s Electoral Strength in an Era of Fractured Politics.
The panelists include:
Barbara Arnwine is a civil rights attorney and social justice activist and educator.
Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organize, writer, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Nia-Malika Henderson is a senior political reporter, starting her career as a writer for the Baltimore Sun, working as a lead reporter for Newsday,and then covering Obama’s 2008 campaign. She worked as a reporter for the Washington Post from 2010-2105, and joined CNN in 2015 as a senior political reporter and anchor.
Sydney Kamlager-Dove is a California State Assembly member, representing the 54th Assembly District, encompassing Mid-City, Culver City, and several parts of Westside Los Angeles.
Moderator Kimberlie Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of race theory.
This program is free and open to the public.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Anansi Writers Workshop & Open Mic at the World Stage
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Their tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. The Anansi Writers Workshop is coordinated by V. Kali and Conney Williams.
NOTE: Admission is $5
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm –10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.theworldstage.org/anansi-writers-workshop/
Recess Open Mic at Search to Involve Philipino American (SIPA)
Join us for a Filipino open mic hosted by Lady Baso.
$10 cash entrance fee
Where: Search to Involve Philipino Americans (SIPA)
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 3200 W. Temple St., Filipinotown, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/palmsupacademy/
Julie M. Albright & Left to Their Own Devices at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Julie M. Albright for her publication party and to discuss her book, Left to Their Own Device: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream.. A sociologist explores the many ways that digital natives’ interaction with technology has changed their relationship with people, places, jobs and other structures.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Latino Storytelling in the Age of Trump at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Join us for Platica: The Latino Survival Guide in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Classroom. This is an urgent storytelling performance by professor and solo performer Maria Elena Fernandez, followed by a community conversation on surviving and taking action.
Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: www.lapca.org/content/la-palza-public-programs-2019
Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears at USC
Join us for an evening with Lisa “Tiny”Gray-Garcia and an Arts Action Event to present her new book, Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth. What is scholarship? Who is considered a scholar? This work will share poetry and a new canon on poverty, homelessness, and otherness.
NOTE: This is free, but a ticketed event. See website for details.
Where: Ground Zero Performance Café (TRO), USC
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: University Park Campus, Los Angeles, California 90089
Website: http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/listing.php?event_id=1578395
James Rollins & Crucible: A Thriller at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author James Rollins, and hear him read and discuss his book, Crucible: A Thriller. This is a story in a series of books wrestling with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in a mind-expanding adventure. The mysteries date back to the Spanish Inquisition and confront the ultimate question: What does it mean to have a soul?
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/james-rollins-discusses-and-signs-crucible-thriller
Poets Jazz House
A Spoken Word and Music Lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door. They are a beatnik Tea House where there’s snapping instead of clapping. The atmosphere is lax but it Sssizzles. They invite you to come touch, be touched, hear the answer and heed the call. We’re just a cozy little house where everyone feels at home.
Where: Irie Vibes Art Space
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 6563 Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, CA 9o044
Matthew Spradlin & The Devils at Book Soup
Please join us to welcome author Matthew Spradlin, and hear him discuss his new book, The Devils. A true-life horror story rooted at the end of World War II, as two Japanese soldiers come back to extract a bloody revenge.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://vromansbook.com/events/matthew-spradlin-discusses-and-signs-devils
Julie Albright & Left to Their Own Devices at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Julie Albright present and discuss Left to Their Own Device: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream, the story of the many ways digital natives, young people brought up with the internet and social media, are quickly rendering old habits, values and behaviors a distant memory.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 693 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Emily Thuma & All Our Trials with California at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to welcome author Emily Thuma to discuss her nonfiction book, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing and the Feminist Fight to End Violence, with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and Survived and Punished.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., CA 90027
Tebot Bach Presents: Poets Jim Natal & Aruni Wijesinghe & Open Mic at Golden West College
Join us to welcome poets Jim Natal & Aruni Wijesinghe to read and discuss their work. There will also be an Open Reading, and sign-ups begin at 7:30 pm, just prior to the event.
Jim Natal is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Views: The Haibun Variations, which was inspired by Hokusai’s ukieo-e woodblock series 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, and is written entirely in the haibun form. (Tebot Bach, 2013).
Aruni Wijesinghe works for Affinis Labs, an award-winning social innovation firm, and is getting her feet wet in the Los Angeles lit scene.
Where: Tebot Bach, Golden West College
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7:30 pm open mic sign-ups; 8 pm readings
Address: 15744 Golden West St, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Website: https://www.losangelescarpediemevents/calendar/9803140-the-ecnomic-forum-at-golden-west-college/
Black Writers on Tour Event in Carson Community Center
Please join us for the Black Writers on Tour Event which gives exposure to authors and inspires new writers among kids and adults, with workshops for kids, and adults, poetry jams, a writing contest, and exhibit booths.
Where: Carson Community Center
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 9 am – 6 pm
Address: 801 E. Carson St., Carson,, CA 90064
Website: http://blackwritersontour.com
Caroline Arnold & Butterflies in Room 6 at Children’s Book World – Kids Event
Please join us to welcome author Caroline Arnold, and hear her read and discuss her new book, Butterflies in Room 6: See How They Grow, for kids ages 4-8. Follow a class of real kindergartners in this close-up look at the insect life cycle, including astonishing photographs and followed by a coloring activity.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/author-events/
Readers Theatre & The Heidi Chronicles at Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Come celebrate Women’s History Month by uncovering the untold story of Millicent Patrick, one of Disney’s first female animators, and the only woman to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Debut author Mallory O’Meara will discuss Patrick’s amazing career and her own challenges in Hollywood.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL, Meeting Room A
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 1093 Vanowen St., Reseda, CA 91335
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/lady-black-lagoon-west-valley-library
Readers Theatre & The Heidi Chronicles at Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Come celebrate Women’s History Month with a staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein. The play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world.
Where: Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 6121 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/readers-theater-presents-heidi-chronicles
Kitty Felde & Welcome to Washington at Children’s Book World – Kids Event
Please join us to welcome author Kitty Felde, and hear her read and discuss her new book, Welcome to Washington, Fina Mendoza, for kids ages 8-12. This middle grade mystery tells the story of the legend about the curse of the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill, and tells about the string of disasters that follow Fina’s sighting of the Demon Cat, while offering a keen insight into the everyday workings of the U.S. Capitol
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 2:30 am
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/author-events/
Two Poets Laureate & California Continuum, Volume One at Museo Museum & Cultural Center
Join us for the book launch of California Continuum, Volume One: Migrations and Amalgamations, by poets laureate John Brantingham and Grant Hier. This is the first volume of a series of books/collections of historical flash fiction, where the authors bring in as many voices and perspectives on California as they can.
NOTE: This is a free event, but RSVP at website link.
Where: Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 241 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805
Website: .http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry at Santa Catalina Library
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry to hear featured poets published in SPECTRUM 18: The Green.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: .http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
KPCC’s Unheard Stories in North Hollywood at El Portal Theatre
the community-centered storytelling series Untold LA is back for a third season, and we’re kicking it off in North Hollywood, home to the NoHo Arts District. Join host Bruce A. Lemon Jr. for the live show and stick around afterward for a mixer with the participants and your fellow attendees.
Featuring:
Pickle
Pat Alderete–Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Pat Alderete writes about the beauty and brutality of varrio life, rendering the complex inner worlds and strict social hierarchies of a community too seldom observed in literature. Her memoir, Varrio With a V: Stories from Atzlan, East Los Angeles, will be coming out in the near future.
John P. Smith
Jonathan Tipton Meyers
Adele Wilson
Sean Sullivan
Loubna Hassanieh, PhD
Jean-Paul deGuzman–is an historian (Ph.D., M.A., M.A., UCLA) of 20th century America with a particular focus on comparative racialization, urban history, Asian Americans, and Los Angeles.
Where: El Portal Theatre
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
Website: http://www.scpr.org/events/2019/03/30/2691/unheard-la–live-in-north-hollywood/
Garrick Beck & True Stories Memoir at Beyond Baroque
Join us to hear Garrick Beck, son of Julian Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of Living Theatre, read from his memoir, True Stories, a rollicksome ride from the Beat 1950s through the passions and protests and psychedelics of the late 1960s, and onward into environmental and cross-cultural arts and political movements.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.com/calendar
Art & Feminism: Wikipedia Workshop at CAAM
Join us for an Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon! Only about 15% of Wikipedia editors are women, so an imbalance is reflected in the fifth-most popular website’s content. Bring your laptop and use source materials from CAAM’s research library!
NOTE: This event is free, but RSVPs are required.
Where: California African American Museum (CAAM)
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: 600 State Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90037
Website: http://eventbrite.com/e/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-54717413256
Art Without Walls: Togetherness Café at Felipe de Neve Branch of LAPL – Kids & Family Event
What meals bring your family together? Re-create your favorite dish out of clay and other materials, taking inspiration from artist Allen Ruppersberg, then write a recipe for togetherness. Recipes crated at the Hammer and the library will be combined into a single digital book.
Led by artist Teresita De la Torre.
Where: Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 2820 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/03/art-without-walls-togetherness-cafe/
Wendi Knox & From Muck to Magic at Diesel Bookstore
Join us to hear Wendi Knox discuss and sign From Muck to Magic, an inspirational book which takes women on a poetic journey form the muck of self-doubt to the magic of self-love.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http:// www.dieselbookstore.com/event/sunday-march-31st-3-pm-wendi-knox-discusses-and-signs-muck-magic
Local Authors Roberto Tostado MD & the Peterson Family at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Roberto Tostado MD present and read from his book, WTF is Wrong with Our Health, a feisty, funny, and deeply caring book by a “rebel physician” proposes we take a radically different look at our assumptions about nutrition and medicine.
Then stay and hear authors Leslie J. Peterson, Linda J. Peterson, Meliscent R. Gill & Patricia L. Peterson present and sign Ancestors in the Attic, a book containing a breathtaking collection of letters, diary entries, photos and other historical documents that together tell a story about love and war.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Laurel Blossom & Patrick Donnelly at Beyond Baroque
Longevity, Laurel Blossom’s sixth book, is a story about sisterhood told in fragments and in the heightened language of poetry. Patrick Donnelly reads from his fourth book of poems.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 4 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Robert Inman & An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles at Flintridge Bookstore
Please join us for the Revised 6th Edition of An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, by Robert Inman (Urban Walker). First published in 1965 this book is a classic publication with 96 sections organized geographically with thousands of entries cataloging all of Los Angeles.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91104
Los Angeles Literature 