Actions, Conversations, and Intersections

Jennifer Moran, Brian Janeczko, Enci Box and Aurisha Smolarski present the collaborative project, In the Living Room of LA’s Bicycle Culture, highlighting a small aspect of bike culture with the audience invited to be participants. The installation puts the culture on display, and includes discussions, creations and interactions in a ever evolving format, mimicking the dynamic bicycle culture in Los Angeles.

The Exhibit includes an on-going, rotating series of participatory events:

Photography/Painting/Furniture Collaboration
Various artists exhibit artwork that serve as the “living room” decor fabricated out of bicycles.

Video Documentary
The Echo Park Film Center screens a series of videos with films addressing anything and everything about bicycle culture.

Bicycle Workshop
Part of the “living room” is a bicycle workshop where visitors can learn how to fix flats and basic bicycle maintenance.

Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12, 12-5pm

Bicycle Dressing & Explosion: Two bikes are available to dress with objects, stickers, and streamers.

Spoke Card Design and Trading: Create, trade and discuss the art of spoke card making. Contribute to the Spoke Card display by adding your own designs or trade for designs by others.

Thursday, March 11, 6:30-9:30 pm

Art Cycle Meeting: The final Art Cycle meeting regarding the March 13 Art cycle event on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Saturday, March 13, 12-5pm

Bicycle Explosion: Bicycles from the Bike Dressing Activity are de-constructed to be hung from the ceiling of the gallery.

Bike Noise: Turning the bicycle into a musical instrument through the use of contact microphones, electronic pedals, and amplification visitors are invited to produce music from prepared bicycles.

Experimental Mobile Music Workshop: The Bicycle Bell Ensemble orchestrates a musical event in which bicycles bells are used to create musical compositions.

Sunday, March 14, 12-5pm

Bike Rack Installation: A bike rack fabricated off site with donated materials and labor, referencing the unique ideas and designs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s art and architecture, to be displayed on the portico.

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Sunday, March 14, 2-4 pm
Nadfly Fika Shop: Coffee and cardamon cake served by special guest host Marjory Garrison. $3

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All events free and open to the public unless otherwise noted at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027.

Dos Lunares presents:
The wonderful documentary La Turista Soy Yo about Flamenco singer Luis Agujetas, the youngest son of the well-known and highly regarded Flamenco cantaor Agujetas el Viejo. This documentary by Trina Bardusco, follows Luis Agujetas through his daily rituals which include his nightly job singing at the famous Flamenco tourist mecca La Carbonería en Sevilla, Spain.

Light refreshments served.
Free and Open to the Public

Friday, March 5, 7:30 pm & Sunday, March 7, 2:00 pm

Dos Lunares presents Calé Rachi a weekend of exploration into the world of Flamenco through film, discussion and interactive rhythm making/palmas.

Their Flamenco weekend will kick off with a film night, discussion and tapas on Friday, March 5 at 7:30pm. They will be screening the wonderful documentary La Turista Soy Yo about Flamenco singer Luis Agujetas, the youngest son of the well-known and highly regarded Flamenco cantaor Agujetas el Viejo. This documentary by Trina Bardusco, follows Luis Agujetas through his daily rituals which include his nightly job singing at the famous Flamenco tourist mecca La Carbonería en Sevilla, Spain.

Palmas, the art of Flamenco hand clapping will be featured in their Sunday presentation, March 7 at 2pm. Join them for a lively afternoon of interactive, participatory rhythm making with Los Angeles bailaora, Cristina Lucio.

The name of their presentation, Calé Rachi or Gypsy Night is a nod to the intersections of Chicano and Gitano culture that took place along the Mexican-American border during the early 1900s.

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Saturday, March 6, 1:00 pm

KXPO 99.9 presents a special live broadcast of their ever popular program, The Recent Rupture Radio Hour! Join your hosts Jose Lopez-Feliu and Swirling Wheelnuts live in studio as they broadcast their ever popular post-modern store-front radio show to millions of listeners in East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley; special guests include an expert on urban chicken raising and a dog-headed man.

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Sunday, March 7, 2-4pm

Nadfly Fika Shop hosted by Andrew Sanchez.
Coffee and Cardamon Cake for $3

12-5pm: Howard Hill and Patricia Zambrano turn salvaged furniture and clothing into desirable objects. Dismantling chairs, tables, beds, mailboxes, etc into bike racks, benches and paintings. Spend some time making stuff with them.

12-5pm: Pseduo-Sod Forest artist Amy Caterina will be knitting grass and deer skin. She invites you to knit with her.

by Lauren Kasmer

1-5pm: HOMESITE Clothing Exchange

Bring an article of clothing you no longer want, outgrew, never liked, or just want to have immortalized. Tell the story of your contribution. Exchange it for another item donated by other participants or the MODAC Museum of Fashion Designers and Creators and American Apparel.

And/or: A Homesite label can be sewed or pinned on what you are wearing.

Enjoy a beverage supplied by Whole Foods Santa Monica.

Exchanges are documented and become part of the Homesite
project.

2-4pm: Ana Llorente hosts the Nadfly Fika Shop. Coffee and cardamon cake for $3.

Spend your rainy Saturday afternoon inside the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery hanging out and working on the following projects:

12-5pm: Amy Caterina knits more grass and more fur for her forest floor and forest animals. Bringing your needles and join her.

12-5pm: Upcycling with Howard Hill and Patricia Zambrano – transform salvaged and scavenged furniture into desirable and usable objects. This weekend they share their techniques. Bring an object to work on or choose from theirs.

12-5pm: Theordore Payne docents are on hand every weekend to talk to you about native flora and fauna. Whether you have a yard or a balcony they can give tips on the plants that are best for your location.

1-5 pm: The Longest Potholder will be growing today. Laurel Paley invites you to bring clean socks to modify into a new section of the potholder.

1-5pm: Some of the largest knitting needles in town will be in use by Shelley Ruggthorp and her knitting coherts. You’re invited to join her and knit.

2-4pm: Minh Phan hosts the Nadfly Fika Shop. Enjoy fresh brewed coffee and homemade cardamon cake for $3.