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Actions for April 15 – 18

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

April 15 -18
Elana Mann
Performing Economies II

Performing Economies - Elana Mann

Friday, April 16, 3-5pm
Carolina Caycedo performs The Colombian Connection and Elana Mann performs How did that get done: A Cross Section and Time Series Analysis of the No-Income Hypothesis

Sunday, April 18, 2-5pm
(non-edible) Bake Sale for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles with Lara Banks, Dan Greaney, Stephanie Hutin, Jason Kunke, Adam Overton, Nate Page, Vincent Ramos
(Mann is still looking for participants- so contact her if you are interested! elanamann@gmail.com)

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Thursday, April 15, 1pm
Mary Sutton and Critical Resistance
Can We Build Our Way Out of Prison Overcrowding?

In conjunction with Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Mary Sutton, CSPG’s Program Director and members of Critical Resistance Los Angeles will give a presentation created for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB.

The powerpoint features posters from CSPG’s exhibition, Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex .

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Saturday, April 17, 7pm
Poli Marichal’s Shadow Puppet Theater with Jamie Kim, Beth Peterson, and Marianne Sadowski
Once Upon a Grid (Greed) and other contemporary fables for the 21st Century

Once Upon a Grid (Greed) and other contemporary fables for the 21st Century mixes satire and fact in order to create fantastic narratives that address our troubled times. Rod shadow puppets made out of recycled materials are used to reenact some of the critical events that are shaping our world.

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Sunday, April 18, 2-5 pm
Closing Reception and Catalog Proofing Party

Celebrate the final actions of the exhibition and help proof the soon to be released catalog – a party to celebrate all the artists, organizations, and viewers who made the Actions, Conversations, and Intersections exhibition possible.

Light refreshments courtesy of the Echo Park Private Brewery serving a micro-brewed Nut Brown Ale and Light Ale, Bavarian style pretzels and mustard donated by the We Miss Munich Bakery, with additional snack support provided by Lauren M. Kasmer and Joyce Dallal via Whole Foods.

2-3 pm
Classical Music Trio

Comprised of Vincent Reyes on guitar, Jerico Flores on violin and Mini Zabala on flute will perform selections from their classical repertoire as well as jazz standards and original arrangements of modern pop songs.

Vincent Reyes began playing guitar professionally at 15 and studied composition at NYU under Ruth Schonthal. He is a member of the American Guitar Society and had studied briefly under Scott Tennent. He has written music for various film and theater productions, arranged music for the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra, and is the composer for ThreeTwoOne Productions.

Jerico Flores has been a member of the Hamilton Orchestra, West LA Youth Orchestra, and the Glendale Youth Orchestra under the direction of Brad Keimach. He had been chosen to play the Brach Violin Concerto at CSUN and is currently studying violin at the Thornton School of Music at USC.

Mini Zabala was a flutist with the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds (Pierce College) for several years and went on tours with them to Europe. She has also played with several other groups including the Kelley Love Orchestra, has performed as pit orchestra flutist for some local community productions, and is presently a member of the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra.

2-5pm
Heather Ellison and Lyn M. Watanabe
Pillow Thoughts

Pillow Thoughts

Pillow Thoughts was conceived in part from the installation, Cup Thoughts by Nicola Atkinson Does Fly (NADFLY). These pillows once displayed at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Park, have been donated by NADFLY to inspire others.

Seeking eighty participants to re-fashion the pillows and return them for an exhibition in the fall of 2010.

Actions for April 8 – 11

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

April 8 -11, 12-5pm
Beth Elliott
Time and Tide II

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April 9 and 10, 6-9pm
Audrey Malone and Justin Streichman
Emeline and Bernhard: an Invitation to a Scene

Emeline and Bernard Palsgrave cordially invite you to a tea and cake bash.
Please join us on April 9th and 10th between 6 and 9 p.m.

The Palsgrave twins have spent too much of their lives secluded. It’s well past time we kick up their heels and let things unravel.

Consume delights.
Partake in banter.
Witness furor.
Play.

A collaboration of
Audrey Malone & Justin Streichman
Text By Kelli Anne Noftle
Costumes By Joey Grana & Nina Behrsin

Emeline and Bernhard

* ‘Emeline & Bernard: An Invitation to a Scene’ is an exploration of intimacy and relationship as two people approach the unraveling and disintegration of their sheltered world.
The work takes inspiration from the Beales of Grey Gardens (eccentric mother and daughter relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), and the Silent Twins (reclusive and inseparable twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were sent to Broadmoor Hospital in their teens for petty crime and arson).

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April 11
Joyce Dallal and Lauren M. Kasmer
Homesĭtē Recipe Exchange and Party
3pm: Culinary Performances
5pm: Party for all Homesĭtē Participants

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April 11, 2-4pm
Nicola Atkinson Does Fly
Nadfly Fika Shop hosted by Humberto & Mancini
Coffee and Cake for $3

Actions for March 24 – 28

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

March 25 at 3pm & March 26 at 1pm

Cindy Marie Jenkins
Imagine East Hollywood: autobiography of a neighborhood

Offer up your suggestions as to how East Hollywood can reflect your concerns, interests, values, and so on by writing your suggestions on the Imagine East Hollywood walls or being interviewed on camera by the Imagine crew.

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March 27, 12-5pm

James Balsam
Safety is on the Shore

J Balsam SIOTS Sat, 3-27 noon

Safety is on the Shore is an experimental music environment – a rules-based space where everyone entering is required to be making some kind of vocal musical sound for the duration of their presence in the space. It is an abstract laboratory of tensions and resolutions relating to social anxiety and salutary communal activity.

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March 27, 1pm

Ara Oshagan

The Collaborative Image Project involves the photographer and the photographed working in unison to create a portrait of a person and an inner life. After a portrait is produced, it is printed on large paper and the person photographed is encouraged to draw or write on the photograph and/or paper. They are encouraged to write about their lives and inner thoughts. But they are free to do what they please with the portrait.

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March 28, 12-5pm

Beau Daignault
Temporal Hyperplane Photograph

Beau Daignault

Daignault has built a camera by joining together a 1940’s 4 x 5 camera to a flat bed scanner. It captures movement in focus rather than as a blur. This permits some very surprising distortions which are visually intriguing and frequently amusing.

The scanner photograph offers an image, which, in addition to being inherently three dimensional, reveals the fourth dimension in a unique way. Each ‘exposure’ occurs over a number of minutes, or as little as one minute. The opposite ends of the image are captured at entirely different moments in time, not all at once as in a ‘typical’ photograph, thus the Temporal Hyperplane Photograph. 

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March 28, 3pm

Jonathan Ward
Excavated Shellac

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Jonathan Ward is the person behind Excavated Shellac, a popular blog that focuses on rare 78rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the world. He will present a “listening session,” playing original records from his collection and discussing the early history of the recording industry, as well as allowing listeners to experience the wide variety of early music that was captured on this medium.

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March 28, 1-5pm

Joyce Dallal and Lauren Kasmer
Homesĭtē Clothing Exchange

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Apparel alters & exchanges will take place in the gallery portico.

Bring an article of clothing you no longer want, tell us why, trade for anothers contribution.

Have a Homesĭtē label sewed or pinned on what you are wearing.

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March 27 and 28, 2-4pm

Nicola Atkinson Does Fly

Nadfly Fika Shop is open for buying coffee and cakes served to you by Yana on Saturday and Melissa Anderson Contreras on Sunday.
$3

Saturday Actions

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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.

Nadfly Fika Shop – Open today and tomorrow from 2-4pm

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Inspired by the Swedish Fika, Nicola Atkinson Does Fly serves cardamon cake and coffee in her installation.

Fee: $3