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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

Sunday, February 28 Actions

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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

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.

Actions for February 11 – 14

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

All events free and open to the public unless noted.

February 11 – 14
February 13 at 6:00 pm Performance

Ballerina Kelly Valignota

Ballerina Kelly Valignota

Jocelyn Foye’s project, Ballet Abstracted resides in the Actions space this week. Incorporating photographs and casts from her prior performance based pieces with a new performance by ballerina, Kelly Valignota on a bed of sand, Foye continues her investigation of mark making and movement. Partial support provided by Angels Gate Cultural Center.

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February 11 at 1pm

Can Design Stop a War?
Slide lecture by Carol A. Wells

Art inspires and empowers the disenfranchised. There has never been a viable movement for social change throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, without the arts—theater, poetry, music, posters—being central to that movement. Political posters in particular are powerful living reminders of struggles worldwide for peace and justice. Communication, exhortation, persuasion, instruction, celebration, warning: graphic art broadcasts its messages through bold images and striking designs.

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February 13, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

The Municipal Art Gallery staff brings you a Valentine Paper Cutting Festival. Spend the afternoon making super sweet valentine’s by using various paper cutting techniques from around the world. Materials and equipment on site but if you have a favorite pair of scissors or extra paper you would like to share please bring it.

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February 13, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Nadfly Shoes One Day Print Event

NADFLY FIKA SHOP & HOMESITE CLOTHING EXCHANGE goes into Barnsdall Park to do silk screening while you wait. Nicola Atkinson Does Fly, Lauren M. Kasmer and Joyce Dallal alter your wardrobe . Bring your t-shirts, dresses, tea towels, tablecloth, pillows etc…to be printed on and or exchanged.
Fee: $15 per print

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Nadfly Fika Shop

February 13 & 14 , 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Nadfly Fika Shop, the first coffee shop since Barnsdall’s founding in 1927 will be open for coffee and Nadfly Cardamom Cake. Drink from paper cups with a drawing of Nicola’s temporary residence in Los Angeles.
Fee: $3

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Kill Kitty Kill Flyer

February 14 at 2:00 pm

Kill Kitty Kill perform their special Valentine’s Day set.

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February 14 at 3:00 pm

The Public School host the second class on Ambivalence.
Here are the reading assignments:
Mourning and Melancholia
Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions (from Totem and Taboo)

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February 14, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

M&A Presents: Lunar Valentine’s Sunset with the Museum of Complaints

In a special Valentines Day celebration of the central role that communication plays in all healthy relationships, please join us for a reading and book signing with Matthew Bakkom of the New York City Museum of Complaint.

Champagne Reception for the author and all the lovers in attendance.