Actions for February 4 – 7
Smart Gals Production is in residency in the “Actions” space with their Reading Preserve and Speakeasy Collection, February 4-7, 2010, 12:00pm – 5:00pm. All are invited to come read quietly alongside Los Angeles-based authors John Albert, Noel Alumit, Aimee Bender, Francesca Lia Block, Cecil Castellucci, Brendan Constantine, Chris Davidson, Chris Epting, Janet Fitch, David Francis, S.A. Griffin, Christopher Lepowski, Joseph F Mattson, Nevin Schreiner, Jen Sincero, Imani Tolliver, Rita Williams, and David Wollock. Here’s the complete schedule.
Smart Gals celebratory week will culminate in a collaboratively-minded Winter Picnic Performance on Sunday, February 7 at 2:00pm featuring freshly baked bread from the Bicycle Bread Company, hot coffee from Cafécito Organico, savory music, and sweet bits of surprising theater unwittingly triggered by our guests.
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Artists’ Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Sandra de la Loza
Friday, February 5 at 7:00 pm.
Join Steven L. Anderson, Michael Arata, Christine Louise Berry, Dara Brady,
Joyce Dallal & Lauren Kasmer, Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess, Nicola Atkinson Does Fly, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective, Ara Oshagan, Laurel Paley, Faith Purvey & Hataya Tubtim, and Mary Sutton as they discuss the role of participatory based practice in Los Angeles.
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On Saturday, February 6 at 11 am make/shift magazine hosts:
Feminist Media, Feminist Process: Collaborative Editing with Make/shift Magazine
Coeditor/Copublisher Jessica Hoffmann will talk about make/shift magazine’s collaborative, feminist editorial process, followed by an interactive workshop in which participants will collaboratively edit each other’s work. Feel free to bring a piece of writing of your own, or simply plan to read and respond to others’ work.
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Join Irina Contreras and Kelly Besser on Saturday, February 6 at 2:30 pm as they bring The Miracle Bookmobile Project to the Municipal Art Gallery.
The Miracle is a Los Angeles/Oakland based bookmobile project which activates redistribution using the books that people do not want anymore! Please feel free to bring, take or read a book.
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Nicola Atkinson Does Fly has openings left in her 101 Cup Thoughts project, an invitation-only event taking place on Saturday, February 6 at 7pm. To get on the list email her: buzz@nadfly.com
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The Public School brings you Ambivalence every Sunday of February starting at 3pm.
A course on Ambivalence that will meet simultaneously in two places – the Municipal Art Gallery and Telic Arts Exchange in Chinatown (where The Public School regularly holds classes). Each group will be able to see and hear the other through a commonplace video conference call. Teachers and guest presenters will go to whichever location seems more appealing that day and no one will be informed of their decision until the last minute. Readings will be assigned.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:35 am
Cup Thoughts 101- brings together people in two very separate places, Los Angeles US and Lidköping, Sweden, around the social institution of taking coffee.
The 101 participants in Lidköping were asked to think of a person in
Los Angeles to drink from the same coffee cup (to be washed of
course). Some of the participants wanted a person just like themselves
in Los Angeles, imagining what it might to be like to be there, while
others were quite particular: a male vegan with a beautiful mustache,
a social psychologist, a jazz musician, an environmentalist, a
fisherman, a music therapist, and many were just open to someone new
and unknown. As might be expected, Nicola did receive four requests
for famous people: Clint Eastwood, Sam Elliot, Sam Harris and Kat von
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:37 am
[...] @ Municipal Arts Gallery. A host of events are taking place daily as part of this project. Check out the February 4-7 schedule on their site for lots to do all weekend. Of particular interest is Nicola Atkinson Does Fly’s 101 Cup Thoughts event taking [...]