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Fri
11/8
12:00 AM
Misc
Generative Grammar with Ivanna Baranova @Poetic Research Bureau
Filipinotown
In this three-session workshop at Poetic Research Bureau, we’ll explore various experimental grammatical applications in poetry, including abstract meter, parataxis, syntactical turning, punctuation gleams, linguistic refraction, and more. Together, we’ll consider how these modalities can serve as tools for generating new poetic synergies. Through engagement with experimental texts, prompts, and group discussion, participants will develop collaborative analysis and functional writing, expanding their grammatical attunement to initiate both practical and subliminal approaches to creating poems. Potential readings include works by Daniel Borzutzky, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Larry Eigner, Tilghman Goldsborough, Lyn Hejinian, Ikkyū, Benjamin Krusling, Aaron Kunin, Friederike Mayröcker, Hoa Nguyen, and more. Ivanna Baranova is a poet and artist from the Pacific Northwest, currently living in Los Angeles and sometimes New York City. Recent books include Threshold (Inpatient Press, 2024) and Continuum (Metatron Press, 2023).
Misc
Fri
11/8
2:30 AM
Art
Daid Roy: S.H.R.O.O.M. (Sustainable Hybrid Rocket Optimization with Organic Materials) Opening Event
Jefferson Park
Join artist Daid Roy and LAND for a lecture, performance, and exhibition opening to celebrate the launch of 2024 MOHN Grant artist Roy’s project S.H.R.O.O.M. (Sustainable Hybrid Rocket Optimization with Organic Materials). Roy's art practice draws from the world of amateur rocketry. The artist has researched and developed a mycelium-based, organic rocket propellant in collaboration with artist and mycologist Sam Shoemaker. The evening will start with a presentation from Shoemaker on the conceptualization and development of the mycelium-based rocket propellant, followed by musical sets by Pablo Perez, Michael James Gross, and ézili jean. An exhibition of drawings, videos, and sculptures related to the development of S.H.R.O.O.M. will be on display.
Art
Fri
11/8
4:00 AM
Misc
Queer Night: Mahjong + Karaoke at Jianghu
Alhambra
Welcome to our first Queer Night: Mahjong and Karaoke at Jianghu! Located at Jianghu in San Gabriel Valley, it's time to flex your Mahjong AND Karaoke skills. We'll have Mahjong tables outside and a stage inside for non-stop Karaoke. Come hang and make new friends . This is the perfect space to be yourself and have a great time with a supportive queer community. A special Chinese menu will be available for purchase at Jianghu.
Misc
Sat
11/9
2:00 AM
Art
Chase Hall: Halfrican Opening @David Kordansky
Miracle MIle
Chase Hall has developed an expansive vocabulary for documenting the ever-shifting line between personal and generational narratives. His alchemical approach to his materials, which include the coffee-based pigments and cotton supports that have characterized his work of the last few years, both reflects and critiques the ways in which systemic forces of oppression have divided people, territory, and the physical substance of the planet itself. As its title suggests, each painting in Halfrican poses a series of questions about how identities are constituted, often along lines that are not as clear as they might seem. This show includes paintings in a wide variety of scales, from a twenty-four-foot painting—one of the largest and most ambitious works of the artist’s career—to more intimate portraits in the style of yearbook headshots. It finds him exploring stories of freedom and friendship, as well as archetypal cycles of human development. Group portraits of young men wearing overalls and other work gear, for instance, point to the virtues of collaboration as well as an interest in creating revisionist takes on the American mythos. In many of these paintings, Hall delicately traces the line between self-reliance and participation in supportive community. He identifies how systems throughout the human and natural worlds balance competing needs for self-determination and unity, and reflects on ways in which these themes contribute to the ever-unfolding history of the United States. Visit this opening in tandem with Ruby Neri's "Staircase" opening, also at David Kordansky.
Art
Sat
11/9
2:00 AM
Art
Ruby Neri: Staircase Opening @David Kordansky
Miracle MIle
Ruby Neri takes the full range of human interaction as her subject, producing works in which she depicts relationships as alternately mythological, mundane, ecstatic, inscrutable, hilarious, and tragic. Staircase provides a window onto the expansive nature of her project, which includes many different kinds of making that overlap and inform one another. A large-scale bronze sculpture—one of the most complex and intricate forms the artist has made to date—provides a dramatic center of gravity, setting a tone of experimentation not only in terms of physical form and material, but also in terms of drawing and expressive gesture. These qualities are mirrored in the large paintings that find Neri revisiting this important facet of her project for the first time in several years, as well as the pastels and ceramics in which the tactility of color is a primary concern. Visit this opening in tandem with Chase Hall's "Halfrican" opening, also at David Kordansky.
Art
Sat
11/9
3:00 AM
Film
The Fantasy and Surreal Films of Relah Eckstein
Los Feliz
A series of short films showing a love for film history, but filtered through Relah Eckstein’s aesthetic, which combines low & high culture.
Film
Sat
11/9
3:30 AM
Misc
Launch Party | Layermor x AHYUN
Venice
GEN Z CLEAN BEAUTY LAUNCH PARTY. Join Layermor and AHYUN at a secret art loft for an evening featuring clean beauty trial booths, complimentary bites and beverages, a garden DJ set, and goodie bags for all attendees. Must RSVP for entry. 21+ only. Dress code: Come as you are 😎
Misc
Sun
11/10
12:00 AM
Misc
Fallscape River Walk with Jason "Journeyman" Wise
Frogtown
Join Jason "Journeyman" Wise at the LA River for an autumn sunset plant walk! The Los Angeles River was once a wild and diverse ecosystem but was cemented over in the name of civic progress, removing the plants and animals that once thrived in this region. Luckily for us though, Mother Nature saved a few pockets of nature that refused to be tamed. Join us as we explore one of the few "soft bottom" areas of the River, learning about the balance indigenous people had with the river, how colonizers attempted to tame it, the signs of both we are able to observe today, and the potential for a new beautiful future where the nature and people are both able to thrive around LA's secret gem of wilderness. There are tons of birds and river plants in this section. And numerous deciduous native trees that will hopefully be giving us some beautiful fall colors right around this time.
Misc
Sun
11/10
2:00 AM
Art
Nicholas Bono Kennedy: Dinner Party
Arts District
Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Dinner Party (While the World Burns), a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Nicholas Bono Kennedy. When does a cherished object cross the line into burdensome excess? How can we attempt to enjoy our lives when the world burns around us? In his debut solo exhibition with the gallery Dinner Party (While the World Burns), Kennedy examines the intricate relationship between beauty and burden amid a backdrop of pressing political and ecological challenges through his rich, colorful paintings. Balancing life’s beautiful moments with the chaos of living, the LA-based artist fills his compositions with lush arrangements of potted plants, pet piles, and scenes of domestic life, prompting viewers to find appreciation for our lives in a world that is beautiful and tragic.
Art
Sun
11/10
6:00 AM
Music
CSW: Lena Willikens [4hr Extended Set], adam O
Downtown
Canary Sound Werk is pleased to bring you a very special 4 hour extended set by Lena Willikens!!! Lena (Amsterdam) has gained notoriety for evoking experimental dance floors that promise to never repeat and always surprise; come ready for the unexpected as she digs into her bag of eclectic selections and takes us on a long form adventure of cerebral mixing and cutting edge tracks threaded together through playful connections guaranteed to move you entirely. One of our local favorites, adam O (Los Angeles), will be starting the night off with a range of otherworldly spooky grooves and beats to heat up the floor and get you bopping.
Music
Mon
11/11
3:00 AM
Misc
USAL: Intro to Astronomy
Malibu
Share in the awe of stargazing under the dark skies of the Malibu mountains. The evening will feature guided telescope viewings of stars, planets, and the moon, a beginner-friendly introduction to astronomical concepts and multicultural constellation mythology, and a chance to explore existential queries through the lens of the ever-expanding universe. There will be an opportunity to create a personal stargazing journal and participate in a grounding meditation using the stars as a guide. The workshop welcomes curiosity and encourages community connection.
Misc
Mon
11/11
3:00 AM
Music
Don Slepian’s ‘Footnotes’ • With Nina Keith & An Early Listening Session Of TRANSA
Los Feliz
Calling all heads, open minded enthusiasts, synth wizards, amateur Bell Laboratories historians, and those in search of honest artwork in the age of the algorithm! Electronic music pioneer Don Slepian, who Numero Group has dubbed as “one of new age’s most respected and technologically-advanced synthesists,” will be coming to the Philosophical Research Society for his first time ever performing in Los Angeles !!!! Whether you know Don for his landmark 1980 album Sea of Bliss, his sought after tapes like Open Spaces and New Dawn, his appearance on Light In The Attic’s I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990, or even his performances on the deep cut and absolutely unhinged Horses Sing None of It series, we’re honored and inspired to set the stage for a new kind of performance from the one and only sorcerer of the synthesizer. Don will be joining us to perform original music on his own unique self-constructed synthesizer. Called the Footnote, this evening will be a premier performance for this new MIDI controller. Originally promised to influential composer Wendy Carlos in 1988, when Slepian and Carlos were both with Audion Recording Co (alongside Laraaji & Emerald Web), the Footnote creates new possibilities for a solo musician to perform complex contrapuntal music. Don has also invited his friend and celebrated violinist Karen Bentley Pollick to join him in collaboration for the evening with time for Q&A following his performance! Los Angeles-based composer Nina Keith will open the evening in stunning ensemble with Qur’an Shaheed and Massima Bell. Before, between, and following, we’ll also be treated to a first listen of Red Hot’s watershed TRAИƧA compilation, featuring new music from Sade, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Green-House, Ana Roxanne, claire rousay, Rachika Nayar, and many more friends and luminaries.
Music
Fri
11/15
12:00 AM
Misc
Generative Grammar with Ivanna Baranova @Poetic Research Bureau
Filipinotown
In this three-session workshop at Poetic Research Bureau, we’ll explore various experimental grammatical applications in poetry, including abstract meter, parataxis, syntactical turning, punctuation gleams, linguistic refraction, and more. Together, we’ll consider how these modalities can serve as tools for generating new poetic synergies. Through engagement with experimental texts, prompts, and group discussion, participants will develop collaborative analysis and functional writing, expanding their grammatical attunement to initiate both practical and subliminal approaches to creating poems. Potential readings include works by Daniel Borzutzky, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Larry Eigner, Tilghman Goldsborough, Lyn Hejinian, Ikkyū, Benjamin Krusling, Aaron Kunin, Friederike Mayröcker, Hoa Nguyen, and more. Ivanna Baranova is a poet and artist from the Pacific Northwest, currently living in Los Angeles and sometimes New York City. Recent books include Threshold (Inpatient Press, 2024) and Continuum (Metatron Press, 2023).
Misc
Sat
11/16
9:00 PM
Art
LA Dance Project: Resonance Nov 16
East Hollywood
Free of charge, each presentation of Resonance is in three parts: dance performance, public dialogue, and invitations for reflection and civic action. L.A. Dance Project’s Resonance, a series of new dances premiering as part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide, bridges scientific research on empathy with choreographic practice and interdisciplinary dialogue to create dances, guide public talks, and mobilize social action.
Art
Sun
11/17
9:00 PM
Art
LA Dance Project: Resonance Nov 17
East Hollywood
Free of charge, each presentation of Resonance is in three parts: dance performance, public dialogue, and invitations for reflection and civic action. L.A. Dance Project’s Resonance, a series of new dances premiering as part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide, bridges scientific research on empathy with choreographic practice and interdisciplinary dialogue to create dances, guide public talks, and mobilize social action.
Art
Fri
11/22
12:00 AM
Misc
Generative Grammar with Ivanna Baranova @Poetic Research Bureau
Filipinotown
In this three-session workshop at Poetic Research Bureau, we’ll explore various experimental grammatical applications in poetry, including abstract meter, parataxis, syntactical turning, punctuation gleams, linguistic refraction, and more. Together, we’ll consider how these modalities can serve as tools for generating new poetic synergies. Through engagement with experimental texts, prompts, and group discussion, participants will develop collaborative analysis and functional writing, expanding their grammatical attunement to initiate both practical and subliminal approaches to creating poems. Potential readings include works by Daniel Borzutzky, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Larry Eigner, Tilghman Goldsborough, Lyn Hejinian, Ikkyū, Benjamin Krusling, Aaron Kunin, Friederike Mayröcker, Hoa Nguyen, and more. Ivanna Baranova is a poet and artist from the Pacific Northwest, currently living in Los Angeles and sometimes New York City. Recent books include Threshold (Inpatient Press, 2024) and Continuum (Metatron Press, 2023).
Misc
Sat
11/23
4:00 AM
Art
LA Dance Project: IMMDED IMMGEWD Nov 22
Downtown
Due to overwhelming demand, Jobel Medina & Elliott Sellers return to 2245 with their work IMMDED IMMGEWD. After its premiere at The Broad, choreographer Jobel Medina and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sellers now expand IMMDED IMMGEWD into a 50-minute live performance, fusing unconventional percussion, cello, and visceral movement. The two artists engage in a dynamic and intimate dialogue using their bodies and musical instruments, exploring a range of possibilities in their relationship within the piece.
Art
Sun
11/24
4:00 AM
Art
LA Dance Project: IMMDED IMMGEWD Nov 23
Downtown
Due to overwhelming demand, Jobel Medina & Elliott Sellers return to 2245 with their work IMMDED IMMGEWD. After its premiere at The Broad, choreographer Jobel Medina and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sellers now expand IMMDED IMMGEWD into a 50-minute live performance, fusing unconventional percussion, cello, and visceral movement. The two artists engage in a dynamic and intimate dialogue using their bodies and musical instruments, exploring a range of possibilities in their relationship within the piece.
Art
Mon
11/25
4:00 AM
Music
SARAH HENNIES - 'MOTOR TAPES' (West Coast Premiere)
Historic Filipinotown
Taking its name from neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás’s characterization of the human brain as containing innumerable “tape loops” that run continuously within the mind, Motor Tapes is composed of densely overlapping patterns of sound, with musicians representing synapses that both fire independently and work together to achieve complex activities. Llinás’s description of this phenomena is strikingly musical: “The activity in the basal ganglia is running all the time, playing motor patterns and snippets of motor patterns amongst and between themselves […] they seem to act as a continuous, random, motor pattern noise generator.” “I am interested in the motor tapes theory,” Hennies has said, “because it suggests that alongside lived experience there is a mysterious biological basis for our inclinations, talents and identities.”
Music
Fri
12/6
4:30 AM
Art
CalArts Winter Dance
Downtown
CalArts Dance presents new work by choreographers Kyreeana Breelin Alexander, Brigette Dunn-Korpela, Jobel Medina, and Chorong Yang performed by the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance’s students. Bringing forward an eclectic array of visions, vernaculars, and kinetic identities, Winter Dance features dances by a cross section of Los Angeles-based CalArts Dance alumnx choreographers.
Art
Sat
12/7
4:30 AM
Art
CalArts Winter Dance
Downtown
CalArts Dance presents new work by choreographers Kyreeana Breelin Alexander, Brigette Dunn-Korpela, Jobel Medina, and Chorong Yang performed by the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance’s students. Bringing forward an eclectic array of visions, vernaculars, and kinetic identities, Winter Dance features dances by a cross section of Los Angeles-based CalArts Dance alumnx choreographers.
Art
Sun
12/8
2:30 AM
Art
Daid Roy: S.H.R.O.O.M. (Sustainable Hybrid Rocket Optimization with Organic Materials) Rocket Launch
Randsburg
2024 MOHN Grant artist Daid Roy’s project S.H.R.O.O.M. (Sustainable Hybrid Rocket Optimization with Organic Materials). Roy's art practice draws from the world of amateur rocketry. The artist has researched and developed a mycelium-based, organic rocket propellant in collaboration with artist and mycologist Sam Shoemaker. This project is culminating in the launch of the Horus III, a mycelium-fueled rocket at the Friend’s of Amateur Rocketry site in Randsburg, California on December 7, 2024.
Art
Fri
12/13
4:00 AM
Art
LA Dance Project: THE MISSING MOUNTAIN Dec. 12
Downtown
LADP Choreographic Artists-in-Residence BOBBI JENE SMITH + OR SCHRAIBER return to 2245 with their evening length work THE MISSING MOUNTAIN, performed by L.A. Dance Project. The Missing Mountain contains elements, themes and moments danced or dreamed in the companion pieces – Lost Mountain and Caldera. Lost Mountain was created at LaMaMa Experimental Theater and produced by Liz Sargent. It premiered in 2019 with the original cast of Marta Miller, Ariel Freedman, Jesse Kovarsky, Asaf Avidan, Keir GoGwilt, Coleman Itzkoff, YáYa, Evan Copeland, and Or Schraiber. Caldera premiered at CORPUS of the Royal Danish Ballet in 2019 with the original cast of Hazuki Kojima, Alma Toaspern, Alexander Stæger, YáYa, and Louella May Hogan.
Art
Sat
12/14
4:00 AM
Art
LA Dance Project: THE MISSING MOUNTAIN Dec. 13
Downtown
LADP Choreographic Artists-in-Residence BOBBI JENE SMITH + OR SCHRAIBER return to 2245 with their evening length work THE MISSING MOUNTAIN, performed by L.A. Dance Project. The Missing Mountain contains elements, themes and moments danced or dreamed in the companion pieces – Lost Mountain and Caldera. Lost Mountain was created at LaMaMa Experimental Theater and produced by Liz Sargent. It premiered in 2019 with the original cast of Marta Miller, Ariel Freedman, Jesse Kovarsky, Asaf Avidan, Keir GoGwilt, Coleman Itzkoff, YáYa, Evan Copeland, and Or Schraiber. Caldera premiered at CORPUS of the Royal Danish Ballet in 2019 with the original cast of Hazuki Kojima, Alma Toaspern, Alexander Stæger, YáYa, and Louella May Hogan.
Art
Sun
12/15
4:00 AM
Art
LA Dance Project: THE MISSING MOUNTAIN Dec. 14
Downtown
LADP Choreographic Artists-in-Residence BOBBI JENE SMITH + OR SCHRAIBER return to 2245 with their evening length work THE MISSING MOUNTAIN, performed by L.A. Dance Project. The Missing Mountain contains elements, themes and moments danced or dreamed in the companion pieces – Lost Mountain and Caldera. Lost Mountain was created at LaMaMa Experimental Theater and produced by Liz Sargent. It premiered in 2019 with the original cast of Marta Miller, Ariel Freedman, Jesse Kovarsky, Asaf Avidan, Keir GoGwilt, Coleman Itzkoff, YáYa, Evan Copeland, and Or Schraiber. Caldera premiered at CORPUS of the Royal Danish Ballet in 2019 with the original cast of Hazuki Kojima, Alma Toaspern, Alexander Stæger, YáYa, and Louella May Hogan.
Art
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