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Upcoming Events
Fri
10/25
1:00 AM
Art
Heidi Duckler Dance: Set in Stone
West Hollywood
Join MAK Center at the Schindler House on Thursday, October 24th for a new site-specific performance Set in Stone, choreographed by Los Angeles-based Heidi Duckler, Founder and Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance, for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Heidi Duckler is the founder and artistic director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler is a pioneer of place-based contemporary practice. Her methodology emphasizes how dance, born from individual experience, can be a tool for awareness.
Art
Sat
10/26
6:00 PM
Art
Architectural History Tour of PRS with Ann Burckle
Los Feliz
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the architectural history (and some of the hidden mysteries) of The Philosophical Research Society’s landmark buildings – who was Robert Stacy Judd, the original architect of PRS? what was located at Los Feliz and Griffith Park boulevards before PRS was built in the mid-1930s? where were books printed on site at PRS in the 1940s and 1950s? – this is your opportunity. Join us for a 45 min. tour, hosted by Ann Burckle, where you’ll (literally) peer behind the curtains, to get a rare peek into Manly P. Hall’s office with its gorgeous antique Buddhist shrine, or (if you’re lucky) learn which room holds the hidden closet at PRS!
Art
Sat
10/26
8:00 PM
Music
Ansonia: A Caribbean Musical Gem
Downtown
Ansonia Records was founded in NYC in 1949 by Rafael ‘Ralph’ Pérez, filling a gap in the Latin music market in the U.S., championing Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican artists who were often overlooked by mainstream labels. Pérez, a former Decca Records A&R, built a catalog featuring diverse genres such as merengue, plena, bomba, and mambo, recording both in New York and internationally. Join them on Saturday at Sound & Vision to celebrate one of the most important record labels for music in the Caribbean. They will have records for sale, complimentary drinks, and Yuca appetizers!
Music
Sun
10/27
1:00 AM
Art
Mike Chattem: The Persistence of Heaven and Earth
Glendale
Gattopardo is thrilled to announce Mike Chattem's first solo show in LA, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝, which opens Saturday, October 26 from 6 - 9. There will be drinks and a special commemorative surprise 🌀 The exhibition will run until December 7.
Art
Tues
10/29
2:00 AM
Music
The Music of Jeff Parker
West Hollywood
In Sheep’s Clothing will hosts a very special event at their headquarters in West Hollywood, CA. “The Music of Jeff Parker” will feature an exclusive advance listening of Jeff Parker's forthcoming ETA IVtet album The Way Out of Easy (out November 22nd via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records) on ISC HQ’s hifi sound system, followed by a conversation between Parker and veteran music supervisor Jocelyn Brown. The event will culminate with a performance of a broad selection of Parker’s original compositions by the trio of Gregory Uhlmann (guitar), Anna Butterss (bass), and Ben Lumsdaine (drums) – all of whom are longtime students, friends and collaborators of Parker.
Music
Tues
10/29
3:00 AM
Film
The Soldier’s Lagoon (La Laguna del Soldado)
Downtown
Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, The Soldier’s Lagoon (La Laguna del Soldado) retraces his journey across the high-altitude marshlands, while also searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of historical narratives and their environmental repercussions, The Soldier’s Lagoon traverses the “páramo,” navigating through the dense fog suspended between Simón Bolívar’s past and Colombia’s present.
Film
Fri
11/1
3:00 AM
Art
Halloween Party: Shipwreck on the Milky Way
Santa Monica
Join Del Vaz Projects and Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) for an unforgettable haunted evening this Halloween featuring an installation by Lucile Littot and performance by Adieu Dolorès. Gather with fellow art enthusiasts for a night of art and performance. Proceeds benefit LAND and Del Vaz Projects. Experience Shipwreck on the Milky Way, an installation by Lucile Littot. Special performance by Adieu Dolorès: a music duo by Lucile Littot and Markos Mazarakis-Ainian at 9 pm. Suggested Attire: Glam Victorian Mermaids and Sailors
Art
Sat
11/2
2:00 AM
Music
Music Interior: Japanese Ambient & Experimental A Listening Party
Downtown
Listen to Japanese ambient, new age, and experimental music from Music Interior, Haruomi Hosono, Toshifumi Hinata, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and more. Drink Japanese whiskey in a private Japanese garden. Explore a world of Japanese ambient, new age, and experimental music featuring selections from the label Music Interior along with artists Haruomi Hosono, Toshifumi Hinata, Yoshio Suzuki, Masahide Sakuma, Jun Fukamachi, Haruomi Hosono, Ayuo Takahashi, Akira Inuoe, Yas-Kaz, and more + enjoy select Japanese whiskey, beer, and wine. Listening sessions hosted by the team behind In Sheep's Clothing. Music Interior: Japanese Ambient & Experimental Listening Party is part of an ongoing collaborative listening series between JACCC and In Sheep’s Clothing.
Music
Sat
11/2
10:00 PM
Music
Sound Material with Goodboy Wine at Platform Park LA
Culver City
Good Boy Wine, dublab and more team up to bring back the daytime outdoor hi-fi sound & wine dance party like no other! All-headliner lineup by dublab: -CFCF -Sevyn -Evan Shornstein b2b Colloboh -Discotchari the best in wine by Good Boy, hi-fi sound system and much more to come in food, drink, vendors and partners.
Music
Sat
11/2
11:00 PM
Art
Keystone Art Space: OPEN STUDIOS
Lincoln Heights
Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist. Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex. Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. Mark your calendars and celebrate the arts on November 2!
Art
Sun
11/3
1:00 AM
Art
Uri Aran: 'House' Opening at Matthew Brown
Lincoln Heights
Upon entering House, we traverse a foyer-like hallway, in which sit a row of faintly buzzing overhead projectors casting odd and familiar images on the opposite wall. As we walk between the line of antiquated and funny machines and their pictures, we hear the muffled sound of music emanating from another room, and feel ourselves welcomed and a little altered, as though we’ve undergone a comic rite of passage. We are conscious of having gone from one state to another, from outside to within, and this feeling colors our encounters with the exhibition’s sculptures, paintings, and films—works whose utter unpretentiousness bely the material meticulousness with which they have been composed and built. In this show, and in all Aran’s work, playfulness and drama, nostalgia and wit, awkwardness and finesse all comfortably cohabitate.
Art
Sun
11/3
3:30 AM
Art
Kite and Interspecifics: The Body is the Interface
Downtown
A double bill of performances by Oglala Lakȟóta artist Kite (Music, BFA ‘14) and Mexico City-based collective Interspecifics brings together machine learning technologies, sound, the body, and Indigenous cosmologies. For Wičháȟpi Wóihaŋbleya (Dreamlike Star), Kite performs with a custom computer that translates her body movements into experimental sounds and video by means of two hair braids she manipulates. Kite performs scores she has translated into Lakȟóta visual language, derived from the dreams of women and two-spirit community members, who consider dreaming as a sacred epistemological practice. Using her own body as an interface, each of Kite’s movements trains the machine learning software encoded with a Lakȟóta data set. Interspecifics presents Meta Sincronía 1.0, a live sonic and visual composition with a feedback processor that follows rhythms and synchronizations of the human heart. Three performers outfitted with a heart-rate monitor interface with automated ceremonial leather drums—inspired by Rarámuri instruments. Beats synchronize between humans and machines, fluctuating from chaos to unison.
Art
Sun
11/3
8:00 PM
Music
Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 Release Party
Downtown
Join Sound & Vision for a release party celebrating the first comprehensive collection of its kind, Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996. This collection explores the flourishing Ukrainian music scene of the late 20th century—much of which was recorded under strict Soviet control. Hear the music & snag your copy of the 2xLP/CD. Featuring historical liner notes by Kyiv-based writer and filmmaker Vitalii “Bard” Bardetskyi. Carefully curated by David Mas “DBGO,” Mark “Frosty” McNeill, and Matt Sullivan in collaboration with Ukrainian label Shukai Records with full support from each artist. Features artwork by Ukrainian folk art painter Maria Prymachenko.
Music
Sun
11/3
8:55 PM
Music
Eric Ching Quartet ft. Morgan Delaney
East Hollywood
Eric Ching is a jazz drummer and composer currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. With his compositions, he aims to explore new territory while channeling the spirits of McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, and Kenny Garrett. His pieces all have a searching quality where he isn’t quite sure what he’s looking for, but he’ll know when he’s found it. He yearns for the unexpected and his songs gradually unfold like a Tarantino movie. Morgan Delaney is a crushing vocalist who will both warm your heart and dazzle with technique. She recently graduated from CSULB and won her first Downbeat award for undergraduate jazz voice soloist.
Music
Sun
11/3
9:45 PM
Music
Listen To Music Outside In The Daylight Under A Tree
Montecillo De Leo Politi
Brought to us by Leaving Records, Listen to Music Outside in the Daylight Under a Tree is a most beloved and recurring outdoor concert series in Los Angeles. The gathering is always open to the public, donations-based, all ages, all genre, and you get the idea. This month’s lineup is Cool Maritime, a collaboration between Alia + Nailah Hunter, Jamichael, Toucan, Tru, and a DJ preview of Red Hot’s TRANSA compilation from Massima Bell + Nina Keith.
Music
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
Sun
12/22
3:00 AM
Music
Vino & Vinyl with DJ Kerry
Downtown
LA, mark your calendars! This Saturday, December 21st, we’re gathering at Agora for our favorite concept: Vino & Vinyl. Expect disco house vinyl sets by DJ Kerry and Airs, paired with exquisite wine and inspiring art.
Music
Mon
12/23
2:00 AM
Music
BANNED Text & Sound Radio Experiments
Downtown
BANNED Text & Sound Radio Experiments Readings bt PANICA Live Score by HidHawk & Laura Shumate Vol 1 Sunday, December 22 6-8p BANNED Text & Sound Radio Experiments! Volume one of a four-part winter radio series, beginning with a Spanglish version of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Readings bt PANICA Live Score by HidHawk & Laura Shumate // 6p-8p
Music
Sat
1/4
6:00 PM
Art
8th Annual Cultural Ikebana Exhibition
Downtown
Celebrate the start of 2025 with the breathtaking art of Japanese flower arranging at the 8th Annual Cultural Ikebana Exhibition, presented by the Ikebana Teachers Association of Southern California. Join JACCC on Sunday, January 5th at noon for a special ceremony featuring Mochitsuki (traditional rice pounding) and an electrifying Taiko performance by Kodama Taiko, setting the tone for a festive and inspiring New Year celebration. Discover the timeless elegance of Shōgatsu (New Year’s) ikebana arrangements crafted by master teachers from three renowned schools: Ikenobo (池坊), Sōgetsu (草月), and Ohara (小原). Using seasonal materials like pine, bamboo, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, and camellias, these exquisite creations are designed to bring good luck, happiness, and renewal for the year ahead.
Art
Sun
1/5
6:00 PM
Art
8th Annual Cultural Ikebana Exhibition
Downtown
Celebrate the start of 2025 with the breathtaking art of Japanese flower arranging at the 8th Annual Cultural Ikebana Exhibition, presented by the Ikebana Teachers Association of Southern California. Join JACCC on Sunday, January 5th at noon for a special ceremony featuring Mochitsuki (traditional rice pounding) and an electrifying Taiko performance by Kodama Taiko, setting the tone for a festive and inspiring New Year celebration. Discover the timeless elegance of Shōgatsu (New Year’s) ikebana arrangements crafted by master teachers from three renowned schools: Ikenobo (池坊), Sōgetsu (草月), and Ohara (小原). Using seasonal materials like pine, bamboo, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, and camellias, these exquisite creations are designed to bring good luck, happiness, and renewal for the year ahead.
Art
Sun
1/19
8:00 PM
Art
RUN Botanic Gardens & Architectures: Susan Cianciolo Workshop
West Hollywood
This workshop is made for the study of perspective and botany to create textiles through printing with nature, collage, drawing, embroidery, patchwork for finished interior tapestries to translate to a garment or sculpture. Examples will be shown and open to free interpretation, always in flux.
Art
Fri
2/7
4:30 AM
Misc
Faye Driscoll: Weathering @ REDCAT
Downtown
In Weathering, ten performers move and morph on a raft-like stage, surrounded by audiences that witness the awe-inspiring evolving tableau of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects. Dancers gradually shift from barely perceptible gestures to high-velocity sprints and collisions, in what choreographer Faye Driscoll terms “a multi-sensory flesh sculpture surging through the Anthropocene.” As a vocal score resonates throughout the space, dancers spill and careen into the spiral of a hurricane. The audience is drawn into this storm, close enough to smell the sweat, hear the labored breathing, and feel the rising energy of the living symphony of bodies. In our contemporary moment when movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?”
Misc
Sun
2/9
4:30 AM
Misc
Faye Driscoll: Weathering @ REDCAT
Downtown
In Weathering, ten performers move and morph on a raft-like stage, surrounded by audiences that witness the awe-inspiring evolving tableau of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects. Dancers gradually shift from barely perceptible gestures to high-velocity sprints and collisions, in what choreographer Faye Driscoll terms “a multi-sensory flesh sculpture surging through the Anthropocene.” As a vocal score resonates throughout the space, dancers spill and careen into the spiral of a hurricane. The audience is drawn into this storm, close enough to smell the sweat, hear the labored breathing, and feel the rising energy of the living symphony of bodies. In our contemporary moment when movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?”
Misc
Thurs
2/20
4:00 AM
Music
Mary Kouyoumdjian, Royce Vavrek, Laine Rettmer, Alan Pierson, Beth Morrison: Adoration @ REDCAT
Downtown
Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student, as he grapples with his family history, racism, and intolerance in our digital age, in an adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight how hate is a learned behavior, and the impact of hate on society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths. Presented in collaboration with LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects, this piercing contemporary opera tells two simultaneous narratives—a fictional story of violence and betrayal juxtaposed with real experience of family strife and the rejection of the other.
Music
Fri
2/21
4:00 AM
Music
Mary Kouyoumdjian, Royce Vavrek, Laine Rettmer, Alan Pierson, Beth Morrison: Adoration @ REDCAT
Downtown
Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student, as he grapples with his family history, racism, and intolerance in our digital age, in an adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight how hate is a learned behavior, and the impact of hate on society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths. Presented in collaboration with LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects, this piercing contemporary opera tells two simultaneous narratives—a fictional story of violence and betrayal juxtaposed with real experience of family strife and the rejection of the other.
Music
Tues
3/4
4:00 AM
Film
Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias: Pepe @ REDCAT
Downtown
The first and last hippopotamus killed in the Americas, the beautiful beast nicknamed Pepe by the media, was controversially shot by authorities in Colombia, deemed an invasive and dangerous threat to the community. Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Film/Video MFA ‘14) presents a film guided by a voice that claims to be from Pepe. Between encounters and misunderstandings, epiphanies and sadness, the film presents a world full of stories replete with more stories.
Film
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