Upcoming Events

[€uroMeinke]

Just got an email from KCRW which posted two interesting events this week:

The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-443-7000
The Hammer Museum in Westwood presents The Free Hammer Bash! Thursday, August 23rd. Take this opportunity to see the acclaimed exhibition Eden’s Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists before it closes on September 2nd, and enjoy a performance and film by artist Jim Shaw.

Beat the heat with a cash bar and live music by DJ Tendaji Lathan in the museum courtyard. Bars open at 7pm. For more information, visit hammer.ucla.edu or call 310-443-7000.

this one really intrigues me:

The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N. Baldwin Ave.
Arcadia, CA 91007
626-821-3232
TERRABYTE 2.0 launches at The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden on Sunday, August 26th (5pm - 10pm). The event features performances by Boom Bip, Tycho, Test Shot Starfish, and INI Sound System, among others. KCRW is a media partner for this unique event where sound, art and emerging technology fuse with nature during garden treks and a planetarium show in NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope pavillion. Cash bar/food will be available. (There is a $10 suggested donation, with proceeds supporting The Arboretum's Plant Conservation Fund.)
For more information, visit arboretum.org or call 626-821-3232.

[blueerica]

Can't make either of those events...

In other KCRW news, they just played a truly fantastic version of Rider in the Sky... the performer was Dan Bao Vietnam, and I can't find ...

Take that back, I found it on one of Rough Guide's CDs - Rough Guide to Vietnam. While I'm only buying it for the one song, I think it could expand my musical horizons... eastward.

I do loves me some KCRW internet radio

[innerSpaceman]

The arboretum on Sunday sounds like a likely! Lemme know if anyone's going to that ... because I could be persuaded to join you in a hypertensive heartbeat.





Um ... where's Arcadia???

[Ghoulish Delight]

I was debating posting this because it's still a couple months away, but I kinda want to start talking about it now so I remember to make time for it, especially since we'll be out of town for the opening.

Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Birth of the Cool
oct 7, 2007 - jan 6, 2008
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcenturyis one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever organized on this seminal period, encompassing the painting, architecture, furniture design, decorative and graphic arts, film, and music that launched midcentury modernism in the United States and established Los Angeles as a major American cultural center. The influence of these modernist practices on contemporary art and culture has been widespread, and today the styles associated with this period have become shorthand for beauty, sophistication, and confident urbanity.

Also form the OCMA:

Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Art and Architecture Tour (their link's a little wonky, you might have to scroll up a bit)
Sunday, October 14, 2007
This year's Art and Architecture tour--supporting education programs at the museum--features remarkable homes designed by award-winning architects and designers. The homes selected for this year's event showcase stunning examples of contemporary design and unique collections of contemporary art.

Following the self-guided tour, participants are invited back to the museum for a 1950's theme party with music, cocktails, and hors d'oeuvres. The event will include an auction with many exciting items as well as a surprise raffle package.

We will be out of town, but that sounds like good times to me.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Got another one. Details remain sketchy, but:

Grand Avenue Festival
WDCH Free Events FREE-WD

Sunday, September 30, 2007, 11:00 AM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
(323) 850-2000 Program:
A free all-access day with free performances by local artists and activities for all ages.

I can't find any sort of lineup at the moment. I found this at the MySpace page of Bitter:Sweet, an L.A. duo on one of my favorite labels Quango. They're music's been floating around NPR and hip television for a little while.

Oh crap, it just occurred to me that I think we'll be in Vegas that weekend. Crap crap crap crap.



Well, have fun anyone who goes.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, and I totally forgot about the Arboretum. crap, crap, and double crap.

[Morrigoon]

Birth of the Cool has my vote.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

F L O O D
Presents

SoundWalk2007

On September 22, 2007, the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD, will
present SoundWalk2007, featuring artists from the Southland and the
international scene. This event operates under the concept of a one-
night aural/visual experience as provided by a walking-tour of sound
installations and soundmarks located in various indoor and outdoor
spaces situated throughout the East Village Arts District in Downtown
Long Beach. The artworks will combine in multiple ways a wide range
of visual, performative and audio components. There will be
sculptures, environments, installations and performances.

About SoundWalk2007

SoundWalk is an annual art event produced by the Long Beach artist
group, FLOOD, as a variation of the "ArtWalk" events that take place
every 2nd Saturday in the Arts District of Long Beach. Artists and
viewers alike passionately embraced the inaugural event, SoundWalk
2004, with thirty artists participating and nearly a thousand
visitors joining together for the evening walking-tour. Many
visitors, who had no prior encounter with sound-art, were
overwhelmingly enthusiastic in their responses.

Now in our fourth year, we continue to explore this unique
environmental experience with new and returning artists participating
in the transformation of our downtown Long Beach space. Outdoor
soundmarks add a layer to and perform in concert with sounds of the
city, thus intermingling with and altering the local soundscape.
Unlikely combinations of the ordinary and the extraordinary enter
into chance encounters with the attending public. Galleries and
stores within the Arts District will accommodate a variety of indoor
installations, creating uncommon intersections of art and commerce.
This evening dedicated to sound is not only an exciting moment of
transformed perception but a chance to rethink our sensory engagement
with the spaces within which we function.

A number of works will be on display for an extended period
throughout the month of September at various indoor locations. Once
again, we wish to surprise, puzzle, enchant as well as engage those
who intentionally and unintentionally participate in SoundWalk 2007.

This event is free to the public and is being sponsored in part by
the Downtown Long Beach Business Associates (DLBA), The Arts Council
for Long Beach, The East Village Association (EVA) and The City of
Long Beach. More information about FLOOD and the artists is
available upon request.

About FLOOD

The artist group, FLOOD has been working on installation projects for
the last four years. FLOOD is interested in testing the limits of
artistic expression through collaboration and experimentation within
a variety of artistic genres. Current members of FLOOD are Kamran
Assadi, Shea M Gauer, Frauke von der Horst, Scott A Peterson, Shelley
RuggThorp and Marco Schindelmann.

SoundWalk 2007 Participants:

Albert Ortega/ Arcanum/ Elonda Billera/ Bicycle Bell Ensemble/ Allie
Bogle and Mike Chang/ Andrew Bucksbarg and Charlie Hoyt/ Madelyn
Byrne, Ellen Weller and Randy Hoffman/ Miha Ciglar/Daniel Corral/
Christiaan Cruz/ Philip Curtis/ Frederik De Wilde/ Braden Diotte /
Aaron Drake/ david drodge/ Charles Erwin/ ETEREUM/ FLOOD/ Flourescent
Grey/ lindsay foster/ Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko/ Luis Garcia and
Matt Bridges/ Josh Goldman/ GirlCharlie and Monica Ryan/ Kate and Lee
Harding/ Doug Harvey/ Autumn Hays/ Kate Henningsen/ john kannenberg/
Lewis Keller/David Kendall/ Markle and Strauss/ midnight gardeners/
Jim McAuley/ Thomas Anthony McDermott/ MLuM/ Yann Novak & Gretchen
Bennett/ James N. Orsher/ Adam Overton/ Kevin Paul/ Doug Pearsall/
phog masheeen/ Sabine Pinkepank/ Gary Raymond/ redux/ RS-232/ Nicole
C. Russell/ Erin Scott/ Surrealestate/ Tristan Shone/ Tom Skelly/ TOM
SKY/ smgsap/ Phillip Stearns/ Robert Strong/ Super Minerals/ Hans
Tammen/ Noah Thomas/ Nina Waisman/ Sander Roscoe Wolff/ Carrie Yury,
Lindsay Ljungkull and Marya Alford

WHAT: Long Beach’s fourth annual sound art event, "SoundWalk 2007", a
one-night walking-tour of soundmarks and installations by over 50
local and international sound artists.
WHERE: Throughout the area encompassed by Broadway, Atlantic Avenue,
Ocean Boulevard, and Elm Street in the East Village Arts District of
Downtown Long Beach, in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces.
WHEN: Saturday, September 22, 2007 from 5 - 10 pm
ADMISSION: Free
PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street. After 6pm,
parking is free

PUBLIC CONTACT: Marco Schindelmann at (562) 413-5868
Visit www.soundwalk.org to learn
more about SoundWalk2007
Email: info@soundwalk.org

[AllyOops!]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Um ... where's Arcadia???

It's the friendly neighbor to Azusa & Glendora (off of the 210 fwy.).

It sounds like lots of fun, so to all the lucky LoT'rs who attend, have a blast!