Los Angeles Weekend Planner 11-21-19

 Los Angeles Events, Los Angeles Music, Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Nov 212019
 

Julia Jacklin- Pressure to Party

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/21-11/24/19)-

Thursday

Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz has a new solo project and is performing at Bootleg Theater with Sorry Girls.  Get there early for a screening of Moses Sumney’s new music video Virile with a behind the scenes Q & A at 6:30pm (free with RSVP).

There are still free tickets available to see LA based educator, writer, theater actor, and documentarian Carolina Rivera Escamilla read her work in conjunction with Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, for The Broad’s series The Logic of Poetry and Dreams

Union Station is having it’s annual holiday tree lighting (with snow) and the first of this year’s cocoa concert series, starting at 6:30pm

Bloc Party are performing their 2005 album Silent Alarm at the Hollywood Palladium

Music producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Young will be performing together at The Midnight Hour at Lodge Room

The Get Up Kids are playing at the Echoplex with Kevin Devine and The Whiffs opening

 

Friday

Curator Jamillah James will be leading a tour of No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake followed by a happy hour with light refreshments at ICA LA for their monthly Art Buzz event  (free but register)

Our Girl are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Particle Kid and a DJ set by SadGirl

Moon Duo are playing at Lodge Room with Umberto opening

 

Saturday

Artist Thomas Joshua Cooper, who has exhibitions currently on view at Hauser & Wirth and LACMA, will be in conversation with Michael Govan at Hauser & Wirth at 11:30am (free but register)

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is having a cyanotype workshop with educator Marissa Gonzalez Kucheck at 12pm.

The Great LA Walk is your annual chance to walk across Los Angeles county with a group of other energetic walkers. This year’s route runs from Arcadia, through Pasadena and onward to City Hall.

Cultural Traffic Arts Fair is happening at Delicious Pizza, free from 12-8pm

Death Valley Girls and Crocodiles are playing at Lodge Room

Creature Feature Festival II is happening at the Bootleg Theater with performers that include The Blank Tapes, Early Evil, Young Creatures and more

L.A. Drones, Death Hags, and Big Fun are performing at El Cid

 

Saturday and Sunday

Renegade Craft Fair returns to Los Angeles State Historic Park with its free holiday market

 

Sunday

Julia Jacklin is playing at the El Rey Theatre with Christian Lee Hutson

Bootleg Theater is screening a double feature of Louis Malle’s God’s Country, about the farming community in Glencoe, Minnesota in 1979, which was thriving at the time. Forced to abandon the project early, Malle returns in 1985 to follow up, and finds that things have taken a dark turn during the Reagan era. The second film is Lee Grant’s The Willmar 8 a film about “a group of eight women who, in 1981, carried out the longest bank strike in American history to protest gender discrimination at great cost to their reputations, marriages and livelihoods in the 14,000-person town of Willmar, Minnesota- 60 miles north of Glencoe”.

Kanye West is premiering his new opera Nebuchadnezzar at the Hollywood Bowl, directed by performance artist Vanessa Beecroft and feature music from West’s Sunday Service choir.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 2-16-17

 Los Angeles Events, Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Feb 162017
 

Vince Staples- Lift Me Up

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/16-2/19/17)-

Thursday

Crocodiles are playing with AJ Davila at the Bootleg Theater

Critic and curator Robert Storr will be discussing the art work of Louise Bourgeois at the Hammer Museum with a book signing to follow (free)

Paper Bird, Laura Burhenn of The Mynabirds and Bones Muhroni are playing a free show at The Satellite

Friday

Surfer Blood are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with The Aquadolls and Prism Tats

Chad Valley is playing with Computer Magic at The Echo

This week’s David Lynch movie pairing at The Egyptian Theatre is Lost Highway with Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire

Saturday

Vince Staples is performing at the Air + Style music festival at Exposition Park along with Flume, Chromeo, Vic Mensa, St. Lucia, The Shelters, Phantoms and RKCB.

Ace Hotel is celebrating Wikipedia Day in their Segovia Hall with speakers that include UCLA Vice-chair of Digital Media Arts, Peter Lunenfeld, Juliet Lapidos from the LA Times and former Chief CNN White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin, and more-plus cake! (free with rsvp)

The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is hosting a Dead of Winter Horror Marathon. $25 gets you admission to Return of the Living Dead, Re-Animator, Evil Dead II, Cemetery Man and Night of The Creeps

Kan Wakan is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Moon Honey

So Many Wizards are playing with Avi Buffalo and Litronix at The Hi Hat

Sunday

Los Angeles Film Forum’s Festival of (In)Appropriation returns to the Spielberg Theatre at The Egyptian with short films that incorporate already existing media and turn them into new artwork

Air + Style’s music festival continues with Major Lazer, YG, Zhu, TV On The Radio, Russ, Louis the Child, Marian Hill, XYLØ, Powers, and 070 Shake

Surf Curse, Care, and Kuromi are playing a benefit show for the ACLU at The Smell

Artist David Lloyd will be discussing his current exhibition at Klowden Mann gallery at 3pm

The Aero Theatre is showing Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal

Los Angeles Weekend Planner

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 212015
 

Wallburds- Hourglass

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/21-5/24)-

Thursday

Audiodrome at Cinefamily (co-presented by WOAH and Tigerbeat6) combines live music,“forward thinking A/V remixes” and this time will feature a record release party for Kid606 – http://www.cinefamily.org/films/audiodrome/#audiodrome-vol-1-terminal-vortex-feat-kid606-record-release-party

Fahrenheit Gallery downtown is screening a Len Lye film retrospective (free)- http://fahrenheit.flaxfoundation.org/thursday-may-21-730pm-screening-len-lye-retrospective/

Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting ATTACK, SUSTAIN, RELEASE, DECAY, a performance collaboration joining performance and media collectives Mutant Salon, Experimental Half Hour, and Project Rage Queen- https://www.facebook.com/events/436600176513659/

In December The Autry Museum held a contest for artists to submit designs for a banner for the back wall of the museum and tonight they are having the High Five Art Launch Party (free with reservation) to celebrate the artists and winner- http://theautry.org/programs/special-events/high-five-art-launch-party

Friday

Wallburds are opening for Girl Tears and Crocodiles- my vote for best show of the weekend and its only $12- http://www.thesatellitela.com/event/803173-crocodiles-girl-tears-los-angeles/

Artist and musician Dorian Wood will be performing for the closing of his and Craig Calderwood’s exhibition at Last Projects in Hollywood- http://www.lastprojects.org/

It’s the first ever night for The Odd Market, on The Autry Museum’s south lawn, with cocktails, shopping, crafts, DJs and food- http://theautry.org/programs/special-events/the-odd-market

Roses are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Dunes- http://foldsilverlake.com/event.cfm?id=205173&cart

Gothic Tropic, Crown Plaza, and Life Size Maps are at the Echo- http://www.theecho.com/event/821057-gothic-tropic-los-angeles/

Saturday

LACMA is offering a free printmaking workshop inspired by the current exhibition The Language of Xu Bing– advanced tickets are sold out but there will be a standby line- http://www.lacma.org/event/free-printmaking-workshop

Electric Dusk Drive In downtown is showing Rear Window (only astroturf seating is available, no tickets left for cars)- https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/778423

Ceremony are headlining at the Echo with a list of bands that includes Mrs.Magician- http://www.theecho.com/event/818325-ceremony-los-angeles/

Sunday

Artists from Pasadena City College and Art Center College of Design will be selling their work at the annual Art+Design Open Market at One Colorado in Old Pasadena- http://www.onecolorado.com/sunday-funday-art-design-open-market/

It is the final weekend for Experience 15: SPARK! Explore SPARK at ESMoA museum in El Segundo, which creates a world of fantasy with interactive exhibits that are great for kids- especially today as there is a family fun day with art making projects and a fairy tale scavenger hunt. There is also a talk with Jeff Guess, the current artist in residence- https://www.facebook.com/pages/ESMoA/130023060490257

Space15Twenty in Hollywood is having a flea market- http://www.space15twenty.com/

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Los Angeles Weekend Planner

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Aug 072014
 

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- As Always

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/7-8/10)-

Thursday

Jagwar Ma are playing at the Santa Monica Pier with Fascinator (free)- http://tcs.dola.com/event/2014/08/07/jagwar-ma

REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival 2014: Program 3- presents two new dance works-(until 8/9) – http://www.redcat.org/event/nowfest-2014-week-three

JazzPOP: Beep at the Hammer Museum (free)- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/08/jazzpop-beep/

Myron & E are playing Levitt Pavillion Macarthur Park (free)- http://www.levittla.org/myron-e-and-wondem-band/

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah are playing at the Troubadour- http://www.troubadour.com/event/547477-clap-your-hands-say-yeah-los-angeles/

Arctic Monkeys are playing with Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club- http://www.staplescenter.com/events/detail/arctic-monkeys

Thursday through Sunday

Sundance Next Fest takes place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and the Ace Hotel. There are still tickets available for some of the events including a film screening with panelist Werner Herzog on Friday and on Sunday Warpaint will provide music for another screening- http://www.sundance.org/next/line-up/

Friday

It’s the last of the Friday Flights at the Getty- this time with Mikael Jorgenson of Wilco and his wife, artist Cassandra C. Jones. Several projects and performances are part of the program as well as a solo electronic music performance by Passion Pit’s Xander Singh- http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/friday_flights.html

Gardens & Villa play Figat7th- http://artsbrookfield.com/event/gardens-villa/#.U-MtfkhfnU4

Saturday

Crocodiles are playing Los Globos with Tweens- http://www.clublosglobos.com/event/600337-ihc-los-angeles/

Tif Sigfrids gallery is having variety show hosted by Denver Smith that will include magic, music, comedy and a cirque du soleil style act beginning at 4pm- http://www.tifsigfrids.com/

NELA Art Gallery Night in Highland Park and Eagle Rock – https://www.facebook.com/NELAart?ref=ts

The Outsiders is the movie at this week’s Hollywood Forever cemetery screening- http://cinespia.ticketfly.com/event/623269-outsiders-los-angeles/

It’s the last of the Chinatown Summer Nights music and cultural festival- bands include The Peach Kings and Moving Units- http://chinatownsummernights.com/schedule/

Permanent Records in Highland Park is having a record release party for the band Roses (free)- https://www.facebook.com/events/490178681117439/?ref=5/news.php

Sunday

FAME FEST: BIKE FEST and Scavenger Hunt- a street-long treasure hunt and art show along Melrose Avenue, plus food trucks and live music– https://www.facebook.com/events/1437609899852580/?ref=22

MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz is giving a walkthrough of the Cinema Vezzoli exhibition on its last weekend- http://edu.moca.org/calendar/2014-08-10

Glen Hansard, Iron and Wine, and The Head and the Heart play the Hollywood Bowl- http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/glen-hansard-iron-amp-wine/2014-08-10

Unique USA is having their 6th annual LA Summer Market (also Saturday), $10 gets you entrance for both days, drinks and snacks and there are also free workshops – http://www.uniqueusa.com/markets-la

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Los Angeles Weekend Planner

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Nov 072013
 

Crocodiles- Hearts of Love

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend-

Tonight (Thursday) is the only night with available tickets for Groundskeepers- a multimedia dance performance by the Heidi Duckler Dance Theater. It takes place within an empty hospital in Boyle Heights that will soon be turned into affordable housing.

http://heididuckler.org/event/groundskeepers

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