LAaLALanders,
This weekend’s events include: Conscious Life Expo, Banksy’s Collaborator’s Break Bread Exhibit, Pasadena Black History Month Parade & Fest, Artist & Fleas Market, Peachy Keen Comedy Show, New Filmmakers LA, Afro-Mexicans in SoCal documentary, free health and dental clinic, Chocolate & Art Show, and so much more!
Have a great time.
EnJOY…
LAaLA
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PEACY KEEN COMEDY SHOW!
Peachy Keen is your new favorite free weekly comedy show!
Lineup for 02/19:
Lachlan Patterson (Last Comic Standing Finalist, Leno)
Adam Ray (The Heat, Workaholics, Arrested Development)
Andy Haynes (Conan, Fallon)
Ian Karmel (Conan)
Sara Schaefer (MTV’s Nikki & Sara Live)
Jason Saenz
Rob O’Reilly (Tonight Show, Live at Gotham)
Hosted by:
Grace Baldridge (hosts Pop Trigger)
FREE (no cover or drink minimum)
Every Friday. Doors at 8pm. Show at 8:30pm
21+
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood 90046
DONATION YOGA CLASS
Yoga newbies & experts alike will feel zened out after this hour-long donation yoga class.
By donation
8:30-9:30am
Studio A Dance
2306 Hyperion Ave
Los Angeles 90027
THE GOODS PARTY @ ZANZIBAR
Seriously one of LA’s best parties because mc KG Superstar and KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez know how to rock this weekly soiree. It’s an organic mashup of throwbacks, R&B classics, reggae and fresh new music. Put the heels away and come ready to dance dance dance! Now you know.
21+, Free before 10pm, $8 after with rsvp at Antvala@sbcglobal.net
Every Friday – 9pm-2am
Zanzibar
1301 5th Street
Santa Monica
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34th ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY PARADE & FESTIVAL
Begins at 10 a.m. at Charles White Park in Altadena, heads south on Fair Oaks Avenue and ends at Robinson Park, 1081 N. Fair Oaks Ave. After the parade, enjoy the Black History Festival on Hammond Street and the north side of Robinson Park from 12-4 p.m. Food for purchase, fun activities for kids, displays, music and other free fun.
Free
10am-4pm
Robinson Park
1081 N Fair Oaks Blvd
Pasadena 91103
NEW FILMMAKERS LA BLACK HISTORY MONTH SCREENING
For February, NFMLA will have three programs for the evening, including an In Focus shorts program highlighting Black Cinema, a narrative shorts program that is all about love for Valentine’s Day, and a narrative feature.
You will have the opportunity to meet the directors of each film, the actors and other crew + participate in a live audience Q&A. There are pre-receptions and after-parties for each program.
Tickets for individual programs are only $5 advance purchase / $7 at the door for single programs.
$5-15
Event Entrance
1139 South Hill St. Los Angeles 90015
Parking
1133 South Olive St. Los Angeles 90015
“INVISIBLE ROOTS: AFRO-MEXICANS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA” SCREENING
This film highlights the history, culture & lives of Afro-Mexicans from the Costa Chica area of Mexico, or with ties to the region living in SoCal.
Following the film screening there will be a panel discussion moderated by the producers of the film Tiffany Walton and Lizz Mulls and they will be joined by:
Kemo The Blaxican; Alva Moore Stevenson, Expert on Afro-Mexicans & on African-Americans migrating to Mexico in the early 1900s; Ximena Martin, Senior Curator of Public Programs and Education of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Staff from TRUST South LA; and Daniel Cendejaz Mendez of A Place Called Home.
Free
7pm
Espacio 1839
1839 E 1st St
Los Angeles 90033
FREE HEALTH & DENTAL CLINIC
Free Health and Dental Clinic for Los Angeles Residents. To provide better access to health care services in the East Los Angeles community, the Alignment Covenant and Los Angeles Christian Health Centers have partnered to host a free comprehensive health-screening clinic for children and adults. The event will provide free medical exams, routine blood work, dental fillings and extractions.
Free
8am-3pm
Alignment Healthcare Center
6201 Whittier Blvd.
East Los Angeles 90022
For more information, please call 888-979-2247 to RSVP or visit alignmentcovenant.org
NOHO FARMERS MARKET
The NoHo Arts District Farmers Market is a festive, family-friendly, open-air marketplace committed to bringing fresh, locally grown food to the surrounding neighborhood. Enjoy a variety of fruits and vegetables from California farmers, as well as other foods including breads, nuts, ethnic foods, cheeses, fruit juices, and cookies. You’ll also find clothing, crafts, and children’s activities, plus much more. Conveniently located just steps away from the North Hollywood Metro stop on the Red Line. This open-air street market has approximately 20 farmers, 20 local artisans, and 30 vendors who provide baked goods and prepared foods. I find my favorite organic apples and organic dinosaur kale weekly… Also, enjoy lots of samples. There are great deals to be made with farmers who come from as far as Sacramento.
Free
9am-2pm
Bakman Avenue, between Magnolia Boulevard to the South and Weddington Street to the North
North Hollywood
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MELROSE TRADING POST
There are 200 eclectic vendors selling everything from records, to furniture, arts and crafts, food vendors and live entertainment. #melrosetradingpost
$2, $1/students and seniors
9am-5pm
Fairfax High School Parking Lot
Fairfax & Melrose
Los Angeles
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14th ANNUAL CONSCIOUS LIFE EXPO
The 14th Annual Conscious Life expo presents a dazzling potpourri of visual, audio, spiritual and sensory delights for everyone. Join at this visionary gathering place. Together we can build a healthier, sustainable global community. And have fun doing it! Featuring 200 lectures, panels and workshops plus Programa en Español, Conscious Film Festival, Permaculture Zone, organic foods, live music & 4 Exhibit Halls. Livestream available. This event features fantastic, eclectic community of speakers, exhibitors, musicians, filmmakers, authors, artists and visionaries so treat yourself at this year’s Expo and experience a spectrum of evolutionary topics in the field of Health, Science, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Media, Art, Relationships and the evolving New Paradigm in creation of a New Earth.
Key speakers include: David Wilcock (with Corey Goode), Steven Greer, Nassim Haramein, Don Miguel Ruiz, Lisa Garr, Anita Moorjani, George Noory, Gail Thackray, Master Sha, James Redfield, Laura Eisenhower, Eric Pearl, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe MD, Dr. Eben Alexander, Dannion Brinkley,Sean Stone, Lynn Andrews, Matt Kahn, Gordon Asher Davidson, Meg Benedicte + more!
*Validated parking: $12.00
Admission: $15/20 (Friday only) Saturday/Sunday $30 Advance/$35 Door.
Workshops: $25 – $95
Friday-Monday, Feb. 19 – 3pm-10pm /Feb. 20 – 9am-11pm/Feb. 21 9am-8pm
Feb. 22 – Post Conferences
LAX Hilton Hotel
5711 Century Blvd.
Los Angeles 90045
For show info: contact: 1-800-367-5777
TRUE&CO’S LINGERIE TRY-ON-TRUCK AT ARTISTS & FLEAS MARKET
True&Co. an online lingerie retailer, is thrilled about the LA Launch of its National Try-on Truck Tour with its first stop at Artists & Fleas. The Try-on Truck brings complimentary, personalized bra fittings and True&Co.’s most beloved bras to women across the U.S. Inspired by the “tiny home” movement, the 24-foot-by-eight-foot mobile shop features spacious fitting rooms and stunning visual displays against a backdrop of glass, wood and steel.
Women can take True&Co.’s proprietary five-minute “Fit Quiz” online and are presented with a personalized selection of beautifully-designed lingerie at the mobile shop. True&Co.’s fit therapists give each guest a bra fitting customized not just to her band or cup shape, but also to her breast shape. (No more measuring tape!) They will be presented with a personalized selection of beautifully-designed lingerie at the mobile shop showcasing how True&Co. is pioneering ‘nomadic retail’ to transform the way women shop for lingerie.
It’s all part of the company’s goal to help women find the perfect-fitting bra.
Artists & Fleas is back in the Arts District with 100 of the best local artists, designers and vintage collectors!
Free
APPOINTMENTS: Book here
Saturday & Sunday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21 – 11am-5pm
Artists & Fleas
647 Mateo St
Los Angeles 90021
CHOCOLATE & ART SHOW
Indulge yourself in some of LA’s finest up-and-coming artists, photographers and creators! There is something for every body including live body painting, live music, face-painting, free nail art/henna tattoos, live portraits and free chocolate!
This event will be held in Los Angeles at KGB Studios in Los Angeles. KGB Studios is an ever-evolving creative space located in East Chinatown.
$5-15, **There is FREE street parking!
Friday-Sunday, 7pm-2am nightly
KGB Studios and Gallery
1640 N Spring St
Los Angeles 90012 (The zip code is very important to find location!)
SUR LE MUR LA ART SHOW & BENEFIT
Sur le Mur L.A. is pleased to présent, Where Street Meets Chic, an eclectic and dynamic group show celebrating LA’s unique fine artists, street artists, and photographers. Sur le Mur (on the wall) utilizes “ART” to raise awareness and support various charities helping children and youth of Southern California. We have partnered up with A Sense of Home to create a spectacular three-day event.
This incredible lineup of gifted artists and group of creatives, in multiple genres, who are giving back to the community by using their paint brushes, cameras, charcoal, and spray cans. There will be a piece of art to resonate with everyone who enters the gallery and some controversial pieces as well. A comprehensive ensemble of artists is on exhibit. They are all geniuses in their own right.
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Nick Ut and his colleague, Raul Roa, who call themselves the “Lunartics” will be presenting their spectacular lunar images, for the first time, using a unique technique developed over the past 3 years. This is the first opportunity to purchase Mr. Ut’s outstanding work following fifty years of photojournalism. BAFTA LA’s artist in residence, Lincoln Townley, whose artworks are collected all over the world, is generously donating portraits of Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. Fellow London based artist, Banksy, who continues to leave his mark on the streets of L.A. is on display as well. LACMA artist, Elwood T. Risk, Mear One, WRDSMTH, I’m Huge, and Plastic Jesus, known as the “LA Banksy” are bringing their street art and murals indoors. Jerry Garcia’s wife, Manasha Garcia, has graciously donated 3 rare pieces for auction.
Other noted artists exhibiting their work include; Michael Gomez-Burton who has exhibited his work at the Pentagon, Geoff Melville, Padhia Avocado, and a SOHO Design House luxury art rug by the artists Cyrcle. Fine artists; Ruth Grace Jervis, Wendy McCauley Rifkin, Wanda Decca, Rafael, and Gianna Vargas. Photographers who give you a view through their lens include; Kristian Schmidt, Per Bernal, and Glenn David. A must see for art enthusiasts and collectors.
Sur le Mur L.A., Where Street Meets Chic, Exhibit– February 19-21st at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station consists of over 15 L.A. artists all collaborating for a great and worthy cause. Silent auction on selected pieces with a 100% of proceeds going to A Sense of Home as well as a percentage of all art sales during the 3-day affair.
Free
Friday-Monday, February 19-21st, Friday 19th, Opening Night 6-10 PM and Saturday 20th, Reception to meet the Artists 6-10pm, Open Fri and Sat 11am-10pm, Sunday 11am-6pm
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave
Santa Monica 90404
FREE LA TOURS
Free daily tours of Downtown, Hollywood and City Lights.
Cost: You must register for this tour. There’s no upfront cost. If you enjoy it, a $15 contribution made at the end of the tour enables them to keep offering it. It’s a great deal!
PINEAPPLE GINGER BEER MOJITO YOUTUBE VIDEO
Be Creative, Be Fearless, Be Ready! This is a 30 second Miami and Caribbean inspired Pineapple Ginger Beer Mojito recipe that I created for entry into the NATPE Miami 2016 contest. Here are the recipe ingredients:
10 mint leaves
2 oz of fresh lime juice
ice
1.5 light Caribbean rum
4 oz ginger beer
Pineapple pieces
garnishes: pineapple pieces and mint sprigs
Maison jar optional
Starring Laala @ www.LAaLALand.com
Shot by Maddox Alexander Martinez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNOngnP2Wc
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“A MANHATTAN BEACH MEMOIR: 1945-2015” INSTALLATION
Join artist and Manhattan Beach native Gary Sweeney for his latest art installation and treasured project: A Manhattan Beach Memoir: 1945-2015. The photography exhibit features about 80 large-scale graphics of personal family photos covering the exterior of the artist’s childhood home. Visit the display and bid adieu to the home before it is torn down in March following the installation.
The exhibit is viewable from the street and alley through February 29, 2016, at 320 35th Street, Manhattan Beach.
Gary Sweeney will provide guided tours of the exhibit every Wednesday in February (February 24) from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Gary Sweeney Installation
320 35th Street
Manhattan Beach 90266
THINK TANK GALLERY PRESENTS: “BREAK BREAD” – AN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION BY SCOTT HOVE & BAKER’S SON
Artists Sugarcoat Consumerism In A Frosted Ghetto. Think Tank Gallery is proud to announce its collaboration with Bay-to-LA artists Scott Hove and Baker’s Son for BREAK BREAD, a programming series running from February 13 to March 13, 2016, with art inspired by Zumanity, Cirque du Soleil’s sexy adult Las Vegas cabaret. This gallery-wide collaborative installation is made up of a tour through six “chambers” filled with everything from tech-based mirror mazes to an ice cream truck, a lounge area with local vendors, and a stage with bar. The 7,000sq ft walking tour that’s been described as a “Hood Candyland” also contains a secret 1950’s style diner in the back with food served by local chefs that will fill the calendar during its 30-day run.
Scott Hove’s installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even find solace in them, but ultimately yield unsavory results. Hove’s animalistic approach to sexuality is replete with dazzling rhinestones, stiletto heels, and sharp fangs integrated into each installation, alongside a special collaboration with cast members from Zumanity.
Baker’s Son found solidarity through food. His pop-style hyper realistic watercolor paintings of tempting consumer goods are simultaneously enticing and repulsive underneath their glossy, sugary exteriors. Growing up, he navigated a world rife with familial and societal conflict by using food as a mediator, a method of forging connections and creating comfort. These objects into which we place so much meaning stimulate every sense, unearthing fond memories of the smell of cookies at grandma’s house alongside the sound of dad’s blues on the record player. By highlighting the beauty and temptation that consumer goods create, we see in stark contrast the darker undertones that permeate his paintings – speaking to institutionalized phobia, violence in underserved communities, and perhaps most vividly, the overconsumption inherent in our society. An informed collaboration between Baker’s Son and Sugarfina allows consumers worldwide to take this conversation home in the shape of candies.
The pair of artists created bodies of work on a massive scale, taking over all 7,500sq feet of Think Tank Gallery to create a dazzling cake maze that will remain on view during the month of February. In addition to the opening reception on Valentine’s Day Weekend, there will be artist talks, performance artists, supper clubs, and event producers from Los Angeles’ robust community of creators filling every night with programming. Specialty coffee provided by Stumptown in a coffee lounge designed by Homee with Apt2b furniture will complement local confectionists, bakers, crafts, and streetwear designers. Artists Scott Hove and Baker’s Son shed light on an, at times, dark overview of contemporary urban life and consumerism on a cultural scale in this month-long festival of the arts.
#BREAKBREADLA #ThinkTankGallery
bakers-son.com
Instagram: @breakbreadla
Artists’ Instagram: @bakersson, @scotthove, @thinktankdtla
Twitter: @thinktankdtla
Free- RSVP for daily entry Feb13 – March 13 as we may reach capacity:
eventbrite.com/e/break-b…
Show runs thru March 14th, 2016
Think Tank Gallery
939 Maple Ave
Los Angeles 90015
THINKSPACE PRESENTS “SLEEPLESS” & “LOVE ME WHEN I’M GONE” ART SHOW
Thinkspace is pleased to present Sleepless, the gallery’s first major solo exhibition of new works by New York City-based painter Christine Wu. A figurative oil painter who explores the expressive and emotive possibilities of the body, Wu delves into the vulnerability of self and the haunted nature of human consciousness. Her evocative and sensual depictions explore themes such as nostalgia and metaphysical becoming, expressing ephemeral states through physical manifestations of subjectivity. Wu incorporates abstract gestures into her works, often dissolving edges and contours to conflate environments and disrupt the representation of bodies, splintering and splitting the cohesion of an illusory whole in favor of a more experientially realistic incoherence. These moments of abstraction, however, are always in service of form and figure. Wu is fascinated by the cyclical momentum of growth and decay, and by the literal and metaphoric complicity of life and death. Her paintings capture this ambivalence, revealing the ghostly remnants of a divided subject through symbolic figurative instability, redoubling and flux.
In Sleepless, Wu continues to stage these tensions between the intimate and private, the public and exposed. There is a quiet and understated, though undeniable, intensity to the glimpses of interior life the artist selectively reveals.
In the project room:
Linnea Strid ‘Love Me When I’m Gone’
Concurrently on view in the Thinkspace project room is Love Me When I’m Gone, featuring new works by Swedish painter Linnea Strid. Known for her emotive, hyper realistic paintings, Strid captures minute details with surreal precision, creating a world that feels uncannily amplified.
In this new series of works, Strid continues to explore imagery with water. Expert at capturing its reflective movement and depth, her paintings are filled with refracted light and distortions. Her subjects are presented in varying states of submersion and vulnerability, as her watery portraits take on a meditative dimension. Suspended somewhere between an unsettling and eerie calm and a foreboding anticipation, Strid arrests time.
In this series, Strid celebrates, and sensitively portrays, the artist’s struggle with anonymity, under-recognition and self-exposure, and the passion that nullifies the rational avoidance of this price, in a tribute to friends and artist peers. Recognizing that the work of many artists evades validation and economic success in their lifetime, the exhibition title expresses the delayed validation and expected sacrifice that comes with dedicating one’s life to art.
Exhibitions thru February 20, 2016
Free
6pm
Thinkspace Gallery
6009 Washington Blvd
Culver City 90232
www.thinkspacegallery.com
RAIN ROOM
The Rain Room allows you to experience the seemingly impossible with Random International’s Rain Room (2012). This immersive environment features perpetually falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected. Timed tickets are required and are expected to sell out quickly.
Various prices
Thru 3/6/2016
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11am-5pm, Friday: 11am-8pm, Saturday, Sunday: 10am-7pm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles 90036
MADE IN CHINA: NEW CERAMIC WORKS BY KEIKO FUKAZAWA
The first solo museum exhibition for Los Angeles-based artist Keiko Fukazawa features recent work from her three residencies in Jingdezhen, China–known as the “porcelain capital” of the world. By merging cast ceramic forms with iconic images of Chairman Mao Zedong, luxury brand logos, and historic glazing techniques, the past and present collide in Fukazawa’s works creating ironic and playful observations on consumerism in China and worldwide.
The exhibition was made possible in part by The Antonia and Vladimer Kulaev Culture Heritage Fund Inc., The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, and Asian Cultural Council, New York.
Exhibition on view through May 8, 2016
$5-7
Craft & Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles 90036
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S FAMED HOLLYHOCK HOUSE
This iconic architectural masterpiece is in the heart of the vibrant, artistic, cultural, and recreational Barnsdall Art Park. Check out this amazing historical architecture. #WrightAtNight hashtag.
Free
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles 90027
FREE LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art #LACMA is free for LA residents with IDs on the first Tuesday of the month from noon-8pm, Mondays-Thursdays from 5-8pm and Fridays from 5-9pm.
Free
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
NOAH’S ARK @ THE SKIRBALL
On view permanently, this popular children’s and family destination is inspired by the ancient flood story, which has parallels in diverse cultures around the world. The interactive, one-of-a-kind exhibition invites visitors of all generations to have fun—and to connect with one another, learn the value of community, and help build a better world—all while aboard a floor-to-ceiling wooden ark filled to the rafters with whimsically handcrafted animals.
$10 General, $7 Seniors and Full-Time Students, $5 Children 2-12, Free to Skirball Members and Children under 2, Includes admission to all other exhibitions
Tuesday-Friday, 12-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, 10am-5pm; Closed Mondays
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles 90049
ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND THE LAaLALand Alert!!!! IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THE WHEREABOUTS ADJUST. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
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