Los Angeles Visionaries Association

Join the Boyle Heights Paranormal Project for the very first Fright Night In The Heights! Come watch The Haunting (1963), inside reputedly haunted, abandoned Linda Vista Hospital in Boyle Heights.  

This  fundraising event is a private, by invitation/RSVP only. There will be only 150 seats available, so be quick to RSVP at the Facebook event page and secure your seat. BHPP will go down the list of RSVP's and select the first 150.  There is a $5 per person suggested donation and your name MUST be on the list to gain entry.

This is only a movie showing and not an invitation to investigate. The movie will be shown inside Linda Vista Hospital. 

Linda Vista and BHPP have the right to refuse entry to anyone who we feel poses a threat to the safety of others and will exercise that right, so NO SNAPPERS! Oh yeah, RSVP means you saved a seat for yourself and not 20 others. Security will be provided as well as some parking. Please understand that if you decide to try and walk around the hospital you will be in direct violation of the directions that will be given, and removed from the property. There will be popcorn and hot dogs and candy for sale with profits going to a good cause, please be sure to bring a lawn/beach chair to sit in and a sweater, the inside of the hospital can be scary cold! 

Next months movie will be outside and aimed toward those who could not attend this premier. ***THIS IS A MOVIE***NOT A INVESTIGATION*** although you could be part of the after tour that will be offered for a suggested $20 donation. We will announce this on movie night. Bring your cameras as you never know what you'll catch staring at you from the windows.

Co-Hosted by:

Ghost Hunters Of Urban Los Angeles 
3AM Paranormal  
Antelope Valley Haunts  

 LAST CHANCE TO SEE

JOE MUSIL’S SALON OF THE THEATRES

BEFORE IT CLOSES FOREVER

LAHTF Benefits! Saturday, July 10, 1 - 4pm

Eminent American theatre designer Joseph Musil has been involved in over 25 theatre restoration-renovation projects. Among them are: The El Capitan Theatre (twice) in Hollywood for the Walt Disney Co., the Majestic Crest Theatre in Westwood with its black light nighttime Los Angeles interior,  the Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire, the Alex and others. Large working models costing thousands of dollars were made of Joe’s projects and they are on display with many other treasures at his Studio of the Theatres in Santa Ana . His onsite 10-curtain Art DecoStrand Theatre hosts films and live performances. You will also see the many theatre-related goodies he has collected throughout his career - a conservative valuation is over one million dollars! Here are a few links to give you a sneak peek of the treat in store: 
http://cinemasightlines.com/showmanship_theatremuseum.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPT4ju3XXrI

http://www.ocshowbiz.com/misc/Musil%20Museum/MusilMaster.shtml

http://www.ocweekly.com/2003-01-16/culture/meta-musil/1

Sadly, the Studio is now closed. The collection will be put up for sale soon. Joe has been in failing health and hospitalized for several months. However, thanks to Joe, his brother Robert and Ted Gooding, the Studio will be opened one last time for Southern Californiahistoric theatre fans to benefit the LAHTF. Members of Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation will be admitted free, (but a donation is suggested). All others - suggested donation is $10. Donations at the door defray Studio expenses. You can join LAHTF on the spot or through PayPal at our website – www.lahtf.org .

A basic membership is only $25.

People will be there to sign you up and tell you of upcoming theatre related events.
 
Since the Studio was also Joe's Workshop, it was rare that the public was allowed inside.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity - Bring your camera.
 
Saturday, July 10, 2010, 1:00pm – 4:00pm

LAHTF Members Free.  Non-members - $10. (suggested donation)

Location:
American Museum of Theatre Design - Studio of the Theatres
207 No. Broadway, Suite P
Santa Ana, California 92701
Between 3rd and 2nd Streets at the beautiful Santora Building, Second Floor, Downtown Santa Ana. Parking is available in a structure and lots at a low price nearby. Places to dine are also close by.

Santa Ana had many theatres in its day, and while you are there you might like to drive around and look at them.

For more information about the event, visit www.lahtf.org, our FaceBook page or contact:

Hillsman Wright – Hillsman@lahtf.org – 310 403-0865

If you are interested in purchasing components of the Museum, contact Joe's brother,

Robert Musil (714) 6671021; cell 253/509-2929 - e-mail: 37coupe@hotmail.com  
Thank You. We look forward to seeing you on this special one-time-only theatre day.

Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.

This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated from deft and melancholy fits of his writer’s bow.

Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: The Los Angeles Athletic Club, Musso & Frank, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio’s gates, and much, much more, including a Chandler-themed gelato stop at East Hollywood cult favorite Scoops.

Through published work, private correspondence, screenplays and film adaptations, we trace Chandler’s search for meaning and his anti-hero Philip Marlowe’s struggle to not be pigeonholed or give anything less than all he has, which lead them both down the rabbit hole of isolation, depression, and drink.

I am offering an astonishing quantity of two and three-dimensional ephemera collected by Los Angeles sculptor Verna Lebow Norman (1919-2007) over her lifetime, throughout a two-weekend estate sale in the front two rooms of my house. Lots of mid-century magazines, greeting cards, maps, trinkets, souvenirs, calendars, photos, artist sketches and more.  Everything is priced for recession times.

Dates:
Friday, April 16, 6PM to 9 PM
Saturday, April 17, 6 AM to 4 PM
Sunday, April 18, 10 AM to 3 PM
Friday, April 23, 6 PM to 9 PM (sorry, cancelled due too not enough left to sell)
Saturday, April 24, 6 AM to 4 PM (sorry, cancelled due too not enough left to sell)
Sunday, April 25, 10 AM to 3 PM (sorry, cancelled due too not enough left to sell)

For the sculptors in the community, know that there is also a large assortment of sculpture stands available, outdoor and indoor, some quite large.  Also clay sculpting tools, rolling carts, sculpture work stations (3), and a tall shelf on wheels for taking ceramics to the kiln.

This event is hosted by artist/author/musician Alicia Bay Laurel, who will make her legendary boho survival book Living on the Earth and 4 music CDs available for purchase, WITH autograph upon request.

Address: 842 So. Ogden Drive, Los Angeles CA 90036-4414.  Ogden is 2 blocks east of Fairfax Ave.  My block of Ogden is between Olympic and 8th St., and is only accessible from 8th St.  During the hours listed above, a parking pass is not required. 

Any questions?  Email me at alicia@aliciabaylaurel.com

Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating the movement of product around the country, faxing, copying, joking with his best friend, Clark, and harmlessly flirting with fellow cubicle-mate, Amy.

But how well does anyone really know the people they work with?

When Brian discovers an improbable secret about his best friend, everything in Brian's world changes and his safe life of workplace detachment is no longer an option.

Shocked out of his mind-numbing routine by this new discovery, Brian throws himself into a star-crossed romance with Amy--yet, like next-quarter's sales or intergalactic war, close encounters of the office kind is uncertain business.

Starring:
Jonathan M. Woodward
Samm Levine
James Urbaniak
Dave (Gruber) Allen
Tangi Miller
Marc Evan Jackson
Angela Bettis
Paul F. Tompkins

Written by:
Ben Acker & Ben Blacker

Directed by:
Amber Benson & Adam Busch

Click here to purchase tickets for the screening and Q&A, moderated by Kevin Pollak. All tickets purchases are considered a donation to 826LA and are tax-deductible.

Balcony: $15
General Admission: $30
Preferred Seating & After Party: $100 (featuring a performance by Dan Bern and Common Rotation)

7:30 p.m. (doors 6:45)

For more information about the Drones screening or 826LA please contact Christina Galante.

Jack H. Skirball Series / Los Angeles premieres

Known as one of the world’s leading restorationists of experimental and independent cinema, Ross Lipman is also an accomplished filmmaker, writer and performer whose oeuvre has taken on urban decay as a marker of modern consciousness. He visits REDCAT with a program of his own lyrical and speculative works, including the films 10-17-88 (1989, 11 min.) and Rhythm 06 (1994/2008, 9 min.), selections from the video cycle The Perfect Heart of Flux, and the performance essay The Cropping of the Spectacle. “Everything that’s built crumbles in time: buildings, cultures, fortunes, and lives,” says Lipman. “The detritus of civilization tells us no less about our current epoch than an archeological dig speaks to history. The urban ruin is particularly compelling because it speaks of the recent past, and reminds us that our own lives and creations will also soon pass into dust. These film, video, and performance works explore decay in a myriad of forms—architectural, cultural, and personal.”

In person: Ross Lipman
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

"True Astrology is a mathematical science, which teaches us what particular causes will produce what particular combinations, and thus, understood in its real significance, gives us the means of obtaining the knowledge how to guide our future births." -H. P. Blavatsky ("Collected Writings, Volume VI" / The Theosophist, Vol. V, #9, June 1884)

Madame Blavatsky was one of esoteric scholar Manly P. Hall's favorite historical figures, and all of her writings are lovingly collected in his library at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz. They are housed next to to the extensive Astrology section. In addition to his many books and lectures, one of Hall's lesser-known accomplishments was writing the story for a major Hollywood motion picture whose theme was murder and astrology. The subject is no surprise, coming from the mind of the Los Angeles Philosopher who collected hundreds of charts examining astrological connections to the deaths of celebrities.

When Were You Born (1938) examines the validity and effectiveness of Astrology as a means of psychological profiling and to provide forensic evidence of crime. The film was directed by William C. McGann and stars Anna May Wong, Lola Lane and James Stephenson, with an appearance by a young Clayton "Lone Ranger" Moore as the D.A.'s Assistant.

This free screening is hosted by the United Lodge of Theosophy in association with LAVA, the Los Angeles Visionaries Association, and presented by Maja D'Aoust, librarian at the Philosophical Research Society. After the screening, Maja will lead a discussion of the film's themes and their relevance to Madame Blavatsky's work. The United Lodge of Theosophy in Los Angeles celebrated its 100 year anniversary in 2009, and has been in its current location since 1927. All are welcome to attend its classes without charge. This Lodge's policy is "independent devotion to the cause of Theosophy without professing attachment to any Theosophical organization. It is loyal to the great Founders of the Theosophical Movement, but does not concern itself with dissensions or differences of individual opinion. The work it has on hand and the end it keeps in view are too absorbing and too lofty to leave it the time or inclination to take part in side issues. That work and that end is the dissemination of the fundamental principles of the Philosophy of Theosophy, and the exemplification in practice of those principles, through a truer realization of the SELF; a profounder conviction of Universal Brotherhood."

Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.