March 1, 2012
LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association
”[LAVA is] a network of creative types and thinkers working to grow Los Angeles up.” – The New York Post. “LAVA gathers creative people in search of a different experience of life in Los Angeles.” – Flavorpill. “LAVA always flows with red-hot nuggets of LA life.” -The Rundown
Gentle reader,
Welcome to the LAVA dispatch, an invitation to get out into the open air and explore. The real Los Angeles reveals itself slowly, and rewards the ernest seeker.
This week we’d like to pull your sleeve to Sunday’s serial arson-themed seminar in the Cal State LA crime lab. This benefit for the Criminalistics Department graduate department is nearly sold out, but there are still a few spots left for curious LAVA-ites. Also just added to the calendar, a June 3 crime lab seminar on the topic of murderous photographers. Read all about both events at the links below:
http://www.lavatransforms.org/crimelabmarch4
http://lavatransforms.org/crimelabjune3
Now read on for the LAVA news you can use.
EVENT CALENDAR
Here are some brief highlights from LAVA’s calendar – visit http:// lavatransforms.org for full details and new additions. We hope you can join us for some of these Visionary-hosted events.
Red Hope: The Blacklisting of Hope Foye screening
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Discover the story of Hope Foye, a progressive young singer whose voice impressed legends such as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Dubois. However, a subpeona to appear before the McCarren Committee in 1949...
Mayme Clayton Library and Museum
Supercharge Your Life With Pranayama
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Breath is life! Our breathing affects all aspects of our life, for better or for worse, and if we can control our breathing we can control our life. Benefits of controlled yoga breathing...
The Aetherius Society(323) 465-9652
LAVA's 24th Sunday Salon
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Join LAVA for our revived free monthly Sunday Salon series. We return to South Broadway, to the mezzanine of Les Noces du Figaro, which was recently opened by the family behind Figaro...
Les Noces du Figaro(213) 915-8687
Memorial Day: Tour of historic Savannah Cemetery in Rosemead
Mon, 05/27/2013 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
UPDATE: The back gate to the cemetery will be open, this means you can park off of Mission on Encinita or Claudia Ave. Last year the parking on Valley Blvd was taken up quite early on. The...
Savannah Cemetery
Nick Gabaldon Day 2013 - Celebrate Surf History in Santa Monica
Sat, 06/01/2013 - 9:00am - 8:00pm
The Black Surfers Collective, Heal the Bay, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Santa Monica Conservancy and other groups will offer a day of surf lessons and activities for young and old...
Santa Monica Pier Acquarium
East Side Babylon crime bus tour
Sat, 06/01/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Go East, Young Crime Fiend! For years, the devoted and demented crime historians of Esotouric have been stockpiling hideous 20th century crime tales from the east side of the Los Angeles River, and...
The Daily Dose213-373-1947
Pasadena Confidential crime bus tour
Sat, 06/08/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The Crown City masquerades as a calm and refined retreat, where well-bred ladies glide around their perfect bungalows and everyone knows what fork to use first. But don't be fooled by appearances....
Street corner213-373-1947
Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice tour
Sat, 06/15/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
From the founding of the city through the 1940s, downtown was the true center of Los Angeles, a lively, densely populated, exciting and sometimes dangerous place. After many quiet decades, downtown...
The Daily Dose213-373-1947
Weird West Adams crime bus tour
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
On this guided tour through the Beverly Hills of the early 20th Century, Crime Bus passengers thrill as Jazz Age bootleggers run amok, marvel at the Krazy Kafitz family's litany of murder-suicides,...
Benny H. Potter West Adams Avenues Memorial Park213-373-1947
An Evening with the Nicholas Brothers
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
In the 1930s and 1940s, Fayard and Harold Nicholas, two high flying siblings from Philadelphia, took America by storm with their tap dancing prowess and transformed the landcape of popular...
Mayme Clayton Library and Museum
The Last Days of F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour (morning)
Sat, 06/29/2013 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Adrienne Crew will host a short walking tour of F. Scott Fitzgerald's (West) Hollywood and the places that were significant to him at the end of the writer's life. The tour will begin at the corner...
Intersection of Sunset Blvd & N Crescent Heights Blvd
The Last Days of F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour (late afternoon)
Sat, 06/29/2013 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Adrienne Crew will host a short walking tour of F. Scott Fitzgerald's (West) Hollywood and the places that were significant to him at the end of the writer's life. The tour will begin at the corner...
Intersection of Sunset Blvd & N Crescent Heights Blvd
LAVA's 25th Sunday Salon -- Jazz Age Los Angeles
Sun, 06/30/2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Join LAVA for our revived free monthly Sunday Salon series. We return to South Broadway, to the mezzanine of Les Noces du Figaro, which was recently opened by the family behind Figaro...
Les Noces du Figaro(213) 915-8687
Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles tour
Sat, 07/13/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
"[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who's come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.” - Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill "Haunts of a...
The Daily Dose Cafe213-373-1947
Matricide and Filicide: When Family Ties Strangle
Sun, 07/14/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
To purchase a ticket for this special event, click here. If you'd like to be contacted when another crime lab tour and lecture are scheduled, subscribe to LAVA's occasional Crime Lab Newsletter...
The Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center (Cal State L.A.)213 915 8687