June 13, 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. “This organization is like an ongoing Masters program in Los Angeles cultural history.” – Marguerite Darlington
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.
A warm “thank you” goes out to everyone who VOTED FOR US in the small business grant competition. We reached the tipping point of 250 votes this week, and will now wait patiently until the fall to see if all your good will translates into a grant.
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.
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
L.A. Premiere of INTO THE ZONE - The Story of the Cacophony Society
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 11:30pm - Sun, 06/23/2013 - 3:00am
INTO THE ZONE (ITZ) follows the evolution of Cacophonists from the San Francisco Suicide Club in 1977, the exploits of the SF Cacophony (1986), their nexus creating the Burning Man Festival to Los...
The VISTA Theater
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
Staple Draping Once More with Fashion on the Fly
Sat, 06/29/2013 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm
It's time once more to learn staple draping with Fashion on the Fly! Staple draping is a fun, fast and effective technique for creating anything made of material. And I mean anything, from...
Victory Park Center(626) 744-7500
Sleeping Beauties: Deranged L.A. Crimes From The Notebook of Aggie Underwood
Sat, 06/29/2013 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Writer and social historian Joan Renner explores the dark side of Southern California in a presentation focusing on crime photos from the Herald-Examiner collection, with material drawn from two...
Central Library - Mark Taper Auditorium(213) 228-7000
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
The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California Nightmare
Sat, 07/20/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can’t eat the sunshine, recent emigré James M. Cain found a...
The Daily Dose213-373-1947
The Real Black Dahlia
Sat, 07/27/2013 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
"This bus tour... has established itself as an L.A. classic." -The Los Angeles Times The Black Dahlia murder in 1947 is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What Jack the...
Biltmore Hotel-Olive Street Entrance213-373-1947
LAVA's 26th Sunday Salon
Sun, 07/28/2013 - 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 ...
Les Noces du Figaro(213) 915-8687
South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
Sun, 08/04/2013 - 11:30am - 3:30pm
This provocative Esotouric bus adventure begins downtown and works its way south through Vernon, Bell Gardens, Santa Fe Springs and Downey, and through the past two centuries, exploring off-the-...
The Daily Dose213-373-1947
Rock & Roll Seen Los Angeles through the Lens of Chuck Boyd, 1965-1969
Wed, 08/07/2013 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Presented by Jeff Schwartz (Director, Chuck Boyd Photo Collection) Photographer Chuck Boyd was embedded in the Los Angeles rock & roll scene of the 1960s. A professional photographer, he left...
LA Central Library (Meeting Room A)213-228-7403