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AHA! Spring Celebration near Pasadena

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INVITATION,  FREE EVENT
  
April Full Moon Banquet and Salon — Aha! Spring Celebration near Pasadena
  
POETS, SONGWRITERS, VISUAL ARTISTS, MUSIC AND ARTS LOVERS…
Join us for a full afternoon of creative expression, muse, imagination and a celebration of the unfolding of Spring and the blossoming of the Heart and Community… We would like to call out to all our neighboring tribes and circles in the southern california region… come join us and be part of Play of Spring and Blossoming… 
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POTLUCK BANQUET AND CREATIVE SALON: This gathering of souls is FREE and OPEN TO ALL interested in creative and spirited community… Newcomers are always welcome! These circles are warm and friendly and fun too.. This gathering includes a potluck banquet so bring a healthy dish with you! Feel free to bring a partner or friend. Visual artists, painters and sculptors may bring two or three pieces to set out on display in the gallery… bring easels if you have them…okay if not…
The event and occurs at beautiful Scenic Dr Gallery in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains… The address is 125 W. Scenic Dr. in Monrovia, CA, 91016. (Take Mrytle north towards the mountains to Scenic Dr. Left on Scenic Dr… one block to 125 W. Scenic Dr.) The event is rain or shine… The banquet and salon portion of the event will most likely be out in the sun on the gorgeous mountainside balcony overlooking the San Gabriel Valley!  RSVP EARLY IF YOU ARE COMING. Poets, storytellers or songwriters wishing to perform a song or poem may request to do so when they RSVP. Limited number of spots are available. RSVP by email at Quintessence12@gmail.com. DOORS OPEN AT 12:30pm for food and visual art set up… Potluck starts promptly at 1pm… Limited number of spots for poems and songs… so RSVP early and arrive on time if you plan to offer a song or poem….  ANYONE WANNA HELP? This event is being hosted by international Hungarian artist Susan Dobay and Artists Helping Artists (Aha!) Director Glenn (Boomer) Horton.  Susan and I appreciate any who can help with this gathering… Please let us know if you would like to assist us in any way… before or after the event or in putting out the call to others… 
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“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others of large vision.  The immense fulfillment of the friendship of those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles tour

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This Esotouric bus adventure focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We’ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars and liquor stores, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave.

“Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s LA” spans Bukowski’s personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, to Bukowski’s favorite East Hollywood liquor store, the Pink Elephant.

Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work.

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Esotouric’s Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles

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This tour focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We’ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars and liquor stores, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave, one of the organizers behind the successful campaign to name Charles Bukowski’s East Hollywood bungalow a Cultural-Historic Landmark.

“Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s LA” spans Bukowski’s personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, to Bukowski’s favorite East Hollywood liquor store, the Pink Elephant.

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LAVA’s Sunday Salon

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On the last Sunday of each month, LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather on the third floor of the historic Clifton’s Cafeteria in Downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another. If you’re interested in joining LAVA as a creative contributor or an attendee, we recommend Salon attendance as an introduction to this growing community. We also recommend the shortbread.

Special program at the July 25 Salon: LAVA Visionaries will host curated conversations and presentations at tables around the room. Stay tuned as additional details are added closer to Salon time.

12:30pm: A table discussion hosted by Visionary Miguel Angel Corzo on the subject of adaptive reuse of historic buildings, a topic of particular interest to him in his capacity as the President of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles’ newest addition to the region’s cultural landscape, soon to open in the restored 1888 Brunswig Building. He is President Emeritus of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and former Director of the Getty Conservation Institute.

1:00pm: A table discussion hosted by Visionary Joan Renner on the dark and nefarious history of L.A.’s old Chinatown (where Union Station stands today). From opium dens to fallen women, bartered babies to subterranean tunnels of vice, Chinatown embodied the weirdest fantasies of early 20th century Angelenoes. How much of it was true, how much a racist and pruprient fiction? Drop by Joan’s table to find out. Joan is a writer and a social historian with a passion for vintage cosmetics ephemera, and crime. As a tour guide for Esotouric she has created a personality profile of Elizabeth Short (aka The Black Dahlia) based upon her choice of makeup. Joan is currently developing a tour that will delve into graft and corruption in Los Angeles during the 1930s. Her blog Vintage Powder Room explores history, women, art, and provides her with a transparent excuse to add to her collection of over 500 items, which she has lectured on at the Queen Mary Art Deco Festival and at a past LAVA Salon.

Closing poem from Mike The Poet.

We regret to inform you that scheduled presenter Lin Van Hek is unable to appear due to unforseen circumstances. 

Following the Salon, a limited number of attendees are invited to join LAVA founder Richard Schave on a free walking tour of historic Olvera Street and a preview visit to downtown’s newest cultural institution, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in the old Brunswig Building just south of “La Placita” church. Here President and CEO Miguel Angel Corzo will give us a 30-minute walkthrough of the newly-refurbished site and touch on the core goals and objectives for the institution, which opens in the fall. For more info or to reserve (required), click here.

Clifton’s Cafeteria is at 648 South Broadway, near the corner of 7th Street. There are numerous paid parking lots nearby, and the closest Metro station is Pershing Square. Clifton’s is online at https://www.cliftonscafeteria.com

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Mike the PoeT @ CentraL Library

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[ALOUD] at Central Library
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:00 PM
NEWER POETS XV

A Poetry Reading

Introducing six accomplished poets from the Los Angeles literary world in a lively showcase of poetic voices and styles.

Co-presented with Beyond Baroque and Los Angeles Poetry Festival

With Erika Ayon, David Eadington, Dina Hardy, Georgia Jones-Davis, Russell Salamon & Mike Sonksen.

 

 

 

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pLAyLAnd, a pop-up exhibition space (opening)

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pLAyLAnd

April 3 – May 31, 2010 (opening reception, April 3, 6 pm – 10 pm)

presents a two month intermedia exhibition (hours Thursdays and Fridays 10:30 – 6:30, Saturday and Sunday noon – 6, and by appointment.)

pLAyLAnd, a pop-up exhibition space

A do-it-yourself inter-media art exhibition featuring 23 artists from Reno, San Francisco and Los Angeles in a variety of media and events taking place throughout the two months of the show, including site-specific installation, circuit-bending sound scape, international mail art show, video installation, live performing sculpture, photography, painting, large scale sculpture, poetry bomb, spoken word, performance, handmade toys that recreate science fiction scenarios  – and Mudpeople.

Step into the experience of pLAyLAnd.  “You’re bound to see something you like and you will probably see someone you know”. Meet the Artists, live action surprises throughout the evening, including a short performance by our beloved John Fleck.  Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. All events are free.

Our artists are; Tetsuji Aono, Andy Ben, Jeff Boynton, Dean Burton, Mona Jean  Cedar,   Mike Christy, Simone Gad, Eli Geiser, S.A. Griffin, Dusty Hartman, Anna Homler, Stanton Hunter, Stephanie Hogan, Trelaine Lewis, Jason Lockyer, Mike Mollett, Tiger Munson, Elaine Parks, Kenzi Shiokava, Dianna Sion, Skooter & Creative Thing, Neal Taylor, Helen Van der Neer, Kris Vagner.

For more information contact Elaine Parks
c 323-636-6262 
pLAyLAnd2010@me.com.

San Gabriel Valley Poetry Fest

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Open Reading with free $100 drawing for readers inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. Don Kingfisher Campbell hosts. Please sign-up in advance by emailing kingfisher1031@charter.net. Because of time and space considerations, this event is limited to 30 open readers who will read one original poem each. San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Organizers will be introduced at this event.

Advance Sign-Up for Open Reading:
1) Mikel Weisser (from Arizona)
2) Don Newton
3) Marvin Dorsey (from Lancaster)
4) Khadija Anderson
5) Avra Kouffman
6) Kirsten Ogden
7) Helen Graziano
8) Jessica Joy Reveles
9) Scott Kaestner
10) Michael McLaughlin (from San Luis Obispo)
11) Mike Sonksen (LAVA)
12) Mona Jean Cedar (LAVA)
13) William Goldstein
14) James Maverick
15) Joe Milosch (from Carlsbad)
16) Terry McCarty
17) Elizabeth Yahn Williams (from San Diego area)
18) Robert Lundy (from San Diego area)
19) Karen Klingman
20) Reynald Romea
21) Tony Peyser
22) Leilani Suire
23) Jim Babwe (from Encinitas)
24) Apryl Skies
25) Billmarie Robinson

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