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War Child Show
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War Child Show

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LAVA Visionary David Caldwell presents his War Child Show on the evening of LAVA’s monthly Sunday Salon. Enjoy yourself downtown until nightfall, then head over to Caldwell’s Arts District loft, where there will be wine and snacks and a most unusual multi-media art presentation. Doors open 7:00pm for this free event, and the show starts around 8pm. No one will be admitted after the show begins.

War Child is a Monumental Sculpture.
An Installation in the form of,
a Magically Elaborate Altar.
14 feet high, 40 feet wide, and 26 feet deep,
It gives Birth to a 40 minute Experience.
A Video, Sound, and Light Show Performance.
The Video Juxtaposes Manipulated Images,
Of Nature, Civilization, Creation, and Destruction.
War Childs 3 Dimensional and Technical Wizardry,
Entice the Audience on a Journey.
The Paradigm of Duality,
That Shapes Human Existence.
A Synthesis of Multiple Systems,
War Child becomes a Living,
Breathing, Speaking, Organic Entity.
All of the Technology is Embedded,
and Fully Integrated into the Performance.
The Living Installation Impacts,
Space, Sight, Sound, and Memory.
A Shifting, Constantly Changing Environment,
Envelops the Audience,
and Transports Them,
to Another Dimension.

Contact: David L Caldwell 213 999 7140.

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826LA’s Dead Author Readings at Upright Citizen’s Brigade

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with moderator, H. G. Wells

Thanks to the miracle of science, very famous, extremely dead authors time travel to the present and are brought together to discuss their lives and works! And the audience gets to ask questions! That’s you! YOU are the audience! YOU get to ask questions! INTERACTIVE!!!

Moderated monthly by H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins)
April: Chapter 2, with Friedrich Nietzsche (James Adomian) and H. P. Lovecraft (Paul Scheer)

James Adomian is a comedian, actor and writer best known for doing many characters and impressions He performs sketch comedy and stand-up pretty much everywhere and can be seen frequently at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in shows such as Comedy Death-Ray, The Midnight Show, America’s Best Comic and Gallery of Evil. Along with director Bob Odenkirk, James co-created the Face to Bush series of shorts for Comedy Central and Atom.com. He’s been in movies, on TV, name it.

Paul Scheer is best known for his work on the MTV sketch comedy series Human Giant, which he co-created and stars in along with Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and director Jason Woliner and his appearances on NBC’s 30 Rock as Donny Lawson, the head page and VH1’s Best Week Ever.

Scheer is currently based in Los Angeles. He is a regular performer at UCBTLA, where he currently performs in MYSPACE, an improvised show based on audience member’s profiles. That show was named the “Best Improv Show” by LA Magazine and has been profiled on Good Morning America.

In 2006, Variety named Scheer one of the “Top 10 Comics to Watch” and AP Magazine hailed as one of their favorite comedians.

Paul F. Tompkins has been performing stand-up comedy for what feels like forever. He can be seen in reruns on HBO as a sketch player on Mr. Show With Bob And David and in his own one-man show Driven To Drink. He does not get paid for these reruns. He only got paid the one time. He has done two Comedy Central stand-up comedy specials. That oughta do it! You can also see him providing pop culture commentary on such shows as VH-1’s Best Week Ever and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Well, just those two, really. No other shows such as them. He’s also been is some movies, and you didn’t see him in them, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t in them.

Mr. F. Tompkins was born in the 1900’s.

$5, all proceeds to benefit 826LA. RSVP: https://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2243

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826LA presents an exclusive screening of DRONES

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826LA will be hosting the only scheduled screening of DRONES in Los Angeles! All proceeds will go directly to 826LA’s FREE creative writing programs for Los Angeles students ages 6-18. The exclusive screening will be followed by a Q&A with cast and crew, moderated by Kevin Pollak. Tickets are priced at 3 levels: $15 balcony, $30 general admission, $100 preferred seating with VIP after-party. We hope you will join us to celebrate this film and help raise vital funds for 826LA in the meantime. If you like science fiction and love you must see this movie!

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)

The Egyptian, Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90028
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

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

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

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All About the Saban Theatre

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The Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation will be conducting its March “All About” docu-tours at the newly renovated Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, which was formerly known as The Wilshire or the Fox Wilshire.  Doors will open at 10am and the event will include a presentation on this history of the theatre, which opened its doors on September 19th, 1930 as the Fox Wilshire and 1981 was converted into a live performance venue and renamed The Wilshire. 

Following the presentation will be a inclusive basement to projection booth tour that will include numerous areas that are usually not accessible to the general public!  FREE!

 

 

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TwentyWonder: A Mini Worlds Fair – One Night Only

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Every heard of SuperBall?

(not the Wham-O bouncy fun object)

A lucky few hundred or so of you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Hosted in a variety of locations over about a decade, courtesy of tv pioneers Joel and Jim Hodgson, if you were awesome enough to be invited, you knew you were in for a huge time when SuperBall came calling.

Crazy food contests (and to the victors went the giant Heavyweight Champion-style belts), a traveling Pachinko parlor, the bitchenest antique telescope around, Sashay Gigante (the male ecdisiastical review to end all ecdesiasm), ping pong ball manipulation (no, not Honeysuckle Divine), just to name a few of the outlandish displays of science and stupidity.

Now SuperBall is reborn, as TWENTYWONDER, still a crazy-ass meeting of the creative community but now also a fund- and consciousness raiser about Down Syndrome (aka Trisomy 21). Proceeds go to the non-profit Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles.

This year’s party is chock-full of celebrity guests and promises to be the biggest and best party ever – well, maybe not EVER, but it will probably kick the ass of every other deal going down this Saturday night (except of course for other LAVA events).

(Knock Knock)

Who’s There?

Sarah Silvermnan, Dana Gould, Cinematic Titanic, Grant Lee Phillips, Two Headed Dog, Dave “Gruber” Allen, Jim Turner, Monkeys@ Robots, H.R. Pufnstuf (No, not just seeing if you’re still reading – really going to be there), Sci-Fi Historian Bob Burns, the GoRam BATMOBILE –

Have I got you?

Here’s where to get tickets.

Oh and the first 750 people through the door get the super-coolest souvenir amulet. So get tix and get there early!

Fiesta Allegre puppet show

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One of master puppeteer Bob Baker’s most requested puppet shows returns, as part of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Come enjoy the lively “Fiesta Allegre,” featuring everything from skating sombreros to dancing cacti. After the show, there’s ice cream for everybody in the incredibly festive party room.

Fiesta Allegre puppet show

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One of master puppeteer Bob Baker’s most requested puppet shows returns, as part of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Come enjoy the lively “Fiesta Allegre,” featuring everything from skating sombreros to dancing cacti. After the show, there’s ice cream for everybody in the incredibly festive party room.

Haiti Benefit Show

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A benefit show for Haitian earthquake victims, sponsored by Midnight Insanity, the World Mind Network, and LAVA, will be held at the Warner Grand Theater on March 14, 2010 at 6 p.m.   Ten local comedians will perform, including regulars from Second City and the Comedy Store.  A choir from the Apostolic Church of God, the only Haitian church in Los Angeles, will perform the Haitian national anthem.  Short films from students from the Cine Institute of Jacmel, the only film school in Haiti (which was largely destroyed by the quake)  will be seen.

  Tickets are 20 and 40 dollars and are available at the box office or at tix.com.   The Warner Grand is at 478 W. 6th street in San Pedro.  For more information go to standingupforhaiti.com, or call (818) 955-6544. 

 

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The Art of Bleeding at Fetish Nation

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On the first Saturday of the month, the cavernous Circus nightclub in Hollywood becomes Fetish Nation, a sovereign state of clubgoing dedicated to things dark and deviant. In March, the monthly debauch addresses the theme of medical fetish, and quite naturally invited The Art of Bleeding to assist. We will contribute an interactive installation, parking the AoB ambulance in the Circus courtyard as the centerpiece of a field hospital for the morbidly curious. Instructive materials and strict medical “screenings” will be available within, courtesy of our highly qualified and minimally clad nurses, while the improvised outdoor infirmary will feature exquisitely debilitated patients participating in an “educational” multimedia tent show.

 

(NOTE: There will be no children’s show characters at this “nurses’ night out.” Fearing the adult nature of this event could damage tender psyches, the avuncular and ever-protective hand-puppet Dr. Moody has promised to lock to Abram the Safety Ape and his friend RT the Robot in a dark closet for the evening, while he settles in for an early night of scotch and Valium.)

 

For those with needing a break from The Art of Bleeding’s ego-destabilizing program of health-and-safety re-education, there are the usual diversions of the Fetish Nation, best described in their own words:

 

“Explore a 40,000 square foot sprawling complex of three massive DJ dance music areas (electro- industrial, ebm, futurepop, noize, dark 80s / darkwave / retro- industrial/Electro) and an expansive outdoor courtyard decorated by looming statues. Circus has state of the art lighting/laser systems, numerous big projection screens, top notch EAW Avalon sound system, reasonably priced drinks, and a decent amount of lot/street parking particularly for early arrivers. BDSM performances by resident players: CharlyB, Mistress Cyan, Master D, Exceter Miles, Fetish Noir, Miss Joy Villa, Master Liam, Mistress Melissa, Mistress Nicolette, The Professor, Meister Schmerz, Sir SkipDog, Goddess Soma, and the Ladies of the Dominion, Servitus LA: Asylum of the Soul.”

 

9pm-3am (AoB performs between 10pm and 1am). 21+, $25 or $5 before 10pm, 

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Save The Fox Inglewood Theatre!!

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The Inglewood Theatre Alliance invites you to a joint meeting of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation and the Historic Sites Preservation Committee of Inglewood as we prepare to Save the Fox Inglewood Theatre on Market Street!!

 

We will present our vision of what the FOX THEATRE can mean to the future of Inglewood cultural life and city revenue

and

discuss your thoughts about what the FOX THEATRE could be . . .

Learn how you can get involved by using your

Ideas, skills, contacts, or labor

 

 

*      WHEN:          Saturday, 6 March 2010 

*      TIME:            10:30AM

*      WHERE:        The Gladys Waddingham Hall

                                              at the Main Library

                                     1 Manchester Blvd, next to City Hall

                                        Parking lot on Library grounds

 

 

For more information go to www.LAHTF.org 

 

This event is FREE

 

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