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Broadway On My Mind #17: The Jails of Old Los Angeles
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Broadway On My Mind #17: The Jails of Old Los Angeles

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LAVA co-founder Richard Schave invites you to join him, Nathan Marsak, and other special guests for the latest free walking tour in the series Broadway On My Mind.

Tour attendees will gather in the basement of Grand Central Market following the LAVA Sunday Salon,.

Check in is at 1:15pm in the basement of Grand Central Market.

Join us for a walk around Temple and Broadway to the sites of the historic jails of old Los Angeles. You’ll learn about the places where criminals were housed, judged and sometimes autopsied, from the earliest Yankee-era adobe cells to the grand 1924 Hall of Justice (“HOJ“). The tour reveals a giant nexus of law enforcement, encompassing U.S. Attorneys, District Attorneys, the Office of the Sheriff, the county’s central jail, County Supervisors, the Office of Coroner, and more. The history of these lost buildings will be punctuated with historic accounts of mayhem, lynchings, and other sordid tales of woe. We’ll also discuss the 1990s closure of the HOJ and the long process of its restoration. If the criminal and civic history of Old Los Angeles intrigues, don’t miss this tour.

The walking tour is free, but reservations are required. If attending both the Sunday Salon and walking tour, please sign up for each event. There are no “plus ones,” so tell your friends to sign up individually. Please don’t reserve unless you plan to attend.

You are advised to carry bottled water and to wear good walking shoes and a hat.

 

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Hobo Graffiti
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Hobo Graffiti

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We pull your sleeve to an interesting non-LAVA excursion as anthropologist Susan Phillips partners with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to present a Hobo Graffiti River Walk during CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial.

The Hobo Graffiti River Walk goes to the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, and a site where Susan has located a remarkable collection of century-old hobo graffiti.

There is limited capacity and RSVPs are required to attend. Click the “buy tickets” link above to be taken to the CURRENT:LA reservation page. Map link does not show precise event location, which will be provided to registered attendees.

Learn more about Susan’s research on the Esotouric blog

Historic Peabody Werden House Moved Across First Street
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Historic Peabody Werden House Moved Across First Street

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Late on September 27, 2015, concerned about the potential demolition of a 120-year-old Tudor house in Boyle Heights, L.A. historian and LAVA co-founder Kim Cooper posted a graphic image to Facebook asking people to send emails to the property owner, low income housing developer ELACC, requesting they save the house. The image was shared dozens of times overnight, and the next morning ELACC announced their intention of preserving the historic Peabody Werden House.

On Thursday, June 30, the house will be moved across First Street to its temporary home on a Metro-owned vacant lot. Join us to see the once-common Los Angeles spectacle of a house moving and celebrate the incredible power of social media in historic preservation activism. To learn more, see Kim’s blog post.

Angels Flight Talk at Bolton Hall Museum
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Angels Flight Talk at Bolton Hall Museum

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Angels Flight…but were too afraid to ask!

Or, in a nutshell, yours truly up there going on at interminable length (45 minutes) with disturbingly pretty pictures of Angels Flight projected behind.

YOU should attend because not only am I revealing many a never-before-seen image, but there will be, as part of the show, projected clips of pert-near every early-comedy/film noir/TV show that featured Angels Flight from 1920 to 1970.

If that isn’t the definition of a good time, I don’t know what is.

The fine print: this event is free. Even parking if free (park just a bit uphill at the Elks Lodge). And you get refreshments afterward! These people are great so drop a bunch of bills in their tip jar.

Curatorial walk-thru of "Wallace Berman: American Aleph" exhibition
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Curatorial walk-thru of “Wallace Berman: American Aleph” exhibition

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Michael Kohn Gallery invites you to attend a free curatorial walk-through of “Wallace Berman: American Aleph” with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Sam Mellon and Tosh Berman.

Wallace Berman and his retrospective exhibition are the focus of Episode #111 of Esotouric’s You Can’t Eat the Sunshine podcast, featuring interviews with Michael Kohn and Tosh Berman.

The exhibition tour is followed by a book signing of the newly published hardbound illustrated catalogue. Catalogue available for purchase.

If attending, kindly RSVP to karys@kohngallery.com or 323-461-3311

Broadway On My Mind #13: Hill Street
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Broadway On My Mind #13: Hill Street

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LAVA co-founder Richard Schave invites you to join Nathan Marsak and other special guests for the latest free walking tour in the series Broadway On My Mind.

Tour attendees will gather in the basement of Grand Central Market following the LAVA Sunday Salon, which features a talk by Nathan Marsak on old Bunker Hill and Angels Flight. We’ll begin with a brief slide show, then set out to explore lost and surviving structures along Hill Street.

The walking tour is free, but reservations are required. If attending both the Sunday Salon and walking tour, please sign up for each event. There are no “plus ones,” so tell your friends to sign up individually. Please don’t reserve unless you plan to attend.

You are advised to carry bottled water and to wear good walking shoes and a hat.

 

If you enjoy our free LAVA events, please consider putting something in our tip jar.
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LAVA Sunday Salon May 2016
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LAVA Sunday Salon May 2016

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Dateline, Los Angeles

LAVA Sunday Salon returns from hiatus!

New location: Grand Central Market (basement level).

On the last Sunday of each month during the hours of noon-2pm, LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles 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.

Our May 2016 LAVA Sunday Salon features 2015 LAVA Visionary of the Year Nathan Marsak, with a presentation on 19th Century Los Angeles architecture. Nathan’s talk will focus on Bunker Hill, Angels Flight Railway and the streets immediately surrounding our new Salon base, Grand Central Market (basement level). The presentation concludes with a series of vintage film clips highlighting Angels Flight, a beloved landmark whose preservation is a cause dear to several LAVA Visionaries.

The LAVA Sunday Salon is free, but reservations are required to provide an attendance count for the venue. There are no “plus ones,” so tell your friends to sign up individually. If attending both the Sunday Salon and walking tour, please sign up for each event. Please don’t reserve unless you plan to attend.

To reserve your seat please click on the “Buy Tickets” button above for this free event.

If you enjoy our free LAVA events, please consider putting something in our tip jar.
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Competition Finalists Present Their Pershing Square Design Entries
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Competition Finalists Present Their Pershing Square Design Entries

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LAVA and The Pershing Square Restoration Society encourage supporters of the restoration of John Parkinson’s 1910 park to attend this event hosted by public-private partnership non-profit Pershing Square Renew, when the four finalists in their design competition will exhibit their proposals.

Come learn if any of the architects have taken the great public interest in restoration into account, ask questions about the future of this historic civic space, mingle with fellow lovers of classic L.A. landscape and architecture, and enjoy complementary drinks and appetizers in one of Broadway’s loveliest historic theaters.

The event is free, but space is limited and reservations required from this link. (If you have any trouble signing up through Eventbrite, you can email the organizers here and ask to be put on the list to attend the 4/28 event.)

Tell a friend, and when you do, please remind them to sign the petition to RESTORE PERSHING SQUARE so we can keep you informed about our efforts to see the park restored.

Bridging Los Angeles Film Premiere
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Bridging Los Angeles Film Premiere

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Event begins at 5.30pm and goes till 8pm.

Join Film Makers at the Premiere of their documentary, Bridging Los Angeles.

Bridging Los Angeles is the story of how destructive flooding and snarled traffic congestion brought about the funding, design, and construction of the 14 monument bridges that span the Los Angeles River and what happens when the iconic 6th Street Via Duct falls victim to a destructive chemical reaction.

This screening is free, with tickets available on a first come basis. LAVA Visionary Richard Schave did not make the film, but loves the bridges of Los Angeles.

"Lois Weber In Early Hollywood" talk with screening of "Shoes" (1916) partly shot on location in John Parkinson's Pershing Square
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“Lois Weber In Early Hollywood” talk with screening of “Shoes” (1916) partly shot on location in John Parkinson’s Pershing Square

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You are invited to join members of the Pershing Square Restoration Society for a rare opportunity to see Lois Weber’s groundbreaking 1916 film “Shoes” on the big screen with live musical accompaniment and learn about this fascinating cinema pioneer.

A central scene in “Shoes” was shot on location in John Parkinson’s Pershing Square and once you see it, we think you’ll agree: Don’t Redesign, Restore Pershing Square!

The event is free, and each person can reserve two tickets here. There will be a reception at 6:30pm, and the film and talk start at 7:30pm.

ABOUT THE EVENT: One of the most important and prolific directors of the silent film era, who also happens to be one of Hollywood’s few women directors to this day, Lois Weber was also a writer, producer, actress and head of her own production company who forged the way for filmmakers who saw film as an opportunity to inject their own ideas and philosophies into the burgeoning entertainment industry. The Academy Scholars presentation by Shelley Stamp, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz and author of the recently published “Lois Weber in Early Hollywood,” will be followed by a screening of Weber’s 1916 film “Shoes” in a new 35mm print in its full silent aspect ratio with live musical accompaniment. Based on the short story by Stella Wynne Herron, “Shoes” tells the plight of a young girl whose financial desperation leads her to prostitution. The film will be screened from a print recently restored by EYE Film Museum.

There will be a welcome reception beginning at 6:30.

This is the 13th in a series of lectures spotlighting recipients of the Academy Film Scholars grant. Established in 1999, the Academy Film Scholars program is designed to stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.

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