# Monday, May 20, 2013

6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

THE ANNUAL ALL-NEW ONE-TIME-ONLY NEW YEAR’S EVE MUSICAL REVUE!

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“One of the Ten Best New Year’s Eve Events in LA” raves LA Weekly. A scrumptious and sumptuous complimentary buffet supper starts off the evening, then it’s “on with the show!” as internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre brings you a highly entertaining, family-friendly...

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Elementary Hebrew Conversation Classes and Intermediate Hebrew Conversation Classes

Classes , Pico/Robertson
Venue: AISH LOS ANGELES

Beginning: For those with zero background-we will start from the alphabet and work our way up to basic conversation for a variety of life settings such as travel to Israel, in the workplace, shopping, restaurants and Jewish themes. Speaking, reading, writing and listening are stressed with equal...

All Day

Mazeltov.com Announces the 2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest “What It Means To Me!”

Events , Agoura
Venue: Internet

2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest - First Prize is a Round-trip ticket on El Al Airlines to Israel (from Los Angeles or New York City) or $1,000! We are asking upcoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls to shoot a 2-3 minute short video that expresses what the occasion means to them. We are...

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

“Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party”

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: SHARE, Inc.
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum’s unique exhibit “Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party” debuts on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. with a wine and Hors d’Oeuvres reception.  The retrospective explores a series of glamorous Boomtown Events with prestigious celebrities...

All Day

Let Me Show You Around:A Project by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Everyone is welcome at the Skirball Cultural Center, yet every encounter is unique, inflected by culture, age, and origin. This is the theme of a new site-specific mural created by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger as part of their Let Me Show You Around project. To create the large-scale wall...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Stogie Kenyatta’s The World is My Home – THE LIFE OF PAUL ROBESON

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

Powerful and poignant, heartfelt and humorous, and in honor of Paul Robeson’s birthday, Santa Monica Playhouse is proud to present a special limited run of film, television and stage personality Stogie Kenyatta’s acclaimed show about African-American artist-activist Paul Robeson. Robeson –...

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Walk With Ease

Seniors , Culver City
Organizations/Sponsors: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center
Venue: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center

Experience the Walk With Ease Program. Arthritis Foundation Certified. Doctor Recommended. The Arthritis Foundation Walk with Ease Program is an exercise program that can reduce pain and improve overall health. If you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain, you can have...

All Day

Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Enter the fantastic world of artist, illustrator, animator, and toy designer Gary Baseman in this first major museum exhibition of his life and work. Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open explores the influences of Baseman’s Jewish family heritage and American popular culture on his exuberant,...

7:00 pm - 12:22 am

“Wired” -Juried Exhibit of Collage Artists of America

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Collage Artists of America
Venue: Studio Five08

“Wired” May 4–25, 2013 Juried Exhibit of Collage Artists of America at STUDIO FIVE08 508A Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California 90401 http://www.studiofive08.com Telephone: 310-994-9400. Hours are Wednesday–Saturday 12 noon–6 p.m. Opening reception and awards: Saturday, May...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: The Electric Lodge
Venue: The Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. Part of the proceeds from the May 9 performance will benefit 50/50 Leadership with the...

1:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jewish Singles 30-50s Israel Happening Tour

Singles
Organizations/Sponsors: JayDee Events
Venue: ISRAEL

JEWISH SINGLES 30–50s ISRAEL HAPPENING TOUR – May 16-24, 2013 See Israel like you’ve never experienced it before!  Specifically designed with YOU in mind: exciting events, fun parties at exclusive locations, wine tours, sightseeing, mingling with local singles, shuk visits and much more!! ...

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Crucible

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater company, presents an untraditional staging of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Set in 1692 and written in reaction to the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s, Arthur Miller’s parable of mass hysteria offers a...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

“My Mother’s Keeper”

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: Electric Lodge
Venue: Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. My Mother’s Keeper moves fluidly back and forth between 1914 and the present,...

All Day

JPAC Advocacy Day in Sacramento

Politics , Outside of So Cal
Organizations/Sponsors: JPAC (Jewish Public Affairs Commitee of California)
Venue: Citizen Hotel

Join Jewish community members from across the State come together in Sacramento to network and lobby their representatives on public policy issues of importance to the broader Jewish community that are being considered in the State Legislature. JPAC’s Advocacy Day is a wonderful opportunity to...

All Day

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective - “Slingin’ the Slang”

Kids , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: TADA! Youth Theatre
Venue: Online

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective is a film-noir-detective-story-musical-multi-media project about a little girl who does not fit in, except in her black and white film-noir fantasies. In preparation for the Off-Broadway show to be produced at TADA! Youth Theater, we’re shooting a short film based on...

4:00 pm

How Medicare and Medi-Cal Work Together

Adult Education , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center
Venue: OPICA Adult Day Care and Caregiver Support Center

How Medicare and Medi-Cal Work Together Ever wonder what the difference is between Medicare and Medi-Cal? Did you know you can have both programs? Learn about the difference in these programs and other money saving programs available for seniors and disabled adults. Bring your questions and have...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
Venue: {REL[9085][cal_event_venue]tNZLpDe4REL}

Friends, please come and try a krav maga class as my guest.  This is self defense system of the Israeli military, special forces and anti-terror units. Easy to learn, hard to forget and a fun workout.  Suitable for men and women aged 14 and up.  Class is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 7-8pm....

7:00 pm

Midrash & Creative Writing Class

Classes , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Kol Tikvah
Venue: Temple Kol Tikvah

Midrash is the art of writing stories to explain narrative lapses in the Torah.  So many stories we think of as “Bible” stories are actually midrashim. • Who remembers Abraham destroying idols in his father’s idol shop? • Who remembers stories of Moses as a young boy in the Pharaoh’s...

7:00 pm

Auditions for The Drowsy Chaperone

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles

The Jewish Women’s Repertory Company is holding auditions for its 9th annual musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone.”  The auditions are for women only.  We are looking for singers, dancers and actresses....

7:30 pm

Special Meeting and Award

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Sinai Temple, AJL, AJLSC
Venue: UCLA Young Research Library

Honoring with Dorothy Schroeder Award: David Hirsch, UCLA Librarian for Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies...

7:30 pm

The IDA Presents Doc U: Working With Publicists -– How to Get the Most Out of Your Film’s Release

Panel Discussions , Fairfax
Organizations/Sponsors: International Documentary Association
Venue: Silent Movie Theatre

How you release your doc—and how audiences see it—have changed dramatically in the past decade, offering filmmakers more and more ways to connect audiences with their films. What hasn’t changed is the value an experienced publicist can bring to your team as you try to get the attention of...

8:00 pm

Dying City

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Rogue Machine
Venue: ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater

Winning upwards of 50 awards (including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Garland Awards) in just the past five years (BEST PRODUCTION two years in a row), Rogue Machine returns to kick off their 2013 season with the Los Angeles premiere of Dying City by Christopher Shinn...