Calendar Picks and Clicks: June 1-7, 2013
More than 20 dramas, documentaries, comedies, foreign language films and shorts will be shown at seven venues from Thousand Oaks to Beverly Hills.
More than 20 dramas, documentaries, comedies, foreign language films and shorts will be shown at seven venues from Thousand Oaks to Beverly Hills.
\”The California Modernist Portrait\”; \”Vaudeville Extravaganza!\”; \”Five Days of Freedom: Photographs From the 1956 Hungarian Revolution\”; Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams; and other events to see during September
This week in Los Angeles: REDCAT\’s International Children\’s Film Festival; Iris Chang Memorial Essay Contest; \”Elements\” exhibit at the Finegood Gallery; \”Enrico Donati: One of Each\” at galerie yoramgil; Summer Sunset Services from Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue.
This week in Los Angeles: Jeffrey Sweet\’s play \”The Value of Names\”; \”Death of a Salesman\” at Pacific Resident Theater; Toby Caplan-Stonefield\’s new CD, \”The Spiritual Flute\”; Dan Thorne\’s new art exhibit, \”Tzva\’im Mavrikim — Bright Colors\”; Los Angeles Premiere of Sam Shepard\’s \”The God of Hell\”; Mitch Albom\’s comedic play \”And The Winner Is…\”; Rock musical \”Prime.\”
Skip Aldrich signals a student to turn down the lights and flips on the projector. An image of a gaunt concentration camp inmate hunched over a workbench evokes a collective gasp from the 10th-grade world history class at John C. Fremont High School in South Los Angeles.
\”A lot of people went to Israel when the country was new and bought Yemenite art, but they didn\’t tell you it was Yemenite,\” said the museum\’s director and founder, Norma Kershaw. \”Ancient or modern, whatever people have\” would be welcomed.
Century City lawyer Donald Etra has been appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Bush, a close friend since their undergraduate days at Yale.
It may seem an auspicious time to bring Israeli artists over to America, as Israel has been in a virtual state of war since the beginning of the second intifada, and America is on the brink of war as well; but in a way, the timing could not have been better to discover what role museums play amid chaos.
When artist Ted Meyer was first diagnosed with Gaucher disease, a lipid-storage disorder that is the most common genetic disease affecting Jews of Eastern European descent, he used his artistic talents to express his pain.
When artist Ted Meyer was first diagnosed with Gaucher disease, a lipid-storage disorder that is the most common genetic disease affecting Jews of Eastern European descent, he used his artistic talents to express his pain.