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High school students everywhere are facing cancelled end-of-year gatherings, graduations, and more, but the Santa Monica High School Symphony Orchestra decided to pivot and perform a portion of their international tour repertoire virtually. The students dedicated the Beethoven Fifth Symphony's triumphant finale to health care professionals and essential workers who are risking their lives to keep everyone safe. Recreating a symphony performance without the ability to gather was a challenge the...
By Jewels Solheim-Roe For forty-seven years, Westside Ballet of Santa Monica's Biannual Spring Performances and Nutcracker Seasons have delighted Los Angeles audiences and served as a premier pre-professional performance outlet for young ballerinas. This will be the first season, due to the Covid-19, that the company's five decade legacy of performances––as well as all future performances––are under threat. The Westside Ballet's storied history starts with its first-generation direct legacy...
by David Ganezer It's 2020, and all sorts of arts and educational programs are looking for ways to continue teaching, in a time of social distancing. Santa Monica's Westside Ballet has some brave and innovative continuation plans, in the face of Covid19. "We were to have a benefit performance honoring Patricia Neary 5/15, and then 5/16, our Spring Performance, two show times, at The Broad Stage," explains Jewels Solheim-Roe, press coordinator for WB. "Up until last week, Westside Ballet was...
Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction has moved exclusively to an online art auction for its 41st edition. This year's auction features more than 150 works by nationally recognized contemporary artists. Each winning bid provides essential health care services to Venice Family Clinic's community of 28,000 people in need in Los Angeles. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Venice Family Clinic is working on the front lines to help protect its community and most vulnerable neighbors, 75% of whom live at...
Due to popular demand, the Verdi Chorus is extending its first online concert, a streaming of its Spring 2018 program The Force of Destiny led by Founding Artistic Director Anne Marie Ketchum, through April 27. The online concert was presented in place of the originally scheduled Verdi Chorus Live Concert on April 18 and 19 and is available on the Verdi Chorus website at https://www.verdichorus.org Founding Artistic Director Anne Marie Ketchum says, "It meant so much on a personal level to make...
By Grace Smith The Corsair, Santa Monica College's student-run news outlet, has won an award for "online general excellence" from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) and four student photojournalists won individual awards. These wins for the statewide competition were announced Friday, April 17. In addition, two student photojournalists have also won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association's California Journalism Awards, announced March 31. Journalism...
Given the uncertainty about public gatherings and when such activities will be safe to resume, due to circumstances beyond our control we must postpone our upcoming productions of "1776" at the Ahmanson Theatre, "King James" at the Mark Taper Forum and "Sakina’s Restaurant" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. We remain committed to re-opening our theatres in the fall, including with our full Ahmanson 2020/21 Season and our soon-to-be-announced Taper and Douglas seasons. For patrons with tickets to "Once on This Island," which has already been p...
After careful consideration, and to ensure the health and safety of everyone who engages with the Blue Door Theater, they have decided to postpone their Spring 2020 Season, including the Annual Gala/Fundraiser on May 7. As of today, the Gala will take place on August 20th. But while many of our in-person shows and events are postponed, CRE Outreach is still alive and well. In the coming days and weeks, stay tuned for uplifting content on thei Instagram and Facebook pages. They are preparing for live streams via their Facebook page, video...
Kentwood Players, continues to celebrate its 70th Anniversary Year by presenting VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, a comedy by Christopher Durang, opening Friday, March 13 and continuing through Saturday, April 18, 2020 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm. Performances take place at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90045, home of the Kentwood Players. This is a non-equity/non-paid production directed by Susan Stangl, produced by...
Grace Lutheran Church's Performing Arts Ministry's "Opera at Grace" series will feature the historic Guild Opera Company in their production of Puccini's "La Boheme" on Sunday, March 8th at 1:00 p.m. in the Church sanctuary. The highlights of this opera will be sung in Italian with an English narration and will last approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. Before there was the Los Angeles Opera, there was the Guild Opera, which acted as a presenter of the San Francisco Opera for decades at the Shrine Auditorium. This concert is free to...
Colin Hay, best known as the lead singer for Men At Work, is making a solo appearance at Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 28. Men At Work is the platinum-selling Australian band that topped worldwide charts in the 80s with anthems like "Down Under" and "Who Can it Be Now," among others. Hay is justifiably proud of his place in pop history, but has also experienced tremendous success as a solo artist. Over the past 15 years, Hay has reinvented himself as a solo artist, regularly...
Living Legend, Jose Feliciano, recently made an appearance at The Grammy Museum's intimate Clive Theatre for a sold-out Q & A and performance, moderated by Executive Director Scott Goldman. At age 74, the Puerto Rican multi-Grammy Award-winning musician, singer and composer is still full of vim and vigor, and also a funny joke-teller. He was promoting his new album, Behind This Guitar, which reunited him with famous record producer Rick Jararrd. "There wouldn't be a career for me without Rick...
On January 30th I had the great pleasure of attending the opening reception of INSPIRED: A TRIBUTE TO TRAILBLAZING AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN LOS ANGELES, curated by Steven Fisher, the Interim Executive Director of The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum (MCLM) and Molly Barnes, an art dealer and radio personality who is currently an artist in residence at West Los Angeles College (WLAC). The event was hosted by MCLM and WLAC in the Fine Arts Gallery of WLAC at 9000 Overland Avenue, Culver City....
Cirque du Soleil's Big Top returned to Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium on opening night, January 21, with its first sports-inspired Big Top production, VOLTA. Los Angeles is the first city ever visited by Cirque in the USA in 1987 and VOLTA is the 15th Big Top to visit here as well. VOLTA is energetic, urban, contemporary, and is a captivating voyage of discovery that showcases never-before-seen acrobatics in a visually striking world with beautiful, enchanting and magical live vocals with live ba...
Mona Day www.DineSeeTravel.com Cirque du Soleil returns to Los Angeles with its show Volta January 18 - March 8 at Dodger Stadium. Volta explores the theme of celebrating differences and uniqueness in a world where technology often isolates people from one another, and shows that self-acceptance can bring liberation from the judgement of others, allowing one to fulfill one's own potential. That lesson is told through the story of Waz, a gameshow contestant who was once full of dreams, but has...
A Classic Rock band will "keep pushin'" on. The REO Speedwagon tour will land at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 4 to delight all their adoring fans. Nobody can call these guys fossil rockers...they sound as good as they did when they formed and started making hits back in the '70's. REO will get the party started with frontman Kevin Cronin belting out hits like "Don't Let Him Go," "Ridin' The Storm Out," "Keep On Loving You," "Can't Fight This Feeling," "Roll With The Changes,"...
Styx, the classic-rock giants, will be landing at The Saban theatre in Beverly Hills on January 12. Original lead singer Tommy Shaw and the band have been averaging over 100 shows a year and bringing their energy that has been delighting fans for over four decades. They'll be bringing their barn-burning chart hits, joyous sing-alongs, and hard-driving deep cuts. Like a symphony that builds to a satisfying crescendo, a Styx set covers a wide range of stylistic cornerstones. From the progressively...
Kentwood Players, , welcomes the New Year and its 70th Anniversary with the futuristic, multimedia play THE GIVER, adapted for the stage by Eric Coble, based on the Newberry Award-winning book by Lois Lowry, opening on Friday, January 17, 2020 and continuing through Saturday, February 22 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm at located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90045, home of the Kentwood Players. Additional weekday performances may be added to accommodate school g...
Kentwood Players proudly celebrates the launch of its 70th Anniversary year by presenting LITTLE WOMEN, The Broadway Musical by Jason Howland, Mindi Dickstein and Allan Knee based upon Louisa May Alcott's classic story, opening Nov. 15 through Dec. 21 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045. The production is directed by Jennifer Richardson, music directed by Mike Walker, choreographed by...
A mini Rosamund Felsen Gallery will be on display from Nov. 7 – Dec. 20 at the Fine Arts Gallery at picturesque West Los Angeles College overlooking the Culver City. The show – Rosamund's Choice – is co-curated by Rosamund Felsen and Molly Barnes. Felsen is also the co-founder of the Gemini Print Workshop and the founder of the afore mentioned Rosemund Felsen Gallery, one of the longest-running art galleries in Los Angeles. Over her long career, Felsen was involved in and influencing the broad...
Culver City Arts Foundation (Culver Arts) is pleased to announce its newly created Community Arts Grant Program focused on three areas: arts, equipment/facilities, and experience. Culver Arts will be making grants to both non-profit organizations that have a 501 (C)(3) letter from the Internal Revenue Service as well as individuals whose work will benefit the Culver City Community. The grant program was established to provide grants to build the capacity of local arts and cultural organizations and individuals whose work will have an impact on...
The Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts is having a dance camp on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26 at the Robert Frost Auditorium Come DANCE with the CCHS AVPA Dance Company. There will be fun dance combinations, dance games and art activities led by the high school dancers! The cost is $50 per day and is for children from 7 to 10 years old. Camp hours are 9am-3pm at Robert Frost Auditorium. Daily register and drop off starting at 8:30 am. Lunch can be purchased for $5 (pizza/drink) along with snacks and drinks are available for...
A free screening of "A Military Family Documentary - While Time Stands Still" will be presented by the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, this Saturday Nov. 9 in Santa Monica. The documentary follows three military wives before, during and after their husbands' combat deployment. Along the way you meet amazing families whose daily bravery will inspire you. The event is free and open to the public. The screening is at 10 a.m. and the doors open at 9:30 a.m. It will be followed by a panel discussion. `Resource tables from Bob Hope USO - LAX, Wounded...
Twenty-five years since the record-breaking Los Angeles run of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Davis Gaines and Dale Kristen - L.A.'s longest-running Phantom and Christine and arguably the best at those two roles - reunite for their first concert together. The stage veterans will perform solos and duets from their favorite Broadway shows, share stories, and reminisce about their long careers on Broadway and beyond. You do not want to miss their performance at Cerritos Center for...
It's not every day that high school students get a chance to work shoulder-to-shoulder with successful television and motion picture writers to hone their craft – unless those students are part of the St. Bernard High School Film and Television Academy. Just two years old, the Academy on the school's Playa del Rey campus allows students to learn the industry from the inside, working closely with the successful brother writing duo of Todd and Richey Jones. Todd and Richey Jones began their w...
