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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...
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...
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...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) announce the first HFPA Snow Leopard Scholarship, which will be awarded to a new Asian short filmmaker during the Festival's fifth anniversary in Culver City, Los Angeles in November 2019. The festival will run Nov. 6 to 14, 2019 in Culver City. There will be no submission process as AWFF will curate the twelve films from a select number of short film festivals and programs across Asia throughout the year. A special Jury of HFPA members will decide on the...
Working in clay is a lifelong passion for Jeffrey Siegel. In this short commentary article, Siegal talks about his lifelong love for clay. The movements of shaping a ball of clay into something wonderful on the potter's wheel is a series of exciting actions and reactions. Like having a conversation with my artwork, it is common for me to say "the clay speaks to me," launching me into artistic expression. It is the process of creating something from nothing that inspires me." I fell in love with...
Last year’s event was incredible, but this year’s event should be even better! We’re turning up the volume once again! Culver City Arts District and Arts District Residents Association are proud to present the 2019 rockin’ Art Walk and Roll Festival. Grab a map and take a self-guided stroll and visit our local galleries, restaurants and retail or hop on one of our electric shuttles for easy access to dozens of galleries and businesses. Events will take place throughout Culver City Arts District, including a designated street closure that st...
In an exclusive report by Amanda N'Duka with deadline.com comes the report that in an effort to refine its operations with a global focus, Sony Pictures' Worldwide Partnerships group has tapped Andre Seddoh as Senior Vice President of International Partnerships, where he will oversee all international promotional partnership efforts for the studio. In addition, Tine Hansen has been hired as the Director of APAC Marketing Partnerships, a position that reports to Seddoh and oversees partnerships...
A Culver City Artist Laureate will be selected by the city for a two-year appointment beginning January 2020. Culver City has recognized many creative artists who are committed to developing their art forms and enriching our community with their exhibits, performances, presentations, and service. The city will select a two-year appointment for an individual artist from one of three arts discipline categories – fine and visual arts, performing arts, and literary arts – to serve as a cultural ambassador who will raise community consciousness to...
Lou D'Elia is an assemblage artist working with found/obsolete objects to create 3 dimensional artworks. D'Elia frequently incorporates vernacular photography, artificial light and visual puns in his work. They are often social commentaries on politics, sexuality, and gender role expectations. He frequently uses vintage wood industrial foundry molds as a tribute to his father, who was a pattern maker in the 1950s. D'Elia grew up in Ocean Park in the 1950s. At that time the community was...
Culver City students including the Culver City Middle School for the first time who are interested in joining the AVPA are invited to attend an Open House Workshop on Saturday, June 8. It will feature opportunities for all students to work with high school students in each of the five departments in AVPA: Visual Art, Dance, Film, Music, and Theatre. This workshop is in conjunction with AVPA's JAVA GALA XI, their annual benefit fundraiser and showcase. Workshop participants are invited to...
Wizard Entertainment Inc. announced the addition of four events to the 2019 calendar of Wizard World pop culture conventions, including the return to Los Angeles in June at Sony Pictures Studio Lot. The fifteen show are across the country and the Sony venue is new this year. The schedule for Culver City is as follows: • June 7-8, Ghostbusters Fan Fest Presented By Wizard World, Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver City, Calif. • June 8, Los Angeles, Sony Pictures Studio Lot, Culver City, Cal...
With divisiveness and acts of hate speech at an all-time high there has never been a greater need for works of creative inspiration that can bring people of different faiths and backgrounds together in harmony — and that’s exactly what INTERFAITH: The Musical is all about. Please join Ruth Broyde Sharone from Culver City, the creator of the musical, and her talented collaborators — musicians, vocalists and fellow songwriters who invite you to join in a joyful celebration of our cultural and religious diversity. This positive spirit is refle...
Reflecting a fast-evolving world of modern and personalized storytelling beyond the traditional book form, multimedia software provider will be at the University of Southern California (USC) and debut its first interactive pop-up museum at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 13 and April 14, 2019. Themed "#InstaArt: Create Your LA Story," the museum is a free, interactive, customizable photo booth and exhibit. It is aimed at inspiring digital artists, photographers, visual...
A ferociously dark and hilarious new comedy by award-winning playwright John Bunzel (63 Trillion, Death of a Buick). When a famous writer dies under mysterious circumstances, family and friends gather in his cabin on a remote island in the Puget Sound to box up his belongings. As they go through the clutter dad left behind, hidden family secrets come to light — and they come to realize just how much they both despise and love one another. The play will be performed on April 26 thru June 2: Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., and 3 Sundays at 3 p...
Author Robert Inman discusses and signs An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 26 at Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232. Since its first publication by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965, this seminal vade mecum of Los Angeles architecture has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimes-as the authors have captured here-relenting L.A. cityscape. Revised extensively and updated rigorously since its fifth...
Rising visual artist, Chase Metoyer, 17, has dreams of a career in fine arts and plans to inspire and educate future artists. On Monday, January 21, the Culver City High School senior was recognized and awarded the 2019 Saul Morrison award by the Westside Coalition for her art interpretation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, Six Concepts of Nonviolence, at the 34th Annual Celebration of Rev. Dr. King Jr., at the SGI-USA World Peace Ikeda Auditorium, in Santa Monica. Chase contemplated the concept and created a piece she felt represented the t...
"Timothea Stewart's paintings exude light-filled energy that touches many dimensions in us. She is a remarkable talent," said Arianna Huffington, style setter, co-founder of Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global. Stewart is an L.A. native, whose work was recently seen at the Robert Graham Studio in Culver City. She grew up in Los Angeles influenced by her father Bart Lytton, a passionate patron of the arts. Lytton founded Lytton Savings and Loans, one of the largest banks of its day and...
What do you get when three unique museums, all within two blocks of each other, join forces to present free tours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 9 as the kick-off event of the Culver City Cultural Corridor? That's easy – an enlightening, inspiring and enjoyable experience to remember, thanks to its sponsors: Advocates of The Culver City Cultural Corridor and the Culver City Arts Foundation. The Cultural Corridor is a 1.4 mile stretch centered along Culver Blvd. and anchored in the east by the t...
By Catherine Hammons A Kid Scoop Media Mentor Correspondent One of the first things I noticed as I approached the Robert Frost Auditorium was the sense of anticipation. It felt as though those of us were in the audience were getting ready to hear the band that defined our youth play. For some, it might have been the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, for others Jimi Hendrix, and still others Pearl Jam or Prince. In other words, there was a sense of shared experience, a feeling of youthful passion...
The dancers of Diavolo, based in Los Angeles, brought their Architecture in Motion dance performance to the Ahmanson Theatre on Sunday. A spectacular acrobatic-movement spectacle that is the dream of founder and artistic director French native Jacques Heim. It's a combination of contemporary dance, martial arts, acrobatics, gymnastics and hip-hop with the utilization of large, creative stage props. There were two different scenes: Voyage, the west coast premiere, and after intermission,...
It was my great pleasure to attend this year’s COLCOA (“City of Light City of Angels”) French Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood. It ran from April 23 through April 30, and I packed 13 feature films (several accompanied by shorts) into the six days I went. As cinematic experiences go, it was tres magnifique. That pretty much exhausts my mastery of French, so thank God for subtitles. The first film I saw was Special Honors, the North American premiere of a TV movie...
The Culver City Council awarded grants to 16 performing arts companies to present theatre, dance, and music performances in Culver City throughout 2018. For more information regarding the upcoming performances, please visit www.culvercity.org. The Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program, which is part of the City's Art in Public Places Program, supports non-profit performing arts organizations and provides diverse cultural programming throughout the year. Annually, the City Council reviews...
"Great Scott!" Christopher "Doc Brown" Lloyd made an appearance on Friday at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts to treat his adoring fans to a screening and Q & A of his famous film, "Back to the Future." Lloyd decided to ride the seemingly endless wave of interest from one generation to the next by continuing to keep the love alive for the film. If it hadn't of been for his agent setting him up with an audition for another cult classic, "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest (1975)," Lloyd...
Cirque du Soleil's "Luzia" had its opening night under their famous big-top tent on Parking Lot 1 at Dodger Stadium and did not disappoint. It was a visually pleasing, Mexican-themed production that has continued to take the standard circus idea to the next level by incorporating astonishing feats of strength, agility, phantasmagorical theatrics, and side-splitting comedy. The Cirque creators out-did themselves with creative, colorful set designs. costumes, and festive music rooted in the...
Sculptor Michael Todd will be featured in the Winter show in the Fine Arts Gallery at West Los Angeles College from December 7 to January 7. Todd creates sculptural works in wood, metal, and clay. His career has spanned 50 years and he has work in many major museums. A reception, free to the public, will be held in the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday, December 7 from 5 pm to 7. Parking is available in the adjacent parking structure for $2.00 (exact change needed). The show is currated by art...
