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Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present Sharon Feder: Open Allegory, the gallery's third solo exhibition of the artist's oil paintings. The show opens on April 1st with an artist reception from 4-7pm and continues through April 29th. This new body of work marks a significant evolution in Feder's work. Grounded in her earlier urban landscapes, these new compositions explore the intersection of the urban and the natural world as a metaphor for the complexities of the the human experience....
The 2023 Mammoth Film Festival celebrated incredible filmmakers and talented actors this past week in Mammoth Lakes, CA, while also bracing the deepest snowfall Mammoth received in the last decade, with back to back blizzards over the duration of the festival. The adventure made for an exciting winter experience for the dedicated filmmakers, talent, and festival supporters in attendance. The 5th year of the fastly growing festival certainly did not disappoint with an impressive film slate of...
The Los Angeles area has been known for decades as one of the worst U.S. regions for pollution, smog, and other environmental issues, but as one of the first tour operators in LA to concentrate on sustainability and eco-friendly activities, California Adventures will soon be able to say that it will no longer contribute to the pollution problem. The company has already converted one of its highly-coveted vintage 23-window VW Kombi buses into a fully electric vehicle. A similar 23-window VW bus,...
Les Misérables is the world's longest running musical - a true modern classic based on Victor Hugo's novel and featuring one of the most memorable scores of all time with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. The multi-award-winning Les Misérables is as groundbreaking today as it was when it first premiered in London in 1985. Epic, grand and uplifting, Les Misérables School Edition packs an emotional wallop that has thrilled audiences all over the world. This aut...
"Uncle Bill's Animal Tales - Life Lessons for Adults" is a book of humorous and heartfelt stories on how animals are our best teachers and healers. (They don't care who you voted for!) They live in the day. They teach us unconditional love and independence. They also show us how important the cycle of life is, in the present moment, and in death. How can we not love them up?! The animals that have come into Bill's life over the years have helped him to grow as a human being, and assisted him in...
The Hollywood Critics Association announced today that the 2023 HCA Film Awards saw its highest viewership to date, quadrupling the view count of last year's HCA TV Awards by 80%. The 2023 HCA Film Awards ceremony, which was simulcast live on the official HCA YouTube Channel, HCA App, and KNEKT Television Network, has been viewed by over 1 million people globally. "We are thrilled to see such tremendous growth in our viewership," adds HCA Founder Scott Menzel. "We have a small team, but they wor...
There's nothing more beautiful and sweeter than a family's love and affection; it's even sweeter when it's your grandmother's heartwarming love. The author, Alretta Tolbert, recounts a heartfelt and endearing story of a grandmother's love. A heartwarming tale that explores the relationship between a child and their grandmother undeniably, a powerful and beautiful bond. The story follows a loving grandmother and her family, sharing precious moments and making memories that will surely last...
The Actors’ Gang’s energetic and emotionally compelling way of making theater has been pulsing through the California Correctional system since 2006. The work started by our Prison Project teaching artists is being boldly reimagined and carried forward by men and women wearing state-issued blues. With over 240 years of combined incarceration, an ensemble of Prison Project alumni have found their way to freedom and want to share their stories with you. To do so, they have created an entirely new...
Netflix today announced its first partnership with the NFL: Quarterback, a new docu-series that will take a unique look at each season, told through the lens of NFL quarterbacks. This year, the series features exclusive, unprecedented access to Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota from the beginning of the 2022 season to its conclusion, following them on and off the field, from inside the huddle with teammates to inside their homes with their families. It will premiere in summer...
The Oscar Nominated Shorts Series will be screened at the Terrace Starlight Cinemas starting with Animation Category Feb 25th, Documentary Category March 4 and Live Action March 11th! Buy all 3 nights for $45 San Pedro Film Festival 303 S. Pacific Ave 102, 90731, Los Angeles...
Following the success of its inaugural expansion in 2022 as a two-day celebration, The Music Center’s 44th Annual Very Special Arts Festival returns on Friday and Saturday, February 24–25, offering opportunities for creative expression to Angelenos of all abilities. The free festival, comprised of arts workshops, dance performances and more, takes place in Downtown L.A. on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center. The Music Center’s 44th Annual Very Special Arts Festival will be dedicated to school groups on Friday, February 24, providing stude...
Upon becoming widowed suddenly at 40, Michelle Paris found writing to be very cathartic. Always a sucker for a happy ending, Ms. Paris decided to write her own. New Normal is a fictionalized version of Paris's own experience with grief. It tells a story of loss through relatable characters who find themselves in situations ranging from devastating to heartwarming and comedic. It took Ms. Paris more than ten years to write and edit the novel. She shopped it around to agents and editors who...
The first poetry and painting online international competition was launched by Shri Ram Niwas Goel, Hon'ble Speaker, Delhi Legislative Assembly, at the launch ceremony of the Delhi Pythian Council in the presence of H.E. Yiannakis Makridis, Deputy High Commissioner for Cyprus, the Indian President, Shri B.H. Anilkumar, IAS, and many other important dignitaries. Bijender Goel, founder of Modern Pythian Games, said that Modern Pythian Games is launching the first international poetry and painting...
Singer/multi-instrumentalist John Orr, aka The Last Domino, has just released the music video for his new lounge-punk single, "Paperweight". The video, directed by Priscilla Runion, shows Orr assuming all instrumental positions as well as conveying a spectrum of emotions following the end of a toxic relationship. Also featured in the video are three local dancers who often perform at Scarlet Lady Saloon in Culver City. Harlequin Curio plays dual roles as the lead dancer and ex-girlfriend of the...
This season, the Emmy Awards celebrates its 75th Anniversary. What began as a modest ceremony with five awards at the Hollywood Athletic Club has evolved into television's biggest night, celebrating excellence throughout the industry. In the age of "peak TV" with close to 600 original scripted series, the Academy now recognizes artists, artisans, crafts people and storytellers in nearly 120 categories. To mark the occasion, the Academy has created the attached 75th Anniversary key art,...
PIZZA, PIZZA, PIZZA Through tastings, demos, classes, and seminars, plus unique one-off collaborations, Pizza City Fest L.A. ushers in a new, annual tradition, stitching together the diverse regions and neighborhoods of Southern California's multifaceted pizza quilt. Come experience over 35 unique pizzerias from Santa Barbara down to San Diego, with several different styles including Sicilian, artisan, Neapolitan, Detroit and even a few classified as "L.A. Style." We'll also have a special...
6-23 season spotlights three finalists seeking to be our new Music Director-Conductor. We continue the season with guest conductor Clyde Mitchell who will lead the Orchestra in a performance of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," one of the most popular of all symphonies. Dvořák composed this Symphony while he was working in New York as the Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America, and it shows the influences of the Native American music and the Afr...
As Pulitzer Prize finalist and Los Angeles based writer/actor Kristina Wong continues the 2023 Kirk Douglas season with her hilarious and heartfelt one-person play, “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord,” Los Angeles audiences will have a variety of ways to engage with Wong and the community. A co-production with Center Theatre Group and East West Players, with additional support from the Skirball Cultural Center, “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord” will play February 12 through March 15, with opening on February 15 in Culver City. In the true sp...
The Hollywood Burlesque Festival aims to ensure the ongoing tradition of burlesque in the arts and to raise awareness and appreciation of an art form that both empowers and admires the human figure. We believe that modern burlesque is for every body regardless of the previous beauty standards performers were forced to adhere to. We welcome acts of all styles and performers of any shape, size, color, ability, background, age, identity, gender, or economic class to join our stage. The Hollywood Burlesque Festival was founded in 2013 by the...
The 14th New Media Film Festival is proud to announce a shortlist of nominees for this year's event, featuring a diverse range of content from the USA, Switzerland, Faroe Islands, Germany, and Mexico. All of the works on the shortlist are premiering in categories such as 360, NFT, Web Series, Animation, VR, Animation, Script, Digital Comic, New media and "shot on Mobile" including: Director and Producer James Beissel, teamed up with writer and wife, Lana Beissel, to create “Polar Bear 360,” starring Nathan Nowak. James hopes to inspire passion...
In California, the seasons are subtle. So subtle, in fact, that some claim there are none at all. Just as subtle, and equally beautiful, are the exquisite designs of the seasons in Japanese art. Over centuries, a rich literary and visual vocabulary representing the seasons evolved from the aesthetic sensibilities of the Japanese people. SHIKI: The Four Seasons in Japanese Art, a new exhibition at the Sturt Haaga Gallery brings this beauty and harmony to Descanso Gardens. The aesthetic values of...
Our inaugural festival in 2021 united over 100 female food and beverage entrepreneurs across Los Angeles for a 10-day festival featuring unique chef collaborations, thematic menus, a series of virtual conversations among female industry leaders, and more. The 2022 festival featured more than 140 unique menu items and collaborations, as well as events including a panel conversation with leading women restaurateurs, a RE:Her Smorgasburg takeover, Mini Marts featuring member-made products, the Amazing Graze, and a benefit concert. Many of the 10...
On December 5, the City Council of the City of Culver City awarded over $213,000 in 2023 Performing Arts Grants as recommended by the City’s Cultural Affairs Commission. Twenty-nine (29) non-profit arts organizations will receive grants to present music, dance, and theatre performances from January to December 2023. These performances will take place at various indoor and outdoor locations throughout Culver City and will be free or have low-cost ticket options. “During this year of pandemic recovery, we are proud to support more arts gro...
The Culver City Arts Foundation (Culver Arts), which supports the arts in Culver City through its mission to preserve the past, enrich the present and create the future of arts and culture in the community, is thrilled to announce the recipients of $50,000 in grants in our effort to support local nonprofit art organizations. This year for #GivingTuesday, instead of asking for donations for our own nonprofit organization, Culver Arts gave back to the arts community…because art changes e...
See Disney’s iconic Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their best friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, and Owl (oh… and don’t forget Tigger too!) in a beautifully crafted musical stage adaptation. Featuring the Sherman Brother’s classic Grammy-award winning music with further songs by A.A. Milne, this beautiful fresh stage adaptation is told with stunning life-sized puppetry through the eyes of the characters we all know and love, in a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood. This pr...
