www.veniceartscouncil.org

On behalf of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban
Five, we thank the Venice Arts Council (VAC) for co-sponsorship of
the opening of Antonio's touring exhibit on Saturday, May 22 at 7:30pm
at
SPARC (Social Public Art Resource Center) in Venice. The evening will
begin with a reception which we are delighted to know you will help
coordinate. We will request volunteers from other co-sponsors to work
with the Venice Arts Council to help bar tending, set up and clean up.
I will work with you to secure food and beverage donations. A program
will following at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, next door to
SPARC to include acknowledgment of our hosts and co-sponsors, reading
by actor/activist Edward Asner of Antonio's poetry, (others pending),
documentary on the Case of the Cuban Five and update on the Case by
Alicia Jrapko from the International Committee for the Freedom of the
Cuban Five.
VAC's co-sponsorship includes:
1) email(s) to your list announcing the event(s)
2) event(s) featured on your website
3) volunteers on Saturday, ,May 22, opening art exhibit reception, set
up, bar tending and clean up
4) attend Friday, May 21 press conference (just added)
5) attend Sunday, May 23 brunch with Dolores Huerta (just added)
I will get you all the information needed to post on your website and
distribute to your email list. Please let me know deadlines for
website/email copy.
In addition, SPARC is included in the Venice Family Clinics annual
Venice Art  Walk which takes place throughout Venice the following day
of the opening,  Sunday, May 23, from 11 -5pm. So Antonio's exhibit
will have additional exposure to art lovers across Los Angeles.
Just this morning, we confirmed a fundraising brunch for Sunday
morning, May 23, "Women and the Case of the Cuban Five" featuring
Dolores Huerta who has been involved with the Case helping to secure
visas for the wives and mothers of the Five. The brunch will also
include a short video from one of the wives of the Five. We hope to
hold the brunch at SPARC.
For more information on the Woman of the Five see sample letter below.
So, in addition to the art opening on Saturday, May 22, we invite VAC
to attend the press conference, Friday, May 21 (more info to follow),
and Sunday fundraising brunch with Dolores Huerta.
Thank you again for the Venice Arts Council's support!
Best Regards,
Suzanne Thompson
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
310-570-5410
www.thecuban5.org
       INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE RIGHT OF FAMILY VISITS
■ P.O. Box 22455, Oakland, CA 94609, United States ■ Phone 510-219-0092
    ______________________________________________________________________________

March 8, 2010
US Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton
US Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano
 c/c United Nations Human Rights Council
        Rapporteur Against Torture
        United Nations Group on Arbitrary Detentions
        Amnesty International
        Ombdusman

Dear Ms Clinton and Ms Napolitano:
We respectfully write to you to ask the State Department of the United
States and the Department of Homeland Security to immediately grant
HUMANITARIAN VISAS to two Cuban citizens, Adriana Pérez and Olga
Salanueva, wives of prisoners Gerardo Hernández and René González
respectively. They have been denied visits to their husbands in prison
for 11 years.
On December 18, 2009 the Department of Homeland Security denied a
humanitarian visa to Olga Salanueva.  Without any explanation, they
denied this elementary recourse to come to the US with the sole
purpose to see her husband, René González, unjustly sentenced to 15
years in prison.
At the time of her husband's arrest, Olga Salanueva was living with
him and their two daughters; the youngest daughter is US born as well
as Rene Gonzalez himself. After the arrest of her husband Ms Salanueva
was detained with the purpose of pressuring her husband to collaborate
with the prosecutors assuming a crime that he never committed.  Three
months later in December 2000, Olga was deported to Cuba. After 10
years since the deportation, the US government continues to punish
this woman. There has not been any accusation or legal process against
her. Additionally her status of being a mother and a wife of US
citizens makes a compelling connection to the United States.
In the case of Adriana Perez; in July 2002, she traveled to the United
States to visit her husband Gerardo Hernández, unjustly serving two
life sentences plus 15 years in US prison. But upon her arrival, she
was detained in the Houston Airport, photographed, finger printed,
interrogated for 11 hours, prevented from speaking to a lawyer or
Cuban diplomats and subsequently sent back to Cuba, cruelly preventing
Adriana to see her husband.  That was the last time that she was
granted a visa to see him during the 11 years he has been imprisoned.
The last visa denial for Adriana was on July 15, 2009, the day of
their 21st wedding anniversary. Four months later, on November 2,
Gerardo Hernandez's mother died.  Not even on a sad event like this in
the life of any human being was Adriana Perez allowed to visit her
husband to console him.
The applications for humanitarian visas for Olga Salanueva and Adriana
Pérez are supported by an important number of religious, legal and
human rights institutions. From the World Council of Churches to the
US Council of Christian Churches, the Cuban Council of Churches, the
Association of American Jurists, Amnesty International, 170
personalities including several Nobel Prize winners, parliamentarians,
elected officials, and intellectuals from all over the world.
Until the Cuban Five are freed, the below signatories demand the
immediate granting of  HUMANITARIAN VISAS to ADRIANA PÉREZ and OlGA
SALANUEVA and MULTIPLE VISAS TO ALL THE FAMILY OF THE CUBAN FIVE.
This gesture will show the world that we are represented by elected
officials who want better relations with other nations and who have
compassion and humanitarian hearts.
Sincerely,
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton - Former Catholic Bishop of Detroit
Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell - Former Secretary General of the
National Council of Churches of the United States
Dolores Huerta - Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers Union
Melvin MacKay - President of ILWU Local 10, San Francisco, California
Danny Glover - Actor
Gayle McLaughlin - Mayor of Richmond, California
Alice Walker - Writer
Noam Chomsky - Linguist and Writer
Howard Zinn - Historian and Writer (Honorary Member)
Esteban Torres - Former US Congressman
Wayne Smith - Former Chief of the US Interest Section in Cuba
Michael Parenti - Author
Angela Davis - Professor of History, California University, Santa Cruz
Yury Kochiyama - Civil Right activist
Peter Phillips - President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored

Parlor Performance Update! Entertaining ideas from the historical to the hysterical!   Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com * (310) 476-6735  Parlor Producer's note!  I've been given the go-ahead to use the underground recital hall (although I can not utter its prior name!) at Fields Pianos while they await the arrival of a new tenant. I'm excited to be presenting Roy Zimmerman there on Sunday, March 21. The hilarious New Zealander Deb Filler's show remains at Temple Akiba in Culver City. Please contact me for additonal info, photos, interviews and/or to come as guests to the shows.  In a nutshell ! Details in boxes below -- please note multiple venues!    * Sun., March 21... Singing satirist Roy Zimmerman -- Tom Lehrer fans unite!  * Sat., March 27 @ 7:30pm... New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export -- DEB FILLER!  An Evening with Singing Social Satirist Roy Zimmerman "...lacerating wit and keen awareness of society's foibles bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." LA Times     Sun., March 21 * 7:30pm * $20    Zimmerman writes fiercely funny songs about ignorance, war and greed.  In eleven albums over twenty years, he has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice.  His songs are heard on NPR, PRI and Sirius Radio -- and his YouTube videos have garnered over two million views and tens of thousands of comments, many of them coherent!   Enjoy CREATION SCIENCE 101 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs and PSYCHEDELIC RELIC at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLLv_zjuzg and BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A TRILLION DOLLARS? at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjoshMpYfmg !    Fields Pianos Recital Hall * 12121 W. Pico (1 door w. of Bundy), level P2 * Park free in lot!    Parlor Performances in association with Temple Akiba presents New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export! DEB FILLER      Saturday, March 27 at 7:30pm at Temple Akiba in Culver City   "Magnificent... hilarious... to miss her would be madness." New Zealand Herald  "Consistently clever...extraordinary...tour de force." Philadelphia Enquirer "I was laughing, crying, thinking, feeling...magnificent!" Boston Globe    Described alternatively as warm, gifted, a consummate performer and a complete chameleon, the New York Times says "she has turned to theatre, to writing, to art, in an effort to sort through the experience of growing up in a family with memories too terrible to speak of." Deb's comedic genius should leave no fan of Tracy Ullman or Lily Tomlin disappointed!   Please consider buying a block of seats for friends, charity, professional &/or social groups! (If you'd like to circulate this to friends & associates, I'll be happy to e-mail you a more forwardable-friendly flyer.)  Temple Akiba * 5249 South Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, CA  * $25 ($20 groups of 8 or more)  RSVP & Info: Jeannine Frank * (310) 476-6735 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com

 

join us for a private receptionto celebrate the opening of our new exhibitfeaturing the work of
Laddie John Dill
Monday, March 15, 20105 - 7 p.m.
RSVP:310.399.4800 orvia email to jannids@aol.com

Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles native, was born in Long Beach and attended Santa Monica High School. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1968. At age 28, Dill had his first one-man exhibit at the Illeana Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Dill's list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as Seoul, Paris, Nogoya, Japan; and Helsinki, Findland; to New York, Kansas City, Seattle, and throughout Northern and Southern California. Laddie is the recipient of two National Endowment grants; one for sculpture and one for painting, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UC Irvine, Art Center in Pasadena, and lectured in numerous universities and art institutions across the United States.

Public Works Improvisational Theatre presents a Voice in the Well event

It's Gonna Take A Lotta Love

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010

 

Warszawa Restaurant [ATTIC]

1414 Lincoln Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90401 * (323) 330-5448

 

Producer ERIC VOLLMER hosts an Evening of Music & Spoken Word,

[Comedy provided by DANA SNOW and Drama by CARMEN VEGA]

In the spirit of a Euro-style Salon where everyone gets into the act!

 

KAITLIN FERRELL, DOUG SPIRIT, MORGAN WILDAY & LEE BOEK present scenes from the One-Act plays of John Patrick Shanley such as "Let Us Go Out Into The Starry Night" and FRANK STRASSER

MAGDALENA CIECIERSKA reprises her role as NINOTCHKA and sings

 

 

$7.00 Door Donation  - Desserts - Artists Reception

 

Please join us-
Special sneek of nu ROBOT film tonite at 7:15pm SHARP at Talking Stick
before the JOHN CAGE film at 730  http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
Live improv music and film by MAP from 6-715pm all Freeee
(also i need folks to participate in Sam Beckett nite on April 9 at
Bey Barq, let me know if you are interested)
thanks, gerry fialka
laughtears.com
EYE AM NOT A ROBOT - Mark X Farina & Gerry Fialka's 14 minute film
probes the percept of technology "being alive" by evoking early
Russian film and Constructivism. Cultural icons from James Joyce to
Robby the Robot to Marilyn Monroe are your humanoid guides through new
art technologies. Can machines surpass humans in the creative process?
How are robotics restructuring patterns of social interdependence in
Art, Science and Nature? Cine-poets Farina & Fialka reframe our
collective compliance in anthropomorphizing media as art forms. In the
spirit of McLuhan's mosaic writing, this collage film propagates
mythic thinking, in the Jungian sense, where people mime cues from
technology used by millions. By flipping the art museum video
installation experience into media yoga, one can download morphic
resonance into the nervous system as a Zen experiment. What is the
future of art and artificial intelligence? See the likeness &
difference in Anticipatory Mindfulness and Android Meme. Summon the
impossible by retooling what Derrida calls "the absence of presence."
"The future of the future is the present." - McLuhan. "I wouldn't be
seen dead with a living work of art." - Museum curator. Having
screened parts one and two of Farina & Fialka's TOTO MEME series in
2008 & 2009, FIA completes the trilogy with EYE AM NOT A ROBOT for the
entire month of march, ate hours per day- The Flint Institute of Arts.
February 2010 events info:
Feb 15, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, John Cage Film with Frank Zappa
& Noam Chomsky http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
Feb 20, SAT, 6-10pm: JAZZ FUNK FEST at The Talking Stick
http://www.laughtears.com/jazzfunkfest.html
Feb 22, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels
http://angelssantamonica.com/ with NICK ARIONDO
Feb 26, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
Howard Zinn doc
March 2010 events info:
March 2, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
March 5-14 Suzy tours east coast with Stormin Norman, email
zamcheck@aol.com for info
March 8, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL- Vision-Core II Experimental Films
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
March 13, SAT, 2-6pm: MESS with http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
with Ronald X Censor & Reverend Dan
March 15, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA - Dumpster Diving & Forest
Ackerman Films, http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
March 18-31 Gerry tours Michigan with workshops & events, email
pfsuzy@aol.com for info
March 26, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
March 29, MON, 8:15-11:15: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels http://angelssantamonica.com/
April 2010 events info:
April 6, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
April 9, FRIDAY, 7:30pm: MESSIN' With SAMUEL BECKETT at Beyond Baroque
http://www.beyondbaroque.org/
April 10, SAT, 3-6pm: MESS with Barry Smolin http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
April 12, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - Scoop Wes Nisker film
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
April 14, WED, 7:30 - 10:30pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys
http://www.laughtears.com/
April 13-22: Gerry tours southwest New Mex and AZ
April 19, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, Fierce Light -activist film
Noam Chomsky meets Burning Man
http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
April 26, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels
http://angelssantamonica.com/
April 30, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
(probably with Craig Baldwin)
May 2010 events info:
May 4, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club
http://www.venicewake.org/
May 10, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - The FOLKSINGER- killer blues film
http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
May 12, WED, 7:30 - 10:30pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys http://www.laughtears.com/
May 15, SAT, 3pm: MESS with DOUG HARVEY, LA Weekly art
critichttp://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
May 17, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, Antero Ali & Blues Films
http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
May 24, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels http://angelssantamonica.com/
May 28, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER
http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html
May 29, SAT, 7-10pm: SUZY & HER SOLID SENDERS at The Talking Stick
http://www.laughtears.com/suzy1.html

Parlor Performance Update! Entertaining ideas from the historical to the hysterical!   Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com * (310) 476-6735  Parlor Producer's note!  I've been given the go-ahead to use the underground recital hall (although I can not utter its prior name!) at Fields Pianos while they await the arrival of a new tenant. I'm thrilled to be hosting the March 1st show there with Marc Maron & Teresa Tudury and will know in a day or two about the fundraiser for Haiti relief and Roy Zimmerman. Deb Filler's show remains at Temple Akiba in Culver City -- plenty of room for all!  Please contact me for press comps, additonal information and/or to set up an interview.   In a nutshell ! Details in boxes below -- please note various venues! * Mon., March 1... Soulful, funny chantuese Teresa Tudury (Janis meets Bette!) & late-night favorite Marc Maron * Sat., March 27 @ 7:30pm... New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export -- DEB FILLER!  * Carla Zilbersmith interviewed on ABC News re ALS calendar -- and as motivational speaker!  * Stay tuned! Possible show w/ singing political satirist Roy Zimmerman * Stay tuned! Big night of comedy & cabaret being planned for mid-March for Haiti & disaster relief   Monday, March 1st at 7:30pm * $20 / $15 w/ RSVP by 2/22  Fields Pianos Recital Hall * 12121 W. Pico (1 door w. of Bundy), level P2 * Park free in lot!   Laughing Matters: An Evening of Serious Comedy (some of it with a melody & strings attached!)   with  sublimely neurotic (& oddly lovable!) late-nite favorite Marc Maron and soulful, comic chanteuse Teresa Tudury   Marc has appeared in countless clubs, performing arts centers, films, and off-Broadway. He hosted an Air America Radio show for four years featuring interviews with personalities cultural and political -- and currently hosts the popular podcast WTF? http://www.wtfpod.com  Engaging his audience as a storyteller, Marc is known for his incisive cultural and political commentary, mystical ruminations, and neurotic insights into human nature. Born in New Jersey and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Marc started his comedy career in the late 80s in Hollywood, as a doorman at the famed Comedy Store. Marc has appeared on just about every TV show that will allow comics, from The Late Show with David Letterman to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he is a special favorite.      TERESA TUDURY started writing songs at age 12 and was performing in San Francisco nightclubs by the time she was 15. She has played on and off in the Bay Area for years, and for almost two decades was based in Los Angeles where in addition to music gigs, she wrote comedy and worked as a character actress on stage and screen.  With a deep, sultry voice that magnetizes audiences, and a scathing comedic wit to match, Teresa is a consummate performer who pours out her original songs with power, verve, passion, and disarming humor. Teresa's voice has been described as a cross between Bette Midler and Bonnie Raitt (LA Weekly). Her vocal stylings are perfectly complemented by her bluesy guitar playing.  Teresa has recorded or performed with such greats as Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, Lyle Lovett, Taj Mahal, Leo Kottke and Bonnie Bramlett. Now residing in Sonoma County, she continues to perform and write new material.  REVIEWS...  "It's not clear yet whether singer/comedienne Teresa Tudury is another Tracey Ullman, a new Sophie Tucker or a revitalized Bea Lillie. Her utterly madcap performance...managed to include reference to all of the above-and then some. Tudury is taking risks all over the place, with none of the stiff and predictable inhibitions of a too-established performer...What we're talking about here, folks, is a star in the making."  -Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times  "Undiscovered gems are a rarity in a city where folks are always on the lookout for the next big thing, but...there's a performer who is perched on the cusp of better things. Her name is Teresa Tudury, and she...is making her reputation the old-fashioned way: She's earning it." -John Carmen, Daily Variety  Hear her hilarious Last Heterosexual Female at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf39dQAsfno  & Please Put Mrs. God on the Phone at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZpeKoacrzc&NR=1 More at www.teresatudury.net  Parlor Performances in association with Temple Akiba presents New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export! DEB FILLER      Saturday, March 27 at 7:30pm at Temple Akiba in Culver City   "Magnificent... hilarious... to miss her would be madness." New Zealand Herald  "Consistently clever...extraordinary...tour de force." Philadelphia Enquirer "I was laughing, crying, thinking, feeling...magnificent!" Boston Globe    Described alternatively as warm, gifted, a consummate performer and a complete chameleon, the New York Times says "she has turned to theatre, to writing, to art, in an effort to sort through the experience of growing up in a family with memories too terrible to speak of." Deb's comedic genius should leave no fan of Tracy Ullman or Lily Tomlin disappointed!   Please consider buying a block of seats for friends, charity, professional &/or social groups! (If you'd like to circulate this to friends & associates, I'll be happy to e-mail you a more forwardable-friendly flyer.)  Temple Akiba * 5249 South Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, CA    Such a deal!  $20 ($15 for groups of 8 or more!) w/ RSVP by March 1 Please RSVP ASAP to assure seats! All available seats $25 after March 1  RSVP & Info: Jeannine Frank * (310) 476-6735 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com Learn more about Temple Akiba at admin@templeakiba.net  

 

Please take note!     In addition to being the subject of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING (a documentary by Academy Award director John Zaritsky) the beautiful, brilliant, sassy and brassy ALS stricken artist Carla Zilbersmith has (from her wheelchair and with virtually no use of her limbs) mastermided an amazing 2010 Calendar (ALS: Always Looking Sexy) featuring a courageous ALS-stricked individual each month (from teen years to seniors) in a pose from the movies. All proceeds are tax-deductible and support ALS research. Carla was interviewed by ABC TV about this project. More info
at: https://alwayslookingsexy2010.alscommunity.org/GroupSite/tabid/54/albumid/278/view/ViewAlbum/Default.aspx Says Carla: It's a funny, sexy, full of life, full of love calendar which will remind you each time you go to write down an appointment how unbearably lucky we all are to live on this beautiful planet.  Read Carla's extraordinary blog at www.carlamuses.blogspot.com. More on the film at www.leavethemlaughingfilm.com .  

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Please take five minutes to help us fight potential budget cuts that will seriously undercut our service to youth throughout Los Angeles.  

On Friday, January 29th, the City of Los Angeles' Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) released a mid-year financial report.  The 157 page document calls for immediate cost-saving measures including instructing the Department of Cultural Affairs to notify Contractors that 2009-10 grant funding is no longer available and to work with the City Attorney's Office to begin termination of existing contracts where services have not yet been provided.

That means all grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs for this year will no longer be available, even if already committed.  This is a sizable amount of funding for Inside Out. This motion will go before Council for a vote tomorrow - Wednesday, February 3rd.

We all understand that the City of Los Angeles, like the rest of the country is in the midst of an economic recession.  However, grants made by the Department of Cultural Affairs stimulate jobs, our local economy and yield a minimum of a $8.00 return on investment.  

Stakeholders are encouraged to write a letter to your council member.

Take two minutes and send your city council member an email. Remind your Council Member that the arts:

*Make money * Attract tourists * Attract businesses *
Arts, like parks, are for everyone

This motion will go before Council for a vote this Wednesday, February 3rd. Show the City Council the power of the arts community. Attend the Council meeting and provide public comment. We need to remind the Council of just how important the arts are to Los Angeles.

Please forward this information to your friends and networks and post it on Facebook to encourage others to take action.

Take Action Now. Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is in Jeopardy.

TOMORROW: On Wednesday, February 3rd, L.A. City Council's Budget & Finance Committee will put forward a motion to dissolve Cultural Affairs. Click here to view the agenda packet.

We are inviting the community to an open forum discussion.

Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: 132 S. Beaudry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012


Dear friends and supporters,

As you may already know, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is being threatened with catastrophic budget and staff cuts. Staff reductions of 24-48% have been proposed, as well as the total elimination of the $2.2 million in grants that the Department awards annually. This includes grants that have been awarded for the rest of this year, which may include funding for Venice Arts. In addition, the City of Los Angeles Budget and Finance Committee has put forward a motion that could eliminate any obligation to fund the Department of Cultural Affairs at all.
 
We don't have to tell you about the valuable programs and organizations that will be adversely affected by this action. The arts in Los Angeles are a 14.8 billion dollar industry. For every dollar spent by the Department of Cultural Affairs, eight dollars are generated directly in jobs for artists and businesses. This doesn't even take into account the value of the arts to society overall.

If you have any questions about the value of the Department's programs view Alex's story, as only one example of the potential impact of arts engagement in a young person's life.

Special thanks to Angel's Gate Cultural Center for their advocacy in this effort.
 
We need your help and we need it now!

Yours Sincerely,

Venice Arts Staff



Venice Arts is supported by generous contributions from foundation, corporate, and individual supporters, members of our BUSINESS ART CIRCLE, and:





WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW:

Click below to send a letter Online:



You can write a letter online via the Arts for LA website.

You can also contact your councilmember's office directly, via the Cityof Los Angeles website.

Motion #56  to the Budget and Finance Committee was presented by council members:

Eric Garcetti
Jan Perry
Dennis Zine
Bernard Parks
Greig Smith
Paul Krekorian.

If these are council members in your district, please consider letting them know how much you support the Arts in Los Angeles.

Parlor Performance Update! Entertaining ideas from the historical to the hysterical!   Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com * (310) 476-6735  In a nutshell -- all details below! * Sat., March 27 @ 7:30pm... New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export (and Parlor favorite) DEB FILLER!  * Your Parlor Producer goes public, singing about her love for Peet's coffee! (Drama West free event Saturday!) * Roy Zimmerman performs at special Workman's Circle Awards event on Sunday! * Special free screening of sitcom classic The Goldbergs (followed by panel discussion!) at the Hammer!   * Carla Zilbersmith interviewed on ABC News about her ALS calendar -- link below! * Link to special contest -- $500 prize for writing a script for 1-minute videos!  * Calling all famous dead people! Radio veteran Ira Fistell wants to interview you on his new TV show! * Event being planned for March to aid Haiti quake survivors (need venue!) -- stay tuned but give now!   Parlor Performances in association with Temple Akiba presents New Zealand's Funniest Jewish Export! DEB FILLER   Saturday, March 27 at 7:30pm at Temple Akiba in Culver City   "Magnificent... hilarious... to miss her would be madness." New Zealand Herald  "Consistently clever...extraordinary...tour de force." Philadelphia Enquirer "I was laughing, crying, thinking, feeling...magnificent!" Boston Globe    Described alternatively as warm, gifted, a consummate performer and a complete chameleon, the New York Times says "she has turned to theatre, to writing, to art, in an effort to sort through the experience of growing up in a family with memories too terrible to speak of." Deb's comedic genius should leave no fan of Tracy Ullman or Lily Tomlin disappointed!   Please consider buying a block of seats for friends, charity, professional &/or social groups! (If you'd like to circulate this to friends & associates, I'll be happy to e-mail you a more forwardable-friendly flyer.)  Temple Akiba * 5249 South Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, CA    Such a deal!  $20 ($15 for groups of 8 or more!) w/ RSVP by March 1 Please RSVP ASAP to assure seats! All available seats $25 after March 1  RSVP & Info: Jeannine Frank * (310) 476-6735 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com Learn more about Temple Akiba at admin@templeakiba.net  

 

Join me Saturday for a fun & free afternoon of theater, comedy & more! I've been invited to perform my Peet's parody (At The Peet's Where I Live)! Alan Chapman & Karen Benjamin so one or two of their own as well!      

DRAMA WEST FEST at the EDENDALE! Drama West Productions - L A's best kept secret, hosts a showcase Sat. Jan. 30, at Edendale Library in Echo Park. 2011 W. Sunset Bl., 2-4pm (free!). Five new plays, two award winning short films and a musical interlude or two. Turn off your TV and come out for a creative and enjoyable afternoon. Public Welcome! Street parking available. Actors bring headshots, Writers Inquire. For complete program, email dramawest@cox.net 

Catherine Stanley, Producer, Drama West * Hettie Lynne Hurtes, Casting Director, Drama West Parlor Classifieds...   ** Singing satirist Roy Zimmerman performs at Workman's Circle Awards Celebration & Concert! Sun., Jan. 31, 1:30pm, Studio City * Details: www.circlesocal.org * A block of $25 tix have been set aside for Parlor Performance patrons (price to the public is $65!) * Please call (310) 552-2007 ASAP to take advantage of this generous offer!    ** Special event at the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater -- The Goldbergs! 3:00pm, Sun., Jan. 31. Three episodes of the classic sitcom will be shown along with excerpts from Aviva Kempner's documentary "Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg," and a brief panel discussion to contextualize the Goldbergs and Gertrude Berg. The event is free with a portion of sales from the new DVD going to NCJWLA, to support their valuable social programs. Info at www.NCJWLA.org   ** M.O.I.S.T! a hilarious comedy celebrating "sex and the seasoned woman" Sundays, Jan 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21 & 28, at 7 pm, Hayworth Theatre, 2511 Wilshire Bl., LA 90057, adjacent to  La Fonda Restaurant (offering  20% off on food for M.O.I.S.T! ticket-holders!!!) Tix: $25 / Groups (10 or more): $15/ea / Ages 60-plus: $20; Purchase online: www.moistonstage.com or call 323-960-4442 ** "an evening of pleasure" Tolucan Times * "inventive and smart" Edge    ** Carla Zilbersmith's fabulous 2010 Always Looking Sexy Calendar to fund ALS research! https://alwayslookingsexy2010.alscommunity.org/GroupSite/tabid/54/albumid/278/view/ViewAlbum/Default

View film trailer of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING at: www.leavethemlaughingfilm.com -- and read Carla's extraordinary blog at www.carlamuses.blogspot.com.   

  ** Resolved to read more in 2010? Established Westside book group open to two more participants. For specifics, contact Mike Levin at mike1913@verizon.net or 310/828-3859. $25 per session. This is a small group of about a dozen readers. There may be a few new openings in two other groups which meet monthly.        ** Planning a party? Fundraiser? Convention? Military coup? Parlor Performances can arrange the ideal entertainment or speaker for events large & small (as well as create hilarious, highly personalized song parodies)! For info &/or roster of attractions, contact Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com    events. Inserting a link in your article lets you track which topics attract the most interest.   Please take note!  A contest, a calendar & creative conversation from clever cronies!   A CONTEST... NY Public Library Artist-in-Residence, photographer/cartoonist /humorist Flash Rosenberg invites you to submit words to 1-minute videos for a $500 prize! Click on IMAGININGS or http://vimeo.com/channels/69858 to learn more about this unique, innovative contest. Deadline Jan. 31. Four short, super slo-mo videos crave your imaginative wording. This contest is a search for new talent -- please share with inventive minds! Please click on either Flash Rosenberg's videos on Vimeo or http://www.vimeo.com/user1501131/videos to enjoy up to a dozen short short videos by Flash! See her in action in the NEA's inner-city reading project on Emily Dickinson, cartooning John Lithgow on Mark Twain, Errol Morris on Torture & more!   A CALENDAR... In addition to being the subject of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING (a documentary by Academy Award director John Zaritsky) the beautiful, brilliant, sassy and brassy ALS stricken artist Carla Zilbersmith has (from her wheelchair and with virtually no use of her limbs) mastermided an amazing 2010 Calendar (ALS: Always Looking Sexy) featuring a courageous ALS-stricked individual each month (from teen years to seniors) in a pose from the movies. All proceeds are tax-deductible and support ALS research. Carla was interviewed this week by ABC TV in the Bay Area about this project. Take a look -- .ideal for reminding you of Parlor Performance dates! Additional information at: https://alwayslookingsexy2010.alscommunity.org/GroupSite/tabid/54/albumid/278/view/ViewAlbum/Default.aspx Says Carla: It's a funny, sexy, full of life, full of love calendar which will remind you each time you go to write down an appointment how unbearably lucky we all are to live on this beautiful planet. We'll have another screening of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING (90 riveting minutes of songs and quips about life and death, from the wheelchair of a woman who vows to exit the stage with a smile on her beautiful face) in the early spring.    CLEVER CONVERSATION... Veteran radio host, Ira Fistell, is planning to re-launch his popular Bring 'Em Back Alive show on the Jewish Life Television Channel (JLTV). He's seeking actors and writers who would be comfortable participating in a 30-minute on air interview in the character of well-known personalities in the arts, science, literature, politics, etc. He has taped two pilots (with Albert Einstein and Dorothy Parker). There will be compensation -- most likely AFTRA scale. The show is carried by Direct TV and Time Warner in many large cities, with a potential reach of 35-40 million viewers. Personalities already lined up are Ayn Rand, George Gershwin, Queen Elizabeth I, Clarence Darrow, Christopher Columbus, Margaret Sanger, Harry Houdini, and Abraham the Patriarch. The personalities must have a Jewish connection, either positive or negative. Please e-mail Jeannine with ideas, leads and questions!

Here is an interview of famed New Orleans Musician Dr. John (Mac Renneback) by Venice Artist Gerry Fialka. I put it up on Google Docs, so you have to download the whole thing to listen. It's about 70MB, and 75 minutes long mp3 file.

Public Works Improvisational Theatre Presents FORGOTTEN  HORIZONS

 Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 3-5pm

Ruskin Art Club* 800 South Plymouth Bl, L.A., CA 90005 * (323) 936-4632

For our Matinee, we recreate an Edward R Murrow Radio Show with a sly twist! Inspired by a true story, playwright Eric Vollmer recalls the spirits of Albert Einstein and his famous friends to relate the story of a rare League Of Minds who met in Geneva, Switzerland; and then  how the Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw turned the table on the whole intellectual lot - and put the audience in the Catbird seat, instead!

Tania Getty - Begonia Brown

William H. Bassett - G.B. Shaw and Lord Midlander

DJ Carlile - Gilbert and The League Secretary.

Dou Spitz-Eward R.- Murrow and American Jounalist

Heidi Swedberg -Henri Bergson & World Court Judge

Jeffrey VanDerByl-Sigmund Freud & German Exile

Christina Linhardt -Madame Curie & The Latin Widow

Hillel -Albert Einstein & The Russian Commissar

Rory Johnston - George E. Hale & British Bishop

Seats are Limited, so plan to arrive early and then stay for our Artist's Reception

$10.00 - Door Donation  ********  No One Turned Away

Since I sent my last e-mail, I have been invited to perform at a
"Concert for Haiti" benefit show, this coming Sunday, January 31, at
the Culver-Palms United Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Bl., Culver
City 90230. Admission by donation, all proceeds to Haiti relief.
Performances by many artists, TBA. Mike Barry and I will perform in
the early part of the program, before 3:00, which goes from 2:00-6:00.
The church has a capacity of 300. Seating on a first-come basis.
I am always reluctant to clutter your mail boxes with promotion, but
the need to assist Haiti earthquake victims, I believe, supercedes
other considerations. Your understanding is appreciated. I hope to see
you there, Bernie

Click the link for further information.
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com

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Please join us this coming FRIDAY, Jan 29 from 7-10pm for Subversive
Film nite at 212 Pier, the old Novel Cafe location
 212 PIER COFFEEHOUSE, 212 Pier Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405,
310-314-5275, free admission, http://www.212pier.com/

It is cultural democracy at its best, we'll show what we agree upon (
i will have a variety of films), and/or

http://www.exilesfilm.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful,_Horrible_Life_of_Leni_Riefenstahl

both are great films, and the discussion will be burning up...
we still need remote for the sony dvd player, any help is duly
appreciated, come early

Cheers,
Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com laughtears.com

SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 Pier Coffeehouse http://www.212pier.com/ 212
Pier Ave (one half block east of Main St), Santa Monica, CA 90405
screens films on the LAST FRIDAY of EACH MONTH from 7-10pm, free
admission, free popcorn, 310-314-5275, info:310-306-7330,
laughtears.com

Gerry Fialka screens films as antennae of the race, broadcasting the
hidden effects of what we have invented. From experimental films to
political activist cinema to lit, art, music flix to avant garde
documentaries, this series will provoke new questions and feature
fiery discussions.
SUBVERSIVE CINEMA is inspired by two seminal books: Gene Youngblood's
EXPANDED CINEMA and Amos Vogel's FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART. In FILM AS
A SUBVERSIVE ART: AMOS VOGEL & CINEMA 16 (2003 documentary directed by
Paul Cronin), these thoughts were expressed by Scott MacDonald and
Amos:
"Scott MacDonald: In Amos Vogel's Cinema 16 programming strategy, he
was very conscious of Eisenstein; with the ideas of juxtaposing one
kind of thing with another to create energy in the audience and
maximum thought in viewers.
Amos Vogel: When I showed 5 or 6 films on the Cinema 16 program, they
were always selected from the point of view how they would collide
with each other in the minds of the audience. On one program there
would always be an abstract film, a scientific film, an avant-garde
film and a political documentary, because my intention at all times
was to subvert audience expectations by showing such diverse and
different films on one and the same program....
Many films shown at Cinema 16 and in my book "Film As A Subversive
Art," show reality in ways that we have not previously anticipated.
... This is how I use the word "subversive" - anything that changes or
undermines previous ways of thinking and feeling. Subversive art makes
you look at things in a new and very different way. It disrupts. It
destroys, and thereby builds up new realities and new truths."

"I have always been on the side of those who seek the truth, but I
part ways with them when they think they have found it." - Luis
Bunuel. These thoughts inspire the spirit of curating films at
SUBVERSIVE CINEMA. The public is invited to join us, free admission.
Laughtears.com

212 PIER Coffeehouse http://www.212pier.com/  screens films every
Friday at 212 Pier Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, 310-314-5275,free
admission, 8:30PM (start time exception is last Fridays, which is
7-10pm for Gerry Fialka's Subversive Cinema Series).

212 PIER welcomes all up-and-coming filmmakers to show their films &
videos. Contact: Guru Thapar guru@212pier.com
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From: <pfsuzy@aol.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: FEB events UPDATE info
To: iamemen@gmail.com


Hello ERIC, here is our FEB events updates  THANKS, gerry fialka 306-7330 laughtears.com
  February 2010 events info:   Feb 1, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels, free admission, Angel's Piano Bar & Supper Club, 2460 Wilshire Blvd (at 25th), Santa Monica, CA 90403, 310-828-2115, http://angelssantamonica.com/   Feb 2, TUES, 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club http://www.venicewake.org/   Feb 8, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - IMMOKALEE USA and DEAR CARRY - political films http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html   Feb 10, WED, 7:30 - 10:30pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys http://www.laughtears.com/   Feb 13, SAT, 2-6pm: MESS with Donovan Seelinger http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html   Feb 15, MON, 6-10pm: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, John Cage Film with Frank Zappa & Noam Chomsky http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html   Feb 20, SAT, 7-10pm: JAZZ FUNK FEST at The Talking Stick http://www.laughtears.com/jazzfunkfest.html   Feb 22, MON, 8:15-11:15pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Angels, free admission, Angel's Piano Bar & Supper Club, 2460 Wilshire Blvd (at 25th), Santa Monica, CA 90403, 310-828-2115, http://angelssantamonica.com/   Feb 26, FRI, 7-10pm: SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 PIER http://www.laughtears.com/documental_subversive.html

  for immediate release
contact: Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com

ANGEL'S is proud to announce SUZY WILLIAMS - LA's Diva Deluxe singing live music on Mondays: Feb 1 & 22, March 29 (then the LAST MONDAY of each month) from 8:15pm -11:15pm, free admission, Angel's Piano Bar & Supper Club, 2460 Wilshire Blvd (at 25th), Santa Monica, CA 90403, 310-828-2115, http://angelssantamonica.com/
More info:310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com Visit: http://www.laughtears.com/ (which has links to press ready hi res stills)   Suzy Williams will be featuring her new originals songs from her upcoming CD release "Cover Me." She'll usually be accompanied by either Brad Kay or Steve Weisberg on piano.
See COVER ME - new original song by SUZY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcUNc8hu8w

"Suzy's voice is vibrant and lusty...great gusto and bold emotion." - Nat Hentoff.

Suzy Williams: "Local Music Hero" article/bio and info on Suzy & Her Solid Senders http://www.laughtears.com/suzy1.html
"Suzy Williams, whom I once called "L.A.'s Diva Deluxe" in the L.A. Weekly because of her unsurpassable position on the top shelf of red hot mamas, continues to belt standards, the blues and her originals - 24 new ones in the last year alone!  I'd also add that she's funny as hell and a heart-melting gorgeous dame." -Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 5-08 Here's the link to a press ready 300dpi hi-res beautiful photo of Suzy Williams by Tim Roller
http://www.puddingbench.com/suzy/by_tim_roper.jpg

"Williams is an enormously amusing, endearing presence...with tough, belting authority." - John Rockwell, New York Times.   "Suzy Williams is a very talented singer with a wide range who knows how to put on an entertaining and witty show. She can sing anything from 1920's jazz and swing to blues, rock & roll and folk music. Williams' highly expressive vocals are always worth hearing." - Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene.   "Williams' energy must be seen to be believed...a natural performer." - Robert Palmer, New York Times.   HOME

Carol Berman died today. She was known to Beachhead readers as Carol
Fondiller. By whatever name, Carol was a true Venetian. She was a
writer par excellence, a poet, a thespian, and a political activist
whose caustic wit made more than one politician and landlord tremble.
She was found today around 4:30 pm in her small unit in the 5 Rose
Avenue apartments after friends grew worried about her not answering
her telephone. The cause of death is unknown at this time, but Carol
had been in poor health for the last several years. However, she
seemed to be recovering from a month-long bout with the flu.
Carol came to Venice in the early 1960s and hung out at the Venice
West Cafe where she met John Haag, Stuart Perkoff and the other Beat
poets and artists. As the sixties progressed and became more
political, Carol was an activist in the Free Venice movement,
including the Venice Survival Committee and the Free Venice Theater
Group, which put on plays at the Venice Pavilion. Carol was one of the
last of the leaders of the sixties movement in Venice.
She was a founder of the Free Venice Beachhead. Nearly every issue
since 1968 has borne her imprint. She served on the Beachhead
Collective more times and longer than any other person. She wrote more
articles for the Beachhead than anyone else. Carol could have had a
media career with much larger newspapers or magazines but she choose
to focus on her community, Venice. The current Beachhead reprinted an
article by Carol, entitled The CRUD Conspiracy, which was originally
published January 1970.
Carol was involved in every aspect of her adopted city. She was
arrested several times for standing up for free speech, including the
right to distribute flyers on the Ocean Front Walk. She once ran on
the Peace and Freedom Party ticket against Tom Hayden for state
assembly. A couple of years ago, Carol was crowned "Queen of Venice"
by her friends. She said she had mixed feelings about the monarchy,
but accepted the title in deference to her friends.
The issue dearest to her heart was low income housing. Carol believed
that poor people had the right to live in decent homes near the beach.
For several years, she served on a Housing and Urban Development
committee for low income housing. She was appointed by Councilmember
Ruth Galanter to a committee to review development proposals for
Venice. Carol succeeded to reducing the size and/or including low
income housing in many buildings throughout Venice. She also was
instrumental in stopping other developments that she believed were
unsuited to Venice.
At the time of her death, Carol was working on an article on
preserving low income housing at the Holiday Venice apartments in
Oakwood.
As a member of the Beachhead Collective with Carol since 2002, I was
privileged to work with Carol on many issues of the paper. As her
health grew worse, Carol was unable to attend most meetings, but we
conversed by phone on the issues of the day, and upon what the
Beachhead should focus. She was both my friend and mentor.
The next issue of the Beachhead will carry more news about Carol.
Since she was also our obit writer, we'll need your help to do justice
to her legacy. Please send us your recollections and interactions with
Carol over the years.
I know I speak for the entire Collective when I say that we will
attempt to continue publishing a Beachhead that is true to all the
good things that Carol stood for.
There are not yet any plans for public gatherings in Carol's memory.
But there will undoubtedly be a community-wide memorial for her. We'll
notify you when there are plans.
Jim Smith

NEW AT VIRTUAL VENICE SINCE LAST NEWSLETTER
For quick access it's all here on the home page, right at
the top http://www.virtualvenice.info/index.htm#new

*** 1969 Police Riots: including excerpt from the novel
Hunga Dunga, by Phil Polizatto; excerpt from the Evening
Outlook; excerpt from Tales of the Blue Meanie by Allan Cole

*** The St. Charles Mural, Terry Schoonhoven's masterpiece

*** by Delores Hanney:
Venice Historical Society reviews Virtual Venice

*** This month's chapter from Tales of the Blue Meanie by
Allan Cole

*** Venice in Books - new entries - now total of 232

*** Quotations about Venice, new entries - now 114 total

*** Search box is now at the top right of each page, like
the rest of the world does it.

*** 30 Years Ago in Venice from the Free Venice Beachhead

*** 30 Years Ago in Venice from Call Someplace Paradise
and/or Ghost Town: A Venice California Life

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Pitzer Art Galleries EXHIBITION
ANNOUNCEMENT





Kara Tanaka, "Exodus 2025", 2009, phase II prototype digital image. "Capitalism In Question
(Because It Is)"
Ian Arenas, Matthew Brandt, James Melinat,Gabie Strong, Kara Tanaka, Grant Vetter
Juried by Daniel Joseph Martinez
Co-curated by Daniel Joseph Martinez & Ciara Ennis
Nichols Gallery

Emerging Artist Series #4
Carla Herrera-Prats
Localization, Location, Ubicación
Curated by Ciara Ennis
Lenzner Family Art Gallery

January 28-March 19, 2010
Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 28, 5-8 p.m.


Pitzer Art Galleries
1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA  91711
Contact:
Ciara Ennis, Director/Curator, (909) 607-3143
Anna Mendoza, Curatorial/PR Assistant, (909) 607-8797
Email: pitzer_galleries@pitzer.edu
Web site: http://www.pitzer.edu/galleries
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. and by appointment.


"Capitalism In Question (Because It Is)"

The Great Recession that began in 2008 has brought renewed attention to the discontents of capitalism, particularly its periodic crises and concomitant social instability. Exploring the complexities and interdependencies of art and commerce, the artists in Capitalism In Question (Because It Is) offer a range of unexpected reflections that resonate, powerfully, with our current economic moment and the larger issues it raises. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Pitzer Art Galleries and the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College, and it initiates the Munro Center's multi-disciplinary program of lectures, seminars, and a curated concert, all focused on issues of capitalism and its discontents. www.pitzer.edu/csi.

Panel discussion on the exhibition Capitalism In Question (Because It Is):
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 4:15PM
Broad Performance Space, Broad Center, Pitzer College


Carla Herrera-Prats, Localization, Location, Ubicación

Referencing Marcel Mauss's theory of Gift Economy, New York-based artist Carla Herrera-Prats produces a gift-in the form of a book entitled Localization, Location, Ubicación-and donates it to libraries in Canada, the United States and Mexico that have contributed information and photographs to it on the subject of immigration, labor, collaboration and art. This gift functions as a bridge linking the participating institutions together and examines the way knowledge production and art are formed, disseminated and organized. Transformed into a collection center, the gallery will house the materials accumulated in the production of Localization, Location, Ubicación.

Gable Strong, "Datum" (detail), 2008,
lightjet photographs, mounted to
Dibond, framed, 15 x 18".




James Melinat, "A Death Marked by
Elegance", 2009, graphite on paper,
12 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 1/2".




Ian Arenas, "Golden Age" (detail),
2005-2009, mixed media installation,
dimensions variable.