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The Palette
November 15, 2007
Exploring Creative Santa Monica |
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I hope you got all the opera out of
your system last weekend because this weekend we'll be
flying a little closer to the ground. It seems this is
the weekend for Broadway in Santa Monica with the College
and the Morgan-Wixson and the new Stage at Santa Monica all
paying tribute to the Great White Way. There's also an
exhibition of Low Brow Art, documentation of the punk
movement, and a field of poppies quite unlike the one
from The Wizard of Oz - I promise this
one won't put you to sleep! |
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A
Field of Dreams .... and Poppies |
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Plays Well With Others
PiNK (Pins, Needles and Knives)
Opening reception: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Friday, Nov. 16
Exhibition runs through December 8
Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
SMC Performing Arts Center
1310 11th Street
310/434.3434
More than 15,000 California poppies will be
hanging from the ceiling of SMC's Pete
and Susan Barrett Art Gallery this
weekend. This topsy turvy poppy field of truly
wild flowers, most of them made from dyed coffee
filters, is the brainchild of artists
Karon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth
and Leslie Yagar who invite us
all to play in their whimsical orange flowered
sky! |
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New Style Broadway on the New Stage at Santa
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Georgia Stitt & Friends
Under the Radar Series
7:00 pm
Saturday, November 17
The Stage at Santa Monica/Second Space
Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center
1310 11th Street
310/434.3414
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Singer/Songwriter
Georgia Stitt, one of the hottest
young composer/arrangers working on Broadway
today, along with guest stars
Susan
Egan and
Kevin
Earley will raise the roof on
The Stage at Santa Monica!
Stitt and her guest stars will
prove that musical theatre didn't die with
Rogers and Hammerstein when
they give us a preview of the New
American Musical Festival coming to LA
and The Stage at Santa Monica
in 2008! |
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A
Lullaby of Broadway |
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42nd Street
Saturdays & Sundays at 2:00 pm
Through December 15
Santa Monica Theatre Guild
Morgan-Wixson Theatre
2627 Pico Boulevard
310.828.7519
Come and meet those dancing feet! The kids at
the Morgan Wixson Theatre’s 12th
Annual Youth Musical have hopped
astride a musical warhorse – 42nd
Street! Inspired by Busby
Berkeley's 1933 movie, the musical
includes one great number after another - "You're
Getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Shuffle
off to Buffalo," "We're in the Money,"
"Lullaby of Broadway," and of course,
the show-stopping "42nd Street." |
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Punk'd History |
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Los Angeles: Photographs by Ann Summa
Opening reception: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Saturday, November 17
Exhibition runs through December 15
Track 16 Gallery
Building C-1
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
310/264.4678
Landing in the midst of L.A.’s newly-born punk
scene in 1978, Anna Summa
immediately recognized that she had stumbled
onto something extraordinary and began
documenting the people around her. She captured
some of the best known bands to emerge from L.A.
while they were still in their infancy—X
and Black Flag. And along the
way she grabbed images of the Bags,
the Alleycats, the
Cramps and two of punk’s unofficial
godfathers - Iggy Pop and
William Burroughs. |
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None
Dare Call It Lowbrow |
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Strings and Things With All Their
Means
Lola
Exhibition runs through December 10
Copra Nason Gallery
Bergamot Station – Bldg T5
2525 Michigan Avenue
310/829.2156
Three generations after
Robert Williams coined the term “LowBrow,”
the women of this iconic alternative art scene
are stealing the spotlight from their male
counterparts. Lola began her
career as a tattoo artist but found it
constricting and has not entered the gallery
scene at Copra Nason. Her work
is influenced by sarcasm, silliness, lots of
music, little old men in fancy knee socks,
walking backwards for a new perspective and June
bugs. |
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Give
My Regards To...... |
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Musical Theatre Workshop Highlights
8:00 pm
Friday & Saturday
November 16 & 17
2:00 pm
Sunday, November 18
Theatre Arts Studio Stage
Santa Monica College
The little taste of Broadway in Santa Monica
this weekend is only whetting my appetite for
more. If, like me, you’d like a bit more
razzmatazz in your life, swing by the
college this weekend to see the work of a
terrifically talented group of students from the
Musical Theatre Workshop. They’ll be performing
an assortment of Broadway showstoppers this
weekend that’ll make you long for Herald Square!
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Are you ready to go solar? With the price of oil
still climbing, we're happy to share with you a bit of
information on a City of Santa Monica
program that aims to do nothing less than achieve
community energy independence through greater energy
efficiency and solar system installations.
Solar Santa Monica offers free energy
assessments to residents and businesses, access to
qualified solar contractors and financing options,
streamlined permitting, and lots of customer service!
Call Solar Santa Monica at 310-458-4992
or check out their
website. And just think - you can use all that
money you'll save on your electric bill to buy more art!
Happy Weekend-
The Palette |
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