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| Bringing Arts and Culture to Life in Santa Monica |
May 17, 2007 |
Before reading any further, get your calendar out now and mark this down: Sunday, May 20, Santa Monica Festival, All Day Long. If you do nothing else this weekend, you've got to visit the Festival. You won't find an event anywhere in LA County that can match this one in the quality of performers, craft workshops, environmental awareness and good, healthy fun for everyone. And there's lots of fun stuff happening on Friday and Saturday, too. So brace yourselves for another terrific Santa Monica weekend |
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Explorations of Identity at SMMoA |
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Identity Theft:
Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, and Suzy Lake, 1972-1978 Santa Monica Museum of Art Opening reception Friday, May 18, 7-9 pm May 19-August 11, 2007 2525 Michigan Avenue Bergamot Station 310/586.6488 |
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This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to focus on these three artists who pursued some of the most dramatic self-transformations imaginable. In San Francisco, Hershman donned a wig to create an alter ego named Roberta Breitmore, a fictional character who grew so real over the years that she acquired her own driver’s license! In Southern California, Antin gave birth to three "selves," including a king who reigned over the streets of Solana Beach and a flirtatious nurse. In Montreal, Lake posed as a sultry model for one series of photographs and, in a clear case of identity theft, assumed her friends’ facial features for another. In different ways, all three artists challenged fixed notions of identity and femininity. And experience some of the most cutting edge work in all of California in the intimate environs of the Project Rooms I and II with openings also on Friday featuring new work by Jona Frank and ICEBERG: Richard Carter and Margaret Pezalla. |
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| Ride to the Festival in Style! | |
Spiff Up Your Ride 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Saturday, May 19 Farmers Market Virginia Avenue Park 2200 Virginia Avenue |
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Get an early start of the Santa Monica Festival when you do your weekly shopping at the Saturday Farmers Market. Artist David Orozco will use recycled and/or repurposed objects to show you how to turn your ordinary bicycle into an object d’art! |
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| Opening at Bergamot Station | |
Peter Winter Lois Lambert Gallery/Gallery of Functional Art Opening Reception Saturday May 19, 6 - 9pm Exhibition runs through July 8 2007 2525 Michigan Avenue, E-3 Ph: 310.829.6990 As always, Bergamot Station is chock full of great new work. Stop by on Saturday afternoon and plan to spend your early evening at Peter Winter’s opening at the Lois Lambert Gallery. |
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| Readings in Ocean Park | |
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Stories from the Inside Edge bc petrakos 8:00 pm Saturday, May 19 Church in Ocean Park 235 Hill Street 310-496-1582 After you’ve had a look at the new visual art at Bergamot, swing by the Church in Ocean Park for a lineup of staged readings from Brenda Petrakos’ new collection of poetry. Readers will include Marie Benoit, Diane Gaidry, Brian Benoit, Jim Katapodis, Pat Turner, and Manuel Gallego. This exciting new work will be presented at the annual Fringe Festival in Edinburgh so see it now and be the coolest person on the block! |
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| SPLAT! | |
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Splat! A
Night for Art and Music 6:00 pm Saturday, May 19 Ben Way Music 306 Pico 310/ 396-8898 Check out original creations by William Attaway , Jimmy Herciuk , O, Kelly Benway, James Davis and David Hinnebusch , six of the coolest artists on the WestSide. Styles, mediums and disciplines of the works are definitely mixed but the quality will be superb. |
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| Revel With A Cause! | |
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Santa Monica Festival 9:30 am – 5:30 pm Sunday, May 20 Clover Park 2600 Ocean Park Boulevard |
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That's it for today.
See y'all on Sunday! The Palette |
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