Here's a parking hint - park your car at the Civic Center parking lot and simply cross 4th Street and follow the sign for the easiest access to Barnum Hall.  Or take the bus!

JOURNEY: Images of War/Celebrations of Peace
Santa Monica College
Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
Opening reception on Friday from 6:00 – 9:00 pm 

In the summer of 1993, Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old photographer for Reuters, was making his way through the streets of Mogadishu to the site of a United Nations bombing where scores of people had just been killed. Amid the ruins, he and three other journalists were stoned to death by an enraged mob.  This powerful tribute to the late Dan Eldon, whose images of war-torn and famine-stricken Somalia reverberated throughout the world will be on view through March 21 in the gallery at the SMC Performing Arts Center on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.

JONA FRANK in conversation with art critic JORI FINKEL
Sherry Frumkin Gallery 
Saturday at 3:00 pm

Art critic Jori Finkel interviews award-winning Santa Monica photographer/filmmaker JONA FRANK who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work can be seen at the Getty Museum and SF MOMA and her photographs have also appeared in such media as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Mother Jones.  FINKEL is an art critic and journalist based in L.A., covering contemporary art for The New York Times along with for Art in America, Artnews, and Art+Auction magazine, where she has been a contributing editor since 2004. Frank's current exhibition at the Sherry Frumkin Gallery examines life at an ultra-evangelical college in Virginia.

Rock, Paper, Scissor
A Benefit Concert for the Santa Monica Museum of Art 
With The Niche Makers featuring Raymond Pettibon, Ron English`s Electric Illuminati, and Mike Watt + the Secondmen
Bergamot Station
Sunday at 2:00 pm

Together for the first time in concert: Contemporary art legend Raymond Pettibon, pop-art phenomenon Ron English, and renowned bassist Mike Watt will perform with their respective bands to benefit the Santa Monica Museum of Art. This will be an extraordinary afternoon of art and rock n` roll and a rare opportunity to hear the music of internationally renowned multi-hyphenates Pettibon and English together for the first time.   For tickets, please visit the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s website.  Without a doubt, Rock, Paper, Scissor is going to be the hottest ticket in town this weekend - maybe even the most electrifying event in the whole county.  So, if you're looking for the place to see and be seen, this is it! 

And on view at the Robert Berman Gallery is the group exhibition Rock, Paper, Scissor through March 21. The show features noteworthy artists who freely use, base imagery on, thrive, and excel in both visual art and music. The artists taking part in the show are Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Johnston, Ron English, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, and Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth.

Best-known as an opera singer but equally acclaimed as a recitalist and concert artist, Rod Gilfry has performed in all the world's music capitals, including Vienna, Paris, London, Munich, Zurich, Milan, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. With winning notices across the globe, Gilfry has triumphed in the opera house, concert hall, and cabaret. Now the acclaimed singer brings his rich and eclectic repertoire to Los Angeles in a crowd-pleasing performance.

New West Symphony
Barnum Hall 
Sunday at 4:00 pm 

Pianist Sara Davis Buechner will make her New West Symphony debut in a program that includes Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony for String Orchestra, Opus 4; the Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 449 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings; and Antonin Dvork’s Serenade in E Major for String Orchestra, Opus 22. Purchase your tickets online at the Symphony’s website or at the Barnum Hall box office.