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The Palette
Exploring Creative Santa Monica
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January 17, 2008 |
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And we're
back! I hope everyone had a great holiday season.
Bergamot Station was a flurry of
activity last weekend with openings everywhere, but I
was still on vacation so I didn't get to tell you about
them. But there's images from the current exhibits
sprinkled through this week's Palette so be sure to take
a stroll through the complex and see some of
this dynamic work.
We're getting a
second chance to see The Bald Soprano at
City Garage so let's not waste it! And
for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day the
Symphony is offering a free concert
featuring music based on King's groundbreaking, and
barrier breaking, speeches. Finally, wrap up your
weekend by spending what's left of your holiday savings
on an international array of folk art and crafts by
women or enjoy Monday celebrating Martin
Luther's King Jr's accomplishments with music
and readings.
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Feet of the Beatles, Miami Beach, 1964,
Lynn Goldsmith on view at Bergamot's Frank
Pictures Gallery
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Insanity Extended at City Garage |
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David E. Frank and Cynthia Mance check
out the Fireman, Maximiliano Molina, in
a photo by Paul Rubenstein |
The Bald Soprano
Eugene Ionesco
January 12 – February 3
Saturdays
at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 5:30 pm
City Garage
1340 ½ 4th Street (in the alley)
310/319.9939
After a holiday break, City Garage
extends its successful production of The
Bald Soprano. Eugene Ionesco,
one of the great innovators of the modern stage,
created a comic masterpiece of joyful,
irrational anti-logic and a loony parody of the
stolid, thick-witted world of middleclass
propriety. Simultaneously comic and profound, it
is a short, sharp ludicrous journey into a
funhouse mirror version of the world we think we
know.
And just so you don't get lost,
City Garage is located in
the alley between Santa Monica and Arizona and
between 4th Street and the Third Street
Promenade. Park in Structure #3 on 4th Street,
exit out the rear stairs to alley and the
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Van Gogh @ Miles Playhouse
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Vincent
Theatre
for a Small Space
8:00 pm Thursday – Saturday
3:00 pm Sunday, February 3
January 18 through February 10
Miles Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Boulevard
(in Christine Reed Park)
310/393.3018
Actor and producer Sam Lovett
returns to Los Angeles in this critically
acclaimed biographical one-man-show at the Miles
Playhouse. Written by Star Trek’s
Leonard Nimoy and directed by
Cynthia Park, Vincent explores
the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and
his brother Theo. |
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Symphonic Celebration of Freedom |
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Kaila Potts,Violist |
2nd Annual Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Concert
Santa Monica
Symphony
3:30 pm
Sunday, January 20
SGI Auditorium
525 Wilshire Boulevard
Free Parking at 1212 7th Street (just south of
Wilshire)
310/395.6330
This free concert features
the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
with conductor Allen
Robert Gross and violist Kaila
Potts performing the Carl
Stamitz Viola Concerto. Los
Angeles County Supervisor Zev
Yaroslavsky will narrate Joseph
Schwanter’s New Morning for the
World, which is based on King' s speeches.
This event is being held in conjunction with the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
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International Handcrafted Gifts Expo |
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World Women Trade Fair
Santa Monica Doubletree Hilton Hotel
Sunday & Monday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 20 & 21
1707 4th Street
661/456.2286
The goal of this free international exposition
is to bring the work of female craft artists and
artisans to new markets in the USA and
help reduce poverty in developing countries.
There will be 50 women artist
vendors from 20 countries - Albania,
Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Syria,
South Africa, Mexico, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Bolivia, Gabon, Congo among others - showcasing
a wide range of handcrafted folk art and crafts.
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Martin Luther King, Jr Celebration Part
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Celebration
9:00 am
Monday, January 21
SGI
Auditorium
525 Wilshire Boulevard
Free Parking at 1212 7th Street (just south of
Wilshire)
310/434.4303
This free annual multi-ethnic
interfaith program will include speakers,
inspirational readings, music, and presentations
of scholarships. The program will be followed by
the Community Involvement Fair, from 11am to
noon at 606 Wilshire Boulevard.
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Strolling Through Bergamot |
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Walk Don't Walk, Art Mortimer
at The Schomburg Gallery |
Beccawood
Patricia Correia Gallery
Building E-2
Bergamot Station
310/264.1760
New work by Becca,
internationally renowned as the premier female
street artist of her generation.
Romancing the Skull
Mark Moore Gallery
Building A-1
Bergamot Station
310 453 3031
A
group show featuring the work of Allison
Schulnik, Angela Fraleigh,
Ken Weaver and Mike
Peter Smith, artists who all address
the grandest and most universal of themes, love,
sex, and death.
Pacific Breeze
Schomburg Gallery
Building E3A
Bergamot Station
310.453.5757
This ocean-themed exhibition features
paintings of sites we'll all recognize by
artists Art Mortimer,
Fielden Harper and Humbert
Curcuru.
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Have a terrific weekend!
The
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Blue Indian, 2007, Becca, at
Patricia Corriea Gallery |
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