BARNSDALL ARTS MARKET (events » arts) Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 11:00 AM 66 RSVPs BARNSDALL ARTS MARKET
an open air art festival featuring the works of nearly 40 Los Angeles artists,
a family art workshop, screen printing demos, tasty refreshments and more

Sunday October 21, 2007
11:00am to 5:00pm
all ages welcome | free to attend

vendors include:
Alia Weiner | Backspace Book Arts | Carol Blanding | Chencha Acevedo | Cicely Gilman Silk Artist | Crown-E | Deborah Barnett Designs & Glass Action Studios | Deborah Samantha | Domenico Foschi Photography | Erica Elizabeth Koesler | HannahMade | Happy Valley Handmade | JJM Handcrafted | Joe Appel | Lark | Leah Devora Contemporary Art | Los De Abajo Printmaking Collective | Mary Ann Eissa | Mavis Leahy | Meredith Hayes | Michelle C. Moode | Mielle Design Studio | Mike Beiriger Photography | Mike Coulson Photography | Nandi Designs | Nicole Bruckman | Out of Necessity | Pacific Glass Creations | Panorama Press | Peter Arpesella | Pookieville | Rachel Rifat | Random Nicole | Scott Miller | Sour Girl | Stephen Woodruff Glass Art | Stephen's Folly Fine Art Photography | Swell Knits | Tree by Kerri Lee | Zuno

Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.barnsdall.org
www.myspace.com/barnsdallartsmarket

Come enjoy the best local Artists as they offer their combined perspectives, virtuoso skills, and a wide array of original works of art — including paintings, jewelry, fiber art, fine glass works, woodwork, mixed media, photography and more. From functional to surreal, witty to the elegantly decorative, these one-of-a-kind and limited edition Art Works will all be presented and offered to tempt those of all tastes. Those attending will also have the opportunity to meet the Artists one-on-one as they explore their work.

The day also includes an art workshop that is geared for children and adults to enjoy together. This free workshop takes place from 12pm to 4pm. Families can step up at anytime during the workshop hours and learn the art of mask making.

The day will also include food & drinks from Mamas Hot Tamales Café.

This event is presented by the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and would not be possible without the WONDERFUL support of the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council, the Los Feliz Ledger, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti and KPFK 90.7fm

SEE YOU THERE!

barnsdall arts market | 4800 hollywood blvd, los angeles ca 90027 | www.barnsdall.org
august 19 2007 | october 21 2007 | december 16 2007
11:00am to 5pm

IN BLOOM.....work by STEPHANIE HAN WINDHAM at CHANGO!!!!!!!!! (events » arts) Saturday, November 3, 2007 - 7:00 PM 67 RSVPs IN BLOOM
paintings by
STEPHANIE HAN WINDHAM

November 1-28
opening reception:
Saturday, November 3rd from 7pm to 10pm

Chango Coffee House
1559 Echo Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90026

www.myspace.com/changocoffeehouse
www.steph-han.com

curated by
JULIE RASMUSSEN of A LITTLE BIRDY TOLD ME

Through Your Ghosts, Darkly (events » arts) Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 6:00 PM 71 RSVPs Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition of Santa Monica-based artist Claressinka Anderson.

Claressinka Anderson’s series of eight large-scale photographs present an intimate chronicle of three generations of her mother’s family from their roots in the Czech Republic. Anderson is captivated by the ephemeral nature of memory and its metaphorical consonance with liminal spaces: doors; windows; mirrors; and corridors. Windows are a prominent feature of Through Your Ghosts, Darkly; they serve as a symbol of both the porous psychic boundary between past and present and of the photographic lens itself. The interaction between one’s subjective memories and the permanence of the photographic medium is a unifying theme throughout Anderson’s pieces.

It is for this reason that Anderson eschewed digital enhancement and actually travelled to the Czech Republic to stage these photographs. Using the same slide projector located in the front of the gallery, Anderson projected photographs of her mother’s childhood onto the same physical locations where they were originally taken. Anderson notes that she included her mother in these new photographs because she wanted “to photograph my mother now, as part of her past.” As a young woman, Anderson’s mother fled communist Czechoslovakia and was unable to return until after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Shortly after her mother’s escape, Anderson’s grandfather died suddenly, without ever reuniting with his daughter. Anderson’s series therefore represents a cathartic expression of familial continuity. By returning to their ancestral land, Anderson and her mother reckon with their past, their family’s past and the history of the Czech Republic.

The projected image in each photograph functions for the subject as a physical presence of the memories that influence and define her present reality. In each piece, the present must confront a literal representation of the past. With each photograph, Anderson creates a completely unique space where the past and present exist simultaneously on the negative itself. The photographs exude a quiet, meditative quality which presents the viewer with the opportunity to consider how their own memories affect how they view and shape their present.
In “Untitled”, Anderson’s adult mother stands in the shadows below the window of the room in which she was born. Anderson’s mother is not immediately apparent to the viewer, who instead first gravitates to the lit window and the adjacent image of her mother as a young woman in summer clothes sitting calmly in the same window. Gradually, the viewer appreciates the figure standing in her heavy winter clothes beneath the ghostly apparition. Each figure serves to balance the photograph, creating light and dark, each image anchoring the other: neither the summery image of her mother’s youth nor the present-day woman in winter can exist without the other. The co-existence of past and presence also illustrates an important aspect of this series’ thesis: that memory is a ghost, “an actual physical presence that haunts us.”

An individual’s memory and its implications for the present are not limited to a single person, however; Anderson argues that familial history functions as a kind of memory. Her original poem, which serves as an introduction to this series and is projected on the gallery wall, begins: “Three women I hold in me…,” and continues: “even those that cannot write remember still…” Anderson is quietly, but assertively, inserting herself into the work: the lens functions again as a type of window or corridor, fluidly connecting Anderson with her mother’s past.

Anderson’s unique combination of specificity and universality are encompassed in her exhibition’s title: Through Your Ghosts, Darkly. An interpolation of a passage from the King James translation of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, the title speaks to both the timelessness of these themes and to their adaptability to an individual’s personal stories.

tHe FiReHouSe SeSsIOns - Friday, November 30th!!!!! (events » nightlife) Friday, November 30, 2007 - 9:00 PM 71 RSVPs station 17 presents:

-::::tHe FiReHouSe SeSsIOns::::-

Friday, November 30, 2007
9pm - 4am
Downtown Los Angeles

ADAM OHANA (an~ten~nae.net)
SAMMY BLISS (pocket underground)
JONNY COTA (el circo)
JUPITER (thedolab) the ianator (thedolab)

::Art Gallery featuring: Luis Sanchez ~ Darrah Danielle ~ David Wilson ~ Angelique Payne ~ David Haskell ~ Rajiv Jain ~ Nate Seubert ~ Shrine ~ Adriana Atema

::Yo! What happened to peace? featuring live silk screening and posters

::Live Painting with David Haskell and John Park

::Fire Performances by Courtney Marit

$15 at the door / $30 in costume (yeah, you read it right!)

Please take the free shuttles to the event!
They will pick you up at the Southwest Corner of Central and 1st St. / Downtown Los Angeles starting at 9pm.

BODY LOUNGE - grand opening.... (events » other) Friday, December 14, 2007 - 6:00 PM 70 RSVPs YOU ARE INVITED...

WHAT:
the grand opening of
BODY LOUNGE
day spa

WHEN:
Friday, December 14th from 6-11pm

WHERE:
Body Lounge
13952 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91607
818-783-8037

RSVP desired but not required to:
rsvp@alittlebirdytoldme.com

You are invited to celebrate the grand opening of BODY LOUNGE ...
The newest spa in Sherman Oaks that promises to pamper you from head to toes.
From manicures to facials the spa menu will have something to suit everyone’s beauty needs.

We hope you will join us for a evening of refreshments, cocktails and goody bags to celebrate this occasion.