Skirball Cultural center

Loose in Flight/Fix/Related Rocks
Wednesday 25 and Thrusday 25, 8:00 pm
Advance Tickets are recommended

One of Europe’s hottest performing artists, Akram Khan will brind for Los Angeles premiere his progressive works highlight Khan’s quest to build the bridges between the worlds of contemporary dance and Kathak, exploring the influences of modernity and tradition. The company’s first piece -12 minutes performance entitled Loose in Flight -, uses the structural base of Kathak and continuosly attemps to break out into lyrical passages of action, blending and merging the classic Indian tradition with contemporary dance and accompanied by a driving score by Angie Atmadjaja.

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The Folk Tree

Book Signing for Masako Takahashi “Mexican Textiles: Spirit & Style”
Saturday, 4, 3 – 5 pm

The Folk tree is hosting a book signing for Masako Takahashi, the author /photographer of “Mexican Textiles: spirit & Style”, that reflects a passionate appreciation for color, pattern and design.

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Ford Amphitheatre

Troubadour Theatre Company
Funky Punks go to Hollywood

Saturday 27, 10:00 am

Funky Punks whip up armloads of laughter with their zany acrobatics and improvised comic bits. The surprises are non-stop, the behavior outrageously hilarious. Audience, stay on your toes - the next "volunteer" could be you.
This performance is sign language interpreted.

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California Plaza
David Zasloff
Friday 26 12:00 pm

Multi-instrumentalist, comedian and world musician David Zasloff returns to Grand Performances for another fun-filled hour of traditional and contemporary Jewish music. As always, his array of instruments includes the shofar, autoharp, guitar, trumpet and shakuhahci.

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Sacred Fools theatre
“Frankestein in love”
Thrusday 25, Friday 26, 8:00 pm

Produced for the Sacred Fools Theater Company by Paul Plunkett. Special Makeup and creature effects by lee Joyner and Amy Ali of Animus Fx. The cast: Brandon Clark, Howard Seth Cohen, Aaron Francis, Tim Hanson, Liesel Kopp, Corey Klemow, Kerr Seth Lordygan, Yuri Lowenthal, Daniel Lujan, Andrea Osborn and Mark Weiler.


“Holon”
October 5 – November 1
Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm

“Holon; or, What Whole Are You a Part and What Parts Are you the Whole of?” is a new play for young audiences. Writer-director Joe Jordan describes it this way: “The show itself is a product of mixing Arthur Koestler’s “Ghost in the Machine” and Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland”. It’s a young person’s journey of discovering what it means to be a unique individual in a world where everyone and everything is part of a larger group”.

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Museum of Contemporany Art
Frank O. Gehry: Work in progress
September 2003-January 2004

In conjunction with the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, MoCA presents an exhibition of recent design projects by architect Frank Gehry entitled Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress. The exhibition, which is on view from September 2003 to January 2004 at the Museum, focuses on Gehry's design process, following an idea from its inception through building construction. Work in Progress is organized by MoCA's Architecture and Design Curator Brooke Hodge.

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Museum of Latin American Art
Fernando Botero
Colombia
Museum of Latin American Art
September 20, 2003 to January 11, 2004

A Selection of Paintings & Scultures supplemented with posters from The Enrique Michelsen Collection.The Museum of Latin American Art is proud to present the exhibition Fernando Botero, which will feature over 30 original paintings, sculptures and works on paper from private collections throughout Southern California, as well as 85 exhibition posters from the collection of Enrique Michelsen that serve as a chronological history of the artist's career.

Family Art Workshops
Fernando Botero
Sundays, 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Free with Museum Admission

With Ana Bae, workshops in oil and chalk pastels that explore the themes, subjects and unique style of this famous Colombian artist.
September 21: The Famili Unit: Portray the whole family with humor and empathy, using exaggerated forms and expressive faces.
September 28: Life in a Small Town: Add landscape and buildings to your still objects and people to show mundance and timeless events in a small town.
All materials provided –All Ages welcome!

Sunday Films
Film Festival Award Winners
Free with Museum Admission

Black God, White Devil (Brazil), September 21, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Director: Glauber Rocha, Nominated at the Sundance Film Festival
A powerful film from Brazil’s Cinema Novo, this film is set in the impoversished Northeastern Brazil and focuses on a poor peasant as he changes from fanatical preacher into an honorable bandit.

The Day Silence Died (Perú), September 28, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Director: Paolo Agazzi, Nominated at the Chicago Latino Festival
A rural Bolivian village has its peaceful state disrupted when a mysterious stranger sets up a radio and a loudspeaker in the town square. He begins playing music and selling airtime to villagers to broadcast their gossip and secret desires.

Live Music in the Galleries
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday 21, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Harpist, Allegra Hardulfi
Sunday 28, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Guitarist, Dawn Blasco


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Bilingual Foundation of the Arts Theatre
September 25 – 28, Spanish
October 2 – 5, English
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 pm
Sundays 3:00 pm

The play, Solamente una vez/You Belong to My Heart-Agustín Lara, is an original work by Margarita Galban and Lina Montalvo, translated to English by Lina Montalvo. Lara created more than six hundred compositions during his career and gained an international reputation with such classics as Mujer, Madrid, Granada, Noche de Ronda and Veracruz. Lara was also known for his ability to assimilate different musical styles, danzón, fox, trot waltz, blues, bolero and early jazz. He was known to be quite the ladies man; his most notable relationship was with the beautiful actress María Félix for whom he wrote the ever popular song María Bonita.

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Getty Museum

A Turbulent Era Captured by Three Masters of American Photography
Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus
July 1-October 5, 2003

The iconic, powerful and often disquieting works of three important American photographers have the focus of Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus, at the Getty from July 1 to October 5, 2003. The exhibition spotlights more than 80 black-and-white works by Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, and Diane Arbus, who were all active during the turbulent 1960s. Each, in a unique way, captured memorable images and evocations of that era on film.


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