November 2014
Burqa Girls: Shangri-La Remix
November 22, 2014- 4-6pm The Burqa Girls present a forum on representations of women in Islam and in Western societies in conjunction with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs LA Islam initiative. The Burqa Girls are a performance and public practice collective using veiling as a means to provoke questions of invisibility and power at the intersection of feminist, privacy, and global justice concerns. At LACE, Burqa Girls will invite three women to share their expert perspectives on contemporary…
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Otis Graduate Writing Program: Student Reading Event
December 1, 2014- 7-9pm Come join us as Justin Evans, Tonya Ingram, Sean Pessin, and Lara Sterling share excerpts from their ongoing projects. In addition to allowing writers to carefully craft some diverse and compelling writing, the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design also works to put out books under the Otis Books | Seismicity Editions house; copies will be available for sale at the reading. Learn more about the Otis Graduate Writing program here.
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Chats about Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics in Los Angeles
17 January 2015 10-6:30 pm Chats About Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics is five conversations addressing contemporary themes creative practitioners are developing in Los Angeles today. Organized by artists Elana Mann and Robby Herbst, the conversations will explore ways individuals, at times labeled “artists” and “organizers,” are seeking alternative futures. The first part of the project will take place at California State University Los Angeles, deemed the "people’s university” on Thursday January 15, 2015. The second part will…
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Happening Benefit Art Auction
Annual fundraising event featuring an auction of works by nationally and internationally recognized artists.
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some times presents Experiments in Narrative Acts
June 16, 2015, 7 - 9:30 pm A panel discussion with Eleanor Antin, Ann Hirsch, and Rachel Mason Moderated by Catherine Wagley some times is pleased to present a public conversation on the evolving approaches of three artists who use performance to move freely between fiction and reality. Weaving personal, public, and historical narrative together, Eleanor Antin, Ann Hirsch, and Rachel Mason use their own bodies to tell stories. Antin, Hirsch, and Mason employ techniques reappropriated from popular culture, oral history…
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