January 2020
PEN America Emerging Voices Welcome Party
January 28, 7-9pm Free event RSVP here. Join PEN America in welcoming their 2020 Emerging Voices Fellows Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kiguwa, and Claire Lin, as they read together for the first time. The Emerging Voices Fellowship is a literary mentorship that has provided new writers with the skills they need to launch a professional writing career since 1996, and LACE has been hosting this reading for the last five years. Hailed by many audience members as…
Find out more »February 2020
PEN Presents: Charles Yu
February 4, 7-9pm Free event, RSVP Here. Charles Yu’s newest novel Interior Chinatown is a brilliant, funny, and personal story about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are expected to play in America. Described as “a clever depiction of Hollywood dreaming itself,” the story follows actor Willis Wu as he tirelessly works towards graduating from Generic Asian Man to Kung Fu Guy, the role he has hoped for since childhood. Once his dreams have come true,…
Find out more »LACE PRESENTS BECK + COL AT ALAC
February 15, 5:30 PM At Art Los Angeles Contemporary at the Hollywood Athletic Club, booth E15 LACE is pleased to present an artist project and performance by Beck+Col at ALAC (Art Los Angeles Contemporary). ALAC 2020 is located at the Hollywood Athletic Club, 6525 Sunset Blvd. - just two blocks from LACE! VISITING LACE DURING FAIR WEEK Tuesday - Sunday, 12 PM - 6 PM or by appointment Our bookstore is always open - editions and publications available at LACE and on…
Find out more »Particularly Evasive (workshop by Kameelah Janan Rasheed)
February 29, 2020 2-4pm rsvp@welcometolace.org This workshop/performance is part of SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance exhibition curated by Abigail Raphael Collins In Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological collection, Mules and Men (1935) she writes, “he Negro in spite of his open faced laughter, his seeming acquiescence, is particularly evasive All right, I’ll set something outside the door of my mind from him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho’ can’t read my mind.” This workshop will…
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“Breaking Protocols” virtual in-process presentation
April 25, 2020, 8-10pm Virtual In-Process Event presented in partnership with LACE Register Here. theatre dybbuk will present a virtual in-process presentation of its latest work-in-progress, breaking protocols, hosted in partnership with LACE at 8pm PST on Saturday, April 25, 2020. The approximately 90-minute event will be presented through Zoom (zoom.us) and will include readings from the in-process script performed by the ensemble, as well as a chat with the Artistic Director and a writing workshop that explores the themes of the show.…
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