LITERARY/POETRY MONTH
The inaugural West Hollywood City Poet Steven Reigns has organized a variety of events during April for National Poetry Month 2015. All month long there will be banners along Santa Monica Blvd, bringing poetry into the street. See all banners and get information on the poets here.
PUBLIC ART/PEFORMANCE/VISUAL
100 Walkers, West Hollywood
Saturday, April 18, 2015, approximately 2:00pm-5:30 pm
Citywide, starting from the El Tovar Parking Lot at 2:00 pm.
8752 El Tovar Place
FREE
"100 Walkers, West Hollywood" is a large scale performance piece created by artist Richard Kraft in which one hundred people, each dressed in a dark suit and bowler hat and wearing a sandwich board (with a unique image on both front and back) will walk pre-determined routes through the city. The piece will begin with all one hundred walkers forming a grid in the El Tovar parking lot next to West Hollywood Park.
This project is presented by the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission as part of WeHo@30, the West Hollywood celebration of 30 years of Cityhood. For more info visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts Please follow us on social media and use the hashtag #100walkersweho to document the project.
THEATRE/LGBTQ
Celebration Theatre New Works Series: Married North
Tuesday, April 20, 7:30pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
The monthly Celebrating New Works series presents a staged reading of
Married North by Hal Corley directed by Nathan Frizell. Set in the summer of 1959, Married North is a seriocomic story of transplanted southerners in a Washington DC suburb during the infamous "Lavender Scare"- the purge of "pinkos and perverts" from the Federal payrolls- that grew out of the McCarthy Era. RSVPs are not required. For more information please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts or www.facebook.com/Celebrationthtr
COMMUNITY/KIDS
Kids Fair
West Hollywood Park
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
A day of free events, activities and resources in WeHo Park. More info at www.weho.org
LITERARY/WEHO READS/KIDS
WeHo Reads: LeVar Burton, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 2:00 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
The City of West Hollywood celebrates the literary community with WeHo Reads, which consists of a year-round author series featuring new and noteworthy authors at the West Hollywood Library and a full day of literary events scheduled for September 26, 2015.
LeVar Burton is well-known for being host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow, a TV series that encouraged reading among children and ran for 23 seasons. In late 2014, LeVar Burton published his first children's book, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm. On April 25, Burton will read from the book while the words are projected on the screen behind him so children can read along as well. This WeHo Reads event would take place immediately following the West Hollywood Kids' Fair. Please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts for more info.
THEATRE
A Classical Theatre Lab Reading Series: Pointe Valaine
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 2:00 pm
West Hollywood Community Meeting Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
The Classical Theatre Lab reading series presents Pointe Valaine by Noel Coward. To RSVP please call 323-960-5691 or email classicaltheatrelab@gmail.com. For more information on additional West Hollywood arts and theatre events, please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts
LITERARY - National Poetry Month
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 4:00 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
For National Poetry Month the City of West Hollywood will have 23 lamppost banners highlighting the works of contemporary poets. Seven of those poets will be reading their poems at this event hosted by West Hollywood City Poet Steven Reigns during National Poetry Month.
Readers include: Teka-Lark Fleming, Amy Gerstler, Eloise Klein Healy, Collin Kelley, Michael Klein, and Terry Wolverton. For more info please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts
THEATRE/KIDS/WEHO EAST ARTS
Puppet Theatre on Wheels: My First Fairy Tales
Sunday, April 26, 2015, 11:00 am
Plummer Park Community Center, Rms 5+6
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
FREE
What could a golden egg, a talking bread roll and a giant turnip have in common? They all have starring rolls in some of Eastern Europe's most famous toddler fairy tales. My First Fairy Tales is our unique combination of these three tales into one adventure packed story. Follow our Kolobok (bread roll) as he rolls through the forest meeting all kinds of creatures, watch to see what happens to a golden egg and help grandpa pull out the giant turnip! For more information on additional West Hollywood arts and theatre events, please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts. To RSVP www.puppettheateronwheels.com
DESIGN/HISTORY/WEHO EAST ARTS
The Cold War in Art and Architecture
Wednesday, April 29th, 7:00pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
Noted scholar and UCLA professor Vladimir Paperny will present a lecture with Q&A to follow on this fascinating topic of cultural confrontation during the height of the Cold War at the Brussels World Fair in 1959. This lecture is presented as part of the City's WeHo East Arts program and in celebration of Russian History Month. No RSVPs are required and the event is free to attend. For more information please visit http://bit.ly/WeHoArts
DESIGN/HISTORY/VISUAL ART
WeHo@30: Young City, Vibrant Heritage
March 25, 2015 to May 15, 2015
West Hollywood Library
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
FREE
As part of the 30th Anniversary of Cityhood, the City of West Hollywood presents a photographic exhibition of historically designated resources in West Hollywood. To date, the City has designated a total of eighty-three historic and cultural resources throughout the City. This exhibit features a selection of such buildings photographed by Tony Coehlo. The exhibit will run from March 25, 2015 through the first half of May. For more information on the Current and Historic Preservation Planning Division, and this and other library exhibitions please visit www.weho.org/historic and http://bit.ly/WeHoArts
