Gallery Visits Los Angeles
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Lucky Cat Gallery Figure Drawing
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🌐 Explore & Connect: California Science Center Community Visit
Sun, Oct 4, 9:00 PM**🌐 Explore & Connect: California Science Center Community Visit** Discover the wonders of science, from the ecosystem of a giant kelp forest to the innovations of human flight, at one of Los Angeles’ most iconic educational destinations. The California Science Center offers four major exhibit areas—World of Life, Creative World, Ecosystems, and Air & Space—featuring hundreds of interactive exhibits perfect for minds of all ages. This is a relaxed, community-led way to spend a Saturday afternoon exploring, learning, and connecting with others. **Questions?** 📞 888-283-2595 TEXT/VOICE **Time:** 2:00 PM **Location:** 700 Exposition Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037 **Meeting Point:** We gather at the giant **Rose Garden Fountain** 🌹 right outside the main museum entrance. It’s a beautiful, central landmark where it’s easy to spot others. **What’s Free & What Costs Money** The main museum is free, but there are optional experiences you might want to try. **Free Things (No Ticket Required)** * **Permanent Galleries:** All four main exhibit areas are free. * **Ecosystems:** A 188,000-gallon kelp tank with live sharks and fish, a desert flash flood simulation, and an icy poles exhibit. * **Creative World:** Hands-on exhibits exploring technology and transportation. * **World of Life:** Examine the biological processes common to all living things. * **Air & Space Galleries:** See historic aircraft and space artifacts (like the Apollo Command Module). **Paid Stuff (Optional)** * **IMAX Theater:** $10–$13 per ticket (prices vary by age/film). * **Special Exhibitions:** Prices vary widely based on the specific touring exhibit (usually $15–$25+). * **Attractions & Simulators:** $5–$10 each (e.g., Motion Simulator, High-Wire Bicycle, Climbing Wall). **Discounts for Group Donors** Do you plan on visiting often or want to support the museum? Annual Group Donors can **save money on paid attractions**, including IMAX, special exhibits, and simulators, and enjoy other benefits. **Pro-Tip for Members/Donors:** Reach out to **Luis** for assistance with discounts via text: **619-761-1219**. **Parking & Logistics** * **Exposition Park Parking Lot:** Usually $20 (prices can increase during major park events). * **Pro-Tip (Metro):** To save money and avoid the parking hassle, park at a Metro station (like La Cienega/Jefferson) and take the **E Line**. It costs only $1.75 and drops you off right at Exposition Park! 🚃 **How to Find the Group (No-Host Disclaimer** This is a community-led, no-host event. There is no designated check-in person, so we use the **"Self-Start"** method to help everyone connect: 1. **Check the Comments:** At 2:00 PM, check the Meetup thread to see who has arrived (e.g., "I'm by the fountain in a blue cap!"). 2. **Say Hello:** Don't be shy—if you see someone looking for a group, just ask, "Are you here for the Meetup?" 3. **Head Inside:** Around 2:15 PM, the group will move from the fountain into the museum, starting with the main Ecosystems gallery. 🚗 **Carpooling** Want to save on travel costs and meet friends early? Post in the discussion section with your **general area**, if you are **driving or riding**, and how many **seats you have available**. 🌐 **[TheSocialMovieGroup.com](TheSocialMovieGroup.com)** Your ultimate hub to stay connected! Head to our website to: * 📅 Check upcoming events & ticket giveaways. * 📱 Join our Discord, socials, & mailing list. * 🎟️ Order your custom name-tag. 💖 **Support Our Community:** Help sustain our group’s mission and operations with a donation today! 🔗 **Join or Donate at:** **[JoinTSMG.com](JoinTSMG.com)** * ☕ **One-Time Support:** Pure love for the community (no perks). * 💎 **Annual Donor ($40+/Year):** Unlocks all the year-round perks below! **YOUR ANNUAL DONOR PERKS:** * 💸 Exclusive member discounts & perks (posted to event details when available). * 🎟️ Priority access to extra tickets and giveaways. 🔒 **Community & Safety Guidelines** By attending, you agree to treat everyone with respect and take full responsibility for your own safety; organizers are not liable for any incidents. Disruptive, unsafe, or inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated and may result in a permanent ban.
LACMA Museum get-together
Tue, Oct 6, 6:01 PMMeet at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. This is the first day I will be in LA, and am looking for like-minded art-inspired people to tour the museum with me! IMPORTANT: GO TO LACMA ONLINE TO GET ADVANCE TIMED TICKETS. The meetup organizer for this event (me) will not do that for you.
The Dark Gallery: heARTbreak
Sun, Sep 27, 3:00 AMA spooky immersive theatre from Force of Nature. Dee introduces us to the art of Arthur Collins. Dark and foreboding canvases with uncanny blank spaces, where twisted creatures once were. Arthur Collins left art behind AND his DNA is at numerous murder scenes, but who or what is the killer? **[only $20](https://fonprods.thundertix.com/events/269599)**
FREE! PIANO SPHERES - CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
Thu, Oct 8, 3:00 AM**FREE CONCERT, BUT YOU MUST RSVP. READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. SUGGEST YOU RSVP ASAP!** **Date**: October 7 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Possible dinner before TBD **Venue**: The Brick temporary annex 619 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004 [+ Google Map](https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=619+N.+Western+Ave+Los+Angeles+CA+90004 "Click to view a Google Map") Phone (323) 848-4140 Tickets: Free, but you must RSVP here: [https://pianospheres.org/tickets/](https://pianospheres.org/tickets/) I suggest you do this ASAP! “GRADUALLY MY ARPEGGIOS BEGAN TO BECOME STRUMMMMMSSSSS AND STRUMMMMINGGGGSSSS” Charlemagne Palestine returns to Los Angeles for a rare performance of his monumental Strumming Music, which he has been developing since the early 1970s and describes as an approach and technique that is always different. “It is not a ‘composition’ as such” he says, “it is an evolutionary liquid sound continuum process that I have presented hundredsss of versions that I have performed over the last 50+ years.” NOTE: Piano Spheres is pleased to partner with The Brick to offer this season kickoff as a free concert. Tickets required, limit 2 per patron. **Ticket holders must be present 30 minutes** before start time, or seating is not guaranteed. Please make careful note of venue address: The Brick temporary annex – 619 N. Western Ave, LA CA 90004 Born in 1947, Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, known as Charlemagne Palestine, came from a Russian Jewish family who left Odessa and Minsk at the dawn of the twentieth century to settle in Brooklyn, New York. He began his musical training singing traditional synagogue musics. From the age of 7 until 14, he was a member of the Stanley Sapir traditional chassidic music choir singing in synagogues all over the east coast of America. Later he enrolled at the High School of Music and Arts in upper Manhattan and studied voice, accordion, piano, drawing, painting and sculpture, and immediately developed an interest in the composers who were creating sounds using recording tape techniques and generating sounds by electronic music machines as well as non-western musics from all over the world that he discovered listening to disks from the Folkways label founded by Moses Asch. In 1963, he became the bell ringer at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City, located next to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Every day for six years, he played traditional Protestant hymns as well as inventing an experimental sound approach using the large resonant church bells as his sound source and devised a soap opera sequence of hundreds of variations of complex bell sonorities every day at 5pm for several years. His performances resonated throughout the church’s surroundings and attracted the attention of thousands passersby each afternoon, including artists, choreographers and composers like Alwin Nikolais, Len Lye, Moondog, John Cage, Tony Conrad, and Ingram Marshall. He took advantage of the geographical proximity to MoMA to become a regular visitor of the museum and explore all the museum’s collections, where he discovered French Impressionists and American Abstract Expressionist painters who were a revelation and inspiration to him. The color explorations of Monet, Seurat, Rothko, Albers, Still and others became one of the catalysts for his own aesthetic quest. He imagined inventing a continuous sound form that paralleled the visual artists canvases and structures and imagined created sound canvases and structures that continued to exist nonstop and always present as visual art works were. During this period, he associated with numerous figures of the artistic avant-garde and counterculture: Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger, Richard Serra, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich, Gordon Matta Clark, Philip Glass, Jean Dupuy, La Monte Young, Sol LeWitt, Terry Riley, and many others. Following a meeting with electronic music composer Morton Subotnick at his New York University electronic music studio in 1967 he began to compose numerous electronic sound works using continuous synthesized sounds made with a Buchla 2000 electronic music synthesizer that was the sound source for Subotnick’s electronic music studio. In 1968-69, he deepened his knowledge of electronic synthesizers and especially the changing timbre spectrum possible with multiple sound oscillators and electronic filters at night at this NYU music studio. There he met other experimenters, Eliane Radigue, Rhys Chatham, Serge Tcherepnin, Maryanne Amacher, Ingram Marshall, and many others. In 1969, at Subotnick’s invitation, he and Ingram Marshall moved to Los Angeles, California, and began experimenting and teaching at CalArts, where he discovered large pipe organs in downtown Los Angeles and a Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano with an extra lower octave in the enormous concrete ultra resonant cube of the new Cal Arts building in Valencia that he named The Temple but that would eventually become the celebrated Modular Theatre of Cal Arts Valencia. From 1971 he began creating long continuous works for piano and organ that he named “Spectral Continuums,” often lasting as long as five hours for the piano and 48 hour works for church organs. Simultaneously, he worked on a synthesizer prototype with Don Buchla and Serge Tcherepnin and developed with them a synthesizer he called The Spectral Continuum Drone Machine. Around this time, he met the dancer Simone Forti, with whom he began a sound and movement ritualistic collaboration that they called Illuminations. Their first performance in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1971 was greatly appreciated by the then large avant-garde group of artists, dancers, and musicians from Los Angeles and the many who had now been imported from all over the art world as members of the faculty of the new California Institute of the Arts and especially Alan Kaprow the dean of arts then and convinced them to continue and develop this Illuminations ritual performance form. From then on for nearly 50 years Simone and Charlemagne were invited worldwide to present Illuminations. Charlemagne Palestine was also interested in Javanese and Balinese gamelan. He traveled to Indonesia in 1971 with Ingram Marshall to study this music. He was also introduced to Hindustani music by Pandit Pran Nath. A champion of sonic continuum, drone, and trance, Charlemagne Palestine is particularly renowned for his strumming technique, a term that can be translated as “struck music.” Derived from flamenco and the chime technique, strumming is based on repetition and the physicality of playing, but also on the idea that the instrument has its own voice and can, depending on how it is played, produce a series of harmonics that seem to emerge spontaneously. Thus, in his works (primarily improvised), Palestine plays on resonance and the layering of sounds to sculpt sonic masses in a perpetual quest for the “golden sound.” By extension, during his concerts, he seeks to engage in a dialogue with the performance space by saturating the available sonic space in such a way as to make it vibrate. Marked by spirituality, tradition and shamanism, his performances are ritualized: he drinks cognac, smokes Indonesian clove cigarettes, and places a multitude of teddy bears (his “deities”), scarves and other fabrics on the concert venue and on the instrument. Although associated with the minimalist music movement, he rejects this label in favor of “maximalist,” a term which, according to him, allows one to set no limits. Charlemagne Palestine was also a video artist pioneer (Body Music series, 1973-74, Island Song, 1976, and Ritual in the Emptiness, 2004) creating an audio visual form that became classics of early video art performance works and also invented and developed a multimedia form of installations merging his sounds, rituals and the inclusion of the stuffed animal toy as a modern shamanic divinity totem and created Gesamtkunstwerks (total art works) for MoMA NYC, 356 Mission in LA, The Kunsthalle Vienna, The Museum of Art and History in Paris, Documenta Kassel Germany and many other installation venues all over Europe and the US.. He deploys his teeming universe of stuffed animals and sacredly charged rags in site-specific installations, often monumental in scale. He began as an artist of the Sonnabend Gallery in NYC in the early seventies and then became represented by the Toselli Gallery Milano, Oppenheim Gallery Cologne, Lara Vincy Gallery Paris, and most recently by the Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York City. Though born in Brooklyn, for years he lived in Soho, Tribeca, and Dumbo in NYC while settling from time to time in Paris, Lyon, Rotterdam, Geneva, and now has lived in Brussels, Belgium since 1999.
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