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EVENTS' HIGHLIGHTS (for full list of events go to Calendar)
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@ LACMA - Bing Theater
Classical, Jazz, Latin and New Music (free admission)
"The Department of Music Programs, six-time national winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, annually presents over one hundred concerts featuring leading international and local ensembles in programs of classical, jazz, Latin and new music. These include the long-running Sundays Live and Jazz at LACMA, along with the newer series Latin Sounds and Art & Music."
Fridays and Sundays
@ Mark Taper Auditorium, L.A. Central Library
Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Middle East
"This long-awaited work, assembled by Reza Aslan, features literature from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, many presented in English for the first time. Celebrate this landmark publication with a stellar cast who will read from a diverse selection of authors- from Khalil Gibran to Naguib Mahfouz, from Orhan Pamuk to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai."
November 9, 2010, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
@ Art Share Los Angeles
Homeless In Homeland
"HOMELESS IN HOMELAND is an 80min one woman theater show that documents the journey of a Jewish American woman to understand her identity and her desire for justice in the face of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Poet, dancer, actor and musician Saria Idana weaves the personal with the political, poetry with journalistic theater. Saria speaks in her own voice and in the voices of fifteen other characters, American, Palestinian and Israeli."
November 11-13, 2010
801 E 4th place Los Angeles, CA 90013
@ UCLA
Film Screening: Z32 (free admission)
"Part of the UCLA International Institute's Human Rights Film Series.
Z32 is built around a confession- a young man's account of his participation in the revenge killing of two Palestinian police officers by the Israeli army in the occupied territories. Around the soldier's account Mograbi interweaves a couple's extended and often agonizing discussion of their relationship, punctuated by Mograbi himself characteristically addressing the camera...."
November 17, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@ UCLA
Leisurely Islam: Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut (free admission)
"Lara Deeb will discuss part of her new book-in-process, co-authored with Mona Harb and tentatively titled "Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Place and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut." At UCLA, she will focus on pious Shi'i youth's negotiations of morality in relation to leisure. New cafes in the predominantly Shi'i Muslim southern suburb of Beirut as well as a new focus on leisure in the community are promoting the flexibility of moral norms and new tensions between norms understood as "religious" and those understood as "social." In this talk, she will discuss some of the factors contributing to this complex moral landscape as well as some of the ways in which young people understand and navigate it...."
December 2, 2010, 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
@ LACMA
Yek, do, se (1, 2, 3): Three Contemporary Iranian Artists
Iranian artists, including those in diaspora communities, visualize a society trapped between the present and the past in order to comment upon issues of gender, exile, history, and religion. Such is the case with the three contemporary artists represented here.
July 10, 2010 until December 5, 2010
Ahmanson Building, Level 4
@ LACMA
Arts for NexGen LACMA (free admission)
Ancient Olmec Monuments
November 14 and 21
"The Olmec are Mexico's oldest civilization, before the Maya and the Aztec. See the first ever Olmec exhibition on the west coast featuring royal portraits of ancient Mexico--giant heads of rulers! Make your own clay portraits and other inspired art in workshops."
North Piazza | Free, no reservations
Every Sunday, from 12:30 - 3:30 pm
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
@ MJ's
Club Nur Thursdays at MJ's
Thursday nights, MJ's attracts a hot crowd of Middle Eastern men and the guys who love them. The night brings a dance floor full of Arab and Israeli go go dancers, specialty Middle Eastern drinks and a free hookah bar on the patio. Get there before 10:30 p.m., after that the $5 cover jumps to $8.
Thursdays : 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
MJ's,
2810 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
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