AT FIRST BLUSH/THE FORSAKEN - LA TIMES BEST BET! - ONE WEEKEND ONLY!
Highways Performance Space presents
A Theater and Dance Double-Header and LA Times Best Bet!
Rochelle Fabb in AT FIRST BLUSH Michael Sakamoto & Blue Cinema Machine in THE FORSAKEN (World Premiere!)
JUNE 15-17, 2001 at 8:30pm Highways Performance Space at 18th Street Arts Complex 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica (just N of Olympic)
Tickets $15. Call (310) 315-1459 for reservations www.highwaysperformance.org
Rochelle Fabb in AT FIRST BLUSH
ìA humorous yet disturbingly voyeuristic devolution of girlhood.? - LA Weekly ìThe Flashdance routine á la Nancy Reagan alone may be worth the price of admission.? - Los Angeles Magazine
What do you get when you put an uptight feminist, a horny, high school majorette and a cherry-laden, doll baby in a blender? Rochelle Fabbís At First Blush, a prickly, fractured fairytale that busts loose a whole lotta lust and innocence lost in a theatrical demolition derby of three girls come undone!
Michael Sakamoto and Blue Cinema Machine in THE FORSAKEN
ìSakamoto creates expressionist theater that evokes the mysterious, the withering and the tongue-in-cheek.? - San Francisco Examiner ìA commanding performer...a dramatic tour de force.? - Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
Experience the subversive madness of the diabolical Doctor Chi? and his cast of characters as he wreaks benevolent havoc on Western Civilization in this theater and butoh dance riff on science fiction flicks! Fritz Lang meets Jean-Luc Godard and Roger Corman in an absurdist, cinematic purgatory!
Also starring Michael Morrissey, Franc Baliton, Nicole Brandt, Suyun Kim, Amelia Norfleet and Robert Berg.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE DATES:
Crazy Space June 29, 2001, 7-9pm (Fabb/Sakamoto) centre d'art Marnay art center, France July 12-22, 2001 (Fabb/Sakamoto) Raw-ev, Berlin, Germany late July, 2001 (Fabb) Watts Towers Arts Center August 30, 2001, 8pm (Sakamoto) ISA at ASU West, Tempe, AZ February 2002 (Sakamoto & Blue Cinema Machine) VCCA/Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA April 2002 (Sakamoto)
www.geocities.com/rochellefabb rochellefabb@... www.geocities.com/michaelsakamoto michaelsakamoto@...
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One week until NATIVE IMMIGRANT at the JAT (Sat, 6/23)! Get your tickets!
We are one week away from TeAda Productions' world premiere of NATIVE IMMIGRANT at the Japan American Theater. Please join us for our lavish reception afterwards. Drinks and hors doeuvres will be served. Everyone is welcome. Come chat and mingle with the cast on this exciting production! The show is one night only! Tickets are going fast! Call and reserve yours at 213-680-3700. Get yours now!
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May 21, 2001 PRESS CONTACT: Rochelle Fabb FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Loud Mouth Prods. THEATER (310) 823-6389
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT written and performed by 20 members of LA?s diverse community conceived and directed by Leilani Chan Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm At the Japan America Theatre
Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT, a new, original theater production involving a 20 member, multi-racial cast, and conceived and directed by critically-acclaimed, award-winning, performance artist and JACCC Artist-in-Residence, Leilani Chan. This one-night-only performance runs Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm at the Japan America Theater, 244 San Pedro St. in Downtown LA (Little Tokyo). Tickets are: Reserved Seating $16; JACCC Members $14; Groups $12. For ticket purchase call the Japan America Theatre Box Office, 213-680-3700, Monday-Saturday, 12 noon -5 pm or Sunday after 12 noon on show days.
NATIVE IMMIGRANT is an interdisciplinary, inter-generational theater project that breaks down cultural barriers, and builds upon the rich diversity of Los Angeles?s multiethnic Hawai?i community and its intersections with other communities of color. Through the use of theater, dance, poetry and performance art, NATIVE IMMIGRANT explodes stereotypes, explores and exposes the struggles of cultural identity, displacement, racism, survival and what it means to be "native." This American-made performance will be infused with the languages of the performers? including Spanish, Japanese, Laotian, Mandarin, Pidgin-English and a multitude of other regional dialects. Through this powerful production performers rewrite history and reveal a new American experience in the shifting demographic of LA, where a racial majority no longer exists.
NATIVE IMMIGRANT was conceived and developed by Leilani Chan by gathering personal stories from her performance and storytelling workshops and from members of the community, and workshopping them through a "collective creation" theater technique that combines storytelling, improvisation, Boal technique and guerilla theater. Through these workshops, artists from multi-ethnic communities explored and developed theatrical expressions for shared legacies of struggle and survival and the conflicts that arise between immigrant and native people. The cast features comedians, theater and film actors, performance artists, poets, dancers and emerging performers from LA?s diverse communities including: Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian, African American and Latino/a communities. Performance Artists/Community Activists: Erin O?Brien, Pat Payne, Raquel Salinas. Comedians: Maria Martinez & Dwayne Perkins. Performers: Kimiko Broder, Letitia Chang, Akiyo Fujimura, Sachi Kikuchi, Marc Macalintal, Nol Martin-Tungpalan, Michelle Sekine, Anne Selby, Alejandro Villasenor, Eve Yeung. Choreographer: Malia Oliver Assistant Director: Ova Saopeng.
BACKGROUND ON THIS PRODUCTION AND CREATION PROCESS NATIVE IMMIGRANT culminates Leilani Chan?s third year as California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence at the JACCC. The performance is based on stories shared by artists of color the community members from Los Angeles?s diverse environs who have participated in Chan?s workshops and performances conducted at the JACCC over the past three years. All artists and presentations deal with cultural and political issues most urgent to their communities. Issues that have been explored include: cultural genocide (i.e. the effects tourism in Hawai?i), struggles with assimilation of both immigrant and non-immigrant communities of color, multi-racial identity, the psychological effects of domestic violence against women of color, language barriers, sexual orientation and much more.
Since 1995 Leilani Chan, Artistic Director of TeAda Productions, has curated and directed the Kalo Projects. Kalo Projects explore contemporary issues facing the people of Hawai?i in Los Angeles to tell the untold stories of their families and community. A great number of people from this community are of multi-racial ancestry. Participants of Kalo Projects have included a complex myriad of Chicano-Filipinos, Chinese-Hawaiians, Japanese-Vietnamese Americans, and others. In 1999, Chan expanded her workshops to include inter-cultural and multi-racial dialogue and expression.
Leilani Chan (DIRECTOR) is a poet, playwright and performer who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai?i. She is an internationally known performance artist and cultural worker and is founder and Artistic Director of TeAda Productions which is dedicated to performance for and about people of color. Ms. Chan?s one woman show "E Nana I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source" was developed at New Works for a New WORLD play lab at the UMASS Amherst and received commissions from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the National Presenters Network (NPN) Creation Fund. Ms. Chan has also performed with Ping Chong and Company and Guillermo Gomez Pe?a. Ms. Chan is a California Community Foundation Performing Arts Brody Fellow, a California Arts Council award-winning theater artist, and has been a JACCC Artist in Residence for the past three years. Chan has been an artist in residence and has performed in venues across the nation including: Grand Performances, Highways Performance Space, Self Help Graphics, Japan American Theatre, the Getty Center, La Pe?a Cultural Center (Berkeley, CA), Galería de la Raza (S.F., CA), Conference on World Affairs (UC Boulder, CO), New World Theater (Amherst, MA), Kumu Kahua Theater (Hawai?i), amongst many other notable venues. She also curated the first weekend of Native Hawaiian performance and performance art in LA at Highways.
"Leilani Chan is thought-provoking, challenging, artistic, entertaining, funny and educationalSAn American original, rising star for the 21st century." ? Phil Esparza, World Theater
Malia Oliver (CHOREOGRAPHER) is a ten-year veteran performer with the Iona Pear Dance Theatre of Honolulu, HI. She holds a BA in dance from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a graduate certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from the University of Washington. She is the recipient of both the 1994 Hawaii State Dance Council Choreographic Award and choreography winner at the New England American College Dance Festival in 1990. She is a founding member of Somavox, Momobones, and Giinko Marischino performance groups and collaborates regularly with Dreamtheater in Los Angeles and the Mystic Family Circus in San Francisco.
Ova Saopeng (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) is an actor born in Laos and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been living in Los Angeles for close to 10 years and works primarily in children?s theater. A University of Southern California Theater School graduate he has worked with hereandnow, East West Players, Theater in the Park and the Mark Taper Forums P.L.A.Y program. He tours and is a part of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic theater companies of Water?s Edge Theater and We Tell Stories. A Kalo project ensemble member, he continues to support TeAda Productions.
For further information or to purchase tickets call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at 213-680-3700.
For press information, please contact Rochelle Fabb at Loud Mouth Productions, (310) 823-6389.
-- TeAda Productions 1653 18th Street #2 Santa Monica, CA 90404 phone:310/998-8765 fax: 310/453-4347
teada@... ****
What next at TeAda?
Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT, a new, original theater production involving a 20 member, multi-racial cast, and conceived and directed by critically-acclaimed, award-winning, performance artist and JACCC Artist-in-Residence, Leilani Chan. This one-night-only performance runs Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm at the Japan America Theater, 244 San Pedro St. in Downtown LA (Little Tokyo). Tickets are: Reserved Seating $16; JACCC Members $14; Groups $12. For ticket purchase call the Japan America Theatre Box Office, 213-680-3700, Monday-Saturday, 12 noon -5 pm or Sunday after 12 noon on show days.
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EVENT: Radical women @ Flophouse Friday and Saturday night
Apologies to anyone who received this twice.
FLOPHOUSE A SIX-WEEK FESTIVAL OF DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART
THIS WEEK AT FLOPHOUSE: KRISTINA FARAGHER performs with Orange Crush, a giant interactive vaginal video installation with Barbara May, and internationally acclaimed performance artist NAO BUSTAMANTE performs with Bay Area artists Mazs Lynnerup and Margaret Tedesco If you have never seen Nao perform, you best come out! She's is rough, raw, and righteous!
The performances at Flophouse thus far have been nothing short of amazing! From trance-inducing ritual drumming and the powerful immediacy of performance painting, extraordinary well-crafted and beautifully poignant performance installations and actions, the series has been diverse and moving. Audience members have actually asked to use the telephone to call people to come down to see the work! If you have never seen solo durational performance, now is your chance! This is work that is not to be missed!!
WHEN: KRISTINA FARAGHER: FRIDAY JUNE 15, 7-9PM NAO BUSTAMANTE: SATURDAY JUNE 16, 7-PM
WHERE: Crazy Space, 18th St. Arts Complex, 1629 18th St., #2, Santa Monica. Cross street: Olympic. Take the Cloverfield exit off the 10 FWY. (310) 829-9789. Minutes from Bergamot Station. Wheelchair accessible. We are right across from HIGHWAYS PERFOMANCE SPACE. You can see the show before you see Michael Sakamoto and Rochelle Fabb this weekend. HOW MUCH: FREE
NEXT WEEK: JOHANNA WENT PERFORMS LIVE! SEE THE INCREDIBLE INSTALLATION!
For more information about the series or the artists, check out check out the Performance Art Front website at and click on "Performances". Also see listings of other artists and venues there!
Lauren Hartman Crazyspace172@...
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Save the Date: Pre-Emptive Warning...
...if, that is, pre-emptive warnings aren't outlawed by the reasonable treaties the President wants to scrap.
Anyway:
Friday, September 21, 7 p.m. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Poetry Reading by
Christopher Buckley Richard Beban
Series curated by Laurel Ann Bogen.
More information to follow.
One hopes that the Second Coming of Yeats and Blake scheduled for the same evening won't cut into the crowd. Or was that Whitman and Dickinson at Beyond Baroque?
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Job: High School Choral Accompanist - full time (mornings)
The message below is forwarded from the Choralist listserv. Please direct all inquiries to Randi Carp using the contact information he provides. Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:29:29 -0700 Reply-To: losalvocal@... Sender: owner-choralist@... From: "randi carp" <losalvocal@...> To: choralist@... Subject: HS accompanist needed - So Cal
I will have an opening for a full time (although classes meet in the mornings only) accompanist for an active high school program. The position includes five choral rehearsals per day and an active performance schedule including vocal jazz, show choir and traditional choral literature. The hourly/daily rate is good and the salary made from performances is excellent.
Please forward this to anyone you know who might be interested. Los Alamitos HS is located near Long Beach/Seal Beach right off the 605 between the 405 and the 91 freeways.
Thank you so much,
Randi Carp Los Alamitos HS losalvocal@... 562-799-4780 ext. 5189 ---------------------------------------------------------- monica j hubbard visual and performing arts consulting 1843 north pepper drive altadena, ca 91001-3436 phone 626 797 5912 fax 626 797 0210 fax [toll free] 877 349 7941 e-mail consulting@... internet
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Great Free Jazz with Summer Nights at MOCA!
SUMMER NIGHTS AT MOCA 2001 Dedicated to Billy Higgins (1936-2001) whose contributions to jazz and Los Angeles will not be forgotten.
Each week combines outstanding live jazz and art to create one of the city's coolest vibes. There's no mix like it in town.
Free each Thursday from 5 -8 PM Galleries open until 9 PM Wine, Microbrews and Barbecue Info call: 213.633.5334
MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary (152 N. Central Ave, Little Tokyo)
6/14 - Les McCann Famed "groove man" delivers his signature back-to-the-roots jazz Emceed by James Janisse
6/21 - Isaac Smith Big Band Exciting 18-piece big band features some of L.A.'s top young musicians Emceed by Leroy Downs
6/28 - Gyedu-Blay Ambolley Multi-talented Ghanaian plays a unique blend of African percussion and American Jazz Emceed by James Janisse
7/5 - Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Sultry chanteuse and her eight-piece band serves up the best in swing and jump blues Emceed by Scott Yanov
7/12 - Dr. Art Davis A musical journey through all the idioms of jazz with this legendary bass player Emceed by James Janisse
7/19 - Poncho Sanchez Infectious Latin jazz by the great conguero and bandleader Emceed by Jose Rizo
7/26 - Ralph Irizarry and Timbalaye The L.A. debut of this internationally celebrated ensemble famous for its mix of gospel, Afro-Rican plena, and calypso-accented Latin funk Emceed by Jose Rizo
MOCA at California Plaza (250 S. Grand Ave, Downtown LA)
8/2 - Eric Alexander Mixing hard-bop jazz with the sounds of swing Emceed by Leroy Downs
8/9 - Papo Vazquez Celebrated trombonist fuses Afro-Caribbean rhythms with elements of progressive jazz Emceed by Jose Rizo
8/16 - Mose Alison World-renowned songwriter, singer and pianist creates elegant jazz and blues Emceed by Leroy Downs
8/23 - Bobby Watson One of the great alto saxophonists plays swing, hard bop, and free jazz Emceed by James Janisse
8/30 - Paolo Fresu Award winning, straight-ahead jazz by this Italian trumpeter Emceed by Leroy Downs
9/6 - Larry Nash Symphonic Orquestra Talented jazz pianist leads an all-star local band through bop tunes and ballads Emceed by James Janisse
9/13 - Dwight Trible Quintet Jazz vocalist combines the best of vocal virtuosity with musicianship and improv Emceed by Leroy Downs
Creative Producer: Dennis Sullivan Produced by Community Arts Resources (CARS) in association with MOCA House Engineer: JPM Audio
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live internet broadcast tonight
Tonight.
2 shows:
urban funk wednesdays 7 - 9 pm (pacific) the OG eclectic broadcast wih DJ Dov Viramontes spinning a live eclectic mix of music you won't hear anywhere else.
feed your head wednesdays 9 - 11 pm (pacific) A bizaree mixture of music, spoken word and genre defying sets of sound from DJ and Los Angeles spoken word artist Rick Lupert
To listen:
click on 'listen'
love your neighbor
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Reserve your seats now for June 23!
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Ney Nava Dance Theatre, directed by Shida Pegahi Contemporary, classical & mystical Persian dance [Unable to display image] Adam and Laila del Monte with John Bilezikjian & Guests "El Azahar," new flamenco/Middle Eastern/jazz fusion
A concert for Levantine Center, a new paradigm for Middle Eastern/Mediterannean cultures and coexistence.
Saturday, June 23, 8 pm, Wilshire Ebell Theater 4401 W. 8th St., Los Angeles CA 90005
Tickets $25, $35 and $100 VIP (includes special gifts and best seating) Call 323/650-3157.
To learn more about the artists and the venue, with seating chart, visit
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reserve your seats now! Fire in the Library Jun 16, downtown Central library
Fire in the Library; Fires in Your Mind An ongoing series of dialogic artworks created by Eugenia Butler
Seeing the W(Hole) The Architecture of Collective Vision What Can We See?
Architect Michael Rotondi, poet-historian D. J. Waldie, artist-activist Karen Atkinson, Buddhist scholar Mokusen Miyuki, and special guests Natalie Bookchin,Vincent Johnson and Magu Lujan
join Eugenia Butler for a playful conversation about big ideas.
June 16 at 2pm in the Mark Taper Auditorium Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library 630 West 5th Street For reservations please call 213 228 7025 free admission with reservation parking $1 with library card
A part of Side Street Projects’ 6° Triennial Co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Public Library and the California Council for the Humanities
Side Street Projects 400 South Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 213-620-8895 sidest@...
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9)Listening Room Concert Special, Saturday, June 16th, Pasadena
Greetings Acoustic Music Fans:
This Saturday night is a special Listening Room concert at another cozy venue, The Catalyst, on the grounds of Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. This is a first time inclusion of the Listening Room concept into The Methodfest Independent Film Festival, more information on which can be found at
I hope you can join us for this special show, where each of the artists will play full 35 minute sets. As always, please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think might enjoy the show. They can get on this list simply by sending the message "Add Me/SoCal" to mail@...
Sincerely,
Brett
** 'Brett Perkins Presents'
'A Listening Room Concert Series' =Special Event= The Catalyst Coffee House 130 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA (South off Walnut/One block east of Los Robles - Free Street Parking)
Acoustic Evenings Of Local,National,International Performing Songwriters
**SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH****
Bright Blue Gorilla
Kathrin Shorr
Dogwood Moon
Tim Burlingame
Jamie Green
Musical host BRETT PERKINS
Showtime: 9:00pm-12:00 midnight. Tickets $10.at the door, all ages. Cash or checks accepted. **
=SEASON TICKETS LIMITED TIME OFFER=
Season Tickets for the Fremont Centre Theatre series are available at only $60. per twelve tickets, (that's 50% of the door price!) which are transferable and can be used in any combination. To order by credit card, call the Fremont Theatre at 626/441-5977. By check or money order, mail to Brett Perkins Presents 1441 Huntington Drive, PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030.
=PROGRAM ADVERTISING=
Advertising is also available in our monthly printed programs, distributed throughout the area at music and culture venues and at performances. For further information, simply respond to this email with an 'Advertising Information Requested' message.
**SPECIAL Business Card rate of only $200. for a full years placement** (One Set Of Season Tickets Included With Advertising Purchase)
Help us continue to bring this level of quality art into the community by becoming a season ticket holder and/or program advertiser. ** MISSION
The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.
** UPCOMING SHOWS
7/9 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE w/ Byron Wall (L.A.), Jeff Gold (L.A.), Puppets Of Castro (L.A.), Border Radio (Altadena), Nicola Gordon (Santa Barbara), John M. (L.A.), Gilli Moon (L.A.). Musical host Brett Perkins.
8/6 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE w/ Kate Bennett, Jennifer Terran(Santa Barbara), Tor (L.A.), Maya Rides Away (SF), Deborah Gee (L.A.). Musical host David Zink.
8/8 THE COACHHOUSE LISTENING ROOM SPECIAL EVENT w/ Rosie Flores, everything divine, Mark Davis, Warren Sellers, David Zink, Bright Blue Gorilla. ** Over 1000 performing songwriters from eight countries have appeared so far on Brett Perkins' produced Listening Room concert events including the Southern California Fremont Theatre and Coachhouse series, the Denmark series, now in it's fourth season, and in special presentations in a number of other cities Bergen, Cannes, Hong Kong, London, Toronto and Washington DC.
These evenings provide the audience with the opportunity to discover bright, new voices on the rise in the performing songwriting community, coupled with seasoned veterans of the trade from throughout the world.
Past performers of note on songwriter concerts produced by Brett Perkins include legendary songwriters Burt Bacharach, Jeff Barry, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Leiber & Stoller and Gamble & Huff among others during the NAS years, along with more recent rising voices like Dan Bern, Jonatha Brooke, Lisa Loeb, Ellis Paul, Martin Sexton, Ron Sexsmith, Juliet Turner and Dar Williams.
** The Listening Room Concert Series is sponsored in part by Busters Coffee, The Bookhouse,Magazines Etc., Enas Cassettes, Performing Songwriter Magazine(), Pedrini Music (), Pro Printing, NMPA (),North American Folk Alliance (), Songlink (), TAXI () and Trader Joes, South Pasadena. ** Artists wishing to be considered for the Listening Room Series can send a cassette or CD to:
BPP 1441 Huntington Dr., PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030
Performers are selected based on a subjective assessment of the developmental level of their writing, as well as overall artistic presence. Follow up by email is recommended six to eight weeks after sending a package. ** To be removed from this list, please refer to the group reference number you received in the subject heading, and respond with the message 'Remove'.
If you are receiving more than one of these notices, please refer to the group reference number you received in the subject heading and respond with the message 'Doubled'.
Thank you.
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EARJAM next week - LA Weekly Pick of the Week!!!
earjam II
what: EARJAM II an all-star two night music and sound performance festival featuring 25 LA solo artists and groups.
when: Friday June 22, 2001 8-11 pm Saturday June 23, 2001. 8-12 Midnight
where: Side Street LIVE 425 S. Main St. 2nd floor, downtown L.A. TICKETS: $10/ per night; $18 for both nights, $7/per night students. Reservations recommended. Call (213) 620-8895. Parking ($3) available in the building at 425 S. Main St.
This year EARJAM II will be jumpin and jammin with some of last year’s most earbending artists joined by a whole new crop of equally stimulating music and performance innovators. 25 soloists and groups will be featured in two very different evenings.
Be prepared to sample the sounds of LA’s leading aural innovators -- from free jazz to experimental funk, from microtonal ambiences to world beat rhythms, from accoustic/ electronic hybrids, to hand-made instruments to computer-driven wireless ones, from classically-based vocals to out-of-this world vocalese. Hear the latest work from some of your favorites, those whose work is well-known, and others you have never encountered before. And most of all -- the surprises that happen when they jam together.
Friday night will focus on bands, performative groups, and vocalists, with Non Credo (Joe Berardi & Kira Vollman), Ulysses Jenkins’ OtherVisions Band, The Emily Hay Collective (Michael Intriere, Emily Hay, BradDutz, and Sara Schoenbeck), Anna Homler and Steuart Liebig, Josie Roth, The Dark Bob & Carey Fosse, Vanessa Paloma, International Metal Supply (Jean Pierre Bedoyan & Paul Cutler), Scot Ray & Michael Vlatkovich, Andrew Bucksbarg, Julie Adler, and Linda Albertano.
Saturday night will emphasize soloists, duets, accoustic instrumentals, improvization, and big group jams with David Ornette Cherry with Stephen 'Breeze' Smith, Vinny Golia, Bruce Fowler, Jim McAuley, Mike Fink, Lynn Johnston’s Double Duo ( Peter Chan, Noah Phillips, Jeremy Drake), Ron George, Ellen Burr, Sara Schoenbeck & Harris Eisenstadt, Fawntice McCain, Susan Rawcliffe, Nina Sun Eidsheim & Ronit Kirchman, Petra Haden and George Sarah.
EARJAM is being produced by sound, performance and visual artist Jacki Apple, the former producer/host of the Soundings radio show and composer/ performer/artist Julie Adler in collaboration with American Composers Forum- L.A. Chapter.
**** Tune in to KXLU 88.9 June 20th from 9-10 pm with Emily Hay, Jacki Apple & Julie Adler promoting EARJAM! **** And we're LA Weekly's Pick of the Week in the June 21st issue!
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What's Happening @ Visual Communications June 2001
<< Hey folks, it's us here at Visual Communications, letting you know what screening events we have in store for you this month. Did we tell you that Visual Communications' annual summer fundraiser, CHILIVISIONS, returns for its 14th year on Saturday, August 25 at the JACCC Plaza and Japan America Theatre? Well now you know (and yes, the date was changed from August 18, so note the new date!!!) Look out for a program line-up coming real soon!.
And also, watch for info on a new edition of PINOY VISIONS we will be curating as part of the 10th Anniversary edition of the Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture, Sept. 8 and 9, 2001 at San Pedro's scenic Point Fermin. If all goes well, we'll announce the program line-up in early August.
Hey, we're working with a couple of community organizations to bring a screening of Marilou Diaz-Abaya's epic JOSE RIZAL to the L.A. area on Tuesday, June 19; see the factsheet below. Please print out and read offline; or feel free to pass along to all your online friends. And if you missed the film the first time it came to town, this is a great opportunity to see an award-winning work by one of the Philippines' acknowledged masters of cinema. Hope to see you there!
That's it for now. We apologize for any dupes, as we know some of you may be on multiple lists servs. See ya all next time! >>
Visual Communications and KULTURA Philippine Folk Arts in cooperation with the Alex Film Society Presents a special screening of Marilou Diaz-Abaya's
JOSE RIZAL Starring Cesar Montano, Jaime Fabregas, Joel Torre, Gardo Versoza, Gloria Diaz, Pen Medina, Monique Wilson
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 Showtime 7:00 p.m. Alex Theatre 216 North Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203 (One block north of Broadway, near Glendale Galleria)
Tickets: $12.50 General; $7.50 Children and Seniors Charge by Phone 800 233 3123; program info: 626 796 1690 or www.kultura.org Proceeds to support the Philippine Heritage Month/Glendale Free Community Events Series
Unquestionably the most anticipated film in the history of cinema in the Philippines, JOSE RIZAL is the most successful Filipino film ever, as well as the most expensive Filipino film ever made. The film swept seventeen out of eighteen awards at the 1999 Metro Manila Film Festival. Most significantly however, JOSE RIZAL has touched the hearts and minds of the Filipino people and has renewed interest in this national hero as well as reviving a sense of pride in those who see it. Jose Rizal (1861-1896), Philippine nationalist and martyr, pride of the Malayan race, was a versatile genius. He was a poet and patriot, novelist, painter, sculptor, linguist, physician, opthalmic surgeon, educator, ethnologist, naturalist, economist, engineer and theologian. He was an expert swordsman and a good shot. Having studied and traveled extensively in Europe, America and Asia, he mastered 22 languages including Latin, Spanish, German, English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Russian, Tagalog and other native dialects. The contemporary of Tagore and Sun Yat-sen, and the forerunner of Ghandi, he died before a Spanish firing squad, aged 35, for rebellion and sedition, and for inciting the Philippine Revolution of 1896-98, the earliest national uprising against a colonial power in Asia. JOSE RIZAL is the most spectacular and controversial Philippine film epic made to date. It was released in Manila in June 1998, the Centennial of Philippine Independence.
This screening has been made possible courtesy of GMA Films/Philippines
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JOB: CalArts Editor/Writer
CalArts, an institution of higher learning recognized as a national and international leader in art, dance, film/video, music, theater, and critical studies education, seeks an experienced and successful writer/editor to join its Advancement and External Affairs team. The Institute Editor reports to the Communications Director and is responsible for writing and editing high-quality print and electronic publications that advance the mission and visibility of CalArts.
BACKGROUND Now 30 years old, CalArts is a community where creativity and vision are nurtured by accomplished artists in an atmosphere unrestrained by traditional boundaries--where borders are meant to be crossed, where students are re-imagining the future of the arts and exploring dimensions that have never been considered, and where faculty are not only teachers and artists but also mentors and colleagues across disciplines. Its six schools have never been stronger, with enrollments and selectivity at all-time highs, and strong commitments from all Deans to build upon this excellence toward even greater accomplishments.
The next several years will mark the opening of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in 2003 as well as the launching of one of the most ambitious arts school fundraising effort in the country. The Institute Editor will play a crucial role in these activities by helping to position CalArts as one of the leading arts schools in the country and as a major player in the cultural fabric of Southern California through outstanding printed and electronic publications, including the website, a semi-annual magazine, a bimonthly calendar, press releases, brochures, and campaign and presidential communications, among others. RESPONSIBILITIES · Supervising the content, appearance and timely production of a semi-annual magazine and companion bi-monthly calendar. · Writing endowment campaign communications, as assigned. · Writing presidential communications, as assigned. · Ensuring the editorial integrity of all Advancement and External Affairs printed and electronic communications. · Assigning and managing free-lance writers. · Writing accurate and timely press releases in accepted journalistic formats. · Identifying noteworthy developments among the faculty or within programs suitable for press releases or other promotion. · Copy editing, rewriting and proofing Advancement and External Affairs print and electronic publications, as assigned. · Advertising and other promotional copywriting, as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS · Excellent written and verbal communications skills and experience. · Proven track record of publishable work. · Excellent proofreading skills and attention to detail. · Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and successfully. · Ability to generate accurate and creative copy on short deadlines. · Ability to work successfully with outside contractors. · Interest in and knowledge of contemporary art. · Ability to work independently and set priorities that advance CalArts’ mission and visibility. · Ability to work cooperatively with other individuals and departments to achieve institutional goals. · Flexibility, initiative and self motivation. · B.A. in an art discipline, journalism, English or related field; advanced degree preferred.
COMPENSATION Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, and a comprehensive benefits package will be provided.
SEND LETTER OF INTRODUCTION AND RESUME TO: Sherrill W. Britton Assistant Vice President Advancement and External Affairs CalArts 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355-2397 (661) 253-7883
For more information on CalArts, please visit the web site at <>
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JOB: CalArts Corp/Fdn Director
CalArts, an institution of higher learning recognized as a leader in art, dance, film/video, music, theater, and critical studies education, seeks a successful fundraising professional to lead the corporate and foundation giving program within the context of one of the most ambitious arts school fundraising efforts in the country. This new position reports to the Associate Vice President for Advancement and supervises six staff, including a team of writers.
Now 30 years old, CalArts is a community where creativity and vision are nurtured by accomplished artists in an atmosphere unrestrained by traditional boundaries ? where borders are meant to be crossed, where students are re-imagining the future of the arts and exploring dimensions that have never been considered. In 2003, the Institute will open, in downtown Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), a flexible performance space and art gallery that promises to be an internationally important venue for the kind of pioneering artmaking for which CalArts has always been known.
The ideal candidate will have 3 to 5 years of progressively responsible corporate and foundation experience, preferably in a cultural or educational institution; knowledge of local, regional, and national corporate and foundation communities; and superior analytical, writing, editing, and organizational skills. Campaign experience is preferred. Salary commensurate experience and a comprehensive benefits package will be provided.
Position available September 1st. Letter and resume to: Sherrill W. Britton, Assistant Vice President, CalArts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355-2397 <>
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Due to long-term systemic financial pressures, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center has laid of several staffers, the last "hireds". I've been the development director since September, recruited and supported by funding from Working Capital Fund. It seems much too short a tenure.
My background of over 30 years in marketing communications has for the past decade been focused on the arts and culture. My resume also includes some 10 years at KCRW where I was founding proudcer of not only the Summerday Gourmet Festival and Rare Wine Auction, but also the exec prod. of two literary series of contemporary short stories from Japan and Korea. I have worked on many projects as well as on staff including the 1990 LA Festival for which I was publicity director. For a copy of my complete resume via e mail, please write or call.
Your tangible help will be rewarded by a Japanese tea ceremony given in your honor by yours truly. (For real!)
Thanks
Lauren W. Deutsch 835 S. Lucerne Blvd., # 103 Los Angeles CA 90005 Pho: 323 930-2587 e lwdeutsch@...
through June 22: Director of Development Japanese American Cultural and Community Center 244 S. San Pedro St. Los Angeles Ca 90012 Tel: 213 628-2725 Fax: 213 617-8576 EMail: deutsch@...
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Blues Fest: Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite...
Hi all, Last year's inaugural L.A. Blues4U Festival was a lot of fun -- great music, great food, and great people. This year's concert will take place on Sunday, July 1, and ... well, for starters, the headliner is the incomparable Mavis Staples! Bring your low-back beach chairs, relax and celebrate the July 4th holiday a few days early with friends and family outdoors on the All-Purpose Field at Cal State L.A. It's no problem to get to from anywhere in the L.A. area, parking is easy, and if you like blues, you will have a terrific time! (See below for full details.) Best Regards, Adele Field Luckman Fine Arts Complex (323) 343-6616
L.A. BLUES4U FESTIVAL 2001 Los Angeles - On Sunday, July 1, blues fans will welcome the 2nd L.A. BLUES4U FESTIVAL, headlining popular Gospel/R&B vocalist Mavis Staples, and featuring Charlie Musselwhite, Coco Montoya, Floyd Dixon and Finis Tasby. Produced by Bubba Radio and Music Productions and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, in association with the Southern California Blues Society, the event will take place on the All Purpose Field at Cal State L.A. Gates open at 9:30 a.m. and the show starts at 11:00 a.m.
About the Artists Vocalist Mavis Staples, lead singer with Staple Singers family band, is a 1999 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Over the years the Staples Singers have had many top 40 hits, including "I'll Take You There," "Respect Yourself," and "Reach Out, Take My Hand." Mavis' masterfully phrased vocals have given her one of the most recognizable voices in the world.
Blues harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite initially made his mark leading electric bands in Chicago and San Francisco, and his reputation has now spread far and wide. The late Big Joe Williams once referred to Musselwhite as "one of the greatest living harp players of country blues."
Coco Montoya started his musical career as drummer and switched to guitar. After stints with Albert Collins and John Mayall, he has established himself as one of the most electrifying guitarists/vocalists on the scene today. His 1995 album, "Gotta Mind to Travel," received a Handy Award for Best New Artist - an impressive debut for Montoya. Since then he has become a crowd-pleasing favorite on the blues festival and club circuit.
Originally from Marshall, Texas, blues legend/songwriter Floyd Dixon is a major stylist in the piano blues, R&B, jump blues, and the West Coast blues style originated in Los Angeles' own Central Avenue. Dixon's songs such as "Hey Bartender," "Call Operator 210," and "Tired Broke and Busted" have become modern-day blues classics. "Hey Bartender" was performed in the first Blues Brothers film.
Another Texan, Finis Tasby has had a long, successful career on the blues circuit. At one time he played and sang backup for Z.Z. Hill, and his band backed up Clarence Carter, Lowell Fulson and Freddy King on a Texas and Oklahoma tour. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1973, Tasby has been rocking the local area with his down home vocals and rollicking band.
WHAT: L.A. BLUES4U FESTIVAL 2001, produced by Bubba Radio and Music Productions and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, in association with the Southern California Blues Society.
WHO: Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, Coco Montoya, Floyd Dixon, Finis Tasby
WHEN: Sunday, July 1, 2001, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: All-Purpose Field, California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles. Centrally located and accessible from all freeways, at the intersection of the 10 & 710.
TICKETS: Festival seating. $25 through June 16, $28 after June 16, and at the gate. Tickets available through the Luckman Box Office, (323) 343-6600; TicketMaster, (213) 365-3500, or www.ticketmaster.com.
INFO: (323) 343-6600, lablues4u@...
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The sixth annual Echo Park Arts Festival is seeking neighborhood artists, writers and musicians interested in participating in the weekend arts event on Oct. 13-14. This year's festival will feature four separate programs for visual artists--including a venue for folk craft and outdoor art installations--as well as a studio tour, musical performances and poetry readings. A ''chat book'' will also be published featuring the work of neighborhood authors. Space will also be available for Eastside artisans to sell their handmade or designed gift items and artwork. The deadline to submit applications is July 15 There is a $10 admission fee. Preference is given to artists who live or work in Echo Park. A copy of the application is available online at www.EchoParkArts.org Applications can also be picked up at the Echo Park Avenue galleries, 1500 block of Echo Park Avenue; Bookbound, 1545 Echo Park Ave.; Labor Fruit & the Downbeat Cafe in the Alvarado Arts Building, 1200 N. Alvarado; and other neighborhood locations. Please call (213) 250-4155 for more information. --Jesus Sanchez, festival director jesussanchez@...
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Monticello at Grand Performances
NEW OPERA ABOUT SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUR PERFORMANCES PRESENTED BY GRAND PERFORMANCES AT CALIFORNIA PLAZA, LOS ANGELES THURSDAY thru SUNDAY, JUNE 14 to 17, 8:00 PM PART OF FREE CONCERT SERIES IN DOWNTOWN
I want to let you know about a special presentation Grand Performances will be offering this week with the hope that you can join us for one of the four performances of MONTICELLO. This new American opera will see its first fully staged production, re-telling the Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson story. A very accessible score and powerful lyrics should make this program one that audiences will remember. Cast members include international touring singers including two from the LA Opera resident company.
The performances are taking place this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 14 to 17 and all begin at 8:00 PM. We are using our intimate Marina Pavilion so seating is more limited. I expect it will be less crowded at the beginning and more crowded at the end of the run.
MONTICELLO was originally developed and presented in concert version by L.A. Theatre Works, (Susan Albert Lowenberg, Producing Director) and broadcast on KCRW.
I hope you can join us. If you have not received a schedule, let me know and we'll mail you one or you can check out the season on our web site <www.grandperformances.org>.
Best wishes,
Michael ** Michael Alexander Grand Performances 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite A-4 Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 687-2190 (213) 687-2191 fax
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EVENT: Tickets for NATIVE IMMIGRANT (SAT, 6/23) at the JAT are going fast! EVENT CORRECTION
Correction on this event: The show is SATURDAY the 23rd, not FRIDAY. Hope to see you there-- SATURDAY!
Tickets for this event are going fast! Call the JAT box office at 213-680-3700 to reserve yours now! This event is ONE NIGHT ONLY, next week SATURDAY! Come watch some of the most exciting artists in Los Angeles share a stage together in this new important work! Mahalo!
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May 21, 2001 PRESS CONTACT: Rochelle Fabb FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Loud Mouth Prods. THEATER (310) 823-6389
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT written and performed by 20 members of LA?s diverse community conceived and directed by Leilani Chan Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm At the Japan America Theatre
Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT, a new, original theater production involving a 20 member, multi-racial cast, and conceived and directed by critically-acclaimed, award-winning, performance artist and JACCC Artist-in-Residence, Leilani Chan. This one-night-only performance runs Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm at the Japan America Theater, 244 San Pedro St. in Downtown LA (Little Tokyo). Tickets are: Reserved Seating $16; JACCC Members $14; Groups $12. For ticket purchase call the Japan America Theatre Box Office, 213-680-3700, Monday-Saturday, 12 noon -5 pm or Sunday after 12 noon on show days.
NATIVE IMMIGRANT is an interdisciplinary, inter-generational theater project that breaks down cultural barriers, and builds upon the rich diversity of Los Angeles?s multiethnic Hawai?i community and its intersections with other communities of color. Through the use of theater, dance, poetry and performance art, NATIVE IMMIGRANT explodes stereotypes, explores and exposes the struggles of cultural identity, displacement, racism, survival and what it means to be "native." This American-made performance will be infused with the languages of the performers? including Spanish, Japanese, Laotian, Mandarin, Pidgin-English and a multitude of other regional dialects. Through this powerful production performers rewrite history and reveal a new American experience in the shifting demographic of LA, where a racial majority no longer exists.
NATIVE IMMIGRANT was conceived and developed by Leilani Chan by gathering personal stories from her performance and storytelling workshops and from members of the community, and workshopping them through a "collective creation" theater technique that combines storytelling, improvisation, Boal technique and guerilla theater. Through these workshops, artists from multi-ethnic communities explored and developed theatrical expressions for shared legacies of struggle and survival and the conflicts that arise between immigrant and native people. The cast features comedians, theater and film actors, performance artists, poets, dancers and emerging performers from LA?s diverse communities including: Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian, African American and Latino/a communities. Performance Artists/Community Activists: Erin O?Brien, Pat Payne, Raquel Salinas. Comedians: Maria Martinez & Dwayne Perkins. Performers: Kimiko Broder, Letitia Chang, Akiyo Fujimura, Sachi Kikuchi, Marc Macalintal, Nol Martin-Tungpalan, Michelle Sekine, Anne Selby, Alejandro Villasenor, Eve Yeung. Choreographer: Malia Oliver Assistant Director: Ova Saopeng.
BACKGROUND ON THIS PRODUCTION AND CREATION PROCESS NATIVE IMMIGRANT culminates Leilani Chan?s third year as California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence at the JACCC. The performance is based on stories shared by artists of color the community members from Los Angeles?s diverse environs who have participated in Chan?s workshops and performances conducted at the JACCC over the past three years. All artists and presentations deal with cultural and political issues most urgent to their communities. Issues that have been explored include: cultural genocide (i.e. the effects tourism in Hawai?i), struggles with assimilation of both immigrant and non-immigrant communities of color, multi-racial identity, the psychological effects of domestic violence against women of color, language barriers, sexual orientation and much more.
Since 1995 Leilani Chan, Artistic Director of TeAda Productions, has curated and directed the Kalo Projects. Kalo Projects explore contemporary issues facing the people of Hawai?i in Los Angeles to tell the untold stories of their families and community. A great number of people from this community are of multi-racial ancestry. Participants of Kalo Projects have included a complex myriad of Chicano-Filipinos, Chinese-Hawaiians, Japanese-Vietnamese Americans, and others. In 1999, Chan expanded her workshops to include inter-cultural and multi-racial dialogue and expression.
Leilani Chan (DIRECTOR) is a poet, playwright and performer who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai?i. She is an internationally known performance artist and cultural worker and is founder and Artistic Director of TeAda Productions which is dedicated to performance for and about people of color. Ms. Chan?s one woman show "E Nana I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source" was developed at New Works for a New WORLD play lab at the UMASS Amherst and received commissions from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the National Presenters Network (NPN) Creation Fund. Ms. Chan has also performed with Ping Chong and Company and Guillermo Gomez Pe?a. Ms. Chan is a California Community Foundation Performing Arts Brody Fellow, a California Arts Council award-winning theater artist, and has been a JACCC Artist in Residence for the past three years. Chan has been an artist in residence and has performed in venues across the nation including: Grand Performances, Highways Performance Space, Self Help Graphics, Japan American Theatre, the Getty Center, La Pe?a Cultural Center (Berkeley, CA), Galería de la Raza (S.F., CA), Conference on World Affairs (UC Boulder, CO), New World Theater (Amherst, MA), Kumu Kahua Theater (Hawai?i), amongst many other notable venues. She also curated the first weekend of Native Hawaiian performance and performance art in LA at Highways.
"Leilani Chan is thought-provoking, challenging, artistic, entertaining, funny and educational?An American original, rising star for the 21st century." ? Phil Esparza, World Theater
Malia Oliver (CHOREOGRAPHER) is a ten-year veteran performer with the Iona Pear Dance Theatre of Honolulu, HI. She holds a BA in dance from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a graduate certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from the University of Washington. She is the recipient of both the 1994 Hawaii State Dance Council Choreographic Award and choreography winner at the New England American College Dance Festival in 1990. She is a founding member of Somavox, Momobones, and Giinko Marischino performance groups and collaborates regularly with Dreamtheater in Los Angeles and the Mystic Family Circus in San Francisco.
Ova Saopeng (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) is an actor born in Laos and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been living in Los Angeles for close to 10 years and works primarily in children?s theater. A University of Southern California Theater School graduate he has worked with hereandnow, East West Players, Theater in the Park and the Mark Taper Forums P.L.A.Y program. He tours and is a part of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic theater companies of Water?s Edge Theater and We Tell Stories. A Kalo project ensemble member, he continues to support TeAda Productions.
For further information or to purchase tickets call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at 213-680-3700.
For press information, please contact Rochelle Fabb at Loud Mouth Productions, (310) 823-6389.
-- TeAda Productions 1653 18th Street #2 Santa Monica, CA 90404 phone:310/998-8765 fax: 310/453-4347
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Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) presents NATIVE IMMIGRANT, a new, original theater production involving a 20 member, multi-racial cast, and conceived and directed by critically-acclaimed, award-winning, performance artist and JACCC Artist-in-Residence, Leilani Chan. This one-night-only performance runs Saturday, June 23 at 8 pm at the Japan America Theater, 244 San Pedro St. in Downtown LA (Little Tokyo). Tickets are: Reserved Seating $16; JACCC Members $14; Groups $12. For ticket purchase call the Japan America Theatre Box Office, 213-680-3700, Monday-Saturday, 12 noon -5 pm or Sunday after 12 noon on show days.
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Hello! I have extra tickets for this weekend's Playboy Jazz Festival held at the Hollywood Bowl for Sunday's line-up. Four seats in the W2 section -- yes it is in the back, but it's a great day and you can hear the music wonderfully from the back. I have four seats at $15 each.
Let me know if you are interested.
Thanks
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