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43RD ANNUAL DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION
November 2, 2016, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School, 1200 Plaza Del Sol, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | (323) 881 6444
For 43 years Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) has organized one of the most popular Día de los Muertos events in Los Angeles and perhaps the oldest Day of the Dead commemoration in the country. This program is unique in that it provides the community with a season of activities through out the fall, to celebrate and prepare for Día de los Muertos.
Featuring performances and music by:
ALICE BAG
Legendary Chicana Punk Icon
CHULITA VINYL CLUB (LA Chapter)All Latina Vinyl Collective
THE PARANOIASSka / Rock Alternativo y mas
Traditional Ceremonial Blessing * Food and Craft Vendors
Face Painting * Children’s Workshops
Self-Help Graphics was a great part of Big Sunday’s art/craft II and art/craft III.
“Trials of the Century” by Mark J. Phillips & Aryn Z. Phillips
August 25 - December 31, 2016 ONGOING EVENT
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An “Arresting” Read for the End of Summer
In every decade of the twentieth century, there was one sensational murder trial that riveted public attention and at the time was called “the trial of the century.” This book tells the story of each murder case and the dramatic trial—and media coverage—that followed.
Starting with the murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906 and ending with the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994, the authors recount ten compelling tales spanning the century. Each is a story of celebrity and sex, prejudice and heartbreak, and all reveal how often the arc of American justice is pushed out of its trajectory by an insatiable media driven to sell copy.
The most noteworthy cases are here—including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Sam Sheppard murder trial (“The Fugitive”), the “Helter Skelter” murders of Charles Manson, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. But some cases that today are lesser known also provide fascinating glimpses into the tenor of the time: the media sensation created by yellow journalist William Randolph Hearst around the murder trial of 1920s movie star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; the murder of the Scarsdale Diet guru by an elite prep-school headmistress in the 1980s; and more. The authors conclude with an epilogue on the infamous Casey Anthony (“tot mom”)trial, showing that the twenty-first century is as prone to sensationalism as the last century.
This is a fascinating history of true crime, justice gone awry, and the media often at its worst.
Mark and Aryn Phillips have volunteered at countless Big Sunday projects over the years. Mark was recently spotted on one of Big Sunday’s “We’re All in the Same Boat” Harbor Cruises.
September 10, 2016, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
TBA, TBA, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | gkjdflggkdflg
Join us for dinner and conversation, in an intimate setting in a private home, with NGUGI WA THIONG’O, one of the most illustrious names in world literature.
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Prior to the program, there will be a silent auction for a traditional commemorative cloth honoring the life of Ngugi’s contemporary, Chinua Achebe. |
*6:00 pm-7:00 pm Intimate Reception
For an additional $100, come early to an intimate reception and have a special opportunity to meet with Ngugi.
(Must accompany dinner ticket)
The Chairman of the Board of LARB is Albert Litewka – who also sits on Big Sunday’s Board of Directors!
DEDICATION of BARBARA MENDES SQUARE
June 5, 2016, 12:00 PM - 12:00 AM
BARBARA MENDES SQUARE, S. Robertson Blvd. and Gibson St., Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | (323) 533-6021
AND: Enjoy Free and Fabulous Sorofest 2016,the 19th Annual SoRo Street Festival,from 11 AM to 4 PM!!!!
AND: Visit IVAN Gallery, 2701 S. Robertson Blvd., LA 90034, for Art by Barbara Mendes, Art from the Alcott Center, and Art by Dave Culmer!!!
Andell Family Sundays—Fancy Pants
May 22, 2016, 12:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | 323 857-6000
Make, look, and talk about art at Andell Family Sundays! This weekly family event features artist-led workshops and friendly gallery tours and activities thematically based on special exhibitions and LACMA’s permanent collection. Create memories together and have fun!
When do you wear your fancy pants? Check-out fashionista men from the 1700s in portraits throughout LACMA’s collection of European and American art. Make your own paper accessories in artist-led workshops.
Every year LACMA provides free admission (and a free bus!) to take many disadvantaged and grateful folks to Andell Family Sundays!
May 28, 2016, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Skidrow, 6th Street/Stanford, Los Angeles, California
Walk the Talk is no ordinary walk. It’s a biannual parade! LA Poverty Department brings Skid Row to life with performances along the parade route that pay tribute to neighborhood initiatives and the men and women whose contributions to the community call for a big, blaring celebration!
Big Sunday is looking forward to working with Piece by Piece again this March as part of the KKR Day of Service!
GuiDANCE Spring Semester – FREE DANCE
April 16 - May 21, 2016 ONGOING EVENT
mL One Movement Lifestyle, 11105 Weddington St., North Hollywood, California
Website | Email | 424-265-RISE
Join GuiDANCE Autism
and experience our program first-hand as we kick off our spring semester with a free dance class for new students for
Children and young adults ages 5 – 25!
See website for information on class times.
Serving children and young adults with autism and other special needs in an environment of compassion that leads to transformation, GuiDANCE Autism is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that uses the medium of dance along with respite techniques and rhythmic music to enable children to break through their shells and connect to their surrounding world.
GuiDANCE Autism incorporates a guided hands-on, modeling, and cue based approach utilizing strengthening and stretching exercises, body isolations, relaxation and touch therapy techniques, repetition, individual and partnering movement combinations, and free expression-
all to invigorating rhythmic music.
MOST OF ALL, IT’S A LOT OF FUN!
GuiDANCE is new to us – but sounds so great that we had to post it!
A Conversation with Pedro Friedeberg
April 9, 2016, 2:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | 323 857-6000
An iconic figure in Mexican art, Pedro Friedeberg constructs fantastical worlds in his surrealist paintings, prints, sculpture, and furniture. Trained as an architect in the 1950s, he rebelled against the international style of modernism that dominated civic life and instead embraced mysticism and the uncanny. In conversation with Dr. Terri Geis of the Pomona College Museum of Art, Friedeberg will discuss his work as well as the vibrant art and architectural scene of mid-twentieth century Mexico.
Every year LACMA provides free admission (and a free bus!) to take many disadvantaged and grateful folks to Andell Family Sundays!
M. Lamar in Conversation with Uri McMillan
April 12, 2016, 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | 323 857-6000
Multidisciplinary artist M. Lamar utilizes performance and video projections to interrogate the constant violent and sexualized surveillance of black male bodies. In this conversation, Lamar will be joined by scholar Uri McMillan, associate professor of English and author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, to discuss white supremacist fantasies and the recovery of black male subjectivity. The discussion will address Robert Mapplethorpe’s Z Portfolio, among other sources, that Lamar has addressed in his work.
This conversation is co-presented by LACMA and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries and held in conjunction with Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at LACMA and M. Lamar: Funeral Doom Spiritual at ONE.
Please note that this event will include sexually explicit content.
Every year LACMA provides free admission (and a free bus!) to take many disadvantaged and grateful folks to Andell Family Sundays!
Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—South and Southeast Asian Art
April 14, 2016, 12:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Website | Email | 323 857-6000
Enlightenment, wisdom, and compassion are terms associated with Buddhism and have entered everyday spiritual language in the West. In this gallery talk, we will discuss these concepts as we look at the sculpture Buddhist Goddess of Victorious Wisdom Tara, followed by an exercise in mindfulness. Educator Alicia Vogl Saenz will lead the conversation-based tour.
Every year LACMA provides free admission (and a free bus!) to take many disadvantaged and grateful folks to Andell Family Sundays!
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