Events

Published on: November 5, 2009

Oct. 29-31: Plan your weekend using KCET's events listings. Top of the list? A dramatic destruction of a replica Berlin Wall along Wilshire Blvd.

Event Date: November 8, 2009 8:00 PM

Whenever an event is big enough to close down Wilshire Boulevard, it's worth a look. So please check out the Wall Project, an extraordinarily elaborate attempt to recreate the Berlin Wall in Los Angeles. This project is monstrous in scope, and with the destruction of the wall coming this Sunday -- on the eve of the original wall's collapse -- it won't fall short of being, well, completely epic.

Event Date: November 7, 2009 8:00 PM

The Autry National Center presents "Carbon Black" by Terry Gomez (Comanche). Native Voices at the Autry, is America's leading Native American theater company. It kicks off its 10th anniversary season with Carbon Black: a gripping, suspenseful, and enigmatic psychological drama.

Event Date: November 7, 2009 10:00 AM

The Autry National Center presents over 250 baskets selected from the world's largest collection of Native American basketry from the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. This display of historic and contemporary baskets, combined with multimedia elements, tells the story of a living art through the voices of the weavers themselves.

Event Date: November 6, 2009 8:00 PM

Orhan Pamuk is in town for a talk. The author of My Name is Red now edges on being the voice of Turkish fiction in the west, and certainly has a lot to say about seemingly everything and anything. Come downtown as the Nobel-winning Columbia Professor sits down at the Japanese American Community Center for what is warming up to be a fun event with a great mind.

Event Date: November 6, 2009 9:00 PM

The Chicagp-based 9-piece brass band of brothers will deliver their unique brand of jazz this weekend at the Echoplex. Need some convincing that this is the place to be Friday? I'll just let the music speak for itself. Also for your listening pleasure that night, dj sets by Madlib, B+ and Coleman.

Event Date: November 5, 2009 7:00 PM

Two upcoming screenings of work by L.A.-based artist and filmmaker Lewis Klahr. KCET blogger Holly Willis on Klahr's work: "Mix the detritus of a Robert Rauschenberg collage with the excess and veiled social commentary of a Douglas Sirk melodrama and you might come close to a film by Los Angeles filmmaker Lewis Klahr, who makes his collage animations from images snipped out of books and magazines; these pictures are moved inch by inch beneath a camera to create movement, resulting in powerful visual artworks and deeply engrossing, if enigmatic, stories."

Event Date: November 5, 2009 7:00 PM

How might buildings bust a move if they got out on the dance floor? Thursday, the MOCA attempts to answer that age-old question. The Slanguage art collective's teen break-dancing group Dub City Tribe will take on brutalist architecture (those muscular, concrete high-rises peppered throughout Southern California's cityscape). The group's choreography both explores the characteristics of these massive structures, and provides commentary on our relationship to them.

Event Date: November 5, 2009 7:00 PM

It has been said that there are no new stories, only new ways to tell them. LACMA's current exhibition, Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India's Comics, examines just that, how the archetypal and the traditional surface in modern storytelling. The show zooms in on the contemporary Indian comic book to reveal that ancient narratives and visuals lie at the heart of the artform. Thursday night, exhibition curator Julie Romain will present an introductory lecture on the contemporary Indian comic, followed by a private tour of the exhibition.

Event Date: November 4, 2009 7:30 PM

It's rare to be able to step into the mind of a creative genius just as his career culminates, but that's exactly what Los Angeles Magazine has stumbled upon as it interviews Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner this Wednesday. The show is hugely popular, perhaps one of the most successful ever, and for only $20 you can find some answers to the millions of questions this mysterious show engenders. Cough it up.

Published on: November 3, 2009

KCET invites you to serve your community through service. Our weekly Get Involved page features ways for you to connect with organizations in need of a helping hand. This week KCET features ways for animal lovers to give back to our four-legged friends.

Event Date: November 3, 2009 8:00 PM

Most of us are familiar with the iconic and far-reaching animation of Fred Wolf. Who doesn't remember the collegiate owl who couldn't wait to bite into the center of that tootsie pop? The Silent Movie Theater celebrates Wolf with a film retrospective. Following the screening, a Q&A with Wolf himself.

Event Date: November 1, 2009 10:00 AM

The 3rd Annual Native American Heritage Month Community Powwow is sponsored by the American Indian Community Council. All drums & dancers are welcome. The traditional Gourd Dance begins at 11:00am and the Grand Entry is at noon.

Published on: November 1, 2009

Halloween is almost here! You can still be excited for the holiday even if you're past your Trick or Treating days. Check out these ways to get excited, get in costume, and get involved volunteering in Los Angeles this weekend.

Event Date: October 31, 2009 7:30 PM

If you're a movie buff, it's seeming like Halloween is the time for you. isn't it? The Hammer is certainly helping to pile it on, giving you a double feature consisting of The City of the Dead and The Skull. Seeing as it's The Hammer, they'll try and pull the intellectual, educational route off, but don't be fooled: at it's root, these are just two fun classics. Come dressed up for bonus points.

Event Date: October 31, 2009 7:00 PM

This one ain't for the faint of heart. Cinespia features John Carpenter's Halloween, a cult (mainstream?) classic that has in the years since worked as the template for the modern horror film. MIchael Myers remains one of the more terrifying characters in movie history, so don't forget to bring your bravery with you. And lest you forget, we will remind you: there is no more quaint way to watch a movie of this nature than on this cemetery lawn.