Discover the Valley art scene. There's a world of inspiration at your doorstep.
The Valley art scene is gaining well-deserved recognition as an array of venues offer enticing exhibits and performances.
Learn about local arts events and meet the many talented individuals who live and work in our area. There are many opportunities to enjoy fine art, music, dance, theater, crafts, and
related activities in and around our community. Many of these activities are reasonably priced or even free. Let the arts enrich your life!
Promoting Valley arts and emerging artists.
ART ENTERTAINMENTS
- Mar. 30 - 8th Annual Valley Wide Student Art Show, elementary schools; Canoga Park Youth Arts Center, noon-4pm; opening ceremony at Madrid Theater; teen show Apr. 18 from 6-8pm; 818-610-2050
- Mar. 9 - Santa Monica Symphony; Dvorak/Czech Suite, Weber/Der Freischutz Overture, Brahms/Symphony No. 4; 7:30pm; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
- Sundays - musical performance workshop at Kulak's Woodshed; 7-9:30p; $20 per week; taught by Marc Platt to enhance local singer/songwriter performance skills; 5230 Laurel Cyn Blvd.; 766-9895
- 1st and 3rd Thursdays - open mic nights at Jennifer's Coffee Connection; 7-10:00p; poetry, storytelling, music; 4397-D Tujunga Ave.; connectedthroughart@yahoo.com
- Last Sun. of the month - Family Playhouse at Autry National Center; family craft project with museum admission; 1-2:30p; 323-667-2000
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For a listing of local theaters and shows, visit nohoartsdistrict.com.
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Featured Artist - Charles Knecht
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LAVC Campus Concerts
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Arts Now
For 30 years SPARC has been at the forefront of producing and preserving murals for the City of Los Angeles. Currently, we are facing the loss of Los Angeles’ legacy of murals as one mural after the other is tagged by youth, whitewashed by private businesses, or simply neglected. We are in one of the most destructive times in mural history in Los Angeles, but whitewashing or tagging of murals is only symbolic of the larger problem of city policies that denigrate the art form.
Mural territory has always been off limits for most taggers. This is changing. A generation of youth have lost respect for the murals as they have not been educated as to their importance, nor have they had the opportunity to take their place as youth team members working on a mural in their neighborhood. City policy makes marking on the mural the best place to tag as the blank wall along side the mural will be cleaned immediately, and the mural will not. Hence hit the mural and your tag will stay up longer. 10's of Millions of city dollars are spent to clean blank walls via the city graffitti abatement pollicy but not art.
SPARC has always been a graph/artist friendly organization, working to provide alternative venues for artistic expression for youth. Those currently tagging are very different from those who paint spray can murals. A few even make their claim to fame the destruction of a mural. It is time to stop the destruction with a combination of enforcement of the VARA act (the Visual Artist Rights Act) making destruction of art a higher penalty than blank walls and most importantly to get to the heart of the problem with PREVENTIVE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH. We believe if we give youth the opportunity to beautify their community they will value beauty.
SPARC is proposing Murals for a New Los Angeles that works directly with a new generation of taggers. By producing and preserving murals, we can begin to re-dedicate, re-educate and re-energize the LA mural movement and have LA take back the City's title as the Mural Capital of the World. For more information, see www.savelamurals.org.
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