"TubeDay" Video--Paul Newman Remembered
With the loss of the great actor this past weekend, it seemed appropriate to post something highlighting his philanthropic work.
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WHAT: Powell Library Concerts in the Rotunda: Featuring Spanish Guitarist Francesc de Paula Soler
WHERE: UCLA, Powell Library Rotunda
WHEN: Friday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!
Kicking off the first concert in this year's Powell Library Concerts in the Rotunda series is Francesc de Paula Soler. Recognized as an innovative performer, Soler is known as the "Poet of the Guitar." His performance will be divided into two parts: the first will feature representative composers of Spain and Latin America, and the second will feature the works of contemporary guitarists, including Soler. [Info source]
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WHAT: Honoring the Sea
WHERE: Santa Monica Beach, at the end of Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica
WHEN: Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. until sundown
COST: Cost of admission is FREE! Read info about parking here
Hundreds of artists will gather at the Santa Monica Beach to celebrate the close of this season's World Festival of Sacred Music and to "honor nature at the meeting place of the sky, land and sea." Three hundred artists will present sacred traditions from seven lineages of world cultures. From the World Festival of Sacred Music: "The opening procession will resound with the festive sounds of the brass Banda Juvenil Solaga from Oaxaca and the Pasadena Scottish Pipes and Drums ensemble. One hundred dancers led by Keali’i Ceballos and Sissy Kaio will chant and dance on the sands in reverence of Kanaloa, the Hawaiian deity of the ocean. Swing Brazil welcomes their guests Viver Brasil, Capoeira Batuque, Seara de Caridade do Cabolo Tupinamba and the Elders of the Diaspora and will lead us in celebration of Yemanja, the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess. Drummers and dancers from Burkina Faso led by Olivier Tarpaga and DAFRA will pay homage to the Yuroba Orisha. Playing a central role is Cindi Alvitre and Ti’at Society. The traditional canoe of the Tongva, will be paddled beyond the breakwaters, carrying the offerings to the sea and sacred blessings to the four corners of the Earth, guided by energy of the Agape Choir and the rhythms of Remo Drum Circle facilitated by Christine Stevens." Organizers suggest that audience members wear white, bring flowers and a sweater. [Info source]
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WHAT: Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea
WHERE: UCLA, Fowler Museum
WHEN: Exhibition closes this Sunday, September 28; Museum will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!
This weekend brings the closing of a wonderful exhibition at the Fowler Museum featuring the ceramic works of the diverse peoples of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea ceramists gather clay in the hills or swamps surrounding their villages and form it into wares that range from superbly functional cooking and storage pots to highly esoteric sacred figures. In “Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea,” visitors can see more than thirty fine examples from the Fowler collection, including bowls used for food preparation and serving, incised ceremonial vessels, figurative ceramics, and ornaments for the gables of houses. [Info source]
I hope you enjoy our new feature on the Blog. I plan to post what is hopefully an entertaining or interesting YouTube video every Tuesday. Rest assured, they won't all be "library humor" but I just couldn't resist this one! It's called Librarian (by Haunted Love). Enjoy!
P.S. In case you don't catch it, the "librarians" are played by the Haunted Love band members!
Saturday, September 27 kicks off the 27th anniversary of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Since 1982, the ALA has helped to organize events throughout the United States to celebrate our freedom to read and to express our opinions, however "unorthodox" or "unpopular" they may be.
According to the ALA, the most challenged book in 2007 was Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's award-winning And Tango Makes Three, a children's book based upon a true story about two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo who cared for an orphaned egg. A book is "challenged" when a library or school receives a formal complaint requesting that a book be removed from the library or school's curriculum and bookshelves because of its content or "inappropriateness." Please click here for a list of the ten most challenged books in 2007. A list of the 100 most challenged books from 1990 to 2000 may be found here.
For a list of events and suggestions for ways you can celebrate our freedom to read and to express ourselves, please visit this page of the ALA's website or check out some of the local events listed here.
WHAT: Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity)
WHERE: Aratani/Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, (213) 628-2725
WHEN: Friday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m.
COST: $20 for students / $25 general admission [Ticket info]
A program of the UCLA World Festival of Sacred Music, Mare Serenitatis is a performance in 3 movements, blending traditional rites from Japan with classical and contemporary Western influences. Conceived by artist and zen archer Hirokazu Kosaka, Mare Serenitatis features choreographer and Japanese Butoh dancer Oguri, Japanese classical court music Gagaku and dance Bugaku, and Zen Archers. Reaching back to the primal sounds of man and the hunt, the evening begins when a Zen Archer shoots an arrow over the distance of the stage, instantly purifying the space. Migrating across a desert, the post-war influenced Butoh dancer breathes life into the newly purified space. For one small instant the search stops and the present prevails before moving on in the journey again. The evening ends with a large 12-million candlelight Searchlight stretching its horizontal beam across the sky, illuminating the journey’s path while a lone-archer releases his arrow into the darkness of the night. [Info source]
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WHAT: Amanda Ross-Ho: Half of What I Say Is Meaningless
WHERE: Cherry and Martin Gallery, 12611 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 398-7404
WHEN: Opens Saturday, September 20 at 6:00 p.m.; ongoing on Wednesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. through November 1
COST: FREE!
Demonstrating an ongoing interest in locating understanding through inversion, Amanda Ross-Ho’s second exhibition at Cherry and Martin finds her recontextualing images and objects with intimate—rather than generic—origins. Ross-Ho’s careful mediation suggests the possible universality of the personal. Her objects display both individual qualities and 'sibling' identities, playing on traits of familial exchange and proximal relativity. [Info source]
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WHAT: Remembering Dini Ostrov: A Special Screening of His Girl Friday
WHERE: James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Bldg., UCLA Campus (near Lot 3), (310) 206-FILM
WHEN: Saturday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m.
COST: $10.00 [Ticket info]
This hilarious comedy stars Cary Grant as a crafty newspaper editor hell-bent on keeping his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy (Rosalind Russell), from settling down with a pitifully dull businessman (Ralph Bellamy) by convincing her to cover the imminent execution of a convicted murderer. Hawks' ingenious use of overlapping dialogue accelerates the film's already break-neck clip and epitomizes the verve of Hollywood's Screwball Era. A reception honoring Dini Ostrov will follow. [Info source]
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FOR THE KIDS: Family Day: Sculpting with Scissors
WHERE: Norton Simon Museum of Art, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 449-6840
WHEN: Saturday, September 20 at 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
COST: FREE for students and children
See how modern artists boldly use color in paintings, and then express your artistic abilities as you construct colorful collages with cut paper. Recommended for children ages 4 through 10. [Info source] For you adult kids, don't miss the Marcel Ducamp Redux exhibition, which shows through December 8.
Posted on behalf of Kevin Gerson, Law Library Director:
Dear all 2Ls and 3Ls,I’m pleased to let you know that Bloomberg, the premier provider of business and financial information, is expanding into the legal information arena and will be at the Law School to give out free accounts during the week of Sept 15.
The new Bloomberg Law service is an all-inclusive tool providing legal analysis, filings, opinions, real-time and archival news, and company and financial information. Once you receive your Bloomberg account, you will be able to access the service via the Web using a biometric device, called the B-Unit.
The Bloomberg representatives will have a table set up in the courtyard on Sept 15 and 16 to sign up students, so please stop by if you would like to get an account. The reps will remain at the Law School Sept 17-19 to provide training sessions.
Some of your professors are requesting that you get accounts for course work. If so, this is the time. Those of you receiving accounts will be allowed to keep the account for free for up to six months after graduation.
Thank you,
Kevin
For those who are visiting the Law Library Blog for the first time, welcome! This post is the first of what I hope will be a weekly feature of fun things you can do in L.A. on the weekend for twenty bucks or less. Enjoy!
Need to release some steam this weekend? Check out the Berlin duo Modeselektor, who will be showcasing their unique blend of dubstep, French house, techno, hip-hop and humor at Avalon Hollywood this Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10:00 p.m. Tickets purchased in advance of the show start at $20.00. [Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine Street, Hollywood; (323) 462-8900]
If you're in the mood for something a bit less rowdy, check out this season's opening exhibitions at the Craig Krull Gallery, featuring the works of Dennis Hopper (yes, Easy Rider) and Wendy Burton. The exhibitions will run from Sept. 3 through Oct. 4, 2008. Admission is FREE! [Craig Krull Gallery, located in the Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3, Santa Monica; (310) 828-6410]
For those with kids, a day at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park with Choo Choo Soul looks promising. As described on KCRW's event calendar, Choo Choo Soul "funks up children's music with hip infusions of beat-boxing and soul." Admission is FREE this Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. with open lawn seating. [Levitt Pavillion, MacArthur Park, 2230 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles; (213) 384-5701]