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SUPPORT INDIE BOOKS
Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the MOCA Pacific Design Center it's the Independent Book Fair, where you can meet independent book sellers, small-press publishers, and artists who make books, and browse through special offerings that you won't find elsewhere. Participating publishers include Ben Maltz Gallery/Otis College of Art and Design, Beyond Baroque, Evil Twin Publications, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2nd Cannon, Smart Art Press, Specific Object, and TamTam Books, among many others. It's free, and is also happening tomorrow.
SEE THREE NEW LA STORIES
New plays by first-rate Los Angeles playwrights will be read by professional actors in an informal gallery setting today at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. At 2pm is Oliver Mayer's Dark Matters, followed by The Ghost Building by Damon Chua at 5pm, then Year Zero by Michael Golamco at 8pm. Each play is set in contemporary Los Angeles. Admission is $10 to each reading or $20 for the entire series.
HAVE A DOSTOYEVSKY DAY
It's the second and final day of a celebration of the life and work of Russia's great 19th century novelist Fryodor Dostoyevsky at the College of Liberal Arts at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Today's events include a welcome by co-chairs Alex Yahontov and Schefski followed by an address by Dostoyevsky great-great-grandson Alexey on his participation in the 1988 film "Boys," based on a chapter of "The Brothers Karamazov" and a screening of the film, and a screening of the 1958 Hollywood film version of "The Brothers Karamazov" starring Yul Brynner. Admission is free. Call (562) 985-8525 for more info.
SEE 'THE FUTURE BEFORE IT HAPPENED'
Head over to The Glendale College Art Gallery (1500 N. Verdugo Rd, Glendale) for the opening reception (6-9 p.m.) of an exhibition of artwork by Jeff Cain, Krysten Cunningham, Tom Dale, Veaceslav Druta, Adam Frelin, Olexander Gnilitsky, Vlatka Horvat, Tim Hyde, Yuliya Kostereva + Yuriy Kruchak, Nebojsa Milikic, Maarten Vanden Eynde, and Angie Waller. The show, "This is the Future before it Happened," concludes two years worth of artist residencies and exchanges sponsored by Outpost for Contemporary Art.
FETE "MANIMAL" AND "SLOW COLLISION"
From 8-11:30 tonight at the Copro Gallery at Bergamot Station is the opening reception for Joe Vaux's "Manimal" and Dan May's "Slow Collision." Vaux's "Manimal" (the title of a forgettable 80's television show) is a collection of 23 paintings which represents the past year's efforts of the artist to hear and share the vision of the "manimal" inside him. May's show is his debut solo exhibity, which reflects a series of intuitive movements, drawing his hand through various hues and draping them inquisitively across wood panels.
SEE CEAIT, HEAR TONE
Tonight is the second set of performances in CalArts' CEAIT Festival at REDCAT. At 8:30 this evening sound art pioneer Yasunao Tone will play. Tone ranks among the first Japanese artists to "compose" happenings and improvisations in the 1960s. Opening for him are composer, improviser, and sound artist Clay Chaplin, mangling political speech in real time to create ambient tapestries of sound, and Laura Steenberge, discovering that the dictionary is alive in her Lecture on Words. Seating is general admission, and tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office, by calling 213-237-2800, or online.
Other Things to Do: Witness the death of Steve Martin, eat fish tacos (fish tacos, fish tacos), see some theatre, laugh at Dane Cook, chow down on mac & cheese, or enjoy the Latina Dance Festival.
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