Get Out: Cali Poetry Slam, Healthy Neighborhood Festival, A Strange Pair of Book Signings, Thrill the World
Festival of California Poets
For a dose of true local culture this weekend, consider this poetry festival hosted by the Pasadena Public Library. Now in its third year, this poetry powwow honors the most distinguished local poets from both the past and present, with guests reading not only their own poems but the works of their predecessors as well. The event will feature Laurel Ann Bogen presenting the work of Eloise Klein Healy, Ron Koertge presenting the work of Steve Kowit, and BH Fairchild reading Henri Coulette and Robert Mezey. 3 p.m., free.
4th Annual Healthy Neighborhood Festival
According to the Center for Healthy Communities, healthy kids + healthy parents + healthy lifestyle = healthy neighborhoods, and we tend to agree. This super kid-friendly block party provides families with workshops and activities, free health screenings, fun ideas on how to get fit, as well as music and dance performances. No McFlurry stops on the way home, though.
Book Signings
This weekend's book signing events conjure up a moral dilemma, and will you choose good or evil? First up, author Diana Cooper visits Book Soup to read from A New Light on Angels, her intriguing new book which explores the role of angels in our everyday lives and how we may tap into their power and guidance. Later, evil genius comic authors Joshua Dysart and Joshua Hale Fialkov will pay a visit to the Saturday Fantasy after-party at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park to scribble their John Hancocks on a few of their horror-iffic graphic novels. The festival, which will be held at nearby Rec Center Studios, celebrates short horror, sci-fi and fantasy films.
Thrill the World
If there's one unmissable event this weekend, it's at 5:30 p.m. downtown where Los Angeles residents will join the rest of the world in smashing the record set by those Filipino inmates for most people ever simultaneously getting their Michael Jackson groove on. Learn it, live it,