Pencil This In: Charlie Chaplin In Drag, Sports Stories, Childhood Trauma & Bank Wednesdays
Celebrate surviving your first month of 2012 by having a few laughs at The Moth's latest installment or the Silent Movie Theatre's dragalicious double bill. Feeling energetic? Head into DTLA for the grand opening of Bank Wednesdays, a night of fierce house music. For those of you who are seeking some self-help, The Actors' Gang is digging deep into the effects of childhood trauma. Or check out free literary readings at the Hammer. The choice is yours, and keep reading for the details.
LITERARY
Writers Samantha Hunt and Ben Marcus will read tonight as part of the Hammer Museum's "New American Writing" series. Hunt is the author of The Seas and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel about inventor Nikola Tesla. Marcus penned Notable American Women, The Age of Wire and String and The Flame Alphabet. 7pm. Free.
FILM*
The Silent Movie Theatre is giving cinemagoers "The Silent Treatment" this evening, courtesy of Cinefamily. A silent double bill of "delightful drag, animated androgeny and mirthful misunderstandings," as promised by the event description, will screen Charlie Chaplin's A Woman and William A. Seiter's What Happened To Jones?. 8pm. $12 (free for members). Score half-priced admission by dressing in drag.
HEALTH
Are you a victim of childhood trauma? Tonight's event could change your life (and health). The Actors' Gang in Culver City welcomes "Can Childhood Trauma Make You Sick?" which will "explore whether medicine can address one of our most difficult societal problems," according to the event description. Physician Nadine Burke, medical director of the Bayview Child Health Center, Robin Karr-Morse, author of Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, and Katie Albright, executive director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, will all be present for the discussion. 7:30pm. Free. Reservations are required.
MUSIC
Downtown L.A.'s The Crocker Club presents the grand opening of Bank Wednesdays, the new home for house music. Every Wednesday, a special guest will join resident DJs David Delano, Christian Ten and Sonz of Jack. Tonight's special guest is Paul Ahi of Moonlight Radio. 9pm-2am. No cover.
STORYTELLING
The Moth LA returns with a "Sports" StorySLAM. Brave storytellers will memorize their five-minute, true tales and take the stage - if chosen - at Zanzibar in Santa Monica. Non-storytellers can either volunteer to join a judging team or just sit back, listen and laugh. The M.O.Eggrolls food truck will be out front serving up its "Jewnese" treats. Doors open at 6:45pm. Stories begin at 7:30pm. Pre-sale tickets are sold out, but a number of tickets will be available at the door for $8.
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