One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
Pencil This In: Wacko Salon, Film Screenings at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Adam Gopnik and Mat Kearney
Multimedia artist Sanford Biggers performs at the Hammer Museum tonight. (Photo: Micael Palma)
PERFORMANCE
Multimedia artist Sanford Biggers performs Moon Medicine tonight at 7 pm at the Hammer Museum. The piece is an “aural and optical experiment” that’s part jam session and performative film screening. Biggers’ live work weaves “found images of punk, funk, film noir, sci-fi, traditional Samoan dance, and Buddhism with original video content and improvised turntableism and veejaying.” Free.
PERFORMANCE SALON*
Billy's Thursday Night Fish Fry & Community Social is a new monthly performance salon at Wacko / La Luz de Jesus. With event host and M/C: comedian Blaine Capatch (Comedy Central, Los Angeles Derby Dolls), the “multimedia mixed-bag variety show of music, spoken word, unusual performance and more,” features Belly Danseuse Europa, Michael Rozon (steel guitar), Destiny O'Dempsey and Lee Joseph, Best Western (Songs of the Hangmen), Human Drama (acoustic performance), Douglas Lee and His Glass Harp and a short film by Christy Kane. 8 pm. All ages, no cover.
DISCUSSION
The Getty hosts New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, for a lecture on Winter Scenes tonight from 7:30-8:30 pm at the Getty’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Gopnik speaks on the vision of winter in modern art as represented in the “German Romantic (and nationalist) paintings of Caspar David Friedrich to the sublime Swiss vistas of J. M. W. Turner, to the stylish Japanese-inflected snowstorms of Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro, and beyond.” Free, but reservations recommended.
FILM
Filmforum presents artist and filmmaker Vanessa Renwicktonight at 8 pm at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City. She’ll premiere new piece, Charismatic Megafauna, and also show other short films that complement the museum’s eccentric and fantastical exhibits. Tickets: $7.20-11:33.
POETRY
The ALOUD Series at the Central Library welcomes Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate, who’s in conversation tonight with Robert Casper, head of Poetry and Literature Center, Library of Congress. Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently News of the World. Standby only.
MUSIC
Folk-rocker Mat Kearney continues the second leg of his US headlining tour to promote his latest album Young Love at the Mayan Theater. Doors at 8 pm. Tickets: $36.35.
*Pencil pick of the day
Sponsored message
Want more events? Follow me on Twitter (@christineziemba). Or follow Lauren Lloyd—who takes care of Pencil on Wednesdays (@LadyyyLloyd).
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
