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Best things to do this week in Los Angeles and Southern California: September 9 - 12

Laura Hertzfeld
Laura Hertzfeld
Published September 9, 2024 at 5:05 AM PDT
Carrie Brownstein stands on stage, performing during a Sleater-Kinney set. She's wearing a shirt with blue, white, and read hearts and playing a guitar. Another band member is holding a green guitar on stage out of focus behind her.
Sleater-Kinney performs during the Rock en Seine Festival on August 24, 2024 in Paris, France.
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Hope you’re staying cool! It’s almost Hispanic Heritage Month, and what better way to kick things off than by attending performances from across the diaspora at the L.A. Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater at UCLA? There are also some badass women on stage this week all over town, from Sarah Silverman at Dynasty Typewriter to Sleater-Kinney at the Grammy Museum to author Edwidge Danticat at the Central Library.

For more to explore, visit LAist.com, where you can book your ticket to the climate + food event at the Crawford this Thursday with Fat + Flour baker Nicole Rucker and LAist food editor Gab Chabrán.

Events

  • Comedienne Sarah Silverman stands on stage with a microphone, half-smiling as she performs. She's wearing a dark gray shirt and mustard yellow sweater.
    Sep 9

    Sarah Silverman Works Out Her Post-Mortem Tour

    • Dynasty Typewriter
      2511 Wilshire Blvd., Westlake

    This week, Sarah Silverman will be doing a second night at Dynasty ahead of her next tour.
  • A pair of fair-skinned hands work on molding dark clay for ceramics on a light wooden table.
    Sep 12

    Clay Play

    • Frogtown Brewery
      2931 Gilroy St. , Frogtown

    This ceramics class will teach basic hand-building techniques like slab and coil building.
  • A film still of a woman and a man embracing, presumably as they dance. She's wearing a mask appropriate for a masquerade
    Sep 17

    LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater

    • UCLA Nimoy Theater (The Nimoy)
      1262 Westwood Blvd., Westwood

    Thursday kicks off a full weekend of performances by acclaimed artists from Spain, Mexico, and the Los Angeles area.
  • A collage of three images: Edwidge Danticat, the book cover for 'We're Alone' and Robin Coste Lewis.
    Sep 9

    Edwidge Danticat and Robin Coste Lewis

    • Mark Taper Auditorium - L.A. Central Library
      630 W. 5th St., Downtown L.A.

    Novelist Edwidge Danticat joins former L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis to delve into her new collection of essays, We're Alone.
  • Seven actors on stage, performing the play 'The Skin of our Teeth,' in the middle of a setting that looks like the inside of a home. Two of the actors are in dinosaur costumes in the back of the frame.
    Sep 29

    'The Skin of Our Teeth'

    • A Noise Within Theatre
      3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena

    The Skin of Our Teeth is on all month at A Noise Within in Pasadena and is more relevant than ever.

  • Carrie Brownstein stands on stage, performing during a Sleater-Kinney set. She's wearing a shirt with blue, white, and read hearts and playing a guitar. Another band member is holding a green guitar on stage out of focus behind her.
    Sep 10

    Sleater-Kinney

    • GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live
      800 W. Olympic Blvd., Downtown L.A.

    The Pacific Northwest’s finest original Riot Grrls are at the Grammy Museum for a chat.

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