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Get Out: 12th Annual Topanga Earth Day Festival, Machine Project Vocal Workshop, Buster Keaton Double Feature
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Escape To Hippie Mountain: The long-running Topanga Earth Day Festival wraps up today with stages, speakers, vendors, music, workshops and art. There's even abio diesel shuttle to help you get there. Topanga Community House Fair Grounds, 1440 North Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA. 90290, 10:00 a.m. - Sunset.
Flight Of The Steamboat Navigator: American Cinematheque'sBuster Keaton Weekend continues with a double feature of Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The Navigator at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. $11, Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave.; Santa Monica CA., 5:00 p.m.
Can You Hear Me Now?: Machine Project is running a vocal workshop that "offers the opportunity to explore the voice in its many manifolds expressions. Through physical and active exercises the aim is to introduce the resources to build up a healthy joyful vocal phonation in order to develop a technique that helps the performance of any vocal demand or just to discover and play with your voice, its sounds, its melodies and its noises. The Voices From Within workshop is set on the basis of group work and games." Ages 10 and up, Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
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