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Pencil This In: New Filmmakers Night, Jeff Garlin Reads, Nightmare Curators Chat, L'Arpeggiata Debuts

Image from Riding Bikes with the Dutch Trailer
FILM
The New Filmmakers Los Angeles will screen 14 short films tonight and you'd be crazy to miss it. The last film of the night is our top pick: show your bike-friendly love by attending the screening of Riding Bikes with the Dutch at Sunset Gower Studios. The film follows a Long Beach family as they travel to Amsterdam to experience how the Dutch use bikes in their everyday life. Get your livable community on starting at 9:15 p.m. Tickets for Riding Bikes with Dutch are $5.
HORROR SHOW DEBATE
As part of the exhibition Hammer Projects: My Barbarian, the Hammer Museum is hosting a "Death Panel Discussion" about what it takes to be a curator of nightmares and the oft-hysterical public dialogue that is intermingled in horror films of late. Tickets are free and can be picked up one hour prior to the talk which begins at 7:00 p.m.
JEFF GARLIN READS
Actor and author Jeff Garlin will lead a reading group discussion on Bernard Malamud's A New Life at Book Soup. Jonathan Lethem thinks the book is a "masterpiece" that has been overlooked for the past fifty years, but no word yet on what Garlin thinks or what turns the discussion may take while deep-diving (or skimming the surface) of Malamud's novel. Reading group goodness starts at 7:00 p.m.
MUSIC
L'Arpeggiata - the ensemble directed by Baroque lutenist/harpist Christina Pluhar - makes its Walt Disney Concert Hall debut tonight and promises to be quite the classical thing if classical is...your thing. From instrumental improvisations and a blending of Baroque and traditional musical worlds, this show is a critics' darling. Get thee to the theatah at once, we beseech you! Tickets start at $45. Show starts at 8:00 p.m.
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