This is the IMRU Community Calendar featuring all
the best things to do and see under the rainbow of Southern California
Thursdays - Saturdays (thru August 20)
The Show at Barre just opened their new show, “For the Record: The Coen Brothers” which features songs and scenes from such famous Coen Brothers films as “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “True Grit” sung by Broadway, television and film stars! The show runs Thursdays through Saturdays for the next five weeks at Vermont Restaurant in Los Feliz, and as a special promo, every Thursday night show will have half-price tickets available on Goldstar.com. If you’re looking to get your tickets for any other night, you can find more info at www.showatbarre.com
And Sunday, August 21, it's your chance for a night with Ben Caron--all new songs one night only!
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IAN MACKINNON Fri + Sat 8.30pm $20/$15 at Highways Performance Space located at 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA (310) 453-1755 |
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, Augsut 19-21: CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPOUT w/GLS Chapter of Sierra Club
Crystal Lake is finally open again… sort of. In 2002, the Curve Fire burned over 20,000 acres around and above Crystal Lake, damaging the access road (Route 39) and closing the area to the public for nine years. The road has just reopened, the campground has just reopened and, most astonishing, the little restaurant and the store are open, after being closed for almost 20 years. The restaurant has been completely renovated, I ate there and was pleasantly surprised. A few dozen campsites are available, new vault toilets, no dependable running water yet. No fee to camp (currently) but Adventure Pass required on every parked car. Saturday, hike the scenic Islip Ridge loop through the burn area (avoiding the heavily damaged Windy Gap trail), about 9 miles, 2500’ gain/loss, and about 40 trees across the trail (currently, though the clearing work is ongoing). Then dinner on the restaurant patio (open to 7pm), campfire at the campsite. Sunday, a shorter hike, perhaps visit the Big Cienega and other wet areas above the recreation area to look for lemon lilies. $10 per person in anticipation of typical fees being imposed, returned at camp if it’s all still free by then. Contact Jeff Johnson. For more info go to: http://angeles.sierraclub.org/gls/Outings%20&%20Events.htm
SUNDAY, August 21: ONE Culture Series presents C. Billy Rugh -- DANCE: Blurring the Line. A movement based workshop in how dance can break through personal, cultural and societal barriers to create community and an understanding of others. Billy Rugh is the Artistic Director of Creative Planet School of the Arts and a resident choreographers for the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
All ONE Culture Series Events take place at 2pm and have a suggested donation of $5.00 to help support our collections and programs.
Location: ONE Archives: 909 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007
For more info, go to: http://www.onearchives.org/home
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WOAR Book Group
Sunday, August 21
3pm
 The book group will meet in Glendale on Sunday, August 21, to discuss Gail Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home. It's a beautiful story of the best things about best friends: shared rituals and private jokes, long walk with their dearly loved dogs, and longer talks, confessions and discoveries.
Location:
RSVP to Diane at diane_woar@hotmail.com for address and directions. Price: Members FREE, Nonmembers $5 |
For more info, go to: http://www.womenonaroll.com/events.html#convo
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August 21 SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE Sun 7.00pm $20/$15 |
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| August 25 - September 24 THE ADVOCATE & GOCHIS GALLERIES The Village at Ed Gould Plaza Opening Reception: Thurs, Aug 25, 7-9 p.m. FREE Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 6-9:30 p.m. Saturdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |
Admission to the Galleries is free. |
August 26 - 28
2ND ANNUAL TWO-SPIRIT WEEKEND
A weekend honoring a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many indigenous cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Join us for a screening of the award winning documentary Two Spirits with a panel discussion with LGBT healers, a cornucopia of LGBT healers on a HEALING SPA DAY, an evening RITUAL & FIRE CEREMONY with your drag queen shamaness Eartha Madre, and a GREEK DREAM TEMPLE / SLEEPOVER at HIGHWAYS including, of course, a fabulous BRUNCH and DREAM WORKSHOP to explore your deepest mysteries!
Complete schedule below:
Friday, August 26th / 8:30 pm
A screening of the film Two Spirits.
Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.... Two Spirits mourns the young Fred Martinez and the threatened disappearance of the two-spirit tradition, but it also brims with hope and the belief that we all are enriched by multi-gendered people, and that all of us — regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or cultural heritage — benefit from being free to be our truest selves."
Followed by a panel discussion including filmmaker Lydia Nibley and LGBT/ Two Spirit healers; contemporary shaman, LGBT Jungian /depth psychologists, Native american two-spirit people.
$20 / $15
Saturday, August 27th / 10am - 5pm
Two Spirit Healing Spa Day
$10 per session / 3 for $25
Saturday, August 27th/ 8:30pm
A Two-Spirit Ritual / Fire Celebration with Earth Madre followed by at 11pm, Templum Somnium, a dream temple / a sleepover
$25
Sunday August 28th /from Awakening - 3pm
Sunday morning a catered breakfast and a dream workshop sharing and working with the healing dreams and visions from the night.
$75
For more info on all of the aboive TWO SPIRITS events, go to:
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/
SATURDAY, August 27, it's that time of year to show your support for the work of the L.A. GAY AND LESBIAN CENTER and to enjoy the biggest taste sensation in town, SIMPLY DIVINE! The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Simply diVine!, held each summer on the world famous Two Rodeo in Beverly Hills, is an elegant event featuring delicacies from some of the city’s hottest restaurants and wine from some of the most popular wineries in California and beyond! In addition to food and wine tasting, Simply diVine! includes an extensive auction of fine wines, travel packages, fine dining and more. In addition to being able to sip, sample and savor the good life, SIMPLY DIVINE also offers an exclusive VIP Wine Tasting package. For more information, call (323) 993-7681 or check out the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's website. http://laglc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=SU_AF_SD_SimplyDiVine
You can find information on these and other events listed on the IMRU Google Calendar athttp://tinyurl.com/6au4tl5 which can be viewed/printed in monthly/weekly/daily or agenda forms. We also blog about important happenings at http://imru.posterous.com/ where you can leave comments or suggestions. We also cross post links to the Calendar on Twitter as well as our Facebook page—so it pays to be a Friend and/or to Follow Us.
