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Bike Night at LADWP Holiday Light Festival
A preview Bike Night will be held for experienced
and novice riders to come and enjoy the festival in a vehicle free
activity just for bike riders.
November 20, 2008
Eco-Home Tour
In a time of financial insecurity, food security can be your personal safety net. Visit Eco-Home for the last Eco-Home Tour of 2008 on Sunday, December 14 from 2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. In addition to learning how to begin or expand your personal urban garden, the tour will also display new technologies that will … Continued
November 20, 2008
Sustainable Sundays at the Natural History Museum
Local urban
planner/community activist James Rojas is Building Sustainable L.A! His
interactive urban planning art project allows participants to
reinvasion a green LA by using a medley of found objects. Participants
are invited to place these objects on a plot plan of the city and
become part of the constantly changing urban environment. This project
allows people get comfortable with the city and channel their inner
urban planner, envisioning public and civic amenities.
November 20, 2008
Art of the Streets
Once regarded
strictly as vandalism, Graffiti artwork has pervaded our culture,
appearing on everything from public spaces to album covers, t-shirts to
cell phone wall paper, corporate ads to presidential campaigns. So what
makes this visual expression, sometimes seen only as a nuisance, an art
form? Join some of L.A.'s most prominent "writers" and creative
thinkers for a discussion of graff.
November 20, 2008
Beyond the Bulldozer: Survey LA
This colloquium
will spotlight SurveyLA, the City of Los Angeles' groundbreaking
citywide historic resources survey project that represents a
coming-of-age for preservation in Los Angeles. The
engaging author and architectural critic Alan Hess will share his
reflections on preserving the "recent past" from the mid-20th-century –
from "Googie-style" coffee shops to the 1950s ranch house. And
developer John Given of The CIM Group will bring a private sector
perspective on the challenges and opportunities of historic
preservation and adaptive reuse projects. Seating is limited; please
RSVP by Wednesday, November 19th to Alice Lepis at alepis@prodigy.net (preferred); also at 818.769.4179
November 20, 2008
TRAINS, TRAINS, TRAINS!!!
In 1902 Southern California was a collection of small farm towns. It was
waiting for something to pull it together. That something was The Pacific
Electric. This Was Pacific Electric is the story of the rise and fall of the
"The World's Greatest Electric Railway." It is a complete history
starting in 1872 with L.A.'s first horse car line and continuing through the
last Red Car in 1961. The story is told using rare film footage, hundred of
photographs, animated maps and extensive interviews. In fact, the PE Red Cars
operated along Glendale Boulevard right outside of this facility and today,
LARHF has installed a mini-museum open to the public in the Belmont Station
Apartments located at the south end of Glendale Blvd. where the PE tracks used
to disappear into a subway tunnel leading to the Subway Terminal Building on
Hill and 4th Streets. Presented by the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage
Foundation. http://www.larhf.org/
November 20, 2008