Event Archive for 2013
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The Odyssey – Johanna Kozma
Monday, July 1st, 2013 at 8:00 pm
An audience of two join Odysseus in his escape from Calypso in this performance of Homer’s Odyssey that will take place in a Honda Odyssey minivan while circling the freeways of Los Angeles. Performances will take place nightly July 1st- July 15th. Audience size is extremely limited- visit this page for more info and [...]
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It’s Not Right, But It’s OK – Cliff Hengst
Saturday, June 29th, 2013 at 12:00 am
Saturday, June 29th, 2013 Outside The Beverly Hilton, // 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Free While walking down Wilshire Blvd on his way to work, Cliff Hengst has his body taken over by the fleeting soul of Whitney Houston. Starting at the Beverly Hilton, Whitney reminisces down memory lane on a double decker [...]
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Ken Ehrlich – Walking Places: Four Walks in Los Angeles
Sunday, June 9th, 2013 at 12:00 am
Sunday, June 9th Sunday, June 16th Sunday, June 23th Sunday, June 30th Free Join us for a series of four walks in different parts of the city that will examine the architectural landscape of the city up close. Each walk will be less a tour than a framed experience of a part of the city, [...]
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David Eng – The Dawning of the Age of Aquariums
Saturday, June 8th, 2013 at 2:30 am
Saturday, June 8th 2013 // 2:30pm-5pm at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium // 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro, CA 90731 Free David Eng will lead the group on a guided tide pool visit, accompanied by a live string and wind ensemble. The event concludes in the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s auditorium with a brief lecture on [...]
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Kamau Patton – The Sky Above
Sunday, May 26th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Sunday, May 26th // 6-7pm at Machine Project Free Your browser does not support iframes. Watch the perfomance streaming live Here, or at our channel at Bambuser.
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Anne Hars – Architectural Drafting for Hackers, Makers and Visionary Dilettantes
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 2:22 pm
May 21, 22, 28, 29 June 4, 5 7-10pm at Machine Project A 3-week architectural drafting class taught by Anne Hars at Machine Project, with assignments ranging from the practical to the fantastical. Fees for this class are $150 for the general public and $125 for Machine Project members. This fee covers all six classes. [...]
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Sara Roberts – Clump and Whistle
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Sunday, May 19th 2013 // 1pm at Glendale Civic Center Plaza // Broadway and Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA. Civic Center parking on Wilson Ave. Free Click Here to RSVP for the performance so we can make sure to buy enough bagels and coffee for everyone! There will be an open rehearsal for [...]
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Carmina Escobar – Massagem Sonora
Sunday, May 12th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 12th 2013 // 4-6pm At The Korean Bell of Friendship, Angel’s Gate Park // 3601 Gaffey St, San Pedro, CA 90731 Free An experiment on intimacy, personal space and bodily resonance by Carmina Escobar. Massagem Sonora establishes a relationship of discovery between individuals, usually strangers, that allow themselves to be improvised on via [...]
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Improvised Sound Ping Pong Tournament
Sunday, May 12th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, May 12th 2pm Honor your mothers by attending an event that combines a ping pong tournament with improvised sound. Each player will be teamed up with a musician who will be using direct output generated from gameplay, and as the tournament progresses, improvised duets will arise. Participating musicians include Casey Anderson, Raphael Arar, Clay [...]
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Anna Petrisko – Jeepneys’ Bowling With Aliens
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Anna Petrisko – Jeepneys’ Bowling With Aliens Saturday, May 11th 2013 // 8-10pm at All Star Lanes Bowling Center // 4459 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90041 Free Jeepneys and alien friends host a celestial bowling party, followed by a parking lot performance of interstellar sounds and movements in The Popwagon, a mobile venue [...]
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, May 1st 8pm FREE Join us for the next installment of East of Borneo’s EATS of Borneo series: A special screening of “WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE” (1980, 20 min.), in memory of the great documentary filmmaker Les Blank who passed away on April 7. The short documentary features Herzog fulfilling the bet that [...]
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A guided tour of a portion of a city that i don’t particularly know
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Tuesday, April 30th and Wednesday, May 1st 6pm A performed poetical pet-free potential little adventure to be walked head-on in the very ignorant company of Dominique Gilliot, a French artist who, although she doesn’t know shit much about this part of the town (nor about Los Angeles as a whole either), has got a (naïve [...]
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Chance meeting in a storefront of a ping pong table and a sound installation
Sunday, April 28th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Sunday, April 28th 3 – 5pm Raphael Arar & Wyatt Penn Keusch invite you to experience a ping pong table and some sound at Machine Project. A set of activities will be available upon arrival—you may choose whether or not to follow them. The only guidelines are to interact with the space (play a match, [...]
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PING vs PONG
Saturday, April 27th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 27th 8pm FREE Ping and Pong have been partnered for years, but very little consideration is given to the intense, simmering rivalry that lurks just beneath the surface. In this audience-controlled lecture, Jason Torchinsky will explore the parallel and separate histories of both all the things he could find named Ping and Pong, [...]
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The Day of Speculative Motion
Sunday, April 21st, 2013 at 9:00 am
Sunday, April 21st Ongoing from 9am to midnight A screening of works by Kelly Sears. The Day of Speculative Motion presents a series of dystopic short works featuring wayward astronauts, ghostly beauty queens, eager soldiers, haunted ex-presidents alluring telephone operators and doomed 1970s high school students. Kelly Sears uses popular American imagery to create parafictional [...]
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Reanimation Library Debriefing and Word Processor Launch
Thursday, April 18th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, April 18th 8pm FREE Reanimation Library founder Andrew Beccone will present an overview of the library’s history, objectives, and activities. Los Angeles-based writers Colin Dickey and Bruna Mori will read from their contributions to Word Processor, the library’s ongoing exploration of its own holdings. Dickey will respond to Abyss: The Deep Sea and the [...]
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Nature Hike to the Ruins of Poetry and Song
Sunday, April 14th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Sunday, April 14th 3:30 – 7:15pm We will hike from the end of Lake Avenue in Altadena to the ruins of the Echo Mountain Resort. Once we arrive at the resort Kirsty Singer will be reading poems to touch trees, dirt, plants and rocks by and John Martin will be singing songs for people to [...]
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Emily Mast & Hana van der Kolk – Six Twelve One By One
Saturday, March 16th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Saturday, March 16th 2013 // 6:30pm at ‘The Onion’ UU Church // 9550 Haskell Ave, North Hills, CA 91343 Free Emily Mast and Hana van der Kolk present Six Twelve One By One, a performance of six soon-to-be-first-time moms that examines the pregnant body through a series of task-like actions, movements, and dances. The performance is staged [...]
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Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Friday, March 15th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Friday, March 15th 8pm FREE “A Novella and Stories” Artist and writer Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents a screening of recent text/image projects. Making use of the subtitle, these poems, in the form of slideshows/moving pictures, translate the varieties of the absurd into poetry. Huffman will present several long form slide works and will read fragments of [...]
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American Pi-Dol
Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 14th 8pm EVENT IS SOLD OUT! To celebrate National Pi Day (March 14th), Machine Project is hosting American Pi-dol: Pie of the Month Club. The American Idol-style event will feature a talent show where participants will show off a Pi or Pie-related talent or trick, judged by Machine Project Director Mark Allen, Top [...]