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Jania Vanderwerrf, Los Angeles Sky #1, Oil Painting
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Your Weekly Dose of Art and Culture in Santa Monica
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The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
- Robert Wyland
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Exhibition Reception: Damir Avdagic | Repriza/Uzvracanje (Reprise/Response) at 18th Street Arts Center
Thursday, March 12, 6 - 8pm
Damir Avdagic’s project will explore the ways past events transmit between generations and how they affect the present. Avdagic will present his latest video piece Repriza/Uzvracanje (Reprise/Response), 2018, in which four people in their mid-60s from ex-Yugoslavia, perform a transcribed conversation from the piece Reenactment/Process (2016), in which four people in their mid-20s discuss the inter-generational frictions they experience between themselves and their parents relating to the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia. Both video pieces will be on view.
Free admission, RSVP
Info: 310-453-3711
18th Street Arts Center
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GlowPower Global at Santa Monica State Beach
Saturday, March 14th, 11am
Dance on the beach! GlowPower Global is about feeling free and expressing oneself in a natural setting. Arrive with music on a phone or a device, with a preferred playlist and earbuds. When arriving, a GlowPower Global host will set the mood and tone for a wonderful experience. Together, and easily, each person will listen and move to their own music.
Tickets: Pay-by-value
Info: GlowPowerGlobal.com
North side of The Pier
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Southern California Women's Caucus For Art Presents: Strategies for InclusionThen and Now
at Santa Monica Main Public Library
Saturday, March 14, 1 - 3:30pm
Join this public conversation on cultural equity and representation in the visual arts. Moderator jill moniz will engage with prominent artists and activist leaders from diverse cultural communities of Los Angeles. Together they will revisit the history of cultural inclusion/exclusion in the LA art scene and see what resonates today. This participatory event is inspired by Southern California Women's Caucus for the Arts recent publication of interviews from the 1990s that were conducted by Ann Isolde. Many of the book participants will be in attendance and a short reception will follow the conversation.
Free admission, RSVP: scwcapubs@scwca.org
Info: 310-849-5779
Santa Monica Main Public Library
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Opening Reception: Sebastian Boni's Colour Dialogues
at Lois Lambert Gallery
Saturday, March 14, 6 - 9pm
On View through May 9
An exhibition of chromatic light boxes focusing on the visual and emotional relationship between the source of illumination and space. At the root of this series is the visual perception of architectural objects made of multiple overlapping layers of different materials such as: translucent glass or plastics, glass with silk-screened textures applied directly on the slabs or featuring treated surfaces that create particular visual effects.
Free admission
Info: 310-829-6990
Lois Lambert Gallery
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Opening Reception: Chris Fraticelli's Into Pieces
at Lois Lambert Gallery
Saturday, March 14, 6 - 9pm
On View through May 9
An exhibition of sculptures that have transformed the endless supply of decorative mass produced ceramics into metaphorical mosaic sculptures commenting on contemporary society.
Free admission
Info: 310-829-6990
Lois Lambert Gallery
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Jacaranda Presents Agony & Ecstasy
at First Presbyterian Church
Saturday, March 14, 8pm
Join pianist Inna Faliks on a dangerous journey from today to 1908 as she gives world premiere performances of Old Ground by Timo Andres and Pursuit by Billy Childs inspired by the towering genius of Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. Commissioned by Faliks, these works transport Ravel’s Le Gibet and Scarbo to the American South of 1908, when Ravel was inspired by the grandfather of surrealist poetry. Ravel’s trial-by-fire masterpiece also inspired Messiaen’s surreal Visions de l’Amen for two pianos, premiered in occupied Paris in an art gallery. Pianists Steven Vanhauwaert and Loriod student Mark Robson will take everyone on this journey.
Tickets: $40 General admission, $20 Student, $20 Fixed Income
Info: 310-451-1303
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
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Orchestra Santa Monica's Celebration at The Broad
Saturday, March 14, 8 - 10pm
Orchestra Santa Monica is making its debut at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage. Acclaimed conductor Roger Kalia leads the orchestra in a dynamic program including Shostakovich Symphony No.9, Brahms Violin Concerto (with soloist Barbora Kolářová) and Grammy-nominated Adam Schoenberg's "Go", a foot-tapping tribute to the landscape and culture of Kentucky. Join the Celebration!
Tickets: $40 General admission, $20 Senior/Student
Info: 310-434-3200
Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
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Psychopomp Dance Theater - Ylem/Relics: Return To Clay
at Highways
Saturday, March 14, 8:30pm
An evening of highly athletic, raw, grounded and visceral dance from Shenandoah Harris' Psychopomp Dance Theater, mixing modern, contemporary, acrobatic and capoeira styles.
Tickets: $20 General admission, $15 Seniors/Students
Info: 310-453-1755
Highways Performance Space
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