On April 5, 2016, The G2 Gallery will premiere 100 Years of National Parks: The South, the second in the gallery’s four-part special exhibit series celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service.
The National Park Service (NPS) was founded in 1916 and oversees hundreds of parks, historic sites, landmarks, museums, trails and more. In The South, images of NPS-maintained areas from Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia will be on display.
The opening reception for 100 Years of National Parks: The South will be held on April 9 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door and includes wine, hors d’oeuvres and complimentary valet in front of the gallery. All proceeds from admissions will be donated to The Wilderness Society. RSVP to rsvp@theg2gallery.com.
Angelenos on May 7 will celebrate the birds of Southern California and LA’s Biodiversity at the second annual Bird LA Day, a series of decentralized bird- and nature-themed events throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Bird LA Day shines the spotlight on nature, and reminds the world that Los Angeles is a lot more than just film and fashion and celebrities.
From Debs Park in downtown LA to The G2 Gallery in Venice; from the Natural History Museum to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach and many other locations – there will be more than 50 events for every level of birder, from the uninitiated to the expert.
“It’s easy to forget that Los Angeles has deserts, mountains, beaches, rolling hills – an amazing diversity of habitats. And all this creates one of the most fascinating collections of birds you’ll ever see,” said Brigid McCormack, executive director of Audubon California. “Bird LA Day opens people’s eyes to the natural world around them.”
“We’ve designed the day so that there’s something for everyone – from bird walks and talks to photography classes and bird bars with bird-themed drinks,” said Susan Gottlieb, Audubon California Board Member and one of the key organizers. “The good news is that nearly all the activities are free.”
Highlights include birding tours through the gardens of the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, explorations of the Ballona Wetlands, excursions in the Santa Monica Mountains, yoga classes to bird sounds at the G2 Gallery in Venice, urban birding in South Los Angeles, and getting to know the volunteers at International Bird Rescue in San Pedro.
Angelenos are encouraged to share their sightings and photos on the Bird LA Facebook page, or on Twitter using the hashtag: #BirdLADay.
For a complete listing of events, visit: birdladay.org.
On June 28, The G2 Gallery will open Moths at LArge, an exhibit from Canadian moth expert and photographer Jim des Rivières that was originally shown at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Moths at LArge will feature large-format photography of various species of moth from des Rivières, mostly from the Ottawa region of Canada, where des Rivières lives and works as a software engineer by day, moth collector by night. He traveled to Los Angeles to specifically photograph two local species for this show: the Ceanothus Silkmoth (Hyalophora euryalus) and the White-Lined Sphynx (Hyles lineata), which he captured in the Certified Wildlife Habitat backyard of G2 owners Dan and Susan Gottlieb.
The process des Rivières uses to collect, identify, photography and print each moth is available on his website: http://ottawa.moths.ca/technical.html
The opening reception for Moths at LArge, along with 100 Years of National Parks: The Midwest, will be held on July 9 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door and includes wine, hors d’oeuvres and complimentary valet in front of the gallery. All proceeds from admissions will be donated to Earthjustice. RSVP to rsvp@theg2gallery.com.
The 4th Annual G2 Green Earth Film Festival is an environmental film fest held at G2 Gallery in Venice August 5-7, 2016. It’s a weekend of screenings, fascinating guest speakers, live music, cocktail hours, after-parties and more – all completely free to the public. Our belief is that environmentalism is for everyone, so we’re tearing down the barriers of “too dry” or “too difficult” or “too boring” or “too privileged” or “too expensive” with this weekend of learning, fun and igniting activism.
HITLER’s TASTERS is a dark comedy about four young German women who had the “honor” of being chosen as Adolf Hitlers food tasters. Based on true events in history, with shades of 2020, Hitler;s Tasters explores the way these girls navigate sexuality and friendship, patriotism and poison during the Third Reich.
Winner of the 2017 Susan Glaspell award, this production from New Light Theater Project was named ;Best of the Fringe; by The Stage, with a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019. An anachronistic retelling of a historical footnote, Hitlers Tasters is about what girls discuss, even as they wait to see if they will survive another meal. A coming of age story, it also explores complacency, acquiescence and the banality of evil.
Featuring:
Hallie Griffin (Liesel), MaryKathryn Kopp (Hilda), Kaitlin Paige Longoria (Anna), Hannah Mae Sturges (Margot) Jessica Dahlgren (Understudy)
#HitlersTastersThePlay #LAtheater
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/electric-lodge-fringe-management-llc-present-hitlers-tasters-tickets-91256433449?fbclid=IwAR3_wskXMF_11clrQPIRB_crFOeBnYgyWlwqdxI9bOusqn2GGilwFx4jrik
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies
Santa Monica St. Patrick’s Day PubCrawl The Official Saint Patrick’s Day PubCrawl in Santa Monica! Enjoy drink specials, a DJ and no cover charges. It’s time to put those Shamrocks on and head out to the World-Famous PubCrawl for some real shenanigans! The city will be buzzing with energy on St. Patrick’s Day to meet some new friends while enjoying drink specials and creating great memories.
A monthly work space and test platform for writers who are self-identified queers and people of color. Our goal is to develop your writing projects that subvert or repurpose how literature is made and read. By doing so, we hope to foster modes of writing that creatively respond to expectations, limitations, and exclusions of the literary machine. Facilitated by Ryka Aoki. Assistant Facilitator: Catherine Chen. About the Facilitators Ryka Aoki is the author of Seasonal Velocities, He Mele a Hilo (A Hilo Song) and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. She has been honored by the California State Senate for her “extraordinary commitment to free speech and artistic expression, as well as the visibility and well-being of Transgender people. Ryka was the inaugural performer for the first ever Transgender Stage at San Francisco Pride, and has performed in venues including the San Francisco Pride Main Stage, the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, the National Queer Arts Festival, and Ladyfest South. Ryka also appears in the recent documentaries “Diagnosing Difference” and “Riot Acts.” She has MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and is the recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is a professor of English at Santa Monica College. Catherine Chen is a poet and performer. Their work has appeared in Entropy, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Mask Magazine, Nat. Brut, among others. Their chapbook Manifesto, or: Hysteria is forthcoming from Big Lucks. They’ve been awarded residencies and fellowships from Lambda Literary, Art Farm, and Splendid Mola.
This free weekly fiction workshop focuses on narrative technique, language, characterization, plot, POV, and the realization of an idea. Bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction for critique and discussion.Facilitated by noted author, screenwriter, playwright, and director Barra Grant through 2019.Barra has written four produced screenplays, and has won the Writers Guild Award, an Emmy, and has received Directors Guild and Humanitas nominations. Her play “A Mother A Daughter and a Gun” has been produced in L.A., Chicago and New York. She has a repertoire of short stories which she regularly performs at venues in Los Angeles.