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Pasadena Art Night

is Friday, March 13, 2009.

Here are the deets.

The new Samurai exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum is free on this night too.

Samurai Robots report to the dance floor

The Pacific Asia Museum is hosting a free family day this Saturday, March 14, 2009, from 12 – 4 pm.   The exhibit is "The Samurai Re-Imagined: From Ukiyo to Anime" and features samurai, manga comics, armor, and robots.   The day includes free admission to the galleries plus crafts, performances, demonstrations, and more fun.

Also part of [...]

You’re in for a treat

Go here and enter in some text.  Hit submit and out comes your wordle, word art.  Click on Wordle.net’s gallery to see some samples.  Words that are repeated will appear larger.  If this makes no sense to you, please just go to the site and play around.  It is super cool!  If you’re a teacher, [...]

A Winter Ball

826LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center, is having its First Annual Winter Ball on Saturday, February 14, 2009, from 9 pm to 2 am, at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.  Though the day is Valentine’s, the invite stresses this is not a VD-themed event.  Singles are welcome.  The $30 admission (in advance; [...]

How to look at art without feeling inferior

What a great title!   LACMA is hosting a free lecture on looking at art.  Here’s its blurb:

"Milton Esterow, editor and publisher of ARTnews, talks about the international art scene, the art market, art journalism, art criticism, and changes in taste and fashion, followed by questions from the audience. Born in New York City, Esterow was [...]

Riverside Dickens Festival

 

The Riverside Dickens Festival is this weekend, February 6-8, 2009.  Have tea with Queen Victoria, enjoy a Victorian Era fashion show, performances, and much more.

Inaugural Chinatown Art Night

LA’s Chinatown is having its first Art Night on Saturday, January 24, 2009, from 7 – 10 pm.  This will be a quarterly shindig featuring contemporary art, clothing, furniture, music, performance and design.

Sounds like fun and it’s free!

 

 

Human Google Day, Part I

UnHip LA roamed around the South Bay, vowing not to use Google as a resource.  We decided to use our eyes and ears and become human Googles instead.  Look what we found:

 

 

 

 

By following good ol’ street signs, we wound up at the South Coast Botanic Garden, which is "one of the first gardens to be [...]

Huntington Gardens

 

Make a Free Tile at the South Pas Arts Fest

This Saturday, November 15, the City of South Pasadena will be hosting its Fall Arts Fest, featuring artist open houses, holiday boutiques, art-making workshops, music performances and much more.  Check out the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce’s site for details.  Mission Tile West (853 Mission) will host a free tile-making workshop from 2 pm [...]