Pallett a well known Iranian band for their modern approach to Iranian traditional music and blending it with western music starts its US tour this week at LOS ANGELES on Sunday September 13. https://youtu.be/oSjS6LERiUk http://events.kodoom.com/…/los-angeles-ca/pallett-…/75907/e/
Browsing: Other Arts
Paul Sand’s production of Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel is a thrilling song cycle, an intense evening in the theatre, achieved through simple means. Paul Sand, who won a Tony Award, in 1970, for his multiple characters in “Paul Sills’ Story Theatre” began his career with Marcel Mrceau in the 50’s and went on to work with Judy Garland and the Broadway bound first company of Second City (“From the Second City” which played the Royale Theatre in 1961). After years In films, sit-coms and Second City, there’s still a touch of the mime in Sand’s performance. Supple Sand…
AMPAS: The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences will highlight the work of groundbreaking documentarians in their upcoming Film Scholars Lecture. Hear Academy Film Scholar Scott MacDonald talk about his book American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn which examines the influential work of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based documentary filmmakers like John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, and Robb Moss. Academy Film Scholar Scott MacDonald will give a presentation on his book American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn, examining a half-century of pioneering work by…
‘”The Day Shall Declare It”. Call me spoiled, but in my day theatre was about big ideas, philosophical, political and ethical ideas, and in the hands of the best playwrights, it offered poetic language, For the last few decades, theatre seems to veer between sitcoms scripts and pretentious post modern mash-ups. My problem with many dramaturge driven postmodern pieces is the lack of context; now more than ever we need history lessons and social context. Taken out of context, ideas lose their bite, actions loose their consequences, dramas lose their ability to move us through identification, and theatre loses its…
“Asghar Farhadi” is the title of a new book about the Iranian Oscar winning filmmaker by Tina Hassannia. Tina Hassannia is a film critic and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Slant Magazine, Reverse Shot, Maisonneuve, Guernica, Little White Lies, Keyframe, Grolsch Film Works, and others. She is the co-host of Hello Cinema, a podcast dedicated to Iranian cinema. She was born in Tehran and lives in Toronto, Canada. You can find her online at tinahassannia.com. Bijan Tehrani: What was that motivated you to write this book? Tina Hassannia: I was approached to write…
Literature hits the streets of L.A.’s North Hollywood Arts District at the 2nd annual Lit Crawl L.A.: NoHo. On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 7pm to 11pm, thousands of Angelenos from all corners of the city are expected to come out for a night of literary mayhem. It’s a choose-your-own literary adventure experience with over 25 restaurants, theaters, galleries, bars, and other unique venues hosting over 30 literary events. From readings to performances, the 2nd annual Lit Crawl L.A.: NoHo will be an unforgettable—and entirely walkable—experience. Showcasing the best of L.A.’s thriving contemporary literature scene, the participating groups will share…
The show, curated by Laura Whitcomb, J. Cheryl Bookout and Amanda Quinn Olivar presents a dialogue between the renowned collection of portraits of Joan Quinn, by such luminaries as Jean-Michel Basquait, Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, Helmut Newton and Robert Mapplethorpe, and Joan Quinn’s half-century documentation of the same artists.‘Joan Quinn Captured’ (exhibit and curated events, panels and film screenings) is the first officially curated exhibition at the reopened, newly restored elegant Brand Library and Art Center. The exhibit is on view June 28th through August 1th, 2014, with event every Thursday afternoon and evening throughout July. Collectors like…
Peter Brook’s “The Suit”, based on Cam Thenbe’s short story, is a graceful, distilled piece of pure theatre. Told with the light touch of a bedtime story, its moral fable about jealousy functions as a fun house mirror in which glimpses of society’s oppression, in this case Aparthied, can be glimpsed moving in the background. “The Suit”, a montage-musical developed by Brook, long term collaborator Marie- Hélène Estienne and composer-arranger Franck Krawczyk, is set in the legendary Sofiatown (or Kofifi) the center of jazz, politics and literature in Johannesburg during the 40’s and 50’s. Sof’town, a mix of Black Africans,…
On May 17th a new exhibition opens at Tara Gallery, to learn more about this event we talked to Homa Taraji, Director of Tara Gallery. Cinema Without Borders: Please tell us about Tara Gallery, its background and your involvement with it. Homa Taraji: Tara gallery came to being 7 months ago under the sponsorship of the American foundation for contemporary Iranian art (AFCIA) which is a nonprofit, 501 c(3) organization for promotion of Iranian art. I am the cofounder and president of AFCIA and owner and director of Tara gallery. Most of the work presented in Tara gallery is by…
George Hayward is the author of the fiction novel SOUL AFFLICTED, a godless man’s search for hope and faith. A native of Lynn, Mass., Hayward’s writing career began during his early college years as journalism major, when he interned at the Boston Globe and covered high school sports and features for his hometown newspaper, the now-defunct Lynn Sunday Post. In 1987 he began a 12-year stint in the U.S. Air Force that included assignments in Colorado Springs, Alaska, Kuwait and San Antonio. The last nine of those years were as an award-winning journalist. He was the 1993 Air Force Journalist…