February 2, 2012

LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association

”[LAVA is] a network of creative types and thinkers working to grow Los Angeles up.” – The New York Post. “LAVA gathers creative people in search of a different experience of life in Los Angeles.” – Flavorpill. “LAVA always flows with red-hot nuggets of LA life.” -The Rundown

Gentle reader,

Welcome to the LAVA dispatch, an invitation to get out into the open air and explore. The real Los Angeles reveals itself slowly, and rewards the ernest seeker.

This week we’d like to pull your sleeve to the LA Weekly’s coverage of this Saturday’s Caco-palooza Cacophony Society happenings in Santa Ana, a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of artistic oddballs that is not to be missed.

http://www.laweekly.com/2012-02-02/art-books/Cacophony-Society-documenta...

And here’s Gary Singh’s account of the debut LAVA Salon at Musso & Frank:

http://www.metroactive.com/features/columns/silicon-alleys_20120201.html

Now read on for the LAVA news you can use.

EVENT CALENDAR
Here are some brief highlights from LAVA’s calendar – visit http:// lavatransforms.org for full details and new additions. We hope you can join us for some of these Visionary-hosted events.

Union Rescue Mission Walking Tour: 121 years on Skid Row

Thu, 05/17/2012 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm

To sign up for this free event: First register as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left, above this paragraph. Click "...

Union Rescue Mission
545 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles 90013

(213) 347-6300

Richard Schave

Of Scrap & Steel: free rooftop screening of rare 1949 color film set on Main Street, Downtown L.A.

Thu, 05/17/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm

To sign up for this free event: First register as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left, above this paragraph. Click "...

Union Rescue Mission
545 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles 90013

(213) 347-6300

Richard Schave

Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles tour

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:30am - 3:30pm

  Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death. This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer’s bow. Join us as we go down...

Los Angeles Athletic Club
431 West 7th Street
Los Angeles 90014

213-373-1947

Kim Cooper

Blood & Dumplings crime bus tour

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

A criminal and gastronomical excursion into the San Gabriel Valley, Blood & Dumplings rolls through Alhambra, Temple City, Monterey Park, Rosemead and El Monte, revealing dozens of weird,...

Nick's Cafe
1300 N Spring Street
Los Angeles 90012

213-373-1947

Kim Cooper

Harvey Sig Gig

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Harvey Sid Fisher says: I'll be joined by my back up singers and some musicians. I'll be doing some astrology songs and some duets from my "Battle of the Sexes" album of couples fighting. ...

Boulevard Music
4316 Sepulveda Blvd.
Culver City,CA 90230 90230

(310) 398-2583

Harvey Sid Fisher

All About Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Sat, 05/26/2012 - 8:30am - 12:00pm

Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation and Hollywood Heritage present ALL ABOUT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATRE A behind-the-scenes tour of the world’s most famous movie palace to celebrate its 85th...

Grauman's Chinese Theater
6801 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood 90028

213-999-5067

Nick Matonak

All About Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Sun, 05/27/2012 - 8:30am - 12:00pm

Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation and Hollywood Heritage present ALL ABOUT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATRE A behind-the-scenes tour of the world’s most famous movie palace to celebrate its 85th...

Grauman's Chinese Theater
6801 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood 90028

213-999-5067

Nick Matonak

The Flâneur & The City: Dutch Chocolate Shoppe Redux (sold out)

Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:30am - 12:00pm

To sign up for this free event: First register as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left, above this paragraph. Click "...

The Dutch Chocolate Shoppe
217 W. Sixth St
Los Angeles 90013

213 915 8687

Richard Schave

The Flâneur & The City: Hill Street (sold out)

Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:30pm - 4:30pm

THIS EVENT IS FULL. For the latest installment of urban historian Richard Schave’s site-specific discussion series “The Flâneur & The City,” Richard (Esotouric bus adventures, In SRO Land)...

Los Angeles Athletic Club
431 W 7th Street
Los Angeles 90014

213 915 8687

Richard Schave

Memorial Day: Tour of historic Savannah Cemetery in Rosemead

Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:30am - 1:00pm

To sign up for this free event: First register as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left, above this paragraph. Click "...

Savannah Cemetery
9263 Valley Boulevard
Rosemead 91770

Richard Schave

Writers Homicide School

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 9:00am - 3:00pm

***Two Day Seminar*** Saturday and Sunday, June 2 &3 from 9am - 3pm both days. Parking in the building at $6/day. Street parking available. Your speaker is a 22 year veteran Southern California...

The Satellite
3110 Main Street
Santa Monica 90405

760-887-3242

Derek Pacifico

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Lowdown on Downtown

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:00am - 3:00pm

  Join your host Richard Schave, the founding director of the Downtown LA Art Walk non-profit, on a tour that reveals the secret history, and the fascinating future, of this most beguiling LA...

The Daily Dose
1820 Industrial St
Los Angeles 90021

213-373-1947

Richard Schave

The Killer Behind The Camera

Sun, 06/03/2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

To purchase a ticket for this special event, click here. If you'd like to be contacted when another crime lab tour and lecture are scheduled, subscribe to LAVA's occasional Crime Lab Newsletter...

The Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center (Cal State L.A.)
1800 Paseo Rancho Castilla
Los Angeles 90032

213 915 8687

Donald Johnson

2012 El Segundo Author Fair

Sun, 06/03/2012 - 2:30pm - 4:30pm

2012 EL SEGUNDO AUTHOR FAIR LAVA member Manny Pacheco will moderate a Pop Culture '60s and '70s panel discussion. Featured on this distinguished dais: DYAN CANNON - An award-winning...

EL SEGUNDO PUBLIC LIBRARY
111 W. MARIPOSA
EL SEGUNDO 90245

Manny Pacheco

Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice

Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

From the founding of the city through the 1940s, downtown was the true center of Los Angeles, a lively, densely populated, exciting and sometimes dangerous place. After many quiet decades, downtown...

The Daily Dose
1820 Industrial St
Los Angeles 90021

Kim Cooper