Silver Lake Calendar 2007: November

NOVEMBER 2007
Two national holidays this month so: don't assume --pre-confirm event date, time

~3 Saturday~
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Silver Lake Art Collective Tour
Local artists, open studio, Seventh Annual Tour. Continues to Nov. 4
www.SilverLakeArts.com

Daylight Savings: Ends --turn Clock back one hour

~4 Sunday~
10 AM - 4 PM Mainly Main: A Tour
Historic Main Street
http://www.laconservancy.org/

~5 Monday~
7:30 PM “Oscar’s Docs: Part Three”
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Series showcasing films winning the Oscar for documentary focusing on: 1977-88. Tonight A triple feature:
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
Vietnam War pilot turned pacifist activist in El Salvador, including a post-film discussion with director Deborah Shaffer and Dr. Charlie Clements.
Broken Rainbow (1985)
polemic against treatment of Native Americans during 1970s, early 1980s, a post-film discussion with producers Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd.
Women — for America, for the World (1986)
viewpoints from 22 prominent American women on the need to end the arms race.
Linwood Dunn Theater, 1313 Vine St., Hollywood (310) 247-3600

~7 Wednesday~
7:00 PM Take a Hike!
Griffith Park with the Sierra Club
Website: angeles.sierraclub.org/griffith/index.asp

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
Board Meeting
Micheltorena School, Auditorium, 1511 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake CA 90026 www.silverlakenc.org


~8 Thursday~
6:30 - 9:00 PM Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
Urban Design & Preservation Committee
SLNC Office, 2898 Rowena Avenue, Silver Lake CA 90039 2nd Thursday the month www.silverlakenc.org

6:30 PM Los Angeles Ballet Fundraiser
Artists' work including Ed Ruscha, Ed Moses, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Jennifer Steinkamp, many others on auction block to raise money for the new ballet company. Troupe performance, food by top restaurants.
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica (310) 226-8002


~9 Friday~
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 'Moving On'
Support Group for Widows & Widowers
second Friday of the month, Bob Friedman (323) 662-9686 or Email: bandbfr[at]sbcglobal.net


~10 Saturday~
2:00 pm "Dr. Duncan Dog on Duty"
Author Lisa Dunn-Dern “children’s lifestyle expert” signs book about a dog who visits hospitalized children. Special guest: Dennis Cajili & Riley, certified therapy dog. Eso Won Books, 4331 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles (323) 290-1048

7:00 PM The Lint Roller Party
Gourmet buffet, open bar, live and silent auctions and gift bag, all to benefit Best Friends Animal Society.
The Jim Henson Company Lot 1416 N. La Brea Ave., Hollywood

A Night of Hollywood Glamour
Regency-style estate, cocktails & hors d'oeuvres, Diane Keaton; benefit showcasing historic architecture for
Los Angeles Conservancy: Event
Preserve Los Angeles heritage --no more Ambassador Hotel disasters


~11 Sunday~
11 AM - 4 PM Flights of Fancy: The Stairway Homes of Echo Park
Self-guided tour of historic Echo Park stairs & homes --some with 100 steps, narrow streets: originally intended for horses, Note: restricted access Stairway Tour $20. call: (323) 860-8874
Send Yourself a Reminder
Preserve treasures --prevent LAUSD destruction of two blocks of historic houses http://www.historicechopark.org/

Veteran's Day

10:45 AM Veteran's Day Program
A salute to the Military Order of the Purple Heart with emcee Stan Chambers, plus Golden Starts Skydiving Team; Notre Dame High School Irish Knight Marching Band and more. Forest Lawn, 6300 Forest Lawn Dr., Los Angeles (800) 204-3131 http://www.forestlawn.com/


~12 Monday~
Veteran's Day Observed
US Federal holiday, originally: respect to veterans of World War I; all the usual things: closed.
In the fields where people killed each other: first spring after the killing stopped poppies sprang up. In England: country with the largest losses of any, to honor their dead --Poppies appear everywhere. Though it doesn't sound it: stunning, heart-breaking sight, takes one's breath away....bright red Poppies --on graves --entrance to churches and temples --in lapels...sellers all over London street corners... World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month: "The war to end all wars."
Too bad it didn't stick: twenty years later nazis, the original terrorists, wanted to get 'even' --slaughtered, gassed, performed lethal medical experiments and mass murder on eleven million un-armed Jewish children, mothers, fathers and grandparents, Gypsies, scholars, artists, authors, scientists, homosexuals, clerks, clergy, professors, doctors, poets, bankers, carpenters, rabbis, disabled, Europeans, non-blond and communist civilians in addition to Allied military personnel. german civilians: "we didn't know why Jewish neighbors all disappeared or where they went; hitler wasn't all bad: he made trains run on time." Head of Catholics: Nothing to say. New 'haters' didn't learn: attacked unarmed innocent citizens of the US 64 years later --without provocation, justification or warning.


~15 Thursday~
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Filmore & Western Railroad Train Ride
Only with RSVP to: Silver Lake Seniors Club. Vintage train ride to Heritage Valley; transportion, lunch on board the train $45. RSVP to: Doris Slater, Trips Coordinator (323) 667-1879 Email: vendig[at]sbcgobal.net

7:30 PM The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
Editor Amy Wallace hosts an evening of live music, beer, contests, prizes and pizza from Palermos!
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Feliz (323) 660-1175

7:00 PM Beaujolais Passions
Season of beaujolais nouveau fever, sample the winners at this event presented by the Consul General of France. Shrine Auditorium, 700 W. 32nd St., Los Angeles (818) 954-8432


~17 Saturday
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM HomeWalkLA
-5k walk to end homelessness; non-competitive family walk to raise awareness and resources to prevent, end homelessness in LA County. Organized by United Way of Greater Los Angeles in partnership with Fannie Mae Foundation. Registration begins at 8am: Adults $25. Youth $15. (age 9-15) Under 9 free
Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Park Drive, LA CA 90037 http://www.homewalkla.org/ or 888-243-5757


~20 Tuesday~
7:00 PM Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
Outreach Committee, SLNC Office, 2898 Rowena Avenue, Silver Lake CA 90039
Confirm: 3rd Tuesday of the month, Website: www.silverlakenc.org


~21 Wednesday~
7:00 PM Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
Community Liaison Committee, SLNC Office, 2898 Rowena Avenue, Silver Lake, CA 90039 Confirm meeting: 3rd Thursday of the month, Website: http://www.silverlakenc.org/


~22 Thursday~
Thanksgiving Day
This year: same day as the 44th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assasination, November 22, 1963, RIP....


~23 Friday~
Join the: Avoid the Mall club
Initiation: stay home, make your own coffee, lift the covers, burrow in, remain until the urge to shop among the Madding Crowd passes. Winner: preserves money, gasoline, sanity.


~28 Wednesday~
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Positive Energy Group / Crime Prevention
MEETING: LAPD, SLSA, Gang Intervention and City Council Deputies. Echo Park & Silver Lake Distircts.
Edendale Public Library, 2011 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 Verify: 213-417-8816 www.positiveenergygroup.blogspot.com Email: positive_energygroup@yahoo.com

Next Month:
Saturday December 1
City Hall - First Saturday, 11 a.m. 1-3/4 hour tour explores architecture, history of now fully restored landmark. Including important public spaces, magnificent rotunda, City Council chambers, Public Works session room. Reservation: required

Sunday December 2
2:00 PM Holiday Matinee at the Historic restored 1911 Palace Theatre --to purchase tickets early
Palace Theatre, 630 South Broadway, Downtown L.A.

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