Helms Design District

Helms Sunset Cinema: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens
2016-09-24 19:15 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
We invite you to join us on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for our 7th Annual Sunset Cinema series. This year, we are craving a little action and adventure so we’ll host four weeks of outdoor screenings of some of our favorite classic action/adventure/sci-fi films. The final film in our series: STAR WARS: The Force Awakens. Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars! Free Valet parking at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

STAR WARS: The Force Awakens
2015 | Rated PG-13 | Runtime: 136 Min
In this thrilling continuation of the epic space opera, ex-stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), scrappy desert dweller Rey (Daisy Ridley), and droid companion BB-8 get caught up in a galactic war when they come across a map containing the whereabouts of the vanished Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). They soon embark on an epic adventure that brings them face-to-face with heroes from the past, as well as new villains such as Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order, a fascist regime that has emerged from the ashes of the old Empire. Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew, and Anthony Daniels return to reprise their classic roles.

SPECIAL PRE-MOVIE GUEST:
ROSIES Foundation will be bringing the ROSIES Bus to Helms Avenue from 4 to 7pm, featuring an exclusive Frozen Yogurt sandwich from The Bigg Chill and Enjoyer Popsicles. Both of these products are made available from ROSIES partners who support their mission. ROSIES creates employment opportunities that empower people with diverse abilities through professional development and social enterprise.
The ROSIE bus features a special party-karaoke system where guests can sing along to their favorite songs as they order their desserts before the movie begins. ROSIES employees facilitate the karaoke experience, helping to spread awareness about everyone’s diverse abilities. We can’t wait to welcome ROSIES Foundation and rock out with you Saturday nights in September!

Arcana Books Hosts The Launch Of Aint-Bad Magazine Issue 11
2016-09-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, September 24th from 6 to 9PM, Arcana: Books on the Arts invites you to meet the Aint–Bad editors and photographers during this unique opportunity to acquire the three hot-off-the-press installments of Metropolis individually or as a set.
Established in 2011 by Carson Sanders, Taylor Curry, Caroline McElhinny, Caitie Moore, and James Jackman, Aint–Bad is a collective dedicated to publishing contemporary photography and text to support a progressive community of artists from around the world through online web features, printed periodicals, monographs, and exhibitions. Their objective is to stimulate the collection of and appreciation for photography by way of accessible and affordable publications. The brand supports local initiatives by working together with artists, curators, and institutions to help foster a creative community.
Issue number 11 of Aint–Bad Magazine is subtitled Metropolis. Presented as a trio of elegant, sixty-four page publications, each is a compelling visual survey of contemporary photography from Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – the three largest cities in the United States. While it is a challenging task to curate work from cities with such dense histories of art and culture, the contributors to the Los Angeles installment – Anthony Lepore, Jonnie Chambers, Justin Fiset, Sean Lemoine, Shawn Bush, Sinziana Velicescu, and Tim Bradley all depict our local environment in a revealing and engaging fashion.

We're Bringing A Helms Bakery Coach To The Culver City Centennial Parade!
2016-09-24 09:00 - 12:00 | CA
On Saturday, September 24th from 9 to 11AM, we will be joining the Culver City Centennial Celebration parade to kick off a year of 100th birthday events, festivities, galas and City-wide merrymaking. Come on out to greet and cheer your friends from various organizations and businesses who will be walking from Overland Boulevard between Culver and Braddock as they head downtown for the Opening Ceremony at 11:00AM.
We will be walking alongside a fully-restored original Helms Bakery Coach provided by Back in the Day Classics, tooting the Helms whistle and passing out die-cut paper coaches to attendees, while supplies last. For complete event information and to learn how to you can get involved go to culvercity100.org.
Happy 100th Culver City!

Helms Sunset Cinema: STAR TREK: The Future Begins
2016-09-17 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
We invite you to join us on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for our 7th Annual Sunset Cinema series. This year, we are craving a little action and adventure so we’ll host four weeks of outdoor screenings of some of our favorite classic action/adventure/sci-fi films. The third film in our series: STAR TREK: The Future Begins. Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars! Free Valet parking at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

STAR TREK: The Future Begins
2009 | Rated PG-13 | Runtime: 128 Min
J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. The original characters come to life with Zachary Quinto in the role of the Federation Starfleet lieutenant and Vulcan, Spock, Anton Yelchin as navigator Pavel Chekov, Zoe Saldana as officer Uhura, Simon Pegg as chief engineer Montgomery Scott (aka “Scotty”), and Eric Bana as the villainous Nero. John Cho also boards the Enterprise as Hikaru Sulu, with Chris Pine and Karl Urban assuming the legendary roles of Captain Kirk and Leonard “Bones” McCoy, respectively.

SPECIAL PRE-MOVIE GUEST:
ROSIES Foundation will be bringing the ROSIES Bus to Helms Avenue from 4 to 7pm, featuring an exclusive Frozen Yogurt sandwich from The Bigg Chill and Enjoyer Popsicles. Both of these products are made available from ROSIES partners who support their mission. ROSIES creates employment opportunities that empower people with diverse abilities through professional development and social enterprise.
The ROSIE bus features a special party-karaoke system where guests can sing along to their favorite songs as they order their desserts before the movie begins. ROSIES employees facilitate the karaoke experience, helping to spread awareness about everyone’s diverse abilities. We can’t wait to welcome ROSIES Foundation and rock out with you Saturday nights in September!

Design For The Ages: Up Close With Frances Anderton and Roman Alonso
2016-09-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join acclaimed designer and founding partner of Commune Design, Roman Alonso, as he sits down with Frances Anderton, host of KCRW’s Design and Architecture, to talk about how our environmental needs evolve as we age. A new generation of consumers of design are aging and expecting to live in spaces very different from Sun City, Arizona. Roman, who is known for designing projects for the jet set, will talk about how this kind of design thinking can be applied to designing for the silver set.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Free Valet Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
Light bites & refreshments.
Seating is limited so please RSVP here.

Arcana Books Welcomes Pamela Littky
2016-09-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, September 15th from 6 to 8PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Pamela Littky for a book signing of The Villa Bonita.
Like many apartment buildings in Hollywood, the Villa Bonita was built during the film industry’s first heyday bridging the 1920s to the 1930s. Built for the vast crews and casts that Cecil B. DeMille was hiring during the period, the Villa Bonita has housed great Hollywood figures from Errol Flynn to Francis Ford Coppola.
In the absence of traditionally scaled, walkable neighborhoods, Los Angeles has long created community within the confines of these kinds of apartment complexes. Young and old, employed and between gigs, dreamers and those whose dreams left long ago – everyone arrived at the Villa Bonita for one good reason or another. Featuring a foreword by Cameron Crowe, this striking hardbound volume brings us within intimate distance of its subjects, as Los Angeles-based photographer – and Arcana favorite – Pamela Littky surveys all of the inhabitants of this historic apartment tower in the middle of Hollywood, creating a collective portrait of the transient nature of the city.

Helms Sunset Cinema: ZOOTOPIA
2016-09-10 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
We invite you to join us on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for our 7th Annual Sunset Cinema series. This year, we are craving a little action and adventure so we’ll host four weeks of outdoor screenings of some of our favorite classic action/adventure/sci-fi films. The second film in our series: ZOOTOPIA. Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars! Free Valet parking at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

ZOOTOPIA
2016 | Rated PG | Runtime: 108 Min
In a city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals who have abandoned traditional predator/prey roles in favor of civilized coexistence, uptight rabbit police officer Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) is forced to work with charismatic fox con artist Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) to crack a major case involving the mysterious disappearance of some carnivorous citizens. But when a few of the missing critters reappear, having reverted to pre-enlightenment savagery, it exposes existing anti-carnivore prejudice among the city’s herbivores that threatens to damage the fabric of their diverse metropolis.

SPECIAL PRE-MOVIE GUEST:
ROSIES Foundation will be bringing the ROSIES Bus to Helms Avenue from 4 to 7pm, featuring an exclusive Frozen Yogurt sandwich from The Bigg Chill and Enjoyer Popsicles. Both of these products are made available from ROSIES partners who support their mission. ROSIES creates employment opportunities that empower people with diverse abilities through professional development and social enterprise.
The ROSIE bus features a special party-karaoke system where guests can sing along to their favorite songs as they order their desserts before the movie begins. ROSIES employees facilitate the karaoke experience, helping to spread awareness about everyone’s diverse abilities. We can’t wait to welcome ROSIES Foundation and rock out with you Saturday nights in September!

Helms Sunset Cinema: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
2016-09-03 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
We invite you to join us on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for our 7th Annual Sunset Cinema series. This year, we are craving a little action and adventure so we’ll host four weeks of outdoor screenings of some of our favorite classic action/adventure/sci-fi films. First up in our series: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Come by early to shop, grab a bite or get a movie snack to go. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars! Free Valet parking on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
1981 | Rated PG | Runtime: 115 Min
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq throughout the film and takes the audience on a 115-minute thrill ride.

SPECIAL PRE-MOVIE GUEST:
ROSIES Foundation will be bringing the ROSIES Bus to Helms Avenue from 4 to 7pm, featuring an exclusive Frozen Yogurt sandwich from The Bigg Chill and Enjoyer Popsicles. Both of these products are made available from ROSIES partners who support their mission. ROSIES creates employment opportunities that empower people with diverse abilities through professional development and social enterprise.
The ROSIE bus features a special party-karaoke system where guests can sing along to their favorite songs as they order their desserts before the movie begins. ROSIES employees facilitate the karaoke experience, helping to spread awareness about everyone’s diverse abilities. We can’t wait to welcome ROSIES Foundation and rock out with you Saturday nights in September!

Celebrate The Broad Stage With Room & Board
2016-08-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
On Sunday, August 7th from 3 to 5pm, join Room & Board for a musical afternoon with The Broad Stage, a theater known for creating a new kind of artist and audience experience, with an exclusive live performance by TresSouls.
Formed in 2010, TresSouls is a three-piece band that relives the sounds and songs of the 1940s – 1950s, the golden era of Mexico’s trio romantico music. Bring a friend and enjoy a summer day with live music, light bites and cocktails.
8707 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
310.736.9100

Go PUBLIC Monthly Bike Ride Comes To Helms Bakery District
2016-07-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, July 30th, PUBLIC Bikes + Gear will host their monthly Go PUBLIC bike ride from their Santa Monica store location to Helms Bakery District.
Once you arrive at Helms Bakery, you’ll receive a FREE Helms Bakery cookie (for registered riders) and discounts at the Lets Be Frank Hot Dog truck. We are also excited to have Walk ‘n Rollers provide a FREE Kid’s Bike Skills Workshop on Helms Avenue, including a short obstacle course designed to teach kids the essentials of bicycle safety in a controlled environment and begin the conversation of walking and biking to school. This workshop will be open to the public.
This will be a 6-7 mile ride one-way, so if you find yourself a bit exhausted after the ride, you can always head back to the westside on the Metro Expo Line located just one block west of our campus. This ride is fun for most ages (8 and up, younger recommended to ride with a parent). BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) or hop on a Breeze bike on Ashland Avenue, one block from the PUBLIC Bikes store. Meet at PUBLIC Bikes Santa Monica @11am and be sure to eat a light breakfast!!!
Saturday, July 30th
Ride: 11am
MEET @ PUBLIC Bikes + Gear
Santa Monica
2714 Main Street
Kid’s Bike Skills Workshop: 12pm to 2pm
Helms Avenue in front of the fountain
***Please RSVP at the PUBLIC Eventbrite link and you will also automatically be entered in a raffle to win their Trieste Coffee Cup holder and a FREE Helms Bakery cookie!***

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing For "Courts 02" By Ward Roberts
2016-07-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, July 28th from 5 to 7PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts along with Éditions for a book launch and signing for Courts 02 by Ward Roberts. Following the release of Courts in 2012, New York-based photographer Ward Roberts releases the second volume of his comprehensive body of work documenting sporting courts in Hong Kong, Bermuda, Hawaii, New York, and Melbourne.
Publisher Éditions has produced two separate releases of the book – a standard edition plus a collector’s edition limited to one hundred examples – and for the very first time a selection of three 23 x 23″ color prints that will be on display and available for sale at the event.
“As all iconic images inevitably do, Ward Roberts’ Courts have now become a force of their own, circulating the world with terrific velocity via the rushing slipstream of the Internet, gathering momentum and making their mark upon the global eye. His work has brought together a growing community of followers, with whom he feels a humble sense of connection. This is, in a sense, the most beautiful reflection of the essence of what makes his images so riveting, his art so powerful: he gives life to the spaces of photography, and photography to the spaces of life”. – Excerpt from Jennifer Kransinki’s foreword to Courts 02, 2016.
8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
310.458.1499

New School Of Cooking Summer Wine + Pizza
2016-07-27 18:30 - 20:30 | New School of Cooking, 8690 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
On Wednesday, July 27th from 6:30 to 8:30pm, please join New School of Cooking for a summer sampling of their new wines and artisan pizzas. There is limited seating for this event so please RSVP to reserve your spot!
Tickets are $20 per person.
8690 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
310-842-9702
NEW SCHOOL OF COOKING has been offering its unique, hands-on classes in Culver City, California for 15 years and is widely considered to be the finest artisan cooking school in Southern California. Small class size and and an incredibly talented faculty are the foundation of that success.
The school offers recreational classes on a wide range of themes, from Asian Noodles to Artisan Jams, short series such as Basic Pastry and Healthy Cooking and our signature “ProSeries” in both cooking and baking.
In addition, the school hosts book signings, pop-ups, and special events throughout the year to bring the diverse culinary world to our audience. Emerging talent in the world of restaurants, organic farming, bloggers, mixology, and artisan foods are part of our dynamic community.

Arcana Books Hosts A Celebration For Bettina Hubby
2016-07-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, July 10th from 4 to 6PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts, Klowden Mann, and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) to celebrate the release of Bettina Hubby’s Thanks for the Mammaries. This artist’s book documents the various iterations of Hubby’s ongoing project Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook feed which was originally installed at the LAND HQ from October through November of 2015.
In 2014, Hubby announced her Breast Cancer diagnosis on Facebook and asked her friends and community to submit “boob-related imagery.” People showered Hubby with images, videos, and verbiage that helped her heal, and inspired her to pay it forward. Touched by the uplifting effect of this communal support, Hubby sent out a call to artists to submit works for an exhibition. The exhibitions and online Facebook feed displayed the outpouring of support that resulted from Hubby’s call to action; selections of which are documented in the publication. “What continues to bring me the most satisfaction is the feedback regarding my approach, in that it has been positively impacting and inspiring people who have (and even many who have not) faced illness in their lives, or in their loved ones’ lives. This is why I wanted to release this as a book to a wider audience. This book is dedicated to the medicinal power of boobishness”.
8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
310.458.1499

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing + Conversation With Johnston Marklee
2016-07-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, July 9th from 4 to 6PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their very own architects, Johnston Marklee partners Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, for a conversation and book signing inside the gorgeous Arcana showroom they created. The afternoon will address the architectural firm’s design process and engagement with contemporary art practices in conversation with artist Veronika Kellndorfer, one of the collaborators on their new monograph, HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE.
The talk will be followed by a book signing.
8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
310.458.1499
About Johnston Marklee
Founded by partners Sharon Johnston, F.A.I.A. and Mark Lee in 1998, Johnston Marklee is internationally recognized for its diverse portfolio of architecture, engaging the physical and cultural circumstances of each project through a precise synthesis of structural form, materiality, and atmospheric light. The work of the firm pays tribute to a specific Southern Californian interpretation of modernism, and at the same time operates at the intersection of a global and local dialogue. Since founding Johnston Marklee, Johnston and Lee have forged a leading role in the cultural discourse around contemporary art and architecture, eliciting design collaborations with distinguished museums, foundations, and artists around the world. Complementing this far-reaching network, the firm’s work is recognized for being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline.
About Veronika Kellndorfer
Originally through painting and more recently through photography, Veronika Kellndorfer has been concerned with the physical and social construction of space. In her recent body of work, Kellndorfer photographed classic modernist architectural landmarks in Los Angeles including the only house built by Oscar Niemeyer in the United States, Rudolph Schindler’s Lovell Beach House, John Lautner’s Silvertop home in Silver Lake, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House, among others. Yet, rather than capturing the iconic wide-angle views of these famously photographed homes, Kellndorfer focuses on the intimate details of windows and reflections and how they reveal the ephemeral nature of seeing, as well as the subjectivity of space. This ambiguity of space is heightened by the artist’s use of highly reflective glass panels that are often life-sized, and when displayed in a public setting, museum or gallery, invites the viewer to experience his or her own subjective surroundings.
Her exhibition Tropical Modernism: Lina Bo Bardi will be on view at Christopher Grimes Gallery from July 8th through September 2nd, 2016.

Women in Design History With Louise Sandhaus
2016-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Some the world’s most powerful global graphic design influences happen to be women who resided and worked in Los Angeles. These are our graphic design roots – mothers who helped shape the field and gave birth to rebellious design invention. Join us for a conversation moderated by graphic designer and graphic design educator Louise Sandhaus as she hosts some special guests who are the heart that continues to beat for women and for design today.
Featured speakers:
Juliette Belloqc on Corita Kent
Gere Kavanaugh/Louise Sandhaus on Gere Kavanaugh
Barbara Bestor on Deborah Sussman
Lorraine Wild on Sheila de Bretteville
April Greiman on April Greiman
8745 Washington Boulevard
Free Valet Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
Seating is limited so please RSVP here.

Le Fête de la Musique Comes To La Dijonaise
2016-06-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Washington Corridor Gallery, 8723 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
On Saturday, June 18th from 7pm, the tradition of Le Fête de la Musique will come to La Dijonaise where Herve Albert and Guy Duchet — The Two French Toasts — will play on the patio.
Le Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, has become a worldwide music festival. The idea was first broached in 1976 by American musician Joel Cohen, then employed by the national French radio station France Musique. Cohen proposed an all-night music celebration at the moment of the summer solstice. The idea was taken up by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981 and first took place in 1982 in France. Since that time, it has progressed around the world.
Come enjoy fine French food and fun French music. Call (310) 287-2770 for reservation.

Arcana Hosts A Double Book Signing: Deanna Templeton and Clint Woodside
2016-06-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, June 18th from 5 to 7pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a double book signing for these two amazing releases, Deanna Templeton’s The Swimming Pool and Clint Woodside’s Undercover Cars.
8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
310.458.1499
Deanna Templeton’s The Swimming Pool is a newly published photographic essay from this Southern California-based artist. Departing from her well-known street portraiture, this collection offers a deep and inspiring view of the human form underwater. The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming pool shoot of her husband – the artist Ed Templeton – which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression, and the enigma of water. Shooting entirely on color, black-and-white, and Polaroid film, Templeton sends her friends into the pool to be photographed in their truest form.

Clint Woodside’s Undercover Cars was first issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club zine and has been newly re-conceived and substantially enlarged as an elegant hardcover book. Containing fifty-two images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements, it is the culmination of a series of color photographs – shot on film and printed in the dark room – spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Banghok.

Lukshon Tour With Architect Ana Henton
2016-06-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Lukshon, 3239 Helms Avenue, Culver City, 90232
On Tuesday, June 14th from 2:00 – 4:00pm, LA Design Festival takes you on a tour of three area restaurants, including a stop at Helms. Lukshon, the yiddish word for noodle, is the brainchild of celebrity chef Sang Yoon. Meet architect Ana Henton of MASS Architecture who designed the sleek, contemporary interior to complement the restaurant’s inspired interpretation of modern Southeast Asian cuisine. (Note that food is not provided at this stop.)
Event Map and Details will be provided to ticketholders only. Tickets are $20.
Free Valet Parking is located in the lot on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

Women In Architecture: Up Close With Frances Anderton and Deborah Weintraub
2016-06-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, June 9th from 7:00 – 9:00pm, the LA Design Festival 2016 ICON Award Winner and the City of Los Angeles’ highest ranking architect, Deborah Weintraub, AIA, LEED AP sits down with Frances Anderton, host of KCRW’s DnA for a candid conversation about her work and her vision for Los Angeles. Please join us immediately following the discussion for a special reception in her honor.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Free Valet Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard, Culver City
Seating is limited so please RSVP here.

Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Architect Karolin Schmidbaur
2016-05-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us Thursday May 26th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for a reception, lecture, and discussion with KAROLYN SCHMIDBAUR of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU as she shares his research, work, and urban strategies in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available at Valet on the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Boulevard. Head down Helms Avenue toward Washington Boulevard, turn right to the Helms Design Center located at 8745 Washington Boulevard. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com.

Karolin Schmidbaur studied Architecture at the Technical University of Munich and received her Diploma in 1992. Since 1992 she has been practicing Architecture internationally with COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in their offices in Vienna, Austria, Guadalajara, México, and Los Angeles, California. Since 1993 she has been based in Los Angeles, California. She is a Licensed Architect in Germany since 1995. In 1996 she was made a Partner of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Currently Karolin Schmidbaur is Design and Managing Partner of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Vienna and also the Director of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s Los Angeles, California office.
Completed projects at COOP HIMMELB(L)AU under her lead include the Groningen Museum East Pavilion, the Netherlands, completed in 1994, and the Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for visual and performing arts in downtown Los Angeles, California, completed in 2008. Since 2009 Karolin Schmidbaur is co-responsible for the design portfolio at COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and in charge of the office’s urban research projects.
Karolin Schmidbaur has taught design studio at the University of Southern California (1997-1998) and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) from 1998 to 1999 as well as 2014. From 2010 – 2012 she has taught at the Urban Strategies Program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Introduced and Moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

This Modern Life: A Design Field Day at Helms Bakery District
2016-05-21 12:00 - 18:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
This Modern Life is a celebration of design for the way we live. Participating showrooms and stores will feature workshops, demonstrations, tastings, sweepstakes, and more. Plus Homepolish and Chairish host pop-ups for one day only. Pick up a map and explore! Complete info on our dedicated event page. #thismodernlife

New School of Cooking Students Present Spring Lunch Pop-Up
2016-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 | New School of Cooking, 8690 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
On Friday, May 20th from 12 to 1pm, New School of Cooking’s Culinary and Baking and Pastry Arts Students will be putting on a Spring Lunch Pop-Up. The four course menu has been designed to showcase skills the students have learned up to this point in their studies and includes Chicken Provençal and a Chocolate Soufflé . This lunch is open to the community and tickets can be purchased for $10.00 at www.newschoolofcooking.com.
Menu: Fresh Baked Bread, Amuse Bouche, Seasonal Greens, Persian Cucumbers and Farmers Market Tomatoes with Vinaigrette,Chicken Provencal with Lyonnaise Potatoes and Ratatouille and Chocolate Soufflé with Grand Marnier Créme Anglaise.

Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Architect Todd Gannon
2016-05-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us Thursday, May 19th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for a reception, lecture, and discussion with TODD GANNON of Sci-Arc, as he shares his research, work, and philosophy in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available at Valet on the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Boulevard. Head down Helms Avenue toward Washington Boulevard, turn right to the Helms Design Center located at 8745 Washington Boulevard. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com.

Todd Gannon is an architect, writer, and curator based in Los Angeles. A graduate of The Ohio State University (BS Arch, M. Arch) and UCLA (Ph.D.), he taught at Ohio State, Otis College of Art and Design, and UCLA before joining the faculty at SCI-Arc in 2008, where he teaches history, theory, and design studio; coordinates the Cultural Studies curriculum, and serves as editor of academic publications.
Gannon’s research focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002), Pendulum Plane/Oyler Wu Collaborative (2009), Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House (2013), and monographs on the work of Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Steven Holl, Mack Scogin/Merrill Elam, Zaha Hadid, and Peter Eisenman. His essays have appeared in The Routledge Handbook for Architectural Design and Practice (2015), The SAGE Handbook for Architectural Theory (2012), The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism (2007), and in periodicals including Log, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Offramp. In collaboration with Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago, he curated the 2013 exhibition A Confederacy of Heretics at SCI-Arc, which examines the legacy of Thom Mayne’s 1979 “Architecture Gallery” in Venice, California. His next books, Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech Architecture and Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585 are forthcoming. Currently, he is at work editing a compilation of Craig Hodgetts’ architectural writings and researching a monograph on the work of Franklin D. Israel.
Gannon has lectured at institutions across the United States, in Europe, and in Asia, and is a frequent conference participant and jurist. He served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, where he directed publication efforts from 2008-2010. His work has been recognized and supported by the Graham Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Ohio State University, and UCLA.

Introduced and Moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Kao Pao Shu Returns With A Pop-up Trunk Show And Sample Sale
2016-05-19 - 2016-05-21 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, May 18th thru Saturday May 21st from 10am to 6pm, stop into Kao Pao Shu’s pop-up sample sale and get great deals on Naida Begeta’s unconventional and structural designs.
Entirely designed and manufactured in California, Naida’s unique voice and creative process is clearly embodied in her clothing and accessories collections. The outcome: a completely organic work of art!
Plus, they will be giving away a backpack during our This Modern Life sweepstakes. Enter-To-Win here.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
The visionary and creator behind Kao Pao Shu is Naida Begeta, who is originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to her intrinsic abilities, Naida obtained a degree in Product Design from the University of Sarajevo’s Academy of Fine Art. Naida’s creative process involves taking structural and unconventional design theory and applying it to fashion,
bringing youthful rebellion and graceful elegance to her clothing and accessory lines. Naida is involved in every piece of a collection, and her team is encouraged to be kind, innovative, and adventurous.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Olivia Bee And Special Guest, BØRNS
2016-05-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, May 14th from 5:00pm – 7:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host Olivia Bee in a celebration of the publication of her book Kids In Love. Joining Olivia will be her friend and very special musical guest, BØRNS, who will present an acoustic set as part of the evening’s festivities.
Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and adventure. Her first full-length book Kids in Love from Aperture showcases two bodies of photographic work, including the series “Enveloped in a Dream” that first brought Bee recognition as a teenager. These images offer a visual diary of girlhood friendship and the exploration of self, showcasing Bee’s unique ability to convey the bittersweet nostalgia of adolescence on the brink of adulthood and new possibilities. The second, “Kids in Love”, is a photographic chronicle of her circle of friends and new loves, capturing both the pleasures and terrors of the fleeting passage of romanticized youth. While the work continues to evolve, what remains constant is her seductive use of color and photographic artifact, as well as the immediacy and charge of each image.
Bee gives voice to the self-awareness and visual fluency of the millennial generation. Experiences are sharply felt, and easily communicated and shared, generating visual records that render these memories as significant as the moments themselves. Tavi Gevinson, founding editor of the online magazine “Rookie” as well as Bee’s frequent collaborator and model writes about the work and about the role of images as social currency in today’s image-driven world.
8675 Washington Boulevard
310-458-1499

Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Architect Hitoshi Abe
2016-05-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us Thursday May 5th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for a reception, lecture, and discussion with HITOSHI ABE of Atelier Hitoshi Abe, as he shares insights into his international design practice, his research and his decade-long career in education in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available at Valet on the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Boulevard. Head down Helms Avenue toward Washington Boulevard, turn right to the Helms Design Center located at 8745 Washington Boulevard. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com.

Hitoshi Abe is the founder of Atelier Hitoshi Abe (AHA), a leading international design practice which has realized architecture and planning projects across broad scales and typologies. This includes educational institutions, museums, housing, commercial and retail spaces, and cultural facilities. The firm’s work has been published internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Vienna Municipal Council Schorsch Award for its WU building (2013), the ICONIC AWARD for its reimagining of 3M Corporate Headquarters (2015), First Prize in the re-planning of the University of Montpellier (2010), the SIA-Getz Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia (2008) and the Building Contractors Society Award for Miyagi Stadium (2001). AHA’s work is also the subject of two monographs, including Hitoshi Abe Flicker (TOTO) from his exhibition in 2005 at the Gallery Ma in Tokyo and Hitoshi Abe published by Phaidon in 2009.
In addition to the work of his practice, Hitoshi has established himself as a leader in education, with a decade-long distinguished career. In 2007, he was appointed professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2010, he was appointed Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Chair in the Study of Contemporary Japan, as well as Director of the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. Hitoshi has also been involved in a variety of other activities, including publishing monographs and articles, editing books, and participating in international exhibitions and conferences.

Introduced and Moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Architect Michael Folonis
2016-04-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us Thursday April 7th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for a reception, lecture, and discussion with MICHAEL FOLONIS of Michael W. Folonis Architects, as he shares his research, work, and philosophy in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available at Valet on the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Boulevard. Head down Helms Avenue toward Washington Boulevard, turn right to the Helms Design Center located at 8745 Washington Boulevard. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
Michael Folonis, FAIA is design principal and founder of Michael W. Folonis Architecture of Santa Monica, California. The firm is committed to creating authentic, contemporary architecture informed by culture, history, technology, sustainability and building innovation. In 2008, Michael was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the highest honor bestowed to an architect by the National AIA. Mr. Folonis has served on the Board of Directors, Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA and is currently a board member on the California Council of the AIA. Folonis earned his bachelor of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and his masters of architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Michael taught studio design in both the graduate and undergraduate program at Cal Poly Pomona from 1983 to 2004. He currently teaches at SCI-Arc.
Introduced and Moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon
2016-03-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Tuesday March 8th from 6:30 – 8:30pm, please join us in welcoming Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon of Höweler + Yoon as we host a reception, lecture and discussion in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
About the Architects
Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a registered architect with 20 years of experience in practice. He is a principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, public space, and media. Höweler is LEED AP, and a registered architect in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. He is co-author with his partner J. Meejin Yoon of Expanded Practice: Höweler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 and is author of Skyscaper: Vertical Now, published by Rizzoli/Universe Publishers, 2003. Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University.
J. Meejin Yoon, AIA, FAAR is the head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Yoon is a registered architect and founder of MY Studio and Höweler + Yoon Architecture, LLP. Yoon’s work has been widely recognized for its innovative and interdisciplinary nature. Her design research investigates new intersections between space, technology and materiality. She is author of Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig (MAP Book Publishers 2008). Yoon received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University in 1997, and a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Steven Rea (Plus Cognoscenti Coffee)
2016-02-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, February 6th from 4:00pm – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host their longtime friend Steven Rea in a celebration of the publication of his new book Hollywood Café: Coffee With The Stars.
Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent Era through the eighties making and drinking their own cups of joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Café bridges the vibrant coffee culture of the present with the glamorous coffee culture of the star-studded past. A cast of nearly two hundred stars – including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, and many more – is captured on the set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes, and at the kitchen table refilling and refueling, sipping and savoring, drinking the good stuff, just like us.
Plus, enjoy divine, freshly-brewed coffee graciously provided by Cognoscenti Coffee! RSVP for planning purposes by kindly emailing to let them know you’ll be there.
8675 Washington Boulevard
310-458-1499

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Carlos Betancourt
2016-01-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, January 28th from 5:30 – 7:30pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a casual conversation and book signing in honor of Carlos Betancourt’s Imperfect Utopia, a new book by Skira/Rizzoli. Q & A with Joan Quinn and wines by Daou Vineyards & Winery.
8675 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA
310.458.1499
