Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon
2016-03-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

Helms Bakery District Hosts A Lively Discussion With L.A.'s Leading Architects
2016-01-20 06:30 - 08:40 (Africa/Abidjan) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Wednesday, January 20th at 6:00pm for a lively discussion and presentation of Hitting the High Notes: The Fine Art of Performing Art Centers.
Joined by a panel of distinguished architects including Craig Hodgetts, Steven Ehrlich, Michael Rachlin and Renzo Zecchetto, Culver City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Thomas Small will guide the discussion and explore how performing arts centers define our cities, serve as architectural landmarks, and inspire great design. Enjoy light refreshments and a live concert.
Please email rsvpchristine@communicationartsinc.com to secure a seat.
Helms Design Center
8745 Washington Boulevard
Craig Hodgetts, FAIAFounding Partner & Creative Director, Hodgetts + Fung
Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, RIBAFounding Partner, Ehrlich Architects
Michael Rachlin, AIAFounding Partner, Rachlin Partners
Renzo Zecchetto, AIA Founding Partner, Renzo Zecchetto Architects, Inc.
Thomas Small – ModeratorCulver City Cultural Affairs Commissioner

Holiday Pop-Up Sale
2015-12-13 10:00 - 19:00, 2015-12-12 10:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Celebrate the season with unique offerings from local artisans:
Boom • Kao Pao Shu • Lindy Sue’s • Sonja & Jeff Smith
Join us at the Helms Design Center for a special two-day sale!
Saturday, Dec. 12, 10 am – 7 pm
Sunday, Dec. 13, 10 am – 5 pm
Featuring:
Boom
modern furniture, home accessories and design books
boomusa.com
Kao Pao Shu
cutting-edge fashion and distinctive handbags
kaopaoshu.com
Lindy Sue’s
handcrafted gifts & fine homewares
lindysues.com
Sonja & Jeff Smith
handcrafted artwork, ceramics and home decor

CANCELLED - Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Standing on Sacred Ground - Profit and Loss"
2015-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE LATE NOTIFICATION.
Join us on Wednesday, December 9th from 7:30 – 9:30pm for the finale event in our climate change series with our partners at VisionLA Fest. We will be screening the film Standing on Sacred Ground – Profit and Loss.
From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, health and cultural survival to mining and oil industries. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese-government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are strip-mined to unearth the world’s third-largest oil reserve.
Indigenous people tell their own stories and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption. Featuring Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Oren Lyons (Onondaga), Satish Kumar and activist Clayton Thomas-Muller (Cree).
Special Guests Attending: Director Christopher McLeod and Tar Sands/KXL activist Aldo Seoane.
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Tickets are free but space is limited. Please make a reservation to secure a seat.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Standing on Sacred Ground - Islands of Sanctuary"
2015-12-07 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Monday, December 7th at 7:30pm for the screening of Standing on Sacred Ground – Islands of Sanctuary.
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australias Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom. In HawaIi, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kaho`olawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range. Featuring Patrick Dodson (Yawuru), Emmett Aluli and Davianna McGregor (Hawaii) and Barry Lopez.
Screening with: Faith Against Fracking
Special Guests Attending: Guests include David Braun, director of Faith Against Fracking, and Kumu Hula instructor Mikilani Young, who will will call in a hula prayer for the earth. Not to be missed!
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Faith Against Fracking"
2015-12-07 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Monday, December 7th from 7:30 – 9:30pm for an evening of films including the screening of Faith Against Fracking.
In this short film, several faith leaders discuss the importance of protecting creation, stopping climate change, and coming together in the interests of stewarding the planet for future generations.
Faith Against Fracking is not only a film but a community of faith leaders and people of faith calling on world leaders to ban fracking and other extreme fossil fuel extraction techniques. A fundamental cornerstone of most, if not all faiths, is the imperative to protect creation. Pope Francis’ recent Encyclical on Climate Change called on all people living in our common home to be good stewards of the planet, “to protect the world, and not prey on it.”
US 2014 20 mins. Director David Braun
Special Guests attending the screening: Director David Braun
Screens with: Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

CANCELLED - Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen " Standing on Sacred Ground - Fire and Ice"
2015-12-07 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE LATE NOTICE.
Join us on Monday, December 7th from 7:30 – 9:30pm for an evening of films including the screening of Standing on Sacred Ground – Fire and Ice.
In Part 1 of the 4-part documentary series Standing on Sacred Ground, from Ethiopia to Peru, indigenous customs protect biodiversity on sacred lands under pressure from religious conflicts and climate change.
In the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia, scientists confirm the benefits of traditional stewardship even as elders witness the de- cline of spiritual practices that have long protected trees, meadows and mountains. Tensions with evangelical Christians over a sacred meadow erupt into a riot. In the Peruvian Andes, the Qeros, on a pilgrimage to a revered glacier, are driven from their ritual site by intolerant Catholics. Qeros potato farmers face a more ominous foe: global warming is melting glaciers, their water source. Andes farmers, scientists and visiting Ethiopians struggle to adapt indigenous agriculture to the changing climate.
US 2014 56 mins. Directed by Christopher McLeod
Special Guests in Attendance: Sacred Ground director Christopher McLeod and Faith Against Fracking director David Braun.
Screening with: Faith Against Fracking
Tickets are free but space is limited. Please make a reservation to secure a seat.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct"
2015-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Sunday, December 6th from 7:00 – 9:00pm for an evening of films including the screening of 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
100 Mules is pure poetry in motion and not to be missed. On the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio performed One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a commemorative artist action to connect Los Angeles to its water source. This performative parade of 100 mules traversed the 240 miles of pipelines and canals that bring water from the Eastern Sierras through a gravity-fed system to Los Angeles; passing through three counties and nearly 50 communities along the way took over a month to complete.
Mule power shaped the modern West and was a primary force in constructing the aqueduct, an engineering feat that took only seven years to complete despite the rough terrain. One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct documents this action with a resolution to move forward into the next hundred years with renewed appreciation for this vital resource. Let it be resolved that the citizens of Los Angeles will do better at utilizing this life-giving resource in the next one hundred years!
US 2014 60 min. Director Bruce Dickson; Artist Lauren Bon
Guests Attending this Screening: artist Lauren Bon and director Bruce Dickson
Screening with: Soil Carbon Cowboys
Tickets are free but space is limited. Please make a reservation to secure a seat.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Soil Carbon Cowboys"
2015-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Sunday, December 6th from 7:00 – 9:00pm for an evening of films including the screening of Soil Carbon Cowboys. Meet Allen Williams, Gabe Brown and Neil Dennis – heroes and innovators!
These ranchers now know how to regenerate their soils while making their animals healthier and their operations more profitable. They are turning ON their soils, enabling rainwater to sink into the earth rather than run off. And these turned ON soils retain that water, so the ranches are much more resilient in drought. It’s an amazing story that has just begun.

Guests Attending this Screening: Director Peter Byck
Screening with: 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct
US 2014 56 min, Director Peter Byck

Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Claudia Borgna's Performance Piece, "Beauty Parlour" Comes To Helms Walk
2015-12-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
Join us on Sunday, December 6th at 3:00pm on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for an outdoor performance piece by Claudia Borgna called Beauty Parlour, following the theme of domestic labor she also explores in Domestic Apocalypse. In this piece, the performer wears a domestic uniform and dusts and cleans trees and plants in a public outdoor area. She engages passersby in cleaning as appropriate.
Artist’s statement:
Domestic economies are determined by global capitalist economy. Could the domestic economy affect our social public economy instead? The economy of cleaning might be the solution to clean up an economy of greed that is responsible for the destruction of the planet.
Domestic work is an indispensable part of life.
Looking after our surroundings, caring, cleaning, cooking, gardening, are domestic duties and part of maintenance work. Renewable repetitions subtly change within the gestures of care, transforming and maintaining the sustainability of love. The pedagogy of maintenance is my daily practice: my resistance to capitalism.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Room & Board Hosts An Afternoon Of Family Fun
2015-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
On Sunday, December 6th from 2:00 – 4:00pm, please join Room & Board for a fun-filled afternoon of kids’ design inspiration with international toy maker Seedling and interior design experts from Laurel & Wolf.
Parents and children of all ages will enjoy Seedling’s holiday-inspired crafts and trunk show featuring activity kits and kid-friendly gifts. Explore kids’ bedroom vignettes styled by Laurel & Wolf using their favorite Room & Board and Seedling products and discover the latest in handcrafted, American-made designs.
Please rsvp here.

Diana Wyenn's Interactive Performance "Compassio " Comes To Helms Walk
2015-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
Join us on Sunday, December 6th from 1:00 – 3:00pm on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, for Diana Wyenn’s interactive performance Compassio
. Compassion is an ancient idea upon which all the major religions place great importance. Compassion is also quickly becoming a new age buzzword.
Investigating the historical and contemporary uses, references, and definitions of compassion through the lens of Climate Change, this series of short mixed media performances directed by Diana Wyenn confronts our relationship to the term and the ambition, as well as its actual embodiment and exclusion in local, U.S., and global culture today.
Performed outside in unexpected places at unexpected times and using movement, text, screens, intimacy, and humor, Compassio
surprises and compels its unsuspecting audience to ask: What form does compassion take in our capitalist society? If compassion is the response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help, who is suffering? And how much motivation is needed before one helps?
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Merchants of Doubt"
2015-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Saturday, December 5th at 8:00pm for the screening of Merchants of Doubt. Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin.
Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.
UK 2014, 96 mins. Director Robert Kenner
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Arcana Hosts A (Double) Book Signing With Ed Templeton And Ethan Rafal
2015-12-05 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, December 5th from 4:00 to 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for another exciting, double-header with two of their fave phtographers: Ed Templeton and Ethan Rafal.
Ed Templeton
In 1999, the late, great Alleged Gallery published Ed Templeton’s first book of photography, Teenage Smokers. In the intervening sixteen years Ed is a firmly entrenched guiding light of the Southern California art community, and Teenage Smokers has become a sought-after high spot for any photo book collection.
Now, hot off the press from Tokyo’s Super Labo is Teenage Smokers 2 – featuring a brand new generation of nicotine-inhaling youngsters. Ed will be signing – and no doubt drawing in – copies of this, the newly republished Wayward Cognitions, a few remaining copies of the now sold out Deadbeat Club Common Side Effects Huntington Beach catalogue, Umbrella, and his magnificent new travelogue of Santa Catalina Island, Adventures in the Nearby Far Away. We’ll also have copies of the original Teenage Smokers along with a few vintage rarities available here the day of the event.
Come celebrate this treasure trove of new and vintage Templetoniana. Sales of Common Side Effects and Adventures in the Nearby Far Away will be limited to one per customer for those attending the event while supplies last.
Ethan Rafal: Shock and Awe
San Francisco-based Ethan Rafal has produced one of our favorite photography books of recent years! A complex autobiographical project examining the relationship between protracted war and homeland decay, Shock and Awe is a meticulously crafted work combining image, text, and found objects compiled over twelve years of traveling the United States that blurs the line between author and subject, and personal versus authoritative histories. Drawing from the traditions of documentary photography and writing set on the American road, the unique, hand-made journal was created with transfer prints, handwriting, and found materials that were bound in the remains of an abandoned vehicle. This trade edition limited to five hundred copies carefully reproduces every inch of every page conveying the look and feel of the original down to its strap closure. Made by middle-class workers in Spain, the paper was sustainably harvested in Finland, and the cloth is from New England.
The artist introduces audiences to this work through his ongoing “Shock and Awe Book Tour” which returns the journal to the people and places depicted, bringing author, subject, and viewer into an exploration of the total meaning of the work. The presentation of Shock and Awe is equal parts story-telling, show-and-tell, and group discussion featuring for its Arcana stop ample homemade cast-iron walnut pie served with bourbon and milk.
Ethan Rafal’s multi-media works deal with the individual and collective experience of violence, and the ways in which subsequent representations of violence inform personal and national mythologies. He helps run The Farmstand – an alternative artspace on a farm in Northern California – and collaborates with the Bay Area’s Art For a Democratic Society.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "The Breach"
2015-12-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Friday, December 4th at 7:30pm for the screening of The Breach, but please be warned: you may never eat farmed fish again!
When fishing guide/filmmaker Mark Titus learns why wild salmon populations plummeted in his native Pacific Northwest, he embarks on a journey to discover where the fish have gone and what might bring them back. Along the way, Titus unravels a trail of human hubris, historical amnesia and potential tragedy looming in Alaska, all conspiring to end the most sustainable wild food left on the planet.
Screening with: Water and Light
US 2015, 82 mins. Director Mark Titus
Best of Fest selection, 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best International Documentary 2014 Galway Film Fleadh.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Water & Light"
2015-12-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Friday, December 4th at 7:30pm for the screening of Water & Light, a mesmerizing short film; a meditation on the beauty of the sea, where submerged creatures are painted with water & light. Screening with: The Breach
Director, Diana Lehr
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Racing To Zero"
2015-12-03 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:00pm for the screening of Racing To Zero. The film is a quick-moving, upbeat documentary presenting new solutions to the global problem of waste. By simply substituting the word RESOURCE for the word GARBAGE, a culture can be transformed, and a new wealth of industries can emerge.
Three years ago the mayor of San Francisco pledged to achieve zero waste by 2020. Racing to Zero tracks San Francisco’s waste stream diversion tactics and presents innovative new solutions to waste. This film documents a surprising, engaging and inspiring race to zero.
US 2014, 69 mins. Director Christopher Beaver
Special Guests Attending: Director Christopher Beaver and guests from SoCal350 Climate Action and L.A. green garbage movement.
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

Helms Bakery Hosts "What The Frack Happened?" Copy
2015-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Thursday, December 3rd for What the Frack Happened?, an interactive theatre presentation that captures a moment in time when Climate Change arrives. As a result, a catastrophic tsunami has crushed the World and more importantly, the wedding of the year, leaving the guests to ponder their predicament while floating out to sea. Presented by the Citizen Change Theater troupe.
Gina Powell and Brian Powell, Artistic Directors
Jef Beck, Musical Director
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
The Helms Bakery Festival events run Thursday, December 3rd through Wednesday, December 9th. We hope you join us for a film screening or discussion, enjoy an art installation or theatre performance, or come to all of the events around our campus. The Festival umbrella brings together a collective of artists who have much to share about shaping a better future. For a complete Festival calendar, click here.
About VisionLA
The VisionLA ’15 Climate Action Arts Festival is the first-ever multi-disciplinary arts festival throughout the greater Los Angeles area organized to give artists a voice in the increasingly urgent conversation around climate change, resource use and environmental social justice. The festival is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort organized by artists for artists, and for the Los Angeles community as a whole. This first year, the festival is timed to coincide with the UN’s COP21 Global Climate Conference in Paris, from November 30 through December 11, to raise awareness of this important milestone in the international call for strong carbon emissions standards.

2015-11-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Monday, November 16th from 6:30 – 8:30pm, please join Saatchi Art for AN EVENING OF ART AND CONVERSATION: How Technology Is Solving the Inefficiencies of the Traditional Art Market, with a panel of experts that include Sean Moriarty, CEO, Demand Media, Carlos Rivera, Founder, ArtRank, Stefan Simchowitz, independent art consultant in conversation with Jori Finkel, New York Times and The Art Newspaper.
6:30pm Check-in and viewing of The Robot Sessions, an exhibition by Church of Type
7:00pm Panel discussion and Q&A
8:00pm Reception
Helms Design Center
8745 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
Complimentary valet parking available on westbound Washington.
Please Note: This event is now Sold Out.

Room & Board Teams Up With Bneato Bar To Help You Declutter Your Home
2015-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
On Sunday, November 15th from 2:00 – 4:00pm, Room & Board will help you refresh your home with tips and tricks to declutter your space from Bneato Bar, an LA-based team of professional organizers. Founder Beth Penn will lead an interactive workshop on decluttering and discuss how to be more organized using her favorite Room & Board accessories.
Enjoy refreshments, explore Room & Board’s exclusive collection of handcrafted, American-made designs and discover how to get more time, space and joy out of your newly organized home!
RSVP to this event here.

Helms Bakery Partners With Saatchi Art To Feature Emerging Artist Kevin Bradley
2015-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Robot World is a new exhibition of original works by Kevin Bradley and his Church of Type. On view inside the Helms Design Center gallery space, the exhibition continues Saatchi Art’s series of shows around the world featuring today’s most exciting emerging artists.
Curated by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP of Art Advisory at Saatchi Art, Robot World showcases original works created using authentic handset letterpress technique, featuring the Church of Type’s unparalleled collection of hand-carved woodblocks and metal moveable type with 1,000 fonts—one of the largest of its kind still in use today.
On view by appointment November 12–29 at Helms Bakery District, located at 8745 Washington Blvd, Culver City. All works are on sale at the exhibition in Los Angeles and online at Saatchi Art. An opening reception with take place Saturday, November 14th from 6pm-8pm.
For more details and to RSVP, please visit churchoftype.eventbrite.com.

Arcana Hosts A Special Saturday (Double) Book Signing
2015-11-14 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, November 14th from 4:00 to 7:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for the first in a series of exciting, overlapping double-headers with two of their favorite photographers to celebrate their new publications documenting modern-day working class heroes in the United Kingdom.
JONA FRANK: THE MODERN KIDS 4:00 until 6:00 PM
In the Fall of 2010, photographer Jona Frank began to make portraits at an amateur boxing club just outside of Liverpool in a suburb called Ellesmere Port. All the boys tried to act tough for the camera, and Frank was reminded of a line from the Arcade Fire song Rococo: “They seem wild, but they are so tame”. In the song they are singing about going downtown and watching the modern kids. It made Frank think about how these boys, in this town, are in their life. For them, everything is present. This is their 21st Century, their right now, but their faces evoke the past. Some people might confuse the realism of Jona’s work with a certain anti-romanticism. But she’s just bending the ideal by holding true to the photographer’s mantra “keep your eyes open and be true to your heart“.
Santa Monica-based Jona Frank’s thought-provoking books of youth-oriented portraits, High School and Right: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League are perennial favorites, and The Modern Kids makes a stunning new companion.
NICK WAPLINGTON: LIVING ROOM WORK PRINTS 5:00 until 7:00 PM
By the late 1980s England had experienced ten years of Conservative government, the collapse of industry, the rise in poverty and unemployment, and centralized government’s abandonment of people and place. It is in this context that British photographer Nick Waplington spent four years documenting the daily lives of two working-class families on a council estate in Nottingham, England. Rather than embracing the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated color, capturing an intimate narrative with poignancy and an unexpected humor.
Nick Waplington makes no dramatic social statements, but rather a quite touching (matter-of-fact) chronicle of the daily struggle of the working-class. “Living Room is tender and poignant, wonderfully documenting the physical and physiological dysfunctionality of families enduring the plight of economic deficiency”.

LA Forum's "Out There, Doing It" Series Continues At Helms Bakery
2015-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, November 12th at 7:00pm, please join the LA Forum and the 2015 Out There Doing It participants for an “ideas potluck.” No need to bring a casserole, just bring your best questions, thoughts, concepts, and critiques. Four teams of emerging architects, designers, and curators will muse, discuss, and debate at Helms Design Center.
Panelists include:
Duygun Inal and Ben Warwas, Typical Office
Jia Gu and Jonathan Crisman, LA-BOR
Jennifer Marmon, PAR
Jomjai and Jaitip Srisomburananont, Jai & Jai Gallery
Event is FREE for LA Forum members and $10.00 for non-members.
The LA Forum is a platform for architecture and urban design. Engaging Los Angeles through critical programming, publications and discourse on the built environment, it’s an advocate for emerging and multi-disciplinary practice.
www.laforum.org
Based in Los Angeles, JAI & JAI Gallery was founded in 2012 by sisters, Jomjai and Jaitip Srisomburananont. Jai & Jai Gallery focuses on maintaining a trans-disciplinary program by working with and exhibiting the works of both emerging architects and contemporary artists. Alongside curated exhibitions of relevant, contemporary work, the undercurrent mission of Jai & Jai Gallery is to engage in and cultivate discussions that lie within the intersection of art and architecture. The fresh perspectives of the gallery exhibitors reveal disparate influences and practices but share a common affinity for pushing the boundaries of theory, fabrication, and representation through art, architecture, and design.
www.jainjai.com
LABOR is Jonathan Crisman and Jia Gu. LABOR is a Los Angeles-based collective that works at the intersection of art and architecture. Their studio-based practice often turns to food, fiction, and printed matter to think critically about architecture and the city, using the forms of collective activities, ideas competitions, speculative interventions, and architectural happenings.
www.la-bor.com
Platform for Architecture + Research is an idea driven office, committed to intellectual and artistic rigor and recognized for architectural innovation. Established in 2003, PAR is led by partners Jennifer Marmon and Angus Goble with offices in Los Angeles and New York. PAR has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Emerging Practice Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles in 2014, an International Architecture Award in 2014 and an American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 2013. The work of PAR has been featured in exhibitions at the US National Building Museum, the New York Center for Architecture, the European Center for Architecture, the Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale among others, and in publications such as DAMDI, Architect, Concept, Form and MARK.
www.p-ar.com
Typical Office presently consists of two employees, Duygun Inal and Ben Warwas. Duygun and Ben were chosen because of their diverse backgrounds and ability to produce eclectically predictable yet unusual projects. During their employment at the Typical Office, Duygun and Ben designed a proposal for the recently opened Broad Museum in Los Angeles and produced an anti-teenage installation ‘16 and Pregnant’ for the One Night Stand LA Show 2015. The most recent project was a bespoke custom dress for the long awaited Frank Gehry exhibition opening at the LACMA. Typical Office is currently working on couple projects mainly researching the Public Storage Buildings and the Vernacular Car Washes of Los Angeles.
www.byben.com
www.d-inal.com

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing For "How We Live" By Marcia Prentice
2015-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, November 7th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Marcia Prentice for How We Live, an intimate photographic journal of designers’ and artists’ homes from around the world including Mumbai, Beirut, Marrakech, Reykjavik, Mexico City and Amsterdam.
Los Angeles-based photographer Marcia Prentice traveled to international cities to experience and present ‘the soul” of a diverse selection of domestic spaces, revealing the unique spirit of each creative environment. The book includes homes shown in the context of both more-established design-cities, as well as urban locales where economic disadvantage and strife impacts daily life. Each of the eighteen featured homeowners provides a glimpse into their private, interior world to show us how the design and atmosphere created in one’s own home can be the ultimate artistic canvas.
Space is limited so an RSVP is much appreciated.

Pop Over To Boom For Their Big Moving Sale
2015-11-07 10:00 - 2015-11-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Boom, 8575 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
For those friends of Helms Bakery who “remember when” Helms Avenue was a drive through street from Venice to Washington, you’ll also remember a great little accessory, jewelry and home furnishings shop by the name of Boom. While Boom moved from Helms in 2008 and took up residence just down the street, we still remain friendly neighbors.
From Saturday, November 7th through Sunday, November 8th from 10:00am – 6:00pm, pop over to 8575 Washington Boulevard for Boom’s Big Moving Sale. Enjoy 50% – 80% off home accessories, accent furniture and the current inventory on AllModern and Houzz.
It’s a great chance to start your holiday shopping!

Kao Pao Shu Sample Sale Comes to Helms Bakery
2015-11-06 10:00 - 2015-11-07 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th, from 10:00am – 8:00pm, please join us for a Kao Pao Shu sample sale. Up to 80% off on the latest and previous collections of bags, ready-to-wear and accessories.
Kao Pao Shu is founded on the aesthetic of visionary European designer Naida Begeta. Her ability to take structural and unconventional design theory and apply it to fashion is the basis for her creative process, bringing a combination of youthful rebellion with graceful elegance to her Los Angeles based Kao Pao Shu clothing and accessories lines. Kao Pao Shu’s design approach reflects Naida’s passion for “structuring lines” and Helms Bakery is always looking for fresh and new ways to highlight architectural principles.
Kao Pao Shu is entirely designed and manufactured in California. For more information about the company, please visit www.kaopaoshu.com or email info@kaopaoshu.com.

Carl Hansen & Søn Hosts A Floor Sample Sale
2015-11-05 09:00 - 2015-11-07 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Carl Hansen & Søn, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
Please join Carl Hansen & Søn for an amazing floor sample sale!
Beginning Thursday, November 5th through Saturday, November 7th from 9:00am – 5:00pm, many of the iconic furniture pieces inside their Los Angeles and New York showrooms will be up to 70% off their regular pricing.
All major credit cards are accepted and beverages will be served.
