Helms Design District

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Aline Smithson
2015-10-03 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, October 3rd from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Aline Smithson.
Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson.
Beginning with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints, she photographs the world around her considering the poignancy of childhood and the pathos of aging and relationships. The photographer considers all her portraits a reflection of herself and the stories she wants to tell, and in that way, has created a visual language that is her own unique autobiography.
If you would like to purchase a signed copy of Self & Others but cannot attend, please place an order here, or call 310-458-1499.

Room & Board Hosts An Evening With Design Experts
2015-10-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
On Thursday, October 1st from 6:00 – 8:00pm, please join Room & Board for an evening of inspiration with Jaime Derring, founder and executive editor of online design magazine, Design Milk and Jackson Schwartz and Joe Limpert, glassmakers and co-founders of Hennepin Made. Jaime will lead a lively conversation with Jackson and Joe about American craftsmanship in the artisan design industry and the process and inspiration behind creating handcrafted products.
Bring a friend, enjoy refreshments, and discover how to put the finishing touches on your space with Room & Board’s exclusive collection of American-made accessories. Please RSVP here.
Conversation begins at 6:30pm.

Helms Bakery's Sunset Cinema: The Proposal
2015-09-26 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, September 26th at approximately 7:15pm, we invite you to join us on Helms Walk for our 6th Annual Sunset Cinema Series featuring the final film, The Proposal. This year, we celebrate #lovewins with four weeks of outdoor screenings that are the perfect date night films to share with your sweetheart (and the kids).
Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go from the New School of Cooking cart on Helms Avenue. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars. Thanks so much for joining us. We will see you next year at the movies!
Helms Walk is our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue just in front of the Room & Board and Rug Warehouse showrooms.

The Proposal
2009 | Rated PG-13 | Runtime: 107 Min
Sandra Bullock stars in the romantic comedy The Proposal, as a Canadian immigrant who creates a demanding and difficult work environment for her subordinates at the office. When the news arrives that she’s about to be deported to the Great White North, she rushes into a marriage of convenience with her young assistant (played by Ryan Reynolds) to prevent such a catastrophe from occurring.

Helms Bakery's Sunset Cinema: Pride & Prejudice
2015-09-19 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, September 19th at approximately 7:15pm, we invite you to join us on Helms Walk for our 6th Annual Sunset Cinema Series featuring the third film, Pride & Prejudice. This year, we celebrate #lovewins with four weeks of outdoor screenings that are the perfect date night films to share with your sweetheart (and the kids).
Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go from the New School of Cooking cart on Helms Avenue. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars!
Helms Walk is our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue just in front of the Room & Board and Rug Warehouse showrooms.

Pride & Prejudice
2005 | Rated PG | Runtime: 127 Min
Jane Austen’s perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods), has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a match can be made, the Bennets bring their daughters Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Jane (Rosamund Pike) to a ball thrown by their new neighbor to see if sparks will fly. Pride & Prejudice also stars Jena Malone, Judi Dench, and Penelope Wilton.

Helms Bakery's Sunset Cinema: Moonrise Kingdom
2015-09-12 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, September 12th at approximately 7:15pm, we invite you to join us on Helms Walk for our 6th Annual Sunset Cinema Series featuring the second film, Moonrise Kingdom. This year, we celebrate #lovewins with four weeks of outdoor screenings that are the perfect date night films to share with your sweetheart (and the kids).
Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go from the New School of Cooking cart on Helms Avenue. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars!
Helms Walk is our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue just in front of the Room & Board and Rug Warehouse showrooms.

Moonrise Kingdom
2012 | Rated PG-13 | Runtime: 94 Min
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, this film tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. This quirky love story stars Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand.

Helms Bakery's Sunset Cinema: The Princess and the Frog
2015-09-05 19:15 - 21:30 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, September 5th at approximately 7:15pm, we invite you to join us on Helms Walk for our 6th Annual Sunset Cinema Series featuring the first film, The Princess and the Frog. This year, we celebrate #lovewins with four weeks of outdoor screenings that are the perfect date night films to share with your sweetheart (and the kids).
Come by early to shop, grab a bite, or get your movie snack to go from the New School of Cooking cart on Helms Avenue. We’ll provide plenty of chairs, so bring your friends and neighbors for a little free fun under the stars!
Helms Walk is our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue just in front of the Room & Board and Rug Warehouse showrooms.

The Princess and The Frog
2009 | Rated G | Runtime: 95 Min
Set in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century, The Princess and the Frog follows the story of a poor girl named Tiana who has a knack for cooking and dreams of opening her own restaurant. Her best friend since childhood is a privileged girl whose wealthy father employs Tiana’s mother as a dressmaker. When the friend’s family hosts a party for Prince Naveen of Maldonia, Dr. Facilier, an expert in black magic, turns the visiting royal into a frog. The now amphibious Naveen convinces Tiana that a kiss will reverse the spell, and if she obliges him he’ll provide the money she needs to open her dream eatery. However, their smooch not only fails to turn him back into a human, but transforms Tiana into a frog as well. The duo then sets out to find a voodoo priestess who can set everything right.

Helms Bakery Screens Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture
2015-08-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, August 27th, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA Los, Angeles to bring you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives.
Our final film, Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture brings to the screen the personal journeys and outstanding designs of Annabelle Selldorf of New York, Farshid Moussavi of London, Odile Decq of Paris, Marianne McKenna of Toronto, and Kathryn Gustafson of Seattle, Washington DC ,and London. Lively, engaging and character-driven, MAKING SPACE reveals how these women are succeeding in a profession long dominated by men.
6:00pm Reception
6:30pm Panel Discussion with KCRW DnA Host, Frances Anderton and panelists Annie Chu, Lisa Gimmy, Kay Kollar and Elissa Scrafano
7:45pm Film Screening
8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
Seating is Limited – Please RSVP! CEU Credit available for Architects. Light Bites and Beverages. Free Parking is located in the Valet lot at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
About the Film
Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture
2014 / USA / 50 mins Director Ultan Guilfoyle
For the first time in history, women are designing our world. A new generation of women is creating some of today’s most iconic architectural designs. They are the rising stars in what has been an all-male galaxy and they are literally and figuratively changing the landscape.
MAKING SPACE /5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture brings to the screen the personal journeys and outstanding designs of Annabelle Selldorf of New York, Farshid Moussavi of London, Odile Decq of Paris, Marianne McKenna of Toronto, and Kathryn Gustafson of Seattle, Washington DC ,and London. Lively, engaging and character-driven, MAKING SPACE reveals how these women are succeeding in a profession long dominated by men. We hear about what drives and challenges them, what choices they have made, and what is the nature of their creative process. We see the women both inside and outside their work environments and visit spectacular sites near and far.

Room & Board Hosts An Afternoon With The Honey Whiskey Trio
2015-08-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
On Sunday, August 23 from 3:00 to 5:00pm, please join Room & Board in their showroom for a musical afternoon with The Broad Stage, a theatre known for forging a new kind of artist and audience experience, with an exclusive live performance by Honey Whiskey Trio.
Captivating and moving audiences through performance, Honey Whiskey Trio explores harmony in folk, bluegrass and any melody that catches the ear. Bring a friend and enjoy a summer day with live music, light bites and cocktails. Please rsvp here.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Greg Gorman
2015-08-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, August 15th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing of Outside the Studio, Greg Gorman’s tenth monograph. It finds the noted Los Angeles-based photographer outside the reaches of the portrait and figure-study work for which he is best known, and onto the streets of Southeast Asia. Traveling throughout Singapore, Malaysia, China and India on behalf of Epson to participate in symposiums on fine art digital printing, Gorman got a firsthand look at these very different cultures at the very beginning of the digital revolution.
Working in the studio with the likes of Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro had become second nature, and his long-running series of celebrity portraits for L.A. Eyeworks is viewed as one of the iconic advertising campaigns of the late twentieth century. However, having shot exclusively on film for more than thirty years, the transition from analogue to digital cameras was a new experience for Gorman, and being thrust in front of strangers in China, Kuala Lampur, India, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam was an adventure – one who’s engaging results are revealed in this lovely new book from Damiani Editore.

Vogani Hosts Design for the Senses: A Retail Innovation Event
2015-08-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Vogani, 8723 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, August 13th at 6:00pm, please join the Vogani showroom in welcoming visionary, CEO, and chief Scent Designer at Nose Knows Design, Tracy Pepe for a discussion on Smelling Color: All a space needs is a single whiff.
Nose Knows Design has been scenting space by creating some of the most distinguishable Olfactive Brands. Tracy holds many awards, nominations and accolades for her work, and is held in very high esteem for her articles supporting sensorial solutions in spaces.
Scent design provides solutions intended to incorporate or enhance the scent within a space. The scent characteristics become the focus determining psychology, emotional impact, shopper’s insight, aesthetics, or brand recognition. For more information and to rsvp, please click here.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Shio Kusaka + Jonas Wood
2015-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Wednesday, July 6th from 6:00 – 8:00pm, please join Arcana in celebration of the collaborative work of Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood. Ms. Kusaka and Mr. Wood draw from each others work as painter and potter to probe the tensions between representation and expression, precision and chance, and influences from art history and life. Kusaka’s porcelain vessels play muse to Wood’s drawn and painted interiors, while conversely their idiosyncratic forms and glazes owe something to his impulsive line. They draw from personal memory and their shared existence as a married couple – his half-objective, half-fictional Los Angeles landscapes and still lifes set in their studio on Culver City’s Blackwelder Street, and her painted patterns that allude to their young daughter’s fascination with dinosaurs.
The two share influences and imagery but embark on autonomous explorations of their respective media. Exhibited together, these symbiotic works reveal the autobiographical roots and layers of cross-pollination that inspire their creation. Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood’s unique collaborative working process and artistic output are beautifully documented in the newly-published Gagosian and Rizzoli monograph Blackwelder.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Linda Rosenkrantz
2015-07-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, July 5th from 4:00pm – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host an afternoon meet and greet with author Linda Rosenkrantz in celebration of her innovative and now-classic Summer read: TALK.
Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue – the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments and revelations that make up our closest friendships. Set in the summer of 1965, Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. The trio are ambitious, artistic, hovering around thirty, and deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves along with everyone around them. They discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S&M in an ongoing narrative where anything goes, and no topic is off limits. These conversations were tape-recorded by Linda Rosenkrantz and transformed into a novel whose form and content put it well ahead of its time. Controversial upon its first publication in 1968, Talk remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.
Linda Rosenkrantz is the author of several books including Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams, her memoir, My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood, and the co-author with Christopher Finch of Gone Hollywood: The Movie Colony in the Golden Age. She resides in Los Angeles and is a founder of the popular baby-naming site Nameberry.com.

Arcana Hosts Book Signing and Launch With Bryan Ray Turcotte & Cynthia Connolly
2015-06-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, June 20th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Bryan Ray Turcotte and Cynthia Connolly for a celebratory book signing and launch of the newly re-released editions of two of their legendary and long out-of-print books.
Cynthia Connolly’s Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–86) is finally back in print with a seventh edition that includes a brand new, eight page afterword by the Washington DC-based author and publisher. And Los Angeles’ own Bryan Ray Turcotte’s Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement – the great visual history of the LA punk flyer in book form – is back with a 15th Anniversary edition.
Break out the leather and hair gel, resurrect the youthful attitude, and head to Arcana for this musically-charged Punk publishing event!

Celebrate Summer With The Culver City Arts District
2015-06-20 15:00 - 18:00 | Culver City Arts District
On Saturday, June 20th from 3:00 – 6:00pm, please join the Culver City Arts District as they celebrate summer with a free self-guided tour of the art galleries, shops and restaurants all along Washington Boulevard. Enjoy some local specials such as 10% off books at Arcana, a free Boot Camp class on Helms Avenue at 3:00pm, and special treats from the New School of Cooking Café. Check out the activities on the CC Arts District website or just pop into the neighborhood and be surprised. We hope you enjoy the Summer Crawl. Happy Father’s Day!

Baby Boot Camp Hosts a Free Family Class on Helms Avenue
2015-06-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
On Saturday, June 20th at 3:00pm, please join our Baby Boot Camp instructors Melinda and Elizabeth, for a free family exercise class on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue. They will provide coloring activities for the kids and a class package that includes special offers for moms. Plus goodies from GoMacro Bars and Zico Coconut Water! Start your summer with a fun workout.

Arcana Hosts a Book Signing With Gusmano Cesaretti
2015-06-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, June 14th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their friend Gusmano Cesaretti in celebration of the publication of his intriguing visual memoir.
Maria Sabina (1888 – 1985) was a healer, curanderas, and Shaman in the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca. She used the power of the sacred mushroom as part of her ceremonies that cured hundreds in her community throughout her lifetime. In this newly-released book from Mexico’s Conaculta, noted Italian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Gusmano Cesaretti shares his personal story of self-discovery when this great woman allowed him to enter her sacred world.
8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City310.558.8900

Celebrate Summer with Floral Art Design Studio
2015-06-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
You’re invited to celebrate the power of the flower with Los Angeles’ own Floral Art, known for their unique arrangements inspired by architecture, fashion and interior designs. Named Best of Los Angeles by LA Magazine,experts from Floral Art will lead a lively demonstration on creating fresh arrangements for summer using Room & Board vases. Discover the best centerpiece and tabletop designs for every room while you enjoy light bites and refreshments. Bring a friend and view our collection of outdoor furnishings and accessories, perfect for summertime entertaining.
RSVP here

Architecture & Design Film Festival: Gray Matters
2015-06-04 18:00 - 20:45 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, June 4th, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA Los Angeles to bring you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives.

Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.
6:00 pm Reception
6:30 pm Film Screening
7:45 pm Q & A with Frederick L. Greene, Ph.D , Gray Matters Researcher & Writer and Kyle Bergman, AIA, ADFF Festival Director
Seating is Limited – Please RSVP.
CEU Credit available for Architects.
Light Bites and Beverages provided by the New School of Cooking.
Free Parking is located in the Valet lot at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City 90232

ABOUT THE FILM
Gray Matters
2014/Ireland & USA/72 Minutes
Director Marco Orsini
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she laboured largely in obscurity.
Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building –persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.

Lecture Series: Alvin Huang of Synthesis Design + Architecture
2015-05-28 18:30 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series
Alvin Huang of Synthesis Design + Architecture

On Thursday, May 28th from 6:30 – 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Alvin Huang, AIA – architect, educator, designer, and Founder and Design Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture, an award-winning contemporary design practice focused on exploring design at the intersection of Performance, Technology and Craft. Alvin specializes in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.
The Lecture is Free and Open to the Public. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com
6:30pm Reception with light bites and refreshments provided by New School of Cooking
7:00pm Lecture, with discussion immediately following
This series is introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects.
Free Parking is available in the Valet lot on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
Thank you for joining us for us!

Lecture Series: Erin Besler of Besler & Sons
2015-05-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Erin Besler of Besler & Sons

On Thursday, May 21st from 6:30 – 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Erin Besler, co-founder and principal of the Los Angeles based design collective, Besler & Sons. Holding both a B.A. from Yale University and a M.A. of Architecture with Distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Besler is a faculty member in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, where she was the 2013-2014 Teaching Fellow.
The Lecture is Free and Open to the Public. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com
6:30pm Reception with light bites and refreshments provided by New School of Cooking
7:00pm Lecture, with discussion immediately following
This series is introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects.

Free Parking is available in the Valet lot on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

Lecture Series: Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects
2015-05-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects

On Thursday, May 14th from 6:30 – 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Stanley Saitowtiz, partner, principal and founding member of San Francisco based firm, Natoma Architects. Saitowitz produces architecture as an un-programmed and indeterminate blank slate, which is highly refined and evolved.
The Lecture is Free and Open to the Public. Please rsvp to calpolylametro@gmail.com
6:30pm Reception with light bites and refreshments provided by New School of Cooking
7:00pm Lecture, with discussion immediately following
This series is introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects.

Free Parking is available in the Valet lot on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

Arcana Hosts a Book Signing With Deanna Templeton + Dennis McGrath
2015-05-10 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
On Sunday, May 10th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a double book signing of Dennis McGrath’s Heaven and Deanna Templeton’s They Should Never Touch The Ground. Round out your Mother’s Day celebrating with a lemonade or beer to toast these two authors.
8675 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
310.458.1499

Helms Bakery Teams Up With Cal Poly LA Metro Program To Welcome Erick Carcamo
2015-05-07 18:30 - 21:00 | CA
On Thursday, May 7th from 6:30 – 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Erick Carcamo from X/A (X Atelier) for a reception, lecture and discussion. Mr. Carcamo is Principal and co-founder of X/A, an internationally based and recognized design firm whose intentions and processes deviate toward the extreme conditions of innovation and the pure coherence of invention.
Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects and associate professor, Cal Poly Program in architecture and Urban Design.
This is event is FREE and open to the public. Please rsvp here. Free parking is available in the Valet lot on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City

Helms Bakery Partners With The Architecture & Design Film Festival
2015-04-23 18:00 - 19:45 | CA
On Thursday, April 23rd at 6:00 pm, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA, Los Angeles to bring you you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives.
Join us for a tour of our newest showroom Danish furniture company Carl Hansen & Son, enjoy some light refreshments, as well as a Q & A with the film’s Director immediately following the screening.
Seating is limited. Please rvsp for Christiania – 40 Years of Occupation here. CEU credit available for Architects
6:00pm Reception in the Carl Hansen & Son Showroom
6:30pm Film Screening
7:45pm Q & A with Christiania Director, Robert Lawson and Kyle Bergman, AIA, ADFF Festival Director
8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Free Parking is located at the Valet at Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
Christiania – 40 Years of Occupation
2014 / 76 minutes / USA
Directed by Robert Lawson & Richard Jackman
About the Film
Christiania – 40 Years of Occupation is a film that tells the story of a squatter community occupying an abandoned military base in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Christiania was born in 1971 when youthful idealism and a severe housing shortage incited hundreds of young people to occupy 85 acres of deserted brick buildings, woods, ramparts and canals as their home. Finding it politically unpopular to evict the young settlers, the Danish government declared Christiania a “short-term social experiment”. Over forty years later, Christiania is still standing.
Through interviews with longtime Christiania residents and police and government officials, Christiania – 40 Years of Occupation explores consensus democracy, alternative building methods, drug policy and Scandinavian culture in a provocative and often humorous character study of this fascinating community.

Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With William Hackman
2015-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Wednesday, April 15th from 6:00 – 8:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing in celebration of William Hackman’s Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties.
Out of Sight chronicles the rapid-fire rise, fall, and rebirth of the L.A. Art scene – from the emergence of a small bohemian community in the fifties to the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1980 – and explains how artists such as Edward Ruscha, Robert Irwin, and Ken Price reshaped contemporary art.
8675 Washington Blvd.
310.458.1499

InCOLLABORATION With Helms Bakery and The Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
2015-04-09 18:00 - 21:00 | CA
Join us on Thursday, April 9th from 6:30 – 9:00pm as we team up with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design to bring you a reception, lecture and discussion with Marcelyn Gow, partner and founding member of Servo Los Angeles, a design collaborative invested in the development of architectural environments integrating synthetic ecologies with shifting material states. Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects.
This event is free and open to the public. Please rsvp here. Free parking is available in the Valet lot located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Blvd.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City

Arcana Books Hosts a Double Book Signing with Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton
2015-04-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, April 4th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a doubleheader book signing with Thomas Campbell: SEEING FATIMA’S EYES and Ed Templeton: WAYWARD COGNITIONS.
Seeing Fatima’s Eyes: Surf, Life, Stuff, Morocco is a new photographic essay on surfing and life in Morocco by the self-taught painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell.
Wayward Cognitions is a collection of photographs by Ed Templeton chosen from over twenty years of material in his archives. For this volume, Templeton selected images that do not fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject.
