Helms Design District

Helms Bakery Hosts "What The Frack Happened?"
2016-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us on Saturday, November 19th at 8:00PM for What the Frack Happened? It’s hard to keep your heart afloat when the world is sinking, a timely, political, funny, physical theatre accompanied by live music, bollywood dancing, original songs, a mega tsunami and of course, love.
This interactive theatre presentation 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 Theatre troupe.
Written & Directed by Gina Rose Powell & Brian Powell. Artistic Directors Brian Powell & Gina Rose Powell. Musical Director Jef Bek.
Starring Roger Carvalho, Ella Rose Charles, Rachel Murphy, Bryan Porter, Brian Powell, Rahul Rai, Issac Silva, and Libby Wahlmeier.
Tickets $10
www.citizenchangetheatre.com
Parking is located at the Free Valet in the lot on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

CANCELLED - Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Standing on Sacred Ground - Profit and Loss"
2015-12-09 19:30 - 21:30
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "Merchants of Doubt"
2015-12-05 20:00 - 22:00
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.

Helms Bakery Partners With VisionLA To Screen "The Breach"
2015-12-04 19:30 - 21:30
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 "Racing To Zero"
2015-12-03 20:00 - 21:30
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
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.
