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SUMMARY:Join us for a Screening + Discussion of the film Biocentrics
DESCRIPTION:Please join Material Encounters as they kick off a season of Practice Lab: In Conversation\, beginning with a special screening\, and the Los Angeles premiere\, of Biocentrics. \nBiocentrics explores the interconnectedness of all living things and the importance of preserving biodiversity. Through stunning visuals and interviews with scientists and environmentalists\, the documentary highlights the biomimicry design methodology and the urgent need to shift our perspective towards a more sustainable and harmonious relationship with nature. \nDOORS OPEN: 6:30PM\nPANEL DISCUSSION: 7:00PM\nFILM SCREENING:  7:30PM \nSeating is limited. Tickets $25 adults\, $10 Students (Promo code: LEARN) \nFOR TICKETS\nThe film will be preceded by a short panel discussion with several local biomimic experts. Hosted by Lesley Roberts of Material Encounters. Moderated by Anne LaForti of Nature Knows How. \nWith special thanks to Southern California Fibershed\, Biomimicry 3.8\, and Biomimicry for Social Innovation.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-us-for-a-screening-discussion-of-the-film-biocentrics/
LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:¡AZÚCAR! Closing Reception with CONTRA-TIEMPO
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, November 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for the closing reception of the photo gallery show of CAÑA by photographer Farah Sosa and CONTRA-TIEMPO’S powerful 2-week residency at Helms Bakery. \nCome celebrate with CONTRA-TIEMPO all the magic that was created\, the relationships that were built\, the dancing that took place\, and the stories that were shared. We will close our partnership with a final screening of the film CAŃA that was created in collaboration with Ana María Alvarez\, Meena Murugesan\, and Anaïs Maviel. Immediately following the film\, join us in a dialogue with the collaborators of their newest work ¡AZÚCAR! \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/azucar-closing-reception-with-contra-tiempo/
LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Khadim Dai
DESCRIPTION:Free\nAs part of the Welcome Blanket exhibition at the Helms Design Center\, please join us on Thursday\, September 15th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm for a conversation\, film screening and Q+A with filmmaker Khadim Dai. Khadim will be joining us remotely from Pakistan. He will be sharing two shorts: “Your Dust Will Carry” and “Machid.” \nYour Dust Will Carry\nA sense of obligation to keep the memories of his friends and classmates alive\, Dai films at his friends’ graveyard on the seventh anniversary of their deaths. As he begins filming\, a stranger approaches and gives him some news. \nMachid\nMachid\, 12 years old\, is the second generation of Hazaras refugees living in Pakistan. Confined in the ghetto built for Hazaras in Quetta\, Machid explores her surroundings as she is growing from a careless child into a curious teen. Growing in the middle of ongoing genocide\, Machid is beginning to question the “normal life” in her community. \n \nAbout Khadim\nKhadim Dai is a filmmaker from Afghanistan. His family fled to Pakistan when he was two years old to escape Taliban persecution of his minority group\, the Hazara people. He has lived most of his life as a refugee in Pakistan and\, after surviving a school bombing in 2013\, he fled on his own to Indonesia. There\, he lived in a refugee settlement for three years and started documenting his experience. Khadim has been making documentary films since 2014. He worked as a cinematographer for the “The Staging Post” and “Chasing Asylum.” His films have been shown at the Van Abbemuseum\, Ian Potter Museum of Art\, QUT Art Museum\, and the REDCAT.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/conversation-with-documentary-filmmaker-khadim-dai/
LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:It's the Summer of "Love Local" in Culver City
DESCRIPTION:Free\nSaturday\, August 20\, 2022\n12:00 – 6:00 PM\nCampus-Wide Event \nIn partnership with the City of Culver City\, we invite you to join us on Saturday\, August 20th for a campus-wide celebration of Summer. Stop by and explore the center featuring music\, poetry\, art\, dining\, demos\, shopping\, book signing\, and sipping. \nWe have a jam-packed day in support of all things local\, with featured fun including a film screening of the GOONIES\, Live Music on Helms Walk with artists The Desperate Measures and The Black Heartthrobs\, a book signing with Eric Kroll\, poetry writing with The Poetry Society L.A.\, family crafts\, T-shirt design\, Welcome Blanket exhibition and so much more! Plus Enter-To-Win a Pasta Sisters gift certificate at the City of Culver City’s Welcome Booth with free buttons\, stickers\, Helms Bakery merch and beach balls. \nCLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS\nCome out and show your love for Culver City!
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/its-the-summer-of-love-local-in-culver-city/
LOCATION:Helms Design District\, 8800 Venice Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pasta in Blue (Ocean)
DESCRIPTION:Pasta Sisters\n3280 Helms Avenue\, Culver City\, CA 90232\nMarch 8\, 9 and 10 \nPasta Sisters is opening their kitchen to the amazing Executive Chef\, food stylist\, and Food Networks’ Chopped winner: Barbara Pollastrini.\nFrom March 8th to March 10th\, Barbara will feature her signature “Blue Ocean” Pasta (made with Spirulina) tossed in homemade Uni-butter and Santa Barbara Prawns\, topped with Uni and Wild Salmon Roe. \nThis special dish will be available only for dine-in at the Culver City location. \nJoin us as Chef Pollastrini blends design\, tradition\, and innovation to create a uniquely flavorful work of art! \nThe number of dishes per day is limited. We highly recommend to plan accordingly by pre-ordering your dish on Eventbrite or at Pasta Sisters in Culver City.\nPRE-ORDER NOW \nEveryone at PASTA SISTERS is profoundly grateful for your continued support.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/pasta-in-blue-ocean/
LOCATION:Pasta Sisters\, 3280 Helms Avenue\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:The Chance to Paint Each Other Gold: Art Exhibition + Documentary Premiere of "Ink & Linda"
DESCRIPTION:Inside the Helms Design Center\n8745 Washington Boulevard\, Suite A\, Culver City\nMarch 5th\, 6th\, 11th\, 12th\, and 13th \nMarch 5th and 6th are SOLD OUT but please join us for one of the other three nights. \nFree\nJoin us for The Chance to Paint Each Other Gold\, a multi-layered experience centered around an installation of the shared street art and subsequent wall art created by Inksap–a theater in which to experience the world premiere of Stuart C. Paul‘s new documentary Ink & Linda followed by Q&A and a live and intimate demonstration revealing Inksap and Lack’s artistic process.\nInk & Linda is a feature-length documentary chronicling the unexpected friendship and collaboration between Inksap\, a Vietnamese American Urban Street Artist in his 20s\, and Linda\, an elder stateswoman of the modern dance scene in her 70s–as they team up to form L.A.’s most unlikely street art duo. They are the epitome of artists cross-pollinating one another. Defying the boundaries between generations and cultures\, their story challenges the conventions of art and society\, exploring what it means to be an artist in today’s world. Linda and Inksap’s origin story is a romance\, but their relationship is not romantic; it is a tale of two outsiders from different worlds who found meaning within one another\, breeding a new consciousness of meaning for art and themselves. \nThis event has limited seating – TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. If the evening you select is sold out\, we will have a “waitlist” and release tickets when they become available prior to the event night. We welcome you to join us for the entire evening. This is a multi-layered experience. You may view\, purchase\, and enjoy The Art at your leisure. \nREGISTER FOR TICKETS\nLet’s stay safe! According the the most current L.A. County COVID guidelines for indoor events\, all guests are required to provide proof of vaccination and must wear a mask. Thank you for helping us to continue to host in-person events. Updated information will be sent with your Eventbrite Ticket reminder the day before the event. \n\nABOUT LINDA \n \nLinda Lack Ph.D.\, artist and scholar\, has dedicated her life and work to the study of the human body\, movement — breath — and their relationship to creativity\, healing\, and spiritually. She is a dancer\, a movement therapist/specialist\, educator\, ritualist\, performer\, and lecturer. Lack has focused on targeting injury resolution\, resolving chronic pain\, deterring the effects of aging and using structured movement for transforming the outcomes of emotional and physical disease. She is an expert in the analysis of movement problems for both untrained novices and highly-trained clients. \nLack has also been the primary soloist and choreographer of the masked-dance rituals she performed both on stages and in the wilderness with her company\, Two-Snake Dance and Design. She is an Arts-Based researcher in the academic community. Lack has been funded and acknowledged by the Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, California Arts Council\, Samadha International Healing Awards\, Los Angeles Area Dance Alliance Awards for Innovative Choreography\, and a LACE award for her life’s work\, elucidating the role of spirituality in Body Movement. \nLack has simultaneously spent 50 years developing The Thinking Body – The Feeling Mind®\, a technique taught and practiced at her studio in Los Angeles and now in Malaysia\, Australia\, Europe\, Israel\, Central America\, Mexico and throughout the U.S. The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind® is a movement modality/training that is interdisciplinary\, explorative\, and simultaneously scientific — a contemporary healing\, maintenance\, and body sustainability technique. TBFM® has been recognized alongside Pilates\, Feldenkrais\, Bartenieff and Alexander Technique as a contemporary movement training/healing method. Students using the technique have been accepted into diverse programs such as Alvin Ailey II\, Cirque du Soleil\, North Carolina School of Performing Arts\, Julliard\, the graduate program at San Francisco Institute of Psychology\, and Goddard. \nLack has introduced TBFM® to various communities such as The Congress on Research for Dance; The International Association of Yoga Therapists; and The Fundación Santa Fe de Bogota Columbia\, one of the most prestigious health organizations in Latin America; Suny Purchase Dance Department N.Y.\, and Bill Evan’s Dance Intensives. \nCurrently\, Lack and the artist known as INKSAP collaborate on Project Us — “The Chance to Paint Each Other Gold”. They are performance artists. Her movement is captured by INKSAP for Street Art\, Wall Art\, and their Performance Art. Ink & Linda\, the documentary by Stu Paul\, depicts the unlikely story of these two artists accidently thrown together. For more information on Linda Lack\, Ph.D.\, visit www.lindalack.com. \n\nABOUT INKSAP \n \nBrandon Lam (b. 1994) — who is widely recognized as INKSAP— creates works of art that can be found on the streets and in galleries. His art melds cultures and patterns\, life drawings and screen printed images of people in his life\, creating a repertoire of works he installs outside. While each installed piece is vulnerable to alterations from the world\, Lam acknowledges and welcomes these changes. He believes art is a living object that should be subjected to external variations. \nHis debut work titled Xuanha features a young girl wearing a face mask and carrying a tree in her backpack. This image — which was burned into a silkscreen and then printed onto paper — has been installed in numerous urban settings. Installing art in the streets since 2015\, he has been invited to partake in artistic events and projects around the world. Discovering that the streets provided a public platform that anyone could access\, his work developed into large outdoor murals and site-specific art installations. \n“I found the streets a more interesting\, vital canvas than the walls of a studio\,” Lam says. “Art is unexpected outside. We have been taught that great work only exists in private spaces. My work bridges the gap between how art should be presented versus art being accessible. This\, in turn\, gives viewers from all levels of society the ability to bring the work to life.” \nAs his work matures\, so do his theories for site-specific art. For him\, artwork should not overpower an urban environment. Instead\, the artwork should embrace the public space to create a seamless cohabitation. \n“One of the most difficult practices as an artist is disconnecting oneself after the work has been completed\,” Lam points out. “Typically we commit to the work with full emotion\, expecting that feeling to stay. A visual work comes alive after its completion; it has a life of its own. There comes a time when one must let go. I find myself inspired by the discomfort\, and I now celebrate its presence in my process.” \n\nABOUT STU \n \nStuart C. Paul is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television\, he is known for his ability to elevate whatever genre he is working in\, bringing his unique blend of intelligence\, point-of-view and character depth to each project he undertakes. \nInk and Linda is his first documentary feature. Previously\, he wrote and directed the award-winning comedy short The Lord Of Catan. Starring Amy Acker and Fran Kranz\, the film tells the cautionary tale of a married couple whose game night plunges them into a vortex of madness and destruction. \nHe is currently in pre-production on A Boy Called Lee\, which explores the issues of juvenile justice\, truancy and gun violence through the lens of Lee Harvey Oswald’s time spent in a New York juvenile psychiatric facility. He is also at work on Infernal\, a feature-length horror film that examines the concept of the devil through the lens of self-actualization and mental health. \nAs a screenwriter\, he has worked with acclaimed directors across many different genres\, including Takashi Miike\, Anton Corbijn and Roland Emmerich. He has sold projects to companies all across Hollywood including MGM\, Universal\, NBC\, STX and more. His original screenplay Yasuke was included on the 2021 Black List\, the film industry’s annual honor roll of the most acclaimed unproduced film scripts of the year. \nAlso an acclaimed comic creator\, his graphic novel Ides Of Blood\, which reimagines the assassination of Julius Caesar by vampires\, was published by DC Comics. The series was nominated for three CBG Fan Awards\, including Best Writer. \nIn his spare time\, he practices Japanese swordsmanship and takes his cat on hikes. \nHe is represented by Paradigm and Circle of Confusion.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-us-for-the-documentary-film-screening-of-ink-and-linda/
LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Join Us For A Screening of Public Trust on National Public Lands Day!
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, September 26th beginning at 7:00 am and ending at 11:30 pm\, please join us for a free screening of the film PUBLIC TRUST. \n​​In a time of growing polarization\, Americans still share something in common: 640 million acres of public land. Held in trust by the federal government for all citizens of the United States\, these places are a stronghold against climate change\, sacred to native people\, home to wildlife and intrinsic to our national identity. But today\, despite support from voters across the political spectrum\, they face unprecedented threats from extractive industries and the politicians who support these endeavors. Part love letter\, part political exposé\, PUBLIC TRUST investigates how we arrived at this precarious moment through three heated conflicts—a national monument in the Utah desert\, a proposed mine in the Boundary Waters and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and makes a case for their continued protection. \nPlease register for your tickets to receive your log in information. \nWishing you all a Happy National Public Lands Day! \nImage Description: Musk oxen have been around for almost two millions years. Along with caribou\, they are the only hoofed animals that survived the end of the Pleistocene era. Today\, they roam the tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska\, in search of grasses\, mosses and herbs in the permafrost.\nImage Credit: Florian Schulz
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LOCATION:Online\, CA
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SUMMARY:Film Screening + Reception with Architect and Filmmaker\, Mina Chow
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 20th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm\, please join us for a screening of FACE OF A NATION: What Happened to the World’s Fair?\, along with a reception with filmmaker and architect\, Mina Chow. \nThe film explores how the World’s Fair captured the imaginations and dreams of budding (and established) architects and why its importance has seemed to fade in America. What happened? Why has America’s participation declined? Does our current political climate mean that we’ll never be a part of a World’s Fair again? Examining these questions and more are why Women in Architecture (WiA LA) is excited to present a screening of this thought-provoking documentary by architect-filmmaker Mina Chow. \nChow achieved her professional goals\, but when she finally had the opportunity to attend the event that once inspired her\, she was shocked. Visiting the Shanghai World Expo in 2010\, she noted that the United States’ presence at the fair had dwindled to almost nothing. But why? Who was responsible? Her search for answers led to the making of “FACE OF A NATION“\, a documentary that takes a serious yet entertaining look at what these events meant to us as Americans – and what their absence means to our country as currently comprised. \nThe WiA LA invites you to this special screening to see how a country built by visionaries lost interest in such a visionary event and provides an opportunity to return to the optimism the World Fair embodies. \nThis Event Offers 2 AIA HSW Credits. \nSeating is Limited. Purchase Tickets Here
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/film-screening-reception-with-architect-and-filmmaker-mina-chow/
LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Agave: The Spirit of a Nation
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, March 12th from 6:30 to 9:30 pm\, please join us for a special evening of film and spirit at the Helms Design Center\, celebrating the tradition of the agave plant. \nWe begin at 6:30 pm with a screening of the film Agave / The Spirit of a Nation followed by a Q&A. Then the evening opens up to a tasting & reception from 8:00 to 9:00 pm inside the Louis Poulsen showroom\, where guests will have the opportunity to sample mezcales and tequilas produced across México. Experts and beginners alike will have an opportunity to learn and get excited about the spirit. Salut! \nTickets are $35\nPurchase Tickets \nAbout the Film\nThis expressive documentary explores the phenomenon of the fastest trending alcohol spirit in the world\, Tequila and Mezcal. This journey takes us to the world’s most bio-diverse landscape of the agave plant\, Mexico; here families have been passing down the tradition of distilling agave for generations\, at times\, even clandestinely. From the alluring red highlands of Jalisco to the rugged mountains of Oaxaca\, the film follows three producers – Carlos\, Graciela\, and Aquilino in this burgeoning renaissance. From a bootstrap ambition to carrying on a father’s legacy\, their successes and sacrifices unfurl in this interweaved story. Discover how one delicate plant can carry the weight of a nation and the people trying to protect it for the future. \n\n\n\nThis event is brought to you by: Mezcalistas\, Helms Bakery District\, and Digital Cave.
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