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Healthy Kids Day – Westfield Hosts YMCA April 27
Culver-Palms and Westchester Family YMCAs are hosting Healthy Kids Day® 2013 on Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28, from 1 to 4pm, in Center Court at Westfield Culver City. YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day®, celebrated at 1,900 Ys on the same weekend across America, is the Y’s national initiative to improve the health and well-being of families and to help them get a jump on creating a healthier [...]
Stolen – MCLM Film Series
On Monday, April 22, 7 p.m. the BAD West St. Clair Bourne 4th Mondays Documentary Film Series presents the rescheduled screening of Stolen by filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw. This documentary follows Fetim Sellami, a black Sahaawi refugee for a reunion with her mother. Fetim was taken from her mother as a toddler by Deido, a 'white-Arab' woman. Thirty years later, Fetim is reuniting [...]
Fifth Graders Write the Script with Young Storytellers
For the past eight weeks, fifth-grade students in CCUSD's elementary schools have been diligently crafting original scripts. Working one-on-one with an adult mentor from the entertainment industry, as part of the Young Storytellers Foundation's Script-to-Stage Program, students have honed their ideas into short screenplays with scenes, characters, dialogue, and action. The culminating moment [...]
Sony Volunteers and City Year to Celebrate Service Day @ El Rincon
Sony Pictures Entertainment will join with the education-focused nonprofit City Year on a campus beautification project at El Rincon Elementary School on April 19 as part of the studio's annual Sony Global Volunteer Day. Under the theme "Someone Needs You," this annual day of service demonstrates Sony's commitment to its community and volunteerism. More than 24,000 Sony employees from 18 [...]
League of Women Voters – CC Unit @ University-Westside
The University-Westside Unit of the LWV will host a presentation on Climate Change this Friday, April 19, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Palms Rancho Public Library, 2920 Overland Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064. What do yo need to know about climate change? Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities. The global [...]
Star Eco’s 13th Annual ‘Children’s Earth Day’ – April 21
Can you say "Earth Day All the Way ?" How can you connect your kids with the most important issues in the world ? Come and celebrate Planet Earth the way no one else can at STAR Eco Station’s 13th Annual CHILDREN’S EARTH DAY, April 21st, 10am-4pm. Featuring live entertainment, eco-themed games, food, crafts, prizes, vendors, environmental organizations, face painting, and more - nothing in [...]
Life Stages – Sandra Coopersmith
How would you feel if excerpts of your life were turned into a performance piece filtered through minds generations apart and about to be presented before a roomful of friends, family and strangers? Perhaps some combination of flattered, excited, apprehensive, curious, nervous, thrilled and awed? Maybe even a little zoned out? Four seniors were about to find out: married couple David Katz [...]
World Book Night “Pre-ception” at Culver City Julian Dixon on April 20
Culver City Friends of the Library and the Culver City Julian Dixon Library will be participating as a giving site for World Book Night on Tuesday, April 23. On this date, 25,000 volunteers from Berkeley to Boston and Sitka to Sarasota will give away half a million free books in more than 6,000 towns and cities across the country. Volunteer book lovers help promote reading by going out into their [...]
AVPA to Host “Strategic Crafting” Student Artwork
On Saturday April 20, The Academy of Visual and Performing Arts' Visual Art Department will hold an art opening reception and exhibition for Strategic Crafting, an exhibition of student artwork in association with the Craft and Folk Art Museum. AVPA Art students have been working with fiber artist Carole Francis Lung (AKA Frau Fiber) and her Cal State LA student assistants: Lidia Alvarez, [...]
ARTworks Online Auction is Now Open – Place Your Bids Here
Farragut's Artworks! Online Auction is Open for Business at FarragutFanClub.org C'mon everybody - it's time to party like it's on sale for $19.99! Well, actually, you'll find everything from DVDs for five or ten bucks to a whole-house DirecTV package valued at up to $1963 in the Artworks! Online Auction, and every dollar you spend goes directly to support arts education at Farragut. Visit [...]
