Event Details

Date/Time: 

Aug 7 2009 12:00pm - Aug 13 2009 9:30pm

Price: 

$11-$14. Showtimes vary from Aug 7-13 during Docuweeks.

Where: 

Arclight Cinemas
6360 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90028

Severe Clear doc

The International Documenary Association presents the Docuweeks festival during August 2009.

SEVERE CLEAR

Director/Writer: Kristian Fraga
Producer: Kristian Fraga, Marc Perez
Executive Producers: Benjamin Charbit, John L. Sikes

U.S.A | 93 min.

Armed with the world's most lethal ordnance and his home video camera, First Lieutenant Michael T. Scotti takes us on an epic first-person journey with the Marine Corps as they fight their way 300 miles from Kuwait to Baghdad. No Reporters...No Politics...No Censors...This is what he saw.

Click here for showtimes/tix.

 

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jun 15 2009 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

Free but tickets are required.

Where: 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Bing Theatre
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036

Shirin NeshatLACMA and the Farhang Foundation present internationally renowned artist Shirin Neshat at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater at 8:00 pm.  The program includes a screening of work-in-progress segments of her film “Women without Men,” followed by a discussion between Shirin Neshat and Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, University of California, Irvine.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jun 8 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Price: 

Free and open to the public
UCLA parking $9

Where: 

Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Iranian elections will contrast Islam and democracy June 12, 2009With elections in Iran on June 12, all eyes are on the results. Will a shift open further dialogue with the Obama Admistration, or will the Islamic leadership prevail in positioning the West as largely undesirable interlocutors?

Two Iranian intellectuals at UCLA will try to make sense of the arguments.

Elana GoldenLevantine Cultural Center in association with The Writing Studio invites you to a FREE writing workshop with Elana Golden entitled "From Trauma to New Beginnings."

When:
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 1 to 6 pm

Where:
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W Pico Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90035

What:
This writing workshop is suitable for both new and experienced writers. It is limited to 10 participants.

In the safety of the writing group, we take one moment from our lives and enter it fully. We slow down and look at it through the lens of the writer, allowing the story to emerge from the silence within. We learn to follow rather than lead the story, and our writing is fresh, free, original, unexpected.

Closing night at the Noor Film FestivalBy Susanna Whitmore

I’m a bit of a glutton for Middle Eastern culture, especially when it comes to the visual and performing arts.  It was therefore a no brainer to spend the entire weekend at the 3rd annual Noor Film Festival (May 1-3, 2009), a showcase for Iranian filmmakers.  Out of the 15 films I saw (a total of 18 entries were selected out of 172 submissions), there were at least 4-5 truly outstanding feature/ documentary films, a handful that I felt tanked, and the rest falling somewhere in between.    

One Hundred One Levantine Delights

[Los Angeles, April 29, 2009] Since 2001, Levantine Cultural Center (LCC) has been the place in Los Angeles to find public programs on Israelis and Palestinians, Iraq, Iran and North Africa; it has been a rallying point for the Arab/Muslim world to see itself reflected accurately and for the most part, positively, through world-class literary, visual and performing arts programs. Using cultural diplomacy that emphasizes the importance of interfaith relationships, the center presents programs and education to a broad range of constituents in Southern California—to Americans of all cultural backgrounds.

By Hanitizer

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Apr 21 2009 12:00pm - May 17 2009 3:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public.

Where: 

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000
Open Tues-Sun, 11 am-5 pm
some days extended hours

A café in Baghad: in the al-Mutannabi street districtHow much do Americans really know about Iraq and W.’s military adventures there?

While scores of books appeared subsequent to the invasion and occupation that began in March 2003, few Hollywood films and documentaries delved below the surface ("In the Valley of Elah," for example, dealt more with Iraq vets here at home than "over there"). Moreover, since  the Occupation, fewer than 250 Iraqi nationals have been allowed to emigrate to the United States with refugee status (while over half a million crowd into Amman, Jordan). And for years, American media was banned from broadcasting or publishing images of body bags or coffins. Somehow, Iraq became remote, filtering through to us in a haze of figures and statistics.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

May 2 2009 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Price: 

$28.50 includes the book, get tickets at the door tonight

Where: 

Café-Club Fais Do Do
5257 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Info faisdodo.com
doors 7:30 pm
show starts 8:30 pm

Reza Aslan's new book: what's a book party without cool music?Join Reza Aslan when he debuts his new book, How to Win A Cosmic War on Terror, God Globalization and the War on Terror, at Fais Do-Do, Saturday, May 2, 2009. Doors open 7:30 pm, show starts at 8:30 pm.

Joining Reza are indie rocker Kutsal and her musicians, and later in the evening, the hip hop innovator Omar Offendum. Tickets are $28.50 and include a complimentary copy of How to Win A Cosmic War. Get them online at Ticketweb. Hurry, tickets will sell out.

This cultural happening is brought to you by Book Soup, BoomGen Studios, Largo and Levantine Cultural Center.
More info at 310.657.5511.

Advance Praise for How to Win A Cosmic War