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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

November Fun Things To Do Santa Monica Westside

Fun Things in Santa Monica and the Westside in November
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THANKSGIVING: Volunteer at the Santa Monica Civic Center (310 394 3153) work a shift or cook a turkey and bring it. They also need clothes etc. and help on day before, Wed.; St. Monica’s Church serves dinner on Wed. 25th sign up at Parish hall in person only. Downtown Los Angeles Mission (hosted by Kirk Douglas serving) meal is Wed come early Volunteer sign up is 213 629 1227, 303 E. 5th St. at Wall.THEATRE: LA Theatre Works offers the "Gross Indecency, the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, at the Skirball. 2701 N.
Sepulveda Blvd. 11/18 to 22, W,, Th. Fr 8 pm. Sat 2:30 Sun 4 pm, hope to see you there Fri 11/18, mention Sotheby’s and receive 10% discount tickets $36 and $48.
Cirque de Soleil’s KOOZA next to the Santa Monica Pier now through 11/29 $60 to $125 and above, shows 4 and 8 pm on weekends, Broad Stage Shakespeare’s "Love’s Labor Lost "in Santa Monica starts 11/19-29th thehttp://thebroadstage.com/index.php/219, Tickets .
Autry American Indian Theatre Company in Griffith Park' offers their new play “Carbon Black”. Weekends starting
11/4 Tickets members $12, non $20; Malibu Stage Co (non profit). “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”, The, 29243 Pacific Coast Hwy 700 yds. past Kanen Dune tickets Fri Sat 8 pm Sun 5 pm $35, 310 589 1998; Geffen in Westwood has modern comedy "Shakespeare Helps with Guy Fakes day", tickets $55 Saturdays 3 and 8 pm Nov 10 through Dec 20.Promenade Playhouse Comedy 1404 3rd St. 310 308 0947 Tickets $20 show 11/8 Sun. 3 pm, Amy Stone's "Cheerios in my Underwear". Take a class there or do the open mike every Sat sign up 6 pm go on 6:30pm
FUN: Ice Skating at ICE in Santa Monica now open, at 5th and Arizona $10 includes skates 10 are to midnight on weekends Remember we have our own Pacific Park Amusement park at the end of the SM Pier; you can ride one of very few solar powered Ferris Wheels. Enter for free, single rides $3 or $5, all day for $21, start or end your date there, Fri 6 to midnight, Sat 11 to midnight.
American Film Market 11/4 to 11/11 Loews and Le Margot Hotels; Classic movies at LACMA's Bing Theatre see 2 films on 1 night through previews of first run movies, 11/10 see the "Fantastic Mr. Fox, animated with George Clooney.7:30 pm; Also this month, Audrey Hepburn films 7:30 and 9:35, see 11/13; Also at Bing a lecture Cultural origins of Persian carpets 11/24 Tues. 7 pm. free tickets required. ((323 857-6010)7:30 Fri and Sat $7members $10 non-members. $2 Tues. 1 pm Matinees, Sun;
NETWORKING: SM Chamber monthly mixer Wed. 11/18, 5:30pm-7:30pm La Grande Orange 2000 Main Street-great
fun good food $10 members and $20 non; Networking for Professionals or Santa Monica Shakers and
Stirrers, in Santa Monica Tues 11/17 Wilshire Restaurant at 24th, $15 at 6:30; West LA Chamber offers fist
Wed. Breakfast 11301 W. Olympic at Sawtelle, go to West LA Chamber.org to sign up, $15 members or $30 non
Networking begins at 7 am. ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION: Santa Monica College: Eco water restoration projects updated. Lecture by Channel Islands professor " After the Rivers Run from the Anatolian Steppes to California salt marshes Tue, November 3 • 11:15am • Free • Science 140. Santa Monica Conservancy city walking tour Sat 10 am meet at 1453 2nd St, $5 members $10 non, 2 hrs..smconservancy.org, 310 496 3146.
MUSEUMS: Getty Villa lecture The Poison King: Mithradates the Great Nov 4 7:30 pm; Villa also has great garden tours,11:30 to 3:30; Lysistrata film festival 111/14 and 11/21 Sat Sun afternoon at the Villa 310 440 7300
Getty: see Irving Penn's amazing photos "Small Trades" all month, or leave work early and take the 3:30 architecture and garden tour at the main Getty; their classic film festival, "4 Angry Young Men" :, Nov 14, 4 pm Look Back in Anger and at 7pm Sat Night and Sun. Morning, and 21st, at 4 pm, The Sporting Life and at 7, The Loneliness off the Long Distance Runner, films are free, need reservations, (Continued on other side).
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LACMA (County Mus. of Art): after 5:30 free or pay what you wish. Open 'til 8 9 on Fri; LA County Museum of Art: Nov, watch Audrey Hepburn films at Bing 7:30 Fri pm and Sat 7:30 tickets $7 members 10 non; 11/14 will display 2 magnificent Persian carpets rarely seen.
UCLA's Fowler has 11/14, 2 and 3 pm see Japanese tea ceremony demonstrated free.
Autry Museum of the American West offers special Intertribal Art Market Basket Show 11/7-8, 10 am to 5 pm;
Sat 10 am Native Basketry exhibit opens at the Autry in Griffith Park and Intertribal Arts marketplace-huge Indian art show. http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/event_calendar/all/2009/11;
NON-PROFIT: Palisades Schools Sunday 11/8 Holiday Home Tour 11 to 4 pm benefiting local schools...Fri., Sat through Nov. Join the West LA Surfrider Foundation, keep our ocean and beaches clean healthyhttp://surfriderwlam.org/volunteer/
Santa Monica College Planetarium shows Nov 6 and 20 7 and 8 pm $5 or $9 for both. Parking free, Second floor Drescher Hall, or park on Pico, Hall is near front entrance, go to 2nd floor, east side of building. Griffith Park Planetarium free shows, weekends 11:45 to 8:45; First Fridays of the month attend curator talks to hear most talked about subjects in astronomy etc. 11/6 7:30 to 9pm. Tickets $7 can only purchase there.
VOLUNTEER: American Red Cross 310 393 3774, join a Disaster Action Team and help people locally or around the world. They provide the training, all free and non-government monies. Santa Monica 310 394 3773, 11th and Broadway or. West LA Red Cross, 800 548 8226 at the Veteran's Hospital, Ohio entrance.
FLU Shot Clinic: 11/9 for H1N1 in Santa Monica at Red Cross 1450 11th at Broadway 9 am to noon. 11/4.
California Incline undergoing renovation all fall long expects delays.
Parking is FREE all across campus, even in staff
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