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Towers Music Festivals, September 26th. and 27th.

 

Rodia Watts Towers music festivals

Art by Charles Dickson

September 26th. and 27th.
34th Annual Day of the Drum and
39th Annual Simon Rodia Jazz Festival at the
Watts Towers Art Center and Charles Mignus Gallery

Address:
1727 East 107th Street
Los Angeles, California 90002

Tel: 213.847.4646

For more information, please visit the Website: Wattstowers.org

Program:

Saturday, September 26th

Drum Festival 10:00am – 6:00pm

Alaadum – Ground Blessing
Music by Gamelan Burat Wangi, Garifuna Cultural Group, Nclave, Luis Rodriguez, Farafina, Closing with Michael White

Sunday, September 27th

Jazz Festival 10:00am – 6:00pm

Alaadum – Ground Blessing
Music by Jasmine Tommaso Quintet, Big LLou Johnson, Phil Ranelin Ensemble, Luis Rodriguez, Art Webb, Tai Chi Chun – School of healing Martial Arts. Dr. Hoover, Instructor, Carmen Lundy, Closing with JMP ALL STARS Featuring.. Patrice Rushen, Ndugu Chancler, Dr. Boddy Rodriguez, Munyungo Jackson, Nedra Wheeler, and Justo Almario Straight Ahead Jazz

Artistic Directors

Rosie Lee Hooks, Patrice Rushen and Munyungo D. Jackson
Master of Ceremonies
Kamau Daaood and James Janisse

Noah Purifoy and Charles Mingus Galleries
“50 years and I Still Can’t Breathe”

Guided Tours of Simon Rodia Watts Towers

Drum Pavilion: Universal Drum Circle by Matt Gibson III

Dominique Moody featuring THE NOMAD

Garden, Turtle Pond, Tiling Projects

Supervised Children’s Activities: 12:00 noon to 4:30 pm

 

 

Kids Italian Immersion Summer Camp 2015 is Open for Enrollment!

Fondazione Italia’s Italian Immersion Summer Camp is a great way for kids ages 4-10 to learn Italian while enjoying summertime fun. Our passionate and experienced native speaking teachers serve as counselors as they lead campers from one great activity to the next.

Our campers enjoy language arts, singing, food tasting, music, outdoor fun, interactive games, arts & crafts and dance-all in Italian! A week or more of our camp will definitely increase your child’s language ability!

One or Two weeks from July 6 to July 17 at Dunsmore Park in La Crescenta. For pricing and enrollment information visit www.fondazione-italia.org.

 

Italy’s Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015

From the Consulate General of Italy – Los Angeles—

Italy_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day_2015

Between 1938 and 1945 European Nazi and Fascist regimes, and the people who supported them, annihilated millions of Jews and thousands of homosexuals, handicapped, mentally ill, and gypsies they had labeled as “foreign,” “unwanted,” and “subhuman”. On January 27, 1945 the extermination camp of Auschwitz was liberated. This date was chosen in 2000 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote the fight against racism. Today we remember…

When

January 27, 2015 at 5:00 p.m.

Where

ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
1023 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Limited places RSVP by Jan. 23 to losangeles.stampa@esteri.it