Opera Talk at Buena Vista Branch, Burbank Public Library
Please join us for an Opera Talk with members of LA Opera’s Community Engagement Program, and featuring Larry Verdugo discussing the opera Hansel & Gretel.
Where: Buena Vista Branch, Burbank Public Library
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 300 N. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505
Website: http://www.burbank.lib.ca.us/events/opera-talk-2
Author Program: Cleo & Cornelius at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Meet Cleo, Cornelius and two of their creators, Elizabeth Nicholson and Janine Pibal. Children and their families will follow along with courageous Cleo and “couch slouch” Cornelius from the children’s book, Cleo and Cornelius: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Kitties. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition, Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World at the Getty Center.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cleo-and-cornelius-library
Annie Leibovitz & Annie Leibovitz at Work at Book Soup
Join us to hear acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz discuss and sign her book, Annie Leibovitz At Work. Originally published in 2008, this revised and updated edition brings her bestselling book back into print. She will explain how her pictures are made and her process in developing one of the richest bodies of work in the photographic canon. Please check website for signing line guidelines and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/annie-leibovitz-signs-annie-leibovitz-work
30 Years of Homeboy Industries & Radical Kinship at Central Library, LAPL
Celebrate 30 Years of Homeboy Industries, which has provided hope, training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. This public panel will examine their work, and the evolution of Homeboy Industries, founded by Father Gregory Boyle, and recounted in his most recent book, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/radical-kinship-celebrating-30-years-homeboy-industries
Dennis Vaughn & The Longboat at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Dennis Vaughn discuss and sign his novel, The Longboat.
This book is a family saga, spanning multiple generations and continents, focused on two Burmese boys who are brought to the U.S. and the challenges they face in adjusting to the Western world and to changes in their own relationship. Over the span of thirty years they go from inseparable best friends to antagonists, and ends with the Saffron Revolution of 2007.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
A Gathering of Tribes Poetry Reading at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us for A Gathering of Tribes, presented by Brendan Constantine, the author most recently of Dementia My Darling, and featuring:
Derek D. Brown is an author, poet and venture expressionist, and a graduate of CLI’s author training program at USC. He is author of the collection, Articulate Scars.
Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, is a scholar, author and performance artist, acclaimed for his articles, essays and poems, and for mentoring teen writers. He is the author of Poetics of Location.
Ra Avis is sometimes-poet, a once-upon-a-time inmate, a reluctantly optimistic widow, and an exponential storyteller. She blogs regularly at Rarasaur.com, and is the author of Sack Nasty: Prison Poetry and Dinosaur-Hearted.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Mary McCoy & Camp So-and-So at El Sereno Branch Library – Teen Event
Please join us for our Summer Author series and meet author Mary McCoy, who will present Camp So-and-So. She is a talented writer of stories about Los Angeles’s notorious past, AND a librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library. You can meet her this summer at this event, and might be the lucky winner of a free copy of the book.
Where: El Sereno Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5226 S. Huntington Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/summer-author-meet-mary-mccoy
