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ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: The Pasadena Art Show ’17

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Laemmle’s Art in the Arthouse is delighted to present THE PASADENA ART SHOW ’17. Please join us to celebrate our local artists in an intimate theatre setting. Our special event features a slide show on the big screen, artist talks, and of course, the wine, cheese and conversation Art in the Arthouse is known for. Meet the artists and stay for the art!

 

About the Exhibit

Our third annual Pasadena community show brings together a diverse group of artistic talent culled from the surrounding community. Beyond the inherent eclecticism, there is a shared commitment to create compelling work, zoomed in on aesthetics in what might be considered a bluntly un-aesthetic time. The pieces vary from drawings and digital manipulations to refined paintings and musings through the spirit of animals. Through it all, the intentional act of “making art” – in contrast to the ephemeral and self-absorbed social mediaimagery that pervades our culture – inform the group’s collective conscience.

Art in the Arthouse celebrates these unique 20+ artists and salutes them for having the courage to see, and allowing others to see, in new ways. The exhibit runs for several months, with sales benefitting the Laemmle Foundation and its support of humanistic and environmental efforts in the L.A. region.  Enjoy!

                                                                                              – Joshua Elias, Curator

Artist Reception:
Laemmle Playhouse 7
Thursday, June 1, 6-9pm

Refreshments will be provided

 

Summer Camp: Every Throwback Thursday in June at the NoHo 7

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Join Laemmle and  Eat|See|Hear for Summer Camp at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood! Every Thursday in June our Throwback Thursday (#TBT) series presents some of our favorite campy films from the last fifty years! It all starts Thursday, June 1st with BARBARELLA. Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!

June 1: Barbarella

A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity. Outfitted in an array of stunning Star Trek/Bond girl outfits and cruising around in a plush, psychedelic spaceship, Barbarella travels to the Tau Seti system and promptly crash-lands. She then spends the rest of the film discovering the joys of interstellar sex with a variety of characters. BUY TICKETS.

June 8: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The story of a fictional rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer who survives a botched sex change operation. Hedwig subsequently develops a relationship with a younger man, Tommy, becoming his mentor and musical collaborator, only to have Tommy steal her music and move on without her. The film follows Hedwig and her backing band, the Angry Inch, as they shadow Tommy’s tour, while exploring Hedwig’s past and complex gender identity. BUY TICKETS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9mPhGo1j0

 

June 15: Tootsie

Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money – eight thousand dollars to be exact – and to earn it, he’s prove just how talented an actor he is. Dustin Hoffman stars with Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray and Geena Davis in director Sydney Pollack’s Oscar-nominated gem. BUY TICKETS.

June 22: Cabaret

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to Cabaret. The winner of eight Academy Awards, it boasts a score by the legendary songwriting partnership behind another film that would energize the movie musical genre with equal razzle-dazzle 30 years later: Chicago’s John Kander and Fred Ebb. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. Cabaret caught lightning (and won Oscars) for Minnelli, Grey and director Bob Fosse, who shaped a triumph of style and substance. Come to this Cabaret, old chum. You’ll never want to leave. BUY TICKETS.

June 29: Cry-Baby

Eisenhower is President. Rock ‘n’ Roll is king. And Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Johnny Depp heads up a supercool cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild – especially Allison Vernon Williams (Amy Locane), a rich, beautiful “square” who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster women. It’s the hysterical high-throttle world of 1954 in director John Waters’ outrageous musical comedy. BUY TICKETS.

George Chakiris in Person at the NoHo with WEST SIDE STORY.

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Oscar winner George Chakiris (Bernardo) will participate in a Q&A at the WEST SIDE STORY screening at the NoHo on Thursday, May 11.

BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY Q&A this Weekend at the NoHo.

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BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY producer/son of Bert Berns Brett Berns; co-director Bob Sarles; singer-songwriter Brooks Arthur; and producer-recording engineer Brooks Arthur will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, May 5. Producer-author Randy Poe will moderate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgynAk4SQ-Y

Crowd Pleasing Musicals Every Throwback Thursday in May at the NoHo 7 with Eat|See|Hear!

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There will be feasting and dancing on Lankershim this May! Laemmle Theatres and Eat|See|Hear present a full month of our favorite musicals every Throwback Thursday in May at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood. Musical May kicks off on Thursday, May 4th with the GUYS AND DOLLS. Doors open at 7 PM, trivia starts at 7:30 PM, and films begin at 7:40 PM! Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!

May 4: GUYS AND DOLLS
Incorrigible gamblers Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) involve each other in a complicated plot to maintain “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York,” while dolls Jean Simmons as Sergeant Sarah Brown and Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide try and stand in their way. Luck, as it turns out, is a Lady after all. Get tickets.

May 11: WEST SIDE STORY
One of the most honored and commercially successful of all movie musicals, WEST SIDE STORY earned a near-record 10 Academy Awards in 1961. The film version of the groundbreaking stage musical that re-imagined Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City retained and deepened the play’s emotional impact by bringing together a show business all-star team. Robbins and Wise reworked the classic Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim score and came up with fresh casting ideas for this ever timely story of racial prejudice and conflict. The stars of the movie included Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Oscar winner George Chakiris, and Oscar winner Rita Moreno. Get tickets.

May 18: HAIR
Milos Forman’s film adaptation of the popular, controversial Broadway musical Hair follows a reserved Midwesterner (John Savage) who joins a group of hippies in Central Park on his way to joining the Army. The musical numbers were choreographed by Twyla Tharp and sung by vocalists like Ellen Foley, Ronnie Dyson, Nell Carter and Melba Moore. Get tickets.

May 25: FUNNY GIRL
Barbra Streisand makes her Oscar winning film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York’s Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience’s hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein, played by Omar Sharif. Get tickets.

CHASING TRANE Filmmaker in Person for NoHo Q&A’s this Weekend.

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CHASING TRANE director John Scheinfeld will introduce and participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29 and after the 1:50 PM show on Sunday, April 30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-uteetRBo&feature=youtu.be

CHASING TRANE Q&A’s with the Filmmakers.

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CHASING TRANE editor/co-producer Peter Lynch will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 PM screening on Friday, April 21 and the 4:50 show on Sunday, April 23 at the Playhouse 7. Producer Sig Sigworth will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Playhouse on Saturday, April 22. CHASING TRANE director John Scheinfeld will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the first evening screenings and a Sunday matinee show Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, exact times TBD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-uteetRBo&feature=youtu.be

RUN WITH THE BULLS and Painter Francisco Alvarado at NoHo 7, April 25

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If you haven’t done so yet, next Tuesday, April 25 will be a good time to catch RUNNING WITH THE BULLS, Art in the Arthouse’s recent exhibit at the NoHo 7 featuring the works of FRANCISCO ALVARADO.  That’s because we’ll be having a “late-show celebration” Tuesday, April 25 from 7-9pm, featuring a slide show, artist talk, and of course, the usual food and beverage treats AAH is known for.

Drawing inspiration from nature and his travels, Alvarado creates powerful works utilizing a fascinating process that combines technology and hands-on manipulation of acrylic paint, mixed media and digital imaging.  Curated by Joshua Elias, the exhibit runs through early May at the NoHo 7.

Join us for the a late show celebration:
Laemmle NoHo 7
Tuesday, April 25, 7-9pm
RSVP HERE

About the Exhibit:

Painting with refined Matisse-like cutout shapes, Francisco Alvarado, has a propensity towards creating movement. Overlaying forms are charged with passionate, vibrant colors that evoke the volcanic fields in his native Ecuador. Inspired from loss, a ditch of emotion wells up in his art, focused, patiently rendered, evoking a wistful empathy.

Alvarado moved from Ecuador to Glendale, CA in 1969. Psychedelic 60s painter Peter Max influenced young Francisco greatly. With Heinz Edelman’s animation in the Beatles’ film the “Yellow Submarine,” animation as a gateway to fine art began to percolate.

Inspired by the emergence of Apple Computers, he enrolled at Long Beach State to study engineering. He threw himself into the brave new world of coding and digital imaging, ultimately leading to artistic experimentation with mixed media.

When mentor Quinton Bemiller introduced him to abstract painting, Alvarado’s work took new turns, filled with vivacity and freedom and influenced by luminaries such as Picasso, Hockney, and Matta. As a mature artist, Alvarado has connected to life and painting in a fuller sense, resulting in the stunning new works currently on display.

– Joshua Elias, Curator