The First Event List [Updated]:

• April:
• Festival of Books at UCLA: April 26-27 http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/
• **Trip to Chinatown SOON!Check in for more details...
  

• *“Happenings” (Allan Kaprow) to be staged throughout the LA area i.e. LACMA, MOCA...) more details of where and when at this link: http://www.moca.org/kaprow

*Once a month events:

* First Fridays at Natural History Museum: lecture and music performance every first Friday of the month link: http://www.nhm.org/firstfirdays/

· *La Brea tar pits: Admission is free on the first Tuesday of each month

· *Downtown Art Walk: Second Thursday of Every Month: http://downtownartwalk.com

· MCW *Miracle Art Walk: every 3^rd Saturday of the Month:
http://www.midcitywest.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

• Awesome Flea Markets: Melrose Trading Post 7850 Melrose Ave. (at Fairfax High School) and South Park Flea Market 8th & Grand Parking Lot Los Angeles, CA 90014
  
  

Places to Explore...with (or without) your camera, of course:

-Venice Beach
-Streets: Melrose, Sunset, Wilshire
-Chinatown (written self-guided tour available at: http://chinatownla.com

"Site Specific" Areas:
-Hollywood Sign
-Griffith Park (especially the observatory)
-Walt Disney Concert Hall
-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
-Exposition Park
-Sculpture Garden at UCLA

BONUS:: Exhibitions to check out::

*”Overlooker” At Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions/LACE: closes April 26 [artleak.org]
*Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” at the Hammer Museum, UCLA [hammer.ucla.org] March2 -June 8
*”California Video” at Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute
[getty.edu] March 15-June 8
*”Make Art/Stop AIDS” (closes June 15) and “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” (April 6- August 10)
at Fowler Museum, UCLA [www.fowler.ucla.edu]
*”Dave Mckenzie; Screen Doors on Submarines” at REDCAT
[redcat.org/gallery]
*”Allan Kaprow: Art as Life” at LAMoCA/Geffen March 23- June 30 [moca.org]
*Lawrence Wiener: As Far as the Eyes Can See” At LAMoCA/Geffen April 13-
July 14
*”Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement” at LACMA [lacma.org] April 6-September 1
*”Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms” at Getty [getty.org]
May 6-September 14
*Norton Simon Museum : Marcel Duchamp Redux April 25-December 8 link: http://www.nortonsimon.org/