Big Sunday happily welcomes you to Our Really Big Community Calendar.
We try to include all kinds of volunteering and helping opportunities for all kinds of interests, talents, passions, and ages! As you’ll see, these include volunteering opportunities (one-time and long-term) as well as the chance to support a nonprofit by attending fundraising events. Plus, of course, we include all of Big Sunday’s homegrown events, too! Whoever you are, and whatever you do, there is someone out there who could use your help.
If you have questions about our calendar, or would like to add a listing, please contact calendar@bigsunday.org or submit your event/opportunity via the button below.
L.A. GOAL’s award winning visual arts studio, Inside Out Productions, proudly presents its 25th Annual Art Exhibit! Join them in celebrating the whimsically creative, colorful, confounding and reassuring artwork of Inside Out artists. L.A. GOAL, a non-profit agency, guides adults with developmental disabilities in finding, recognizing and utilizing their abilities.
The one-day art exhibit and sale will take place at Koplin Del Rio Gallery on Sunday, October 25th, 2015 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Proceeds from sales are used to help offset the artists’ salaries and purchase their studio supplies. Inside Out Productions provides professional art instruction as well as paid, part-time employment for artists with developmental disabilities.
Original works of fine art, multi-media sculpture, embroidery, weaving and ceramics will be on display and available for sale. Stop by the L.A. GOAL pop up shop to browse our exciting new products, including an array of new greeting cards, screen printed apparel and notebooks, art prints, ceramic tea light holders, canvas accent pillows, and other neat home and gift items.
Eleana Del Rio donates the Koplin Del Rio Gallery every year to L.A. GOAL for this annual art event. Koplin Del Rio focuses on contemporary painting, drawing and sculpture of internationally acclaimed artists, as well as emerging California artists. Koplin Del Rio emphasizes showing representational, figurative, landscape and still-life works.
Tickets are now on sale for The Beach Boys concert at the 24th Family Music Festival on Sunday, June 26, 2015 at the Arboretum. Tickets may be purchased online or at the Arboretum Gift Shop. The Festival is presented Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks & Recreation and the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation.
Gates open at 2 pm. The concert begins at 4:00 pm on the Bauer Lawn. The Arboretum is located at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, CA 91007. Children under 12 are admitted free to this concert and must be accompanied by an adult. Food, soft drinks and water will be available for purchase onsite or you may bring a picnic. There will be food trucks. Beer and wine will be available for purchase at the Arboretum Library’s Beer for Books/Wines for Spines booth.
Lawn Seating: All seating for the concert is lawn seating. Please bring your own chair or blankets. The concert last about 2 1/2 hours. Please dress comfortably and bring a jacket or sweater for the evening as it will get cool. Please be aware that for safety reasons open flames (candles, lanterns, etc.) are not permitted. Smoking is not permitted. Guests can use umbrellas before the concert, but umbrellas must be put away prior to the start of the concert. Assistance dogs are allowed but no pets please. The performance will occur rain or shine. Ticket purchases are non-refundable.
Parking: The fee is $10 for the Arboretum lot; $6 for parking at the Santa Anita Park (racetrack) where free shuttles will operate to and from the Arboretum. A limited number of accessible parking spaces are available. Parking is only sold onsite, on the day of the concert. Please arrive early to ensure availability.
Drop Off: A zone for dropping off passengers and food items is located at the main entrance to the Arboretum. Please enter at Arboretum Way.
NOTE: Children 12 and under free and must be accompanied by an adult.
CURRENT:LA Water is looking for passionate art enthusiasts to assist in Los Angeles’ first citywide Public Art Biennial taking place in summer, 2016. Get an insider's look at the exhibitions while educating others about the artists and their mission to create awareness about societal struggles we see in our city.
Visit http://www.laworks.com/currentla for more info and to get signed up.
Volunteer Role & Responsibilities:
- Learn about the artist and the work to provide visitors with background about the exhibition
- Learn about and provide information on the overall biennial, upcoming events, and artist/site locations
- Welcomes and guides attendees to the artworks, assists with lighting and way finding when necessary
- Check-in guests, manage event capacity, maintain grounds, and let Site Coordinator know if there are any problems.
- Assists with parking as necessary, identifies site needs, replaces items as necessary, and checks signage for repairs
“POETS JAZZ HOUSE LIVE IN LEIMERT PARK”
….just somewhere to go in the midst of searching your soul
A Spoken Word & Music Lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door…
Inner City Cultural Center II, Inc., Kaos Network and Tuesday Conner are proud to present “Poets Jazz House Live in Leimert Park”. Host by Yawo Watts on the last Saturday of every month at the Vision Theater, 3341 West 43rd PLACE, Los Angeles, CA 90008.
Poets Jazz House is a Spoken Word & Music Lounge where spilling your heart is an art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door and the cover charge is always free. This little beatnik Open Mic venue is taking it to the streets with Soapbox Poetry. Join us in the courtyard where there is snapping instead of clapping, the atmosphere is lax but it sizzles. Come touch, be touched, hear the answer, heed the call…
Both audience and artist can get involved on stage or in the writer's workshop directly following the Open Mic performance. Come for the experience, come back for the cool.
This Free event is on the last Saturday of every month from 2 to 4pm at The Vision Theater, 3341 West 43rd PLACE, Los Angeles, CA 90008.
For Info contact: poetsjazzhouse@yahoo.com or visit www.tuesdayconner.com.
For more info, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poets-jazz-house-live-in-leimert-park-tickets-26024288347.
Students have the option for enrolling for the whole 4 weeks, or 2 weeks sessions, either Session 1 or Session 2.
Session 1: July 10th – July 21th
Students will learn how to depict the illusion of three-dimensional objects through the language of linear and tonal drawing. The subjects of the sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, egg and cylindrical ring are possible subjects that will serve as foundational elements for the later study of casts. This program will introduce the student to ideas of linear construction using complex cross-contour analysis of form. Students will also be introduced to the properties of light and shadow necessary in the depiction of form in the first week. In the second week of the program, students will proceed to linear and tonal investigation of more complex, hybrid geometric forms.
Session 2: July 24th – August 4th
Students will be focusing on the complexity of the human head, students will engage in portrait drawings with an emphasis on precision and capturing the idiosyncratic proportions, features, and likeness of the face. Lectures will focus on the structure of the features as derived from classical Greco/Roman aesthetics as well as the Italian Renaissance, and how to utilize structures in decoding/understanding more naturalized forms. During the end of the program students will be introduced to drawing the portrait from a live model.
Students will be treated to Special Guest Artists and LAAFA Faculty for Lectures, Demos and More…
*During the course of this program, students will receive individual projects ranging from simple objects, cast studies, still life and drawing from the live model. Students may also learn the principals of painting. This will be based on their drawing progress in the program.
Students have the option for enrolling for the whole 4 weeks, or 2 weeks sessions, either Session 1 or Session 2.
Session 1: July 10th – July 21th
Students will learn how to depict the illusion of three-dimensional objects through the language of linear and tonal drawing. The subjects of the sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, egg and cylindrical ring are possible subjects that will serve as foundational elements for the later study of casts. This program will introduce the student to ideas of linear construction using complex cross-contour analysis of form. Students will also be introduced to the properties of light and shadow necessary in the depiction of form in the first week. In the second week of the program, students will proceed to linear and tonal investigation of more complex, hybrid geometric forms.
Session 2: July 24th – August 4th
Students will be focusing on the complexity of the human head, students will engage in portrait drawings with an emphasis on precision and capturing the idiosyncratic proportions, features, and likeness of the face. Lectures will focus on the structure of the features as derived from classical Greco/Roman aesthetics as well as the Italian Renaissance, and how to utilize structures in decoding/understanding more naturalized forms. During the end of the program students will be introduced to drawing the portrait from a live model.
Students will be treated to Special Guest Artists and LAAFA Faculty for Lectures, Demos and More…
*During the course of this program, students will receive individual projects ranging from simple objects, cast studies, still life and drawing from the live model. Students may also learn the principals of painting. This will be based on their drawing progress in the program.
