The Pro-Israel community is invited to the annual Democrats for Israel “Occupy Chanukah” party! Join fellow pro-Israel activists and elected officials for some latkes on the last night of the holiday at Workman’s Circle(a couple blocks south of Pico Blvd, west side of Robertson).
Plenty of street parking available.
Free for DFI members.
Non-members welcome to attend, purchase a ticket & membership:
When: Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: Workmen’s Circle Cultural Center
1525 S Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Ticket: $25 pre-event, $30 at the door.
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It’s almost that time of year again! Dreidels are spinning, the menorah is burning bright and you are invited to the attend the much anticipated RU-JU-LA Hannukah Party!
Put on your yarmulka – or don’t – but mark your calendars because on Sunday, December 25, South in Santa Monica will be hosting our annual Hannukah Party! What better way to celebrate our eight crazy nights than with great music, strong drinks, delicious food, and a fun atmosphere.
- Great location
- Tasty appetizers
- DJ and dancing
- Free drink with your admission!
When: December 25, 2011
Time 7:30 p.m.
Where: South Restaurant and Bar, 3001 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90403
Tickets: $18 pre-sale via PayPal.($20 at the door)
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Kotohajime: The First Performance of the New Year
Hatsu Kaze “First Wind”.
The JACCC celebrates the Year of the Dragon with Hatsu-Kaze (First Wind), an artistic journey through Western and Eastern performing arts and traditions curated by the creative vision of Hirokazu Kosaka, Artistic Director of the JACCC.
Join the JACCC on this fascinating New Year Celebration featuring performances by the Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Academy & Performing Arts School, The Professional Training Program students of The Colburn School’s The Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, and Nagautaby Katada Kikusa, Jyorokusho Kineya and Yasoyo Kineya II.
The ritual shooting of the arrow – a purification ceremony – will be performed by IKKYU of the Los Angeles Kyudo Archery Group.
When: Sunday, January 8, 2012 ... 
Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation explores a seminal but overlooked generation of artists who started working in Los Angeles between the turn of the century and the end of the 1960s, prior to the rise of the Chicano art movement. From commercial illustrations that celebrated the mythic Californios to modernist art that engaged directly with the Civil Rights era, this exhibition pulls together one hundred rarely seen paintings, sculptures, photographs, and graphics to explore how these artists drew inspiration from both their Mexican heritage and American home.
Art Along the Hyphen is part of a unique four-exhibition project, called L.A. Xicano, organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in partnership with the Autry National Center, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, ... 
The Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & New Year’s Day Firecracker Ceremony was founded in 1999 to provide New york’s Chinese American community with a large scale celebration on par with those in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In recent years it has suppressed it, the event has grown into a New York City-wide affair and New York’s biggest winter tourist attraction, luring thousands of visitors from all over the United States and the world. With the dog parade 5 years ago and 4 years ago the Pig race, 2- colorful float, 20 antique cars, 200 cultural performers & 3000 marchers participating making the parade more exciting. Last year, a record 500,000 spectators flooded the streets of Chinatown to welcome the year of the Rabbit. A truly pan-Asian spectacle, the Para ... 
We are also excited to announce that for the first time in the Festival’s history our Opening Night Gala & Awards Presentation for the Los Angeles Festival will be held at the state-of-the-art Paramount Theater on the Paramount Studios Lot on March 15, 2012. If you would like to purchase advance tickets for Opening Night, please email info@israelfilmfestival.org.
When: March 15 – 29, 2012
Where: 6404 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
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City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guild of America West, and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). COL•COA is also supported by l’Association des Auteurs-Réalisateurs-Producteurs (ARP), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles and UNIFRANCE.
A week of French film premiers is an annual film festival in Hollywood. It’s a major event on the west coast bringing together professionals and critics from the industry, as well as people from media, advertising and PR. COL•COA is committed to promoting new French films in the U.S. and to showcasing the vitality and ... 
Described by The Times as ‘without doubt, one of the world’s greatest living musicians’, Yuri Bashmet is the pre-eminent viola player of the modern age. With his virtuosity, strength of personality and high intelligence, he has given the viola a new prominence and has motivated composers like Shostakovich, Schnittke and Gubaidulina to expand the viola repertoire and to dedicate works to him. Bashmet is the Artistic Director of the December Nights Festival (Moscow), Principal Conductor of the ‘Novaya Rossiya’ State Symphony Orchestra, and is a founder and director of the Grammy Award-winning Russian orchestra Moscow Soloists, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012. World class cellist Mischa Maisky also appears on the program.
When: May 05, 2012
Where: ... 
In September of 2002, some of Los Angeles’ most prominent Italian-American citizens got together and produced the first annual Precious Cheese Feast of San Gennaro Los Angeles, offering three days of enjoyment for the entire family. Just like the 80+ year old New York City tradition, the Precious Cheese Feast of San Gennaro Los Angeles celebrates Italian culture, food and entertainment, and features live music, street performers, strolling musicians, a kid’s corner, and many rides and games. In addition to sampling wine from local wineries and food from some of Los Angeles’ best Italian restaurants, guests are invited to learn recipes from the cooking stage and play bocce ball and bingo with some of Hollywood’s Italian-American celebrities and much more!
When: Friday, September 28 – ... 
The Arab Film Festival, the United States’ largest and longest running exhibitor of films from and about the Arab world, has been heralded by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other major media. AFF takes place annually, beginning with opening night at San Francisco’s historic Castro Theater, and expanding to San Jose, Berkely, and Los Angeles. We are calling for narrative and documentary features, as well as short film entries, that provide realistic and alternative perspectives on Arab people, culture, art, history and politics When: October 2012
When: October, 2012
Where: San Francisco Bay Area in Los Angeles
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