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"Venice Beach in the Sixties - a Celebration of Creativity" at the Other Venice Film Festival
The Other Venice Film Festival is celebrating its 7th year as a community supported event dedicated to screening films, presenting musicians and showcasing art that embody the spirit, energy and diversity of Venice Beach.
Venice Beach in the 60s was the heart of mushrooming beat and hippie cultures and home to many free-spirited and flamboyant inhabitants according to film maker-photographer Leland Auslender who documented this lifestyle.
Coming from a strikingly different background in values and attitudes, including an engineering degree from Cal Tech, a master´s degree from Stanford Business School and a marriage and family in Beverly Hills, Auslender moved to Venice in 1960 after his divorce. "It was then known as Venice, slum by the sea," he remembers. "It was also hippiedom. Those were some of the happiest days of my life."
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The Johnny Appleseed of Venice by Paul Tanck
Last month as my wife and I were jaunting down the boardwalk during the second Venice Art Crawl, we came upon some local friends who stopped me and asked, "So, Paul, Mr. Venice historian, can you tell us where the palm trees along the oceanfront came from?"
"What do I look like, Mr. Instant Answer man?"
But it got me thinking, and so I asked why they wanted to know. Sandy, the wife of David, said something about checking with the county arboretum, and that she was waiting for an answer.
The next day, she sent me an email stating "I finally received a response from the Arboretum. Below is the info I found on the web about who planted the trees and the Arboretum´s response." And it turns out that the palm trees are probably Brahea palms, most likely Brahea edulis, or better known as Guadalupe Fan Palms.
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Venice Arts Gallery Presents "Photography in the Digital Age" - A Free Series of Conversations with Artists, Idea Makers and Educators
This fall, Venice Arts Gallery launches its first-ever Public Programs with a series of conversations with artists, idea makers, and educators focusing on current issues and ideas in the fields of documentary photography, photojournalism, and participant media. These programs augment Venice Arts Gallery´s presentation of "Injustice, Power, & Unusual People," a retrospective exhibition of work by Pulitzer Prize-nominated Photographer Jim Hubbard. On view through November 30th, the show tracks Jim´s development as a young Photographer at the "Detroit News" covering the 1967 Detroit Riots, through his most current work from Southern Africa and Palestine. The Public Programs are a joint presentation of Venice Arts and USC Institute for Photographic Empowerment. All events are free and open to the public.
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Other Venice Film Festival - October 15th - 17th
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