SKIN/Art
& Ideas Festival 2007
October marks the launch of a new issue-based art festival series exploring a specific theme through visual, performing and literary arts. This year's festival theme, "SKIN" offers 22 days at 26 different venues throughout Pasadena, with 243 opportunities to attend performances, explore exhibitions, and engage in public conversations. Don't forget to enter our giveaway for tickets to the VIP Closing Night Event!
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In
this issue: October 11, 2007
- Canned
Peaches in Syrup
- SkInfrared
- Spotlight: SKIN/Art & Ideas
Public Conversation Series
- Ticket
Giveaway: VIP
Closing Night Event featuring Ray Charles
Live! A New Musical
- Hot
SKIN Picks
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 Canned
Peaches in Syrup. Set
in a post-apocalyptic America where
the skin of the earth is barren,
two groups of nomadic humans have emerged
- Cannibals and Vegetarians. A lone can
of peaches in syrup holds their fate -
and the fate of all mankind. Thurs
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October 11th-28th.
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 SkInfrared. SkInfrared
explores just how different our world
is when viewed in infrared light,
using infrared imagery and the physics
of light to dissect our perception
of skin. Fri& Sat
October 12th-27th.
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 Spotlight:
Public Conversation Series
Presents free conversations on topics relevant
to SKIN. Features writer and journalist
Erin Aubry Kaplan, L.A. Common founder Karen
Mack, actor and educator Rose Portillo and
more!
-Beneath
the Skin: The Shifting Conversation on Race
in America. October 16th. More
Info
-The Changing Skin
of Pasadena. October 17th. More
Info
-Skin Obsessions/Venus
Envy. October 23rd. More
Info
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 Spotlight/Ticket
Giveaway: VIP
CLosing Night Event featuring Ray Charles
Live! A New Musical
The
story of how Ray Charles touched the world - celebrating
his musical genius
and his identity as a black American living with
blindness, and the possibility that racial boundaries
may be transcended. Tickets also include an after
party hosted by Venice Magazine. Tickets
are valid for Sunday, October 31st.
Win
Tickets | More
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Did You Know?
Henna
is usually drawn on the hands and feet where the
color will be darkest because the skin contains higher
levels of keratin. -wikipedia.org
Learn
about Mehndi
Tattooing, the application
of henna on the skin. October 27th. |
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See Shows for 1/2
Price!
Theater
– Music – Dance
 Visit LAStageTIX.com for ½ price tickets and a list
of shows playing in greater Los Angeles. |
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Sights,
Sounds, Scales and Skin
October 13th
8:30pm
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science-and-music safari explores how skin
covers and protects us, plus provides
man with a source of musical inventiveness. |
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"dark
play or stories for boys"
October 11th-28th
Various times
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the interplay between the virtual world and
the real world, following the character Nick,
a teenager trafficking invented identities
online. |
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The
Anatomy of a Tattoo
October 23rd, 29th, & 31st
Various times
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tattoos from the perspectives of both a scientist
and a tattoo artist. At each of the three lectures,
the lecturer will be tattooed while speaking. |
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