NOHO; VALLEY ARTS DISTRICT READY TO CELEBRATE WITH WEEKEND PARTY.Byline: Reed Johnson Reed Cameron Johnson (born December 8, 1976 in Riverside, California) is an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division of Major League Baseball. He weighs 180 lb (82 kg) and is 5'10" tall. Daily News Staff Writer Forty-eight hours from now, when the jugglers and the jazz musicians This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles. Some of the most notable jazz musicians
The Arts District will get back to business. Namely, the theater business. During the annual weekend street fair known as the NoHo Theatre & Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. - co-sponsored by the Daily News - it's easy to forget that North Hollywood's NoHo Arts District wasn't conceived primarily as a place to bargain-hunt for greeting cards See e-card. and boutique candles, or to witness sweaty displays of Turkish belly dancing. Six years after the district was born, live theater remains its main mission, its raison d'etre rai·son d'ê·tre n. pl. rai·sons d'être Reason or justification for existing. [French : raison, reason + de, of, for + être, to be. . This weekend, that mission will be reflected in more than 100 free performances at the festival by some 50 theater companies and producing organizations from around metropolitan Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Averaging about 45 minutes apiece, the offerings will include everything from a musical about one of the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. Challenger astronauts to a nine-women comedy set in a beauty salon, to political satire Political satire is a subgenre of general satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians, and public affairs. It has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political , puppets, scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan's ``Patience'' and a piece called ``Cacti & I,'' presented by Theatre Unlimited and described as involving ``comic cacti rustling and voodoo.'' Besides these events, held at 13 NoHo ``host'' theaters, there'll also be free outdoor performances by doo-wop and folk groups, clog-dancing and Celtic music Celtic music is a term utilized by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Northern Europe. , a food festival, an open-air arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. fair and a Kids Court. Hot dogs and pizza will be consumed, prepubescent prepubescent /pre·pu·bes·cent/ (pre?pu-bes´ent) prepubertal. pre·pu·bes·cent adj. Of or characteristic of prepuberty. n. A prepubescent child. faces will be painted, ear cuffs and pottery will be purchased, and Baptist choirs will make a joyful noise. Last year, police estimated total attendance at around 35,000 over the weekend. But when the two-day frenzy ceases Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. , the theater community will resume the greater, unending challenge of putting together new seasons of plays, selling subscription tickets and attracting new audiences. That's when the NoHo Festival really pays for itself as a high-profile form of group advertising, organizers say. ``It's a numbers game, and when I talk to some of the other theaters, they tell me they've gotten a lot of people as subscribers or repeat customers based on their initial contact with the festival,'' says Edmund Gaynes, festival co-chairman and president of the 45-member Valley Theatre League, which is presenting the event in concert with the Universal City-North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. To encourage repeat business, the league again will be selling summer theater discount passes between noon and 6 p.m. both days. The passbook, which costs $40, consists of 10 passes that may be used at any of 24 participating Valley theaters. Books will be on sale at the Valley Theatre League tent near the intersection of Lankershim and Magnolia boulevards. ``The whole purpose of it (the festival) is for people who may not be aware that there is a large, vital theater community, not only in NoHo but throughout the Valley,'' says Gaynes, who also runs the Two Roads Theatre in Studio City and has produced shows off-Broadway. ``The theaters are the main reason for the festival. They are the main draw, so many people who come clearly are interested in theater, or they wouldn't show.'' When local grass-roots arts activists and the city's Cultural Affairs Department dreamed up the district, they envisioned a free-spirited community of resourceful bohemians mixing with office workers, small business owners and coffeehouse connoisseurs. NoHo was to be the city's largest publicly supported arts zone. Later, the City Council got into the act by passing a zoning change making it possible for artists to live and work in the same space without having to wade through bureaucratic red tape. Since then, a once-grim stretch of Lankershim Boulevard has morphed into an unpretentious cultural hub, the eye of a 1.5-square-mile area containing some 20 theaters, mostly small, Equity-waiver houses with fewer than 100 seats. It's also home to art dealers, used-bookstore owners, the tattooed and the fashionably sullen, commingling Combining things into one body. The term commingling is most often applied to funds or assets. When a fiduciary, a person entrusted with the management of funds other than his or her own in trust, mixes trust money with that of others, the fiduciary is commingling with white-collar employees of Disney's Interactive division and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which anchor opposite corners of Lankershim and Magnolia. This NoHo - the workaday NoHo - is more than a once-a-year happening. It's a round-the-clock yet low-key hangout where you can witness live performances five days a week, buy a nouveau-Gothic painting at Dark's Art Parlour, stop in for joe at Eagles Coffee Pub or the Eclectic Cafe and peruse pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- an exhibition of fine-art prints at the Lankershim Arts Center. So far, it hasn't turned into Times Square or Manhattan's illustrious Soho arts district, with which NoHo's boosters draw frequent comparisons. But it's a neighborhood with a style all its own. Enjoy your visit. THE FACTS What: Sixth annual NoHo Theatre & Arts Festival. Where: Lankershim Boulevard, between Magnolia and Chandler. When: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. Admission: Admission to the festival is free, but you will need to obtain free tickets to attend any performance at the 13 festival ``host'' theaters. Tickets are available at the Valley Theatre League's Theater Tent at the corner of Lankershim and Magnolia on a first-come, first-served basis. While most theaters are within walking distance, a free shuttle also will be available. Where to park: Both off-street and on-street parking are available throughout the festival area. Information: Call (818) 508-5155. CAPTION(S): 8 Photos, Map Photo: (1--Cover--Color) PLAY ON NoHo stages a festival that's more than a show (2) Visitors to this weekend's NoHo Theatre & Arts Festival can have a seat with the Lucille Ball statue at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. (3) The Bitter Truth Theatre, 11050 Magnolia Blvd. (4) The Group Repertory Theatre, 10900 Burbank Blvd. (5) The NoHo Actors' Studio, 5215 Lankershim Blvd. (6) Actors Alley at the El Portal, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. (7) SSSHHH! PERFORMANCE IN PROGRESS (8) Lankershim Bl - Magnolia Phil McCarten/Daily News Map: No Ho Arts District |
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