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• The real hollywood deal-Acting (Los Angeles)
6 Nov 2009 at 11:15am
Let's be honest here, do you want to be working on movies and TV in Hollywood, and absolutely nothing else will do?
Are you a bit stuck as to how to get yourself to Hollywood as a successful actor, producer, writer, director or doing any of the many other jobs out there from make-up artist to agent to the stars?
Perhaps people are telling you that it would be impossible. Well, hundreds of thousands of people are working successfully in Hollywood right now, and there is certainly room for you there!
There are practical steps you need to know for before you go to LA an... ( cont'd )
• IWOSC Presents: A Writer’s Survival Guide and Free Legal Clinic (Veterans Memorial Building)
4 Nov 2009 at 10:49pm
Saturday, November, 21
10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland (at Culver Boulevard), Culver City
Parking is FREE, enter on Culver
You’ve heard it before: "Don't trust anyone!" Yet, during the process, writers have to trust their material to dozens of people. In today’s new media age, scam literary agents and disreputable editing services have cost writers dearly. Idea theft lawsuits are common. What about legitimate Print-on-Demand and self-publishing? Learn how to protect yourself from fraudulent vanity publishing houses and not get ripp... ( cont'd )
• Wanna Learn How To Produce Your Own WebSeries? Web TV Prep (Marina Del Rey)
4 Nov 2009 at 6:30pm
In just four short weeks, Web TV Prep (www.webtvprep.com) will take
you from an aspiring actor, frustrated writer or idle producer to the
star/producer of your own show. The course will cover the four major
areas of: (1) creative development/casting, (2) production, (3) post
production/Web design/technology and (4) social networking/viral
marketing/ad sales. Each class will be taught in a supportive and
creative space by Damian Pelliccione and Brian Rodda, pioneers of the
online media movement. Students will be given a variety of tools (via
handouts, homework, ind... ( cont'd )
• Learn how to get published! (Culver City)
4 Nov 2009 at 1:52pm
Are you an artist, photographer or hobbyist seeking to create a catalog, portfolio, or photo book? A writer interested in self-publishing or creating a bound book to shop to agents?
* Show you (step-by-step) how easy it is to create your own book
* Share design and layout tips that will make your work look it's best
* Get you started on your own book (please create an account on Lulu.com prior to the workshop and then bring your laptop with digital images)
* Educate you on the tools that Lulu.com offers to help you promote and sell your finished book... ( cont'd )
• Creative Actors Alliance FREE Networking Event--November 7th
3 Nov 2009 at 2:17pm
November 7th is the date for The Creative Actors Alliance's next FREE Industry Brunch. The event is from 11:30am to 2pm at Frankie's, at 7228 Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood, CA 90046. Free raffle and door prizes. Our Guest Speakers will be MARC CLEBANOFF– Director / Producer & LOUIS MANDYLOR – Actor/ Director/Producer. The event is FREE to attend--you just pay for your food and drink. If you're in any way involved in the entertainment industry you'll want to come to this informative event! For more info please visit our website WWW.Creativeactors.com Or call 310-840-2240... ( cont'd )
• Get Hung! (Culver City, CA)
2 Nov 2009 at 2:03pm
The response to our Get Hung! Seminar has been so strong, that we're doing it again. So, don't waste another day! Brush up on the business of art. Learn how to get your portfolio ready to show to galleries. Get insider tips on how to approach galleries and who to talk to. Ashley McLean Emenegger, gallery director, art writer, art consultant, curator, and visual artist has "been there" and "done that," willshow you how to effectively represent yourself and jump start your art career.
Held at The Whole 9 Gallery, this seminar provides straightforward advice for visual ar... ( cont'd )
• Writers Wanted (Woodland Hills)
31 Oct 2009 at 4:41pm
Writers meeting for creative brainstorming.
Calling for writers in the local area,
Get new ideas on how to publish and display your work.
share your work and ideas, read each others work, creative communication,
Turn your passion into fashion and earn as you do!
Meet other like minded individuals.
Do you like to write
Are you a writer, or want to be one
have you written many masterpiece poems, essays books, screen plays
or do you want to write it
do you have a masterpiece in your head
do you want to write your story
Call Tippy
818 ... ( cont'd )
• Attention: Improve Your Leadership and Communication Skills (Los Angeles, Ca)
29 Oct 2009 at 5:33pm
Improve Your Leadership and Communication Skills at Tinseltown Toastmasters at The Comfort of Your Home at the W.G.A.!
This non-profit organization offers a proven – and enjoyable – way to practice your speaking and story-telling skills. Here's how it works:
Our meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a friendly atmosphere. A typical group has about 20 members who meet weekly or biweekly to practice public speaking techniques. The average meeting lasts one hour. Our group currently has a total o... ( cont'd )
• Learn Standup Comedy! (North Hollywood)
29 Oct 2009 at 11:56am
North Hollywood, CA
Phone: (800) 883-3531
Comedy Writing Secrets
Are you a comedian? Actor? Writer? Do you want to be? You can learn to be funny.
Few people know that comedy has a structure and a science to it. Jerry Corley has devoted his life to studying, perfecting and performing this structure. Now he teaches you what he has learned through 20 years of experience.
In this eight-week course you will learn the building blocks that provide the structure anyone can use to write comedy. By the end of the course you will have developed an act and will perform it... ( cont'd )
• Alameda Writers Group November Meetin (Glendale Central Library)
28 Oct 2009 at 4:12pm
ALAMEDA WRITERS GROUP – LOS ANGELES PRESENTS: “RESPECTING THE ANTAGONIST” WITH BILL BOYLE
Please join Alameda Writers Group 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 7th, when Bill Boyle will discuss respecting the antagonist.
“The essence of true character conflict is not derived from the protagonist being right and the antagonist being wrong, but from both characters being right carried to an inevitable conclusion. Villains and unsympathetic characters don't consider themselves evil. They like everyone else is doing the very best they can given their fears, needs, knowledge, s... ( cont'd )
• A Celebration of The X-Files Charity Event (Beverly Wilshire Hotel)
28 Oct 2009 at 1:25pm
Whether you were a fan of the mythology episodes or the monsters of the week, there is no denying that The X-Files made audiences ponder, gasp, laugh and hide their eyes—occasionally all at the same time. If you’ve ever wondered if Scully was immortal, if Skinner was still infected with nano-technology, or if Mulder and Scully will be fighting the coming 2012 invasion, November 14th is your day to ask those questions and many others.
Actress Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully, herself), actor Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner), executive producer/writer Frank Spotnitz and dire... ( cont'd )
• Documentary Workshop (Los Angeles)
28 Oct 2009 at 12:41pm
Jump-start your documentary film in the Documentary Workshop. Led by the award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor, Stephanie Hubbard, the workshop is designed to help you get started on your film, and save money by really getting to know your story up front. Even if you've already started shooting, we'll help you work more effectively and create better art. You will leave being clear on your structure, tone and story, and you'll be to able to convey to investors, collaborators, your editors (especially if it's you), and especially your audience what you want t... ( cont'd )
• Topanga Power of I AM (120 N. Topanga Cyn blvd Topanga, Ca )
27 Oct 2009 at 9:40am
Topanga Power of I AM group
My name is Hjelmi Larsen. I am a Law of Attraction Coach. I am also a writer. I am conducting a series of ongoing work shops to be held every Saturday at the Coyote Club in Topanga, CA. The purpose of my group is to come together and learn how to co-create with God. I teach the basics of the Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics. I will explain to you exactly how our thoughts create our personal reality. I will show you techniques for applying thought power in a highly dynamic way to achieve not only your goals, but general happiness, well... ( cont'd )
• JOHN SINGLETON Screening his Award Winning movie ROSEWOOD (Santa Monica, CA)
23 Oct 2009 at 6:15pm
Edgemar Center for the Arts is proud to host
JOHN SINGLETON
Screening his Award Winning movie
ROSEWOOD
Monday, November 9, 2009
At 7:30
$20.00 General Admission
$50.00 VIP
to purchase tickets please visit www.edgemar.org under events
Rosewood is an award winning film based on a 1923 horrific, racist, lynch mob attack on an African American community in Florida. The movie tells the tale of a drifter who gets caught in a town filled with racial prejudice. The drifter, played by Ving Rhames, ends up helping the surviving African-Americans... ( cont'd )
• "Landscaping the Den of Saints" Pay What You Can Sundays! (The Avery Schreiber - North Hollywood)
21 Oct 2009 at 4:07pm
A TU original by Jacob Smith, Landscaping the Den of Saints explores the hysterically destructive relationship between a floundering writer and an eccentric millionaire with a rampant desire to indulge in his many addictions. Real and audacious, this multi-leveled dark comedy digs into the artist's desire to do (and deal with) anything to reach creative and financial success, capturing those increasingly uneasy moments that happen along the way.
For more information about the show, check out the press release, or get a more personal perspective with Jim Martyka's Artist In... ( cont'd )
• How to Create a Novel or Screenplay that Sells (5930 Franklin Ave // Hollywood, CA 90028)
21 Oct 2009 at 3:08pm
How to Create a Novel or Screenplay that Sells
Seminar with Producer/Director Eric Sherman. Eric won the Peabody Award for broadcasting and is an award winning producer and director. He is also the author of Directing the Film and Selling Your Film. He is a consultant to Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and the Mount Company.
Also Writer Kelly Reno. Kelly has been a professional writer for 12 years. As a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction, she has had 14 books published by major publishing houses including Random House and Berk... ( cont'd )
• Native Voices at the Autry Presents CARBON BLACK (Los Angeles)
19 Oct 2009 at 9:26am
WORLD PREMIERE OF CARBON BLACK
BY TERRY GOMEZ (COMANCHE)
PRESENTED BY NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY,
AMERICA’S LEADING NATIVE AMERICAN THEATER COMPANY
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 22, 2009
(previews begin Wednesday, November 4)
Native Voices at the Autry, America’s leading Native American theater company, launches its 2009-10 main stage play series with the world premiere of CARBON BLACK by Terry Gomez (Comanche)*. The humor-tinged suspenseful psychological drama, directed by Native Voices Founder/Producing Artistic Director Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)*... ( cont'd )
• WRITING WORKSHOPS • ALL GENRES WELCOME (1) Farmers Market/Fairfax 2) Encino area)
10 Oct 2009 at 5:29pm
A fun, nurturing environment where your ideas come to life on the page, whether you are a new writer or an experienced one. We use the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method to establish a respectful space, encourage spontaneous and writing, and offer thoughtful, positive feedback. If you think you'd like to write, just want to polish your skills, or are determined to kick your writing into high gear, this writing workshop is for you! Taught by a published author and MFA, the workshop will give you the skills and confidence to get you started on the path to your future.... ( cont'd )
• The Total Picture Seminar for Actors, Writers, & Directors (UCLA)
7 Oct 2009 at 3:19am
THE TOTAL PICTURE SEMINAR
A two-day Immersion into the Collaborative Experience of Filmmaking
actor MARTIN LANDAU
director MARK RYDELL
screenwriter/playwright LYLE KESSLER
SAT & SUN, NOVEMBER 14 & 15, 2009, UCLA, LOS ANGELES, CA
A ONE-TIME SPECIAL EVENT FOR ACTORS, WRITERS, AND DIRECTORS
These men have worked with Al Pacino, Tim Burton, Lee Strasberg, Woody Allen, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Caan, Johnny Depp, Albert Finney, F... ( cont'd )
• WRITERS’ CIRCLE WORKSHOP – Tuesday Evenings, ongoing (Westside)
2 Oct 2009 at 12:05pm
The Writers’ Circle Workshop
with Nomi Isak
A supportive writers’ community offering constructive feedback on your writing
Open to all genres: novel, poetry, nonfiction, memoir, screenplay, or “I-don’t-know-what-it-is-yet!”
When: Tuesdays (resuming Oct. 27 – ongoing, every Tuesday) - 7:00–9:30 PM
Where: Private home on the Westside*
* Address will be provided when you register: Nomi.TheWriteCoach@gmail.com (please be sure to include your phone number!)
With the goal of creating a safe, supportive environment, we have common ground... ( cont'd )
• IWOSC Panel Discussion: Editors (Veterans Memorial Building)
4 Nov 2009 at 10:54pm
IWOSC (The Independent Writers of Southern California)
Presents our November Panel Discussion:
Editors: Don't Let The Books You Write Leave Home Without One!
Monday, November 23, 2009
7:30-9 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland Ave. (at Culver Blvd.), Culver City
Parking is FREE; enter on Culver Blvd.
IWOSC members FREE; $15 for non-members.
Deadline (if space permits) is 12:00 Noon on Monday, November 23.
Reserve seats by calling 1-877-79-WRITE (799-7483) or by emailing info@iwosc.org
Networking to Follow Panel
Our November Panel of Expe... ( cont'd )
• FREE comedy/sketch show this Sunday at iO West! (iO West - Hollywood)
4 Nov 2009 at 10:30pm
Facebook Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168996743261
YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/mainstagesketch
Mainstage Sketch presents A LITTLE BIT OF STRANGE, sketches based on the audience suggestion "Eccentric." Appearing with PopCo!
$3 drink specials all night long!
FREE with a comp! Just ask anyone in the cast or writing team to put you on the list, or email io.mainstage.sketch@gmail.com. No limits, no restrictions.
Directed by Scott Garner
Starring:
Sean Cowhig
John Druska
Sarah Grace
Mat Lageman
John Moody
James Warfield
Rac... ( cont'd )
• Write Memoir about Social Issues (West Hollywood )
3 Nov 2009 at 2:58pm
LGBT ally and University of Oregon Journalism teacher Melissa Hart reads from her new memoir Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood at Latitude 33 in Laguna Beach at 6 PM Saturday, November 7th, and at Book Soup in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 8th at 2 PM. Gringa tells the story of a lesbian mother separated from her three young children by a homophobic court system in the late 1970s. Set in Southern California, it’s Hart’s story of growing up away from her mother--white, straight and seemingly devoid of culture in a multicultural world. Hart will also discuss the challenge ... ( cont'd )
• Writing Classes
2 Nov 2009 at 9:46pm
Dee Wright Productions in conjunction with the Cinefree Style Theatre in Leimert Park will have the following Theatre Arts classes in November 2009.
Registration will be one day only. Class is limited to 20 students. Student may email for availability after registration date.
Registration: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 11 am – 12 noon.
Cinefree Style Theatre
Corner of 43rd & Leimert Blvd off Crenshaw (next door to the VISION Theatre)
Los Angeles, CA 90008
So You Think You Can Write Lyrics Mondays 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Writing the Short Script in 30 days! Mondays a... ( cont'd )
• Learn Standup Comedy! (North Hollywood)
29 Oct 2009 at 11:56am
North Hollywood, CA
Phone: (800) 883-3531
Comedy Writing Secrets
Are you a comedian? Actor? Writer? Do you want to be? You can learn to be funny.
Few people know that comedy has a structure and a science to it. Jerry Corley has devoted his life to studying, perfecting and performing this structure. Now he teaches you what he has learned through 20 years of experience.
In this eight-week course you will learn the building blocks that provide the structure anyone can use to write comedy. By the end of the course you will have developed an act and will perform it... ( cont'd )
• Grant Writing Training Seminar (Buckingham University, Los Angeles)
28 Oct 2009 at 4:59pm
Learn how to write and submit grants yourself!
Take advantage of this limited opportunity that
could change your life forever.
On hand will be members of our staff along side
of our partner who just happens to be the biggest
supplier of grants in America,
That's right a government representative will do
an on hour presentation at Buckingham University, Los Angeles, California
Tuesday. November 10, 2009 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Register now
&
Don't miss out on this life changing opportunity! Deadline is 11/05/2009 Fee for siminar is $125.00 ... ( cont'd )
• Grant Writing Seminar (Los Angeles, CA)
27 Oct 2009 at 8:58pm
Limited time only please enter this discount code. 1574
Learn how to write and submit grants yourself!
Take advantage of this limited opportunity that
could change your life forever.
On hand will be members of our staff along side
of our partner who just happens to be the biggest
supplier of grants in America,
That's right a government representative will do a one hour presentation
at: Buckingham University
Tuesday. November 10, 2009
Register now
Don't miss out on this life changing opportunity!
seats are limited
Deadline for registration i... ( cont'd )
• Cake Decorating 2 – Advanced Cake Decorating - 11/7/09 (Chef Eric's Culinary Classroom)
24 Oct 2009 at 4:02pm
Cake Decorating 2 – Advanced Cake Decorating $90 Per Person
Sat, 11/7/09 9am-12pm 5 Seats Left
Have you already taken Cake Decorating I and want to learn more or already have Cake Decorating experience and want to get more detailed? We will teach you Complex Décor such as Piped Flowers, Reverse Shells, Roses and Rosettes, Ropes, Basket Weaves, String Rope Work, Advanced Text Writing and more – each person gets their own cake. Cake recipes include Almond Butter Cake and White Chocolate Buttercake. We will make our own Royal Icing and Piping Chocolate. We will also de... ( cont'd )
• JOHN SINGLETON Screening his Award Winning movie ROSEWOOD (Santa Monica, CA)
23 Oct 2009 at 6:15pm
Edgemar Center for the Arts is proud to host
JOHN SINGLETON
Screening his Award Winning movie
ROSEWOOD
Monday, November 9, 2009
At 7:30
$20.00 General Admission
$50.00 VIP
to purchase tickets please visit www.edgemar.org under events
Rosewood is an award winning film based on a 1923 horrific, racist, lynch mob attack on an African American community in Florida. The movie tells the tale of a drifter who gets caught in a town filled with racial prejudice. The drifter, played by Ving Rhames, ends up helping the surviving African-Americans... ( cont'd )
• How to Create a Novel or Screenplay that Sells (5930 Franklin Ave // Hollywood, CA 90028)
21 Oct 2009 at 3:08pm
How to Create a Novel or Screenplay that Sells
Seminar with Producer/Director Eric Sherman. Eric won the Peabody Award for broadcasting and is an award winning producer and director. He is also the author of Directing the Film and Selling Your Film. He is a consultant to Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and the Mount Company.
Also Writer Kelly Reno. Kelly has been a professional writer for 12 years. As a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction, she has had 14 books published by major publishing houses including Random House and Berk... ( cont'd )
• Workshop for writers (Los Angeles)
15 Oct 2009 at 1:57pm
This is a great Writing workshop. taught by Bill Grundfest.
Bill wrote and produced on "Mad About You" for years and is currently the showrunner on LOGO's "Exes and Ohs."
The workshop is at UCLA and runs November 14th and 15th, 9am - 6pm
For more info, visit www.workshopforwritters.com
Use promo code : DWEISS
for a $100 discount
• WRITING WORKSHOPS • ALL GENRES WELCOME (1) Farmers Market/Fairfax 2) Encino area)
10 Oct 2009 at 5:29pm
A fun, nurturing environment where your ideas come to life on the page, whether you are a new writer or an experienced one. We use the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method to establish a respectful space, encourage spontaneous and writing, and offer thoughtful, positive feedback. If you think you'd like to write, just want to polish your skills, or are determined to kick your writing into high gear, this writing workshop is for you! Taught by a published author and MFA, the workshop will give you the skills and confidence to get you started on the path to your future.... ( cont'd )
• The Total Picture Seminar for Actors, Writers, & Directors (UCLA)
7 Oct 2009 at 3:19am
THE TOTAL PICTURE SEMINAR
A two-day Immersion into the Collaborative Experience of Filmmaking
actor MARTIN LANDAU
director MARK RYDELL
screenwriter/playwright LYLE KESSLER
SAT & SUN, NOVEMBER 14 & 15, 2009, UCLA, LOS ANGELES, CA
A ONE-TIME SPECIAL EVENT FOR ACTORS, WRITERS, AND DIRECTORS
These men have worked with Al Pacino, Tim Burton, Lee Strasberg, Woody Allen, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Caan, Johnny Depp, Albert Finney, F... ( cont'd )
• Juvenile Diabetes Walk 2009 (Dodger Stadium)
19 Sep 2009 at 11:30am
Greetings! I'm hoping you can help me for this really great cause.
I'm writing to you to ask for your support in a very special cause.
This year, on November 8, 2009 at Dodger Stadium. I'll be taking part in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Walk to Cure Diabetes along with a half-million other walkers across the country. Our goal: To raise $105 million to help fund research for a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications.
Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes, is a devastating, often deadly disease that affects millions of people--a large and growing per... ( cont'd )
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