Baby Tattooville on Parade 

Riverside Art Museum

The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) announces the opening of Baby Tattooville on Parade. The October and November Riverside Artswalks will also feature Baby Tattooville-related activities and artists’ talks.

"Strange, fun art" serves as an overarching description for Baby Tattooville on Parade. The show heralds such locally and world-renowned artists as: James Gurney (illustrator for the Dinotopia book series), Anthony Ausgang, William Stout, Ron English, Michael Hussar, Jeff Soto, Shag, Coop and Lola. Also represented will be the attributed father of the "Lowbrow" art movement, Robert Williams. Selected Baby Tattoo artists are expected to arrive around 6:30 p.m. via ‘Hot Rod Jaunt’ (a parade of sorts featuring restored classic hot rods) from the Mission Inn to the Riverside Art Museum on October 8 before RAM opens for the Members’ Preview reception at 7:00 p.m.

When: October 1st - November 8th 2011, Reception on Saturday, October 8, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Where: Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave.

Admission: $5 for non-members

For more information please visit www.riversideartmuseum.org

Human Roast House

Riverside Arts Council

Downtown Riverside's very own haunted house comes to life on October 6th. Havoc is unleashed upon Downtown Riverside thanks to notorious serial killer Austin Reed Trebby. Human Roast House is Trebby's home, where he plans and executes his murders. You make your way through the house, only to find more and more victims, as well as soon to be victims. But watch out...at any moment, Austin Reed Trebby could be right around the corner.

When: October 6-8, 14-15, 21-22, 26-31 from 7-11pm

Where: Corner of University & Main, Riverside, CA. 92501

Admission: $10-$25

For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.humanroasthouse.com

The Rooftop Club  

Riverside Art Museum

Spend Friday nights at RAM's Rooftop Club featuring popular Southern California musicians and some of the region's finest musical theatre talent. Lounge with friends in a beautiful outdoor setting with a view of downtown while enjoying unique food and beverages by Phood on Main. September 30th will be The Silents Sing! The Riverside Art Museum is proud to present the first in a new series that combines the visual beauty of silent-era cinema with live performances of modern vocalizations and music. Produced by film lecturer and award-winning arts and culture journalist, Stacy Davies, in association with Jordan Beck Productions, the Rooftop Club will screen the 1922 film, Beyond the Rocks, a stunning melodrama once though lost forever featuring the only onscreen pairing of mega-stars Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. Come experience breathtaking cinema from the early days of the motion-picture industry and revel in the electric voices of live singers during this fascinating, one-of-a-kind evening!

When: August 12 - September 30, 2011 (excluding September 2nd) 8 p.m. to midnight

Where: Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave

Admission: $20 online presale, $25 at the door

For information or to purchase tickets please visit www.riversideartmuseum.org/rooftop

Family Village Festival

Riverside Metropolitan Museum

The Multicultural Council of the Riverside Museum Associates will present the Family Village Festival, an outdoor event for adults and children, in downtown Riverside on October 1, 2011. The one-day celebration of cultures presents singing, music, dance, crafts, art and food from more than fifteen different cultures. Representatives from these cultures will entertain on stage as well as in “villages” so that visitors can learn more about the culture in an entertaining way. Along with the support of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum and the Riverside Museum Associates, the colorful event promises a variety of music – the theme this year is Music Around the World. Some of the cultures to be represented are China, Scandinavia, Peru, Samoa, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Japan and more. There will be craft activities designed for children and special projects such as the Passport to Culture for the first 500 children to sign up at the event.

When: Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.      

Where: Downtown Riverside, between Lemon and Orange on Mission Inn Avenue

Admission: Free

For more information please contact Katherine Wilson by email kdw815@gmail.com or at 951.283.4347

Bombay Beach

The Barbara and Art

Culver Center for the Arts

Bombay Beach documents the lives of three protagonists living in Bombay Beach, on the shores of the Salton Sea. The film follows its three primary subjects through their daily lives: Benny, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Ceejay, an aspiring teen football star; and Red, a former oil field worker. Director Alma Har’el will be present on October 7 to introduce the film and for Q&A. “This is an incredibly moving portrait of failed economic development and the humanity that continues to persevere even though forgotten in one of the poorest communities in southern California located near the Salton Sea. Three subjects are chosen to represent the community. Each is followed in their day-to-day routines, their interactions with families, neighbors and friends examined in a perfectly crafted, cinema-verite style. Decayed buildings and rubble are the backdrop, but they’re not the focus. Alma Har’el’s debut feature showcases an assured talent. Bombay Beach offers a sincere look at people that are rarely given this attention.” - The Playlist, indieWIRE.
Best Documentary Award, Tribeca Film Festival, 2011

USA/Israel, 2011 | Unrated | 80 minutes

When: Sep 30, 2011, Film Screening, September 30, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: Culver Center for the Arts, 3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501

All films are subject to change. For additional information and to make ticket reservations, visit www.culvercenter.ucr.edu

Aftershocks

California Museum of Photography

The influence of the Seismic Shift in landscape photography during the 1970s that the exhibition on the first and second floors reveals has continued into the present. Aftershocks will update the historical record by looking at the work of six photographers: three who are in Seismic Shift—Joe Deal, Laurie Brown and John Divola—and three whose work has emerged since the 1980s—Mark Ruwedel, Michael Light and Brad Moore. In the late Joe Deal’s last project, West and West, as in Ruwedel’s series on long-abandoned rail lines, Divola’s on isolated houses, and Light’s aerial photography, the desolateness inherent in the western landscape itself is acknowledged. Brown’s color panoramas of a bankrupt, deserted luxury development on an artificial lake now drying up in the Nevada desert is perhaps closest to her roots in the 1970s, whereas Moore’s parodies of the New Topographical photography is, in its way, the most radical departure, one proving yet again that what begins in art as tragedy ends up as comedy.

When: October 01, 2011 - December 31, 2011, Opening Reception: October 01, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA

Admission: No Charge

Artswalk

The Riverside Artswalk is a free monthly community event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Riverside and the Inland Empire. Visit over 22 downtown locations including museums, galleries and studios presenting an eclectic mix of visual and performing arts. Before or after Artswalk, enjoy the many entertainment, dining and shopping experiences that downtown Riverside has to offer.
 
When: Thursday, August 4th from 6 pm. - 9 pm
Where: Downtown Riverside 
Admission: No Charge

yHomeless

Shutterstories

The Riverside premiere of the documentary film yHomeless will screen on Sunday, October 9 at Shutterstories. Directed by UC Riverside professor Glen Dunzweiler, the film is the result of months of research and explores homelessness throughout the United States. Seeking to uncover some of the reasons behind this issue, Dunzweiler embarked upon a cross-country journey that has resulted in this film. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

When: October 9, 2011, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Shutterstories, 981 Iowa Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507

For more information please call 951.318.1574 

Revealing Character:

Four Hundred Years of Portraits 

Riverside Art Museum

The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) announces the opening of REVEALING CHARACTER: Four Hundred Years of Portraits at the Riverside Art Museum. Forty-seven works by thirty-three notable artists, including: Jacques Callot, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Takashi Murakami, and Kara Walker. Includes work by local artists; among these are: Joanna Mersereau and O. Walter Donnenfeld of Riverside, and Leo Limón and Sergio Zenteno Bencomo of East Los Angeles’ Self Help Graphics, a community arts collective that supports emerging artists in Latino and marginalized communities in Los Angeles and beyond.

When: September 24 - December 28, 2011, reception Saturday, October 8 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Where: Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave.

Admission: $5 for non-members

For more information please visit www.riversideartmuseum.org

Art Blakey Tribute Band 

La Sierra University

An ensemble of professional musicians will celebrate the work of Art Blakey, one of jazz music’s greats. Admission is free. Band members are Nolan Shaheed trumpet, Francisco Torres, trombone, Gary Matsumoto, piano, Benn Clatworthy, saxophone, Henry “the Skipper” Franklin, bass, Ramon Banda, drums.

When: October 5, 2011, 7:00 p.m. 

Where: La Sierra University Alumni Center, 11500 Pierce St, Riverside

Admission: Free

For more information please call 951.785.2148 

Ghosts of Yesterday

BRAVA

The Ballet Resource Active Volunteer Association, announces the first “Ballet Theatre” event at the Aurea Vista Performing Arts on October 22, 28 an 29, 2011 Brava will be revisiting the glamorous and haunted history of the beautiful Aurea Vista Hotel and Club ballroom during the 1930's in a production of “Ghosts of Yesterday" that utilizes both the art of theatre and ballet. Collaborating with local actors, musicians, designers, singers and dancers, "Ghosts of Yesterday" will transport it's audience into the heyday of the age of jazz, old Hollywood glamour and gangsters all centered around Riverside Ballet Art's infamous ghostly "Lady in Red" legend. The Aurea Vista Hotel Club opened in 1928 and still today stands as a reminder of a time past with it's beautiful art deco architecture. Home to Riverside Ballet Arts and Brava, it also remains as a center for dance and the arts. Collaborating with the newly formed "Player's Troupe of Southern California," Brava's production will fuse ballet and theatre like never before and will include live jazz music, various dance styles, singing and a ballet climax. 

When: October 22, 28 & 29th 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where: Aurea Vista Ballroom, 3840 Lemon St, Riverside 

Admission: $10 

For information and tickets visit  WWW.BRAVA-ARTS.ORG or call Brava @ 800.870.6069 or 949.487.5226

Leon Russell

Fox Performing Arts Center

Leon Russell is a music legend and one of the most accomplished and versatile musicians in the history of rock 'n roll. In his distinguished and unique 50 year career he has played on, arranged, written and/or produced some of the best records in popular music. This year he was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and also was recipient of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Award of Musical Excellence. Additionally, he recently collaborated with Elton John on “The Union” which included a tour, film and Grammy nomination for Leon’s song, If It Wasn’t for Bad. He will appear with special guest, the legendary Dr. John, universally celebrated as the living embodiment of the rich musical heritage exclusive to New Orleans. Several of Dr. John’s many career highlights include the masterful album "Sun, Moon and Herbs" in 1971, which included cameos from Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, and 1973’s "In The Right Place," which contained the chart hits Right Place Wrong Time and Such A Night. Dr. John garnered Grammy award wins in 1989, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2010. He continues to tour constantly, dazzling and delighting audiences across the globe.

When: September 29, 2011

Where: Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501

For more information please visit  http://www.foxriversidelive.com/

Milos Karadaglic

The Barbara and Art

Culver Center for the Arts

The 28-year-old, prize-winning guitar virtuoso Milos Karadaglic is making waves in the UK with his new album just released on Deutsche Grammophon. The rising star topped the Classical Album Charts in England with a #1 debut, along with an overall Top 10Amazon.com.uk chart position and #8 spot on iTunes. The Montenegro native started playing the guitar at age eight and very quickly won national recognition for his performances. A first class masters degree graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Milos was also made a Meaker Junior Fellow - an accolade never before given to a guitarist at this institution. Milos also received the Julian Bream Prize in 2005, adding it to a growing collection of thirteen accolades that include the first guitarist to ever win the Prince's Prize, a music prize of HRH Prince Charles.

When: Sunday October 16, 5:00 p.m.

Where: Barbara and Arts Culver Center of the Arts, 3834 Main Street, Riverside, 92501

Admission: Free (seating is first come first serve so arrive early)

For more information please call (951) 827-4629

September 2011

Issue No. 99

A program of the

Riverside Arts Council

Sponsored in part by the

City of Riverside

"The City of Arts and Innovation"


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