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VOICE IN THE WELL, Los Angeles
Ongoing
http://www.ruskinartclub.org/voice_in_the_well.htm

This Theater group has developed a special Reader's Theatre Program called KEEPING CALIFORNIA'S PROMISE to commemorate Steinbeck's centenary. Performances are taking place in libraries throughout California and feature selections from Steinbeck's works, including "The Grapes of Wrath."

"THE MIGRANT PROJECT" Photo Exhibit
Sunday, September 29 -- Monday, October 28
Artist's Opening Reception: Sunday, September 29, 2-5 pm.

Frances Howard Goldwyn Library
1623 N. Ivar Avenue
Hollywood, CA
Information: 323/856-8260

A new exhibition of black & white photographs by Rick Nahmias that puts a human face on California farm workers. The opening of the exhibit on September 29 (2-5 pm) coincides with the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first braceros, Mexican farm laborers brought into the U.S. as guest laborers beginning in World War II. More information...

"About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange"
October 2002-February 9, 2003
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310/440-7300

This exhibition will not only present some of the best of her work for the Farm Security Administration, but will include earlier work made on the pueblos of New Mexico, post-World War II pictures made in Utah's Mormon communities for Life magazine, images from her later travels in Egypt and the Far East, and photographs of her family made at home in Berkeley. This show of approximately 85 prints, ranging across Lange's career from the 1920s to the 1960s, is selected primarily from the Getty's permanent collection. More information...

An evening with T.C. Boyle
October 8, 7 pm
San Diego Public Library
820 E St., San Diego, CA 92101
619/236-5800

T.C. Boyle reads from his work and answers questions.

"Uneasy Neighbors"
Thursday, October 10, 7 pm
University of Southern California
Cenema School
Lucas Hall, Room 108


A documentary produced, written and directed by Paul Espinosa
Part of USC's "Mixed Feelings/Border Film Festival" More information...

"The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol's California Photographs"
October 15, 2002-February 9, 2003
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310/440-7300

Influenced by the social documentary work of Dorothea Lange, Bristol proposed a picture story for Life in 1937 on Dust Bowl migrants and their daily struggles California's Central Valley. This exhibition features the series he later called The Grapes of Wrath. Drawn mainly from the Getty's holdings, the show will include approximately 35 pictures. More information...

Frank Galati's Tony Award-winning stage adaptation of
"The Grapes of Wrath."

October 16, 17, 18, and 20
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Ticket Prices: $10.00 to $42.00
Reservations: L.A. Theatre Works Box Office: 310/827-0889 www.latw.org

Special presentation to celebrate Reading "The Grapes of Wrath." A staged reading starring Christian Slater, James Cromwell and Shirley Knight, and featuring the Joel Rafael Band.
Special appearance by Thomas Steinbeck, John Steinbeck's son, for a question and answer session. More information...

California in the 1930s: The Documentarian Impulse
Lecture by Kevin Starr

Sunday, October 27, 4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Harold M. Williams Auditorium.
FREE, but seating reservations are required.
For reservations and information, please call 310/440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu

A talk by Kevin Starr, state librarian and history professor at University of Southern California, on the vital coalescence of such disparate art forms as the novel, photography, mural art, journalism, and even government reports to document the anguish of the Great Depression.

CALIFORNIA STEINBECK CELEBRATION LECTURE:
"Steinbeck and the Joads' Road to California"

Tuesday, October 29, 7:30 pm
The Huntington (Pasadena, CA)

More information...

"De ida y vuelta/Back and Forth" by Salvador Aguirre
Thursday, October 31, 7 pm
University of Southern California

Part of USC's "Mixed Feelings/Border Film Festival" More information...

Frames of Reference: Photographers on Photography
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark

Sunday, November 17, 4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
FREE, but seating reservations are required.
or reservations and information, please call 310/440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu

Mark, who has been photographing hard subjects for nearly four decades, speaks about the personal as well as the commissioned, pictures she has made during travels across the United States, Mexico, and India. Like Dorothea Lange, Mark has documented the realities of homelessness in the United States. Her lecture includes some of these images as well as her record of women's lives in a U.S. mental hospital and in an.

"El jardin de edén/The Garden of Eden" by Marìa Novaro
Thursday, November 21, 7 pm
University of Southern California

Part of USC's "Mixed Feelings/Border Film Festival" More information...

POINT-OF-VIEW TALK
About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange

Friday, December 13, 6 pm and 7:30 pm
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Call 310/440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu
Talks are held in the Museum galleries. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Clarence Williams, a staff photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times and founding member of the Iris Photo Collective, discusses the exhibition "About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange."

POINT-OF-VIEW TALK
The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol's California Photographs.

Friday, January 17, 2003, 6 pm and 7:30 pm
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Call 310/440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu
Talks are held in the Museum galleries. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Donna Granata, a portrait photographer and founder and executive director of Focus on the Masters, discusses the exhibition The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol's California Photographs.

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