This Sunday - Bob Baker Day!
9th Annual Bob Baker Day
Sunday, April 30th — 10 AM to 5 PM
**at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012)**
Join the fun tomorrow at the 9th Annual Bob Baker Day. This free, all-day outdoor carnival is held at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012) and involves puppets, music, games, special guests and more.
At the festival, Velaslavasay Panorama and OneHouse Arts will present an "Animals in Motion" workshop. Attendees will have the opportunity to create an optical illusion with simple materials.
This year's Bob Baker Day Grand Marshal is Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio! Special guests include; King Kukulele, Buster Balloon, Randal Metz, Joe Selph & Rene's Marionettes, Pacific Opera Project, The Hollow Trees, Very Be Careful, Marawa, Stephan Capps, Kate Micucci, and more!
This event and workshop are sponsored in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture, California Arts Council, a state agency, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.
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Wild Things / Wild Scenes
A screening of animation with OneHouse Arts and Smokehouse Films
Sunday, May 21st, 2023 — 4 PM
$12 / $10 VPES Members
Featuring an arrangement of stop motion animations made in 2023 by artists and apprentices of OneHouse Arts and a selection of historic 16mm animations from the archives of Smokehouse Films, Wild Things / Wild Scenes brings together contemporary explorations of experimental animation with the 100-year history of 16mm filmmaking.
In 1923, Eastman Kodak introduced the first commercially successful amateur movie camera in America, the Cine-Kodak, consisting of a camera, projector, tripod, screen and splicer, for US$335. Artists like Mary Ellen Bute began using 16mm to tell unconventional stories in wild animation, starting a tradition of creation still very much alive today.
OneHouse Arts will present a selection of films inspired by a session of nature field drawings observing plants and animals, made at a farm located in the eastern region of Los Angeles earlier this year. Through this practice, the students decided to make what Mary Ellen Bute calls Absolute Film (light, form, movement, sound).
OneHouse Arts' films resemble the early stop motions acquired by artist John Cannizzaro of Smokehouse Films, works by creators like Jan Lenica, Terry Gilliam, Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, and the first animation Cannizzaro made himself was a wild cut-out stop motion animation called The Human Race.
This event and workshop are sponsored in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.
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An exhibit on panorama history at Forest Lawn Museum (Glendale)
Co-presented by the Velaslavasay Panorama
May 13, 2023 - September 10, 2023
at Forest Lawn Museum (Glendale)
Forest Lawn Museum: 1712 S Glendale Ave., Glendale, CA 91205
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