2012 Events
Event: American Tango Lessons with
Tony (Historic Mojica Hacienda)
January 19 7:00:00 PM
Please join La Senora Research Institute's own American Tango group for our
first lesson of 2012. Instructor: Tony Munoz / Style: American Tango. Skill
Level: Advanced Beginner
Event: Zipper Hall
Solo Recital- Danielle Belen
February 26 3:00:00 PM
Featuring Colburn School faculty member Danielle Belen in works by Kodaly,
Strauss, Dillon and more. Special guests cellist Abraham Feder and pianist Sarkis
Baltaian Zipper Hall Colburn School 200 S. Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA 90012
Event: Noir Afloat
Lecture at The Annenberg Beach House
March 3 4:00:00 PM
Noted historian Ernest Marquez is indeed a "Santa Monica Treasure" .
A co-founding Director of La Senora Research Institute, he also serves as its
resident Historian. Author of several pictorial histories of Santa Monica and
Los Angeles, his latest book "Noir Afloat" tells the tale of the
notorious 1930s Gambling Ships in Santa Monica Harbor. Hosted by Santa Monica
Conservancy.
Santa Monica Symphony
March 10. This is a free concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. La
Senora has reserved seating for a small group of people.
Event: Colburn
School: Danielle Belen & Young Artists
March 15 7:00:00 PM
Description: Once again we begin La Senora's Music Season with the thrill of
presenting young artists (the youngest -- already a violin virtuoso who
has performed at Carnagie Hall -- is 9 years old). Danielle Belen herself
a master performer on concert stages, has chosen to serve on the Faculty of The
Colburn School (also known as the Julliard of the West) where she tutors
(among others) these talented prodigies:
Jeffrey Meyers, Violin
Kevin Miura, Violin
The Angeles Piano Trio
Kristina Zlatareva -violin,
JiSun Jung - cello,
JiaYing Dong, piano
Ms Belen, Violin
Patron Event: The Westerners - Maps
April 13. La Senora's Historian, Ernest Marquez, is a long time member
of The Westerners. The talk on the 13th by William Warren is focused on maps.
The Ernest Marquez Collection of Maps is being studied by La Senora's Fellow -
Wendy Teeter, Curator of UCLA's Fowler Museum of Archaeology.
Event: Annual Rancho
History & Cemetery GPR 2012
April 25
As part of the innovative education program that won La Senora and the Cotsen
Institute the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation education, we will
welcome 4th graders from Marquez and St. Monica's Elementary Schools to the
Mojica Hacienda to learn about life on an 1839 Mexican Rancho. After visiting
with La Senora's Historian, a direct descendant of the Rancho grantees, they
will visit theRancho Chapel to learn about death and burials at distant
outposts in the 1800s. The lectures having been a way to get the students
'introduced' to the Rancho ancestors buried in the historic cemetery,
the students will move to the Cemetery to use ground penetrating radar to
'discover' the exact locations of the now unmarked graves of the people they've
been learning about. The 9th grade Earth Sciences class from Washington
High School will also visit the Hacienda for the lectures and the Cemetery for
the GPR.
Fowler Museum of Archeology
May 3. Join this small group tour of the Fowler Museum of Archeology.
Here we will find curators and researchers from UCLA's Cotsen Institute of
Archeology and the Getty Conservation Program displaying and talking about
their most recent 'finds' or the ever-evolving methods that are enhancing
today's ability to preserve artifacts or discover their secrets using non
invasive technologies.
La Senora members, neighbors and school children interested
in the cultural history of our Santa Monica Canyon have benefitted from a very
close working relationship with the Cotsen ever since La Senora gathered a
Cotsen/Getty/GeoArcheological Labs team for a project which won the Governor's
Award for Historic Preservation.
Apasionado Level Patron Event: Concert
May 27. La Senora's collaborative work with DaCamera's Music in Historic
Places has taken our members to exquisite performances in culturally
significant settings. Through the generosity of both parties in this
relationship, La Senora is the periodic recipient of Patron donated tickets to
a few concerts each Season. During Memorial Day Weekend, DaCamera's concert
will be at the home of one of La Senora's members.
Celebrate Glen Dawson's 100th Birthday
June 2. Our members who have received invitations to Antiquarian Book
Seller, Glen Dawson's, 100th Birthday party will meet at La Senora at 11 am if
they wish to car pool to Pasadena to the University Club Luncheon. We will plan
to arrive promptly as over 200 guests are expected. Glen Dawson's exploits as a
rock climber (the mountain was there so he climbed it) a trainer of the 10th
Mountain Division fighting in Italy in WWII, a man who knew as a young boy that
his only career in life would be as a bookseller, is also a visionary whose
life today remains guided by hope, empathy, creativity and persistence.
Conservadore Members:
Feathered Serpent Exhibition
June 4. La Senora members attending this lecture tour will meet at La
Senora at 4:30 p.m. We will join the Cotsen Director's Council and travel with
them to the Exhibition. The co-curator of LACMA's Quezecoatl Exhibition, Dr.
John Pohl is an associate of La Senora as well as being a Cotsen Research
Associate. Our Patron Members still talk about the extraordinary and insightful
sharing by Dr. Pohl when he led us through The Getty Villa's Aztec Exhibition
for which he was also the co-curator and he was the author of the Aztec
Exhibition Book.
Patron Event: Empresario Members Music
Appreciation with Alan Chapman
June 6. This is an invitational event for Empresario, Conservadore and
Apasionado level supporters of La Senora. The program is an 'exceptional gift'
to those members -- if you haven't experienced a music appreciation class with
Alan Chapman (aka the voice of classical KUSC) then you haven't really heard
the music with an understanding of the composer and influences behind it.
So. Cal. Genealogical Jamboree
June 8
Each year the SCGS holds a Jamboree in Burbank. This event has a free
admission to its exhibit hall and some lectures. It also has workshops
for which you would need to sign up. La Senora members have attended this
Jamboree each year and the reports are always "I learned so
much!". If you are interested in tracing your family history, this
event is a MUST.
Patron Event:
Premiere of KickStarter iPalpiti Composition
June 15. This is an invitational event to our Conservadore and Apasionado
Level supporting members of La Senora. Patrons of La Senora contributed to the
KickStarter project that generated the support for this newly written musical
work.
An Afternoon Tea & Lecture in an
Historic Residence
July 8. Join us in the historic Byers Mexican Casa. Space is Limited.
California Casas Book
Signing and Wine Tasting
August 19 La Senora Members $45 / Non Members $50
Annual Tango Concert 2012
August 25. Come enjoy Alan's Argentine Quintet - when moved by the music go
into the moonlit gardens to dance the Tango. Our special guest this year, Nano
Marino, Tiempo Tango's bandoneon player extraordinaire, comes to us from Buenos
Aires. Again this year La Senora's Tango Club will be learning about the
history of Tango and enough of the basic movements to enjoy dancing on the
25th.
Rowing into History
Sept. 8. This program for archaeologists is part of La Senora's
collaborative efforts with other historic institutions to bring unusual
programming to our members and our academics. La Senora's 2012-2013
Season offers a rich variety of such programs. Dr. Teri Brewer,
Coordinating Fellow of La Senora's Academic Fellows Board, is one of five
individuals participating in a unique "longboat" rowing tour of San
Diego Bay next week. Organized by San Diego County Archaeological Society
(SDCAS) and the San Diego Maritime Museum, this interpretive tour is part of a
2012 San Diego County program on maritime archaeology.
King Gillette Ranch - Private Tour
Sept. 29
As part of La Senora's cultural heritage education programs, some of our
Academic Fellows focus on introducing La Senora Friends to the culture of the
lands in which we reside from Santa Barbara nestled into the Sierra
Madre through the Monica Mountains to San Diago and encompassing the
Channel island and Catalina. It is within these lands that we find the
history that preceded our Community. This is a very special opportunity with
two highly skilled cultural interpretors as the leaders.
LA as Subject Archives Fest
October 27
Join La Senora at USC's Doheny Library for the annual LA as Subject Archives
Fest. Begun as part of a Getty research project to identify 'pockets of hidden
archives' throughout Los Angeles, the Archives Exhibit has grown from 25
founding organizations to over 100 exhibitors and a program of fascinating
lecturers on the kinds of things that make LA the wonderful, unique, evolving
community in which we thrive.
"Westside Chronicles" Book
Launch Party
November 4th
A Sunday afternoon talk by Jan Loomis, Archivist of the Santa Monica Land and
Water Company records (spanning 100 years of our history and covering SMLW's
development of the Rancho lands from Westwood through the Palisades. Make your
reservation now as seating will be limited so Jan can use the theater
projection systems for screening photos 'along the timeline' of our history. La
Senora's Historian, Ernest Marquez will also be on hand to sign your copies of
Noir Afloat.....which recently won a book award from The Westerners!
Las Posadas at the Autry Museum
December 16
La Senora takes great pleasure in collaborating with the Autry Museum to bring
our members and guests interesting, informative and entertaining programs for
the whole family. Las Posadas (literally the songs of Christmas) will be heard
this year at the Autry from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
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