Winter 2017 – 2018 News and Calendar , 2017. Photograph:, 2017. Jeff McLane. , and In Memory of the Forgotten , The of Way the Elders Tlacolulokos, For the Pride of Your Hometown Quick Hits Public Library News

“Proceeds support the library’s cultural and educational Head of the Class: Library Cards Reach More Students and Teachers programs, while participation fulfills your earnest desire to never leave the house. That’s right — the genius of this bookish event is that you don’t actually have to go anywhere. Finally, an event that honors introversion, social anxiety and bibliomania. Everyone wins!” —Los Angeles Times, 2017 Letter from the President 30TH ANNUAL STAY HOME The murals featured on the this newsletter cover were commissioned by the Library Foundation and the Los Angeles AND READ A BOOK BALL Public Library and made possible by major grants from the Getty Foundation as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. They have attracted extraordinary interest and accolades Sunday, March 4th, 2018 from the national media. Art critics, cultural commentators, with Chair Viet Thanh Nguyen school groups, community members, and patrons who visit the exhibition have been stopping in their tracks to reflect, respond Save the Date for the Library Foundation’s most enduring fundraising campaign, and, of course, take photographs to share. now in its 30th year! This “non-event” provides the opportunity to directly support the Los Angeles Public Library’s cultural and educational programs I believe the viewers are sensing that there is much to be learned such as ALOUD, Adult Literacy, and Student Smart, from the comfort from these murals, which were painted by the artist collective of your own home. Help us celebrate 30 years of success with another Tlacolulokos – comprised of two young artists from Oaxaca, record-breaking year!. Mexico. Tlacolulokos are bold, talented, and perceptive story- tellers. Their work inspires contemplation about identity and migration, and the way our cultural background informs what we think we are seeing. Last December, the Los Angeles Public Library and “We wanted to make it stress-free for teachers to teachers are blown away by the potential to create the Los Angeles Unified School District kicked off supplement their classrooms with public library interactive lessons with Library resources like the All great art is political in the sense that it brings our values the groundbreaking Student Success Card program books, knowing that teachers often don’t have free online courses and certifications through into focus: whether it be beauty, or freedom, or the right to determine what we fight for. When I look at these stunning to put a library card into the hands of every LAUSD budgets to provide classroom libraries for Lynda.com; 24/7 tutoring at Tutor.com; ScienceFlix, murals, I think about how this moment in our country is student. The special library card allows students recreational reading or to back-up their curriculum,” a digital tool for STEM learning; and much more. inspiring not only artists, but all of us to reflect on the future to check out books and access online resources, explains Mitnick. “Every library branch has a large we want – both as a society and as individuals. without incurring any fines or fees. Since the first and diverse collection of picture books, non-fiction, There are over 26,000 teachers in the LAUSD, which batch of 58,000 cards were rolled out to all incoming and chapter books—the more children who have serves over 664,000 students, the second largest Nothing has moved me more than the entries in the exhibition’s kindergarteners, plus all student levels in two access to these books, the better.” We welcome readers of this newsletter to lead the way by becoming a sponsor today! school district in the nation. “Imagine every student guest book. I like to think that while these patrons are visiting LAUSD local districts, the Library has seen a Stay Home and Read a Book Ball sponsorship contributions are fully tax-deductible, and every teacher having access to the Library’s the Central Library to check out a book, to use the free state-of- remarkable increase of usage each month. “Kids are the-art technology, or to research employment opportunities, and all sponsors will be recognized on our print invitation.* Not only teachers, but school librarians and library tools and resources—the possibilities for learning really using these cards in the exact ways we had they are also discovering something new about themselves or aides also now qualify for this card, making it easier are endless,” says Mitnick. hoped, such as getting free homework help from our the past. Here is just a small sample: For sponsorship opportunities or questions, please contact Sarah Charleton, than ever before for school staff to get access to the Library Foundation-funded online tutoring service Membership Director, at 213.292.6242 or [email protected]. Library’s collections. “I’m thrilled to launch our new Tutor.com,” says Eva Mitnick, the director of “I see myself in your work, it reaches my soul and fills it with Teacher Card and build on the longstanding Engagement and Learning for the Los Angeles pride and love for all my people, our people, the people. Those Sponsorship categories and levels: partnership we have with teachers. In our efforts to Public Library. who stand up each day to face the unknown...” • Library Legend ($10,000+) share resources and best serve students, our • Library Hero ($5,000-$9,999) librarians work closely with schools, and this new An additional 250,000 cards are being issued to “Communities supporting and engaging together in a positive, • Library Champion ($2,500-$4,999) card honors how much we value teachers,” says City students this fall, with all LAUSD students due to uplifting manner…is not only beneficial to all families, but • Library Advocate ($1,000-$2,499) Librarian John F. Szabo. “On the heels of our terrific receive a card by June 2018. “Because of the Student a beautiful expression of love and compassion. Great and • Library Enthusiast ($500-$999) Student Success card program, this enhances the wonderful exhibit.” Success Program we can communicate with every • Library Admirer ($250-$499) strong and vibrant relationship we have with single teacher at LAUSD and this is essential in teachers, students, and schools and is the latest in “¡Gracias!...Art is the universal language…Please keep this helping students. We can talk to teachers about their *Your gift must be received by January 8, 2018 to be recognized on the paper invitation. our ongoing commitment to support education in conversation going. We need it more than ever.” needs and we can respond to those needs, which will Los Angeles.” directly benefit the students,” says Mitnick. Ken Brecher “Programs like ALOUD examine how “I’ve always loved libraries and I think they To encourage the integration of these cards into President we think about where we’re going in a are magical places. The idea of a library As a result, the Library recently revamped a special curriculum, the Los Angeles Public Library created century that is reshaping everything is so powerful because it’s about access card for teachers to upgrade the borrowing a new school liaison position to better connect The murals are part of the Library Foundation’s project, from the movies we make to the art and to information. Libraries give us a range privileges for all LAUSD teachers. Now teachers can librarians and schools. Catherine Chenoweth, who Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A. For more information literature we hold up as emblematic.” of opinions and a range of perspectives.” check out 50 items at a time for a four-month period. turn to page 5. currently works in this role, says that principals and —Los Angeles Times, 2017 —Alan Alda

2 Winter 2017 – 2018 213.228.7500 lfla.org 3 It’s a Wonderful Film: Lost & Found Movie Recs Visualizing Language Transforms Central Library

The holidays are upon us and for many that’s prime Art enthusiasts, students, and Angelenos from all Miguel Arteta on the Cutest Couplings: “The paintings bring richly movie watching season, so we checked-in with John walks of life have gathered under the grand dome Behind-the-Scenes with Curator “Another question during ‘The Dinner Game’ asked colored images of the city’s Nein, the curator of the Library Foundation’s Lost & of the Central Library’s Rotunda and agreed— Amanda de la Garza Mata Found at the Movies, for some unexpected alternatives guests for the favorite ‘meet cute’ moment—those often contemporary Oaxacan unrealistic yet totally adorable happenstances where Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A. is an inspiring, to It’s a Wonderful Life. Here, Nein shares some immigrant population into the nostalgic all-time favorites from guests of past love interests first come together. Many of us agreed timely showcase of art like our city has never seen Following the opening of Visualizing Language, we programs to shake-up your traditional holiday that nothing is cuter—in a good way—than Trouble in before. In September, this new exhibition at Central rotunda and blow Cornwell’s caught up with the exhibition curator, Amanda de viewing plans. Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 romantic comedy Library opened to the public as part of the Getty’s la Garza Mata, who also serves as an adjunct curator about a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join pale tale right out of the space.” initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner.” —Holland Cotter, The Times Illuminating the diversity of L.A.’s contemporary Mexico City. De la Garza Mata had previously curated a show with Tlacolulokos in Mexico, but history, culture, and identity, Visualizing Language The Greatest Dinner Scenes: Visualizing Language marks their first collaboration offers a fresh narrative that focuses on the Indigenous “And of course, for ‘The Dinner Game’ we couldn’t help in the States—a boundary-pushing project three Zapotec cultures of Oaxacan communities. The but acknowledge the great films with great dinner years in the making. scenes like The Celebration, Beetlejuice, Babette’s exhibition is anchored by a series of eight larger- Feast, and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her than-life murals by the Oaxacan artist collective After months and months of preparation, what Lover. But topping the list of dinners gone awry would Tlacolulokos in the Central Library’s Rotunda that was it like for the exhibition to finally open to be Luis Buñuel’s satirical, surrealist masterpiece The are in juxtaposition with the existing 1933 Dean , in which the hapless bourgeois the public? Exterminating Angel Cornwell murals. If you haven’t checked it out yet, dinner guests find themselves inexplicably unable to John Landis, A Man of Many Genres: the free exhibition will run until January 31, actually leave the mansion of their host… for days.” De la Garza Mata: The works are really engaging “When you hear Landis talk about cinema, his along with guided tours and a series of 70+ special with the people who go to the Library—and not just influences span many genres and he seems to possess programs at branch libraries across the city. necessarily to the see the murals, but all the Library this perpetual wonder of movies, so it’s no surprise Tabitha Jackson and Sam Green on that he took us back to his childhood watching Hybrid Non-fiction: “The murals offer a rich sense users who may encounter the murals by chance. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, admiring the film for “At the ‘Doc Art Mix Tape’ event, we explored the broad People see themselves in the murals and feel empathy its spectacular quality and its monsters and the work range of artful, formally innovative non-fiction films. of place — not Los Angeles or for the struggles the murals represent in relation to of Ray Harryhausen—an auteur in his own right.” From Errol Morris and Werner Herzog to the current Tlacolula but a hybrid urban migration and other aspects of migrant communities. Golden Age of creative non-fiction, we had no end of location representinag options (like The Act of Killing, Leviathan, Casting Part of Tlacolulokos’ objective as artists is to JonBenét), but we settled on two top picks: Raoul elements from both cultures.” promote empowerment, which directly Peck’s astounding film about James Baldwin,I Am Not —Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times connects to the mission of the public library. , and Shirley Clarke’s , Your Negro Portrait of Jason How is this reflected through the murals? which was restored and released in a beautiful new Shakespeare on Film with Alfred Molina: version a couple years ago.” “This program yielded unexpected discoveries like the De la Garza Mata: The artists understand the British Film Institute’s recently released Play On, a importance of the circulation of knowledge as a IMDb’s Founder Col Needham’s sampling of silent Shakespeare films, to the still shimmering Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s form of empowering people. One of the key points Personal Database: Dream, to creative adaptations like Rosencrantz and of the murals underscores how important it is to “Cinephile Col Needham not only watches a lot of Guildenstern Are Dead, The Dresser, and Basil understand where you come from and how sometimes movies, but keeps a meticulous catalogue of everything Project Catalogue Deardon’s Othello-inspired All Night Long set against Now Available your cultural identity can be taken from you. he watches. He shared from his lists, recalling seeing the 1950s London jazz scene. But the revelation was Edward James Olmos on Latino Cinema: tons of films as a child, everything from Visit shop.lfla.org to purchase a bilingual Snow White ’ Chimes at Midnight—at long last “As we talked through some wonderful examples of and the Seven Dwarves to Jaws, but it was his love of salvaged from decades of obscurity by Criterion catalogue of this historic exhibition How do you think this project has re-imagined Folklórico Guish-bac . Credit: Gary Leonard Artists Tlacolulokos with performers of Grupo Spanish language films made by Hollywood studios Hitchcock that crept into many of his most poignant Collection in a beautifully re-mastered version. A true from The Library Store, or check it out from the role of public art? movie watching memories, including his top film of all during the early days of talking pictures (notably, masterpiece, the film pulls from various Henriad plays the Los Angeles Public Library. Asegure a su mujer/Insure Your Wife), Olmos time, Vertigo.” to construct a wonderfully cinematic, profoundly De la Garza Mata: The Rotunda’s Dean Cornwell implored the audience to watch a rarely seen moving portrait of Prince Hal.” murals embraced a very official telling of the history documentary called Los pequeños gigantes (Hugo Butler, 1960). This unusual hybrid film tells the story of colonization. The Tlacolulokos murals depict a Check out many of these films from the of an underdog little league baseball team from very different history—history from a community Los Angeles Public Library’s free streaming Monterrey, Mexico that came to the 1957 Little League whose voice has never been heard in this way before. services like Kanopy, Overdrive, Hoopla, World Series in the U.S. and – against all odds – won They’re not trying to represent a unified history Digitalia Film, and others. Find them at lapl.org. the championship. Olmos recalled seeing the film as where everyone feels attached to it or represented by a kid growing up in East L.A. and how it was the first it. Now in the Rotunda, you can see the differences Lost & Found at the Movies is generously supported time a film really depicted the lives of young kids he in which people are portrayed in these two distinct by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associaton could identify with.” murals—like women or Indigenous people, and that is the turning point in terms of public art—the “The Dinner Game” with Molly Shannon: possibility of art that does not reproduce an “official” narrative around history or identity. “Guests of this special event were asked trivia-like Performers from Grupo Folklórico Huaxyacac with patrons questions as a way of conveying some of their from the West Valley neighborhood library. Credit: David Marks personal film favorites and Molly Shannon talked about Paper Moon as a film that brought her back to childhood because of its enduring portrait of a Major support for Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A. is provided through father-daughter relationship.” grants from the Getty Foundation. Additional support provided by For a full list of events, visit lfla.org/oaxaca Humanities and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

4 Winter 2017 – 2018 213.228.7500 lfla.org 5 Winter ALOUD Preview: Heather Ann Thompson

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Of course it turns out that The Library Store $18.00 Its Legacy, which chronicles the atrocities that led to 1,300 $13.99 the violence of Attica was because law enforcement was out prisoners taking over the upstate New York correctional of control, but we didn’t get that narrative and the national facility and how the state violently retook the prison— consequences have been devastating. 2017 killing thirty-nine men and severely wounding more than a hundred others. Her sweeping work examines the long- term implications of how this notorious prison riot was Recently at ALOUD, we’ve heard from other authors Holiday handled and offers new proof that the state of New York like Danielle Allen and James Foreman, Jr. who are purposely concealed evidence and misrepresented the facts also confronting the failures of the criminal justice of the case to the public. We spoke to Thompson about system and the culture of secrecy around prisons. 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6 Winter 2017 – 2018 213.228.7500 lfla.org 7 The Library Foundation Calendar Winter 2018

SAT, JANUARY 20, 2:00 PM THURS, FEBRUARY 15, 6:00 PM WILSHIRE BRANCH LIBRARY Leadership Circle Plants in the Life Reception of a Oaxacan Library Foundation Leadership Indigenous Town Circle Members are invited to attend conversations, readings Various Los Angeles Public Library a reception prior to the ALOUD A lecture with Eugene Hunn, and performances branches are offering an exciting roster program with Dave Eggers of events in conjunction with Visualizing Professor Emeritus, University Credit: Jean-Baptiste Huyn Language: Oaxaca in L.A. (more of Washington, on the incredible information on page 5). For a full list biodiversity of Oaxaca and the plants TUES, JANUARY 23, 7:30 PM TUES, FEBRUARY 6, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 4 of events, visit lfla.org/oaxaca most central to life in the Zapotec American Inferno: The Strange Order town of San Juan Mixtepec Membership Events

Haiku in Zapotec: of Things: Members of the Library Foundation of From Oaxaca Life, Feeling, Los Angeles gain exclusive access to members-only events and programs to Japan and Back and the Making throughout the year. For more Jane Hirshfield of Cultures information about Membership benefits, visitlfla.org/join or call and Víctor Terán WED, FEBRUARY 21, 7:30 PM Antonio Damasio 213.292.6242 today! Save the Date! In conversation with translator In conversation with Manuel Castells, and poet David Shook 30th Annual University Professor, USC The Line Becomes From Japan to Oaxaca, two poets find A preeminent neuroscientist discusses A River: Stay Home & commonalities in the beauty of poetry the origins of life, mind, and culture from worlds apart Dispatches from Read a Book Ball the Border SAT, JANUARY 6, 2:00 PM with WEST VALLEY Chair Viet Thanh Nguyen Francisco Cantú REGIONAL BRANCH In conversation with independent SUN, JANUARY 21, 2:00 PM Find out more at lfla.org/stayhome journalist Ruxandra Guidi Hands-on Oaxacan FRANCES HOWARD GOLDWYN - HOLLYWOOD THURS, JANUARY 18, 7:30 PM An award-winning writer and former agent for the United States Border Patrol Cooking with REGIONAL LIBRARY Blood in the Water: speaks to the devastation the border Soledad Lopez wreaks on both sides Creative Writing The Attica Prison Join Oaxacan restaurateur Soledad Lopez for a demonstration and Workshop with Uprising of 1971 tasting of tlayudas (“Mexican pizza”) Víctor Terán and Its Legacy Azab Mustapha Credit: as well as the unique Oaxacan variety A family-friendly, multilingual of horchata Heather Ann Thompson writing workshop with Zapotec poet WED, JANUARY 31, 7:30 PM In conversation with Víctor Terán Kelly Lytle Hernandez, director, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African Exiled from Cairo: SUN, FEBRUARY 11, 11:00 AM American Studies, UCLA WED, JANUARY 10, 3:30 PM Humor as Dissent SUNLAND-TUJUNGA CENTRAL LIBRARY The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning Bassem Youssef BRANCH LIBRARY historian sheds new light on one Family Day of America’s most important In conversation Featuring a special storytime, snacks, civil rights and racial justice stories Build-A-Lotería The “Jon Stewart of the Arabic world”— crafts, and the chance for our now living in exile in LA—offers critical THURS, FEBRUARY 15, 7:30 PM (Bingo) Workshop Youngest Literati to make as much and hilarious insights into the turmoil Attend a workshop with Zapotec poet noise as they want in the library. of the Middle East Open to YL Members and their guests. The Monk of Mokha Pergentino José, where participants Dave Eggers and will have the opportunity to assemble Mokhtar Alkhanshali their own homemade lotería (bingo) In conversation sets in the Sierra Zapotec language An acclaimed author joins the Yemeni- American subject of his fascinating new work about a passion for coffee roasting Pick up an ALOUD postcard during your next visit to the Central Library and the tragic war in Yemen

ALOUD thanks its generous sponsors Additional support provided by For more information on these programs, Location book signings, and book purchases Unless otherwise indicated, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Sharon Oxborough programs take place at: Donna and Martin J. Wolff ALOUD: General Programs: @LibraryFoundLA Richard J. Riordan Central Library And individual lfla.org/aloud lfla.org/calendar @ALOUDla Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Mark Taper Auditorium Library Foundation donors The Stay Home or 213.292.6254 or 213.292.6242 and Read a Book BallTM Free/Reservations Programs are subject These programs will be offered as Downtown Los Angeles Not printed at City expense recommended to change. bilingual/ multilingual. 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071 8 Winter 2017 – 2018 213.228.7500 lfla.org 9 The Literary Feasts Celebrate 20th Anniversary Live From The Library

“The Literary Feasts are The Council of the Library Foundation’s signature Bringing together such a passionate community of Library supporters has event and the most extraordinary evening – there’s nothing else like it,” says motivated Applebaum’s work over the years—this was her third time chairing Literary Feasts Chair Betsy Applebaum. The truly unique nature of the Feasts the Feasts and she has long been an enthusiastic member and leader of involves the orchestration of 50 simultaneous dinners in beautiful homes across The Council. “I hope that every single person who attended the Feasts came Los Angeles. Hosts generously open their doors to dedicated patrons who dine away with a new awareness for the importance of the Library,” she explains. with iconic authors, all in support of the Los Angeles Public Library. The 2017 Literary Feasts supported the Library’s educational programs focusing This year’s 20th anniversary event took place on November 6 and was especially on children, teens, technology, and adult literacy. Thank you to the generosity inspiring because of its record-breaking levels of support. More Council members of everyone who took part, including these major supporters: Judith Krantz, than ever participated on the committee, and to date the event has raised over the Jean Perkins Foundation, the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, The Herb Albert Highlights from Highlights from Highlights from the opening $1.46 million in funds for the Los Angeles Public Library. Authors included Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Judith & Thomas Beckmen, the ALOUD the Young Literati of the S. Mark Taper political columnist Maureen Dowd, New York Times bestseller Michael Connelly, Nancy Denney Bergin, Sharon & Nelson Rising, Tawny & Jerry Sanders, fall season Summer Social Foundation Digital Commons trailblazing filmmaker Nancy Meyers, Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Marna & Rockwell Schnabel. Nobel Laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, and many more.

The S. Mark Taper Foundation Digital Commons features a 28-panel video wall that will feature exciting content

Actors/comedians Andy Richter and Sarah Thyre with “Weird Al” Yankovic

Author Danielle Allen waves hello while signing her new book, Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

Nicolas and Spencer Stabler, Amy Taper Bolker, Hannah Stabler, and Alexandra Stabler Siel Ju, Young Literati Director Rebecca Miller, Indu Subaiya and Blake Robin

Authors Jennifer Egan and Marisa Silver discuss Manhattan Beach, Egan’s new book Photo Credit: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging Director of Central Library Kren Malone, S. Mark Taper Foundation Vice President Amy Taper Bolker, Library

Photo Credit: Gary Leonard Photo credit: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging Foundation Board Chair Gwen Miller, Library Foundation Poet Natalia Toledo with ALOUD guests Partygoers enjoying the photo booth President Ken Brecher

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