KJazz 88.1 | Community Events Calendar

Time:

12:00pm - 9:00pm

Event Info:

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), with presenting partners Dutch Culture USA (Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York) and the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) and programming partner SEE NL, co-host a virtual edition of the annual NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival InFocus: Middle Eastern, Arab & Dutch Cinema program, powered by Seed&Spark. The weekend will feature an international lineup of films by talented emerging filmmakers across three short film programs. The event will include virtual screenings, filmmaker Q&A’s and industry panels.

An All-Access Pass is $30 and provides access to all films, industry panels, filmmaker Q&As and networking rooms. Single program tickets are $10 per film program.

Catch great films and filmmaker Q&As while building new relationships. For more information and tickets, visit www.NFMLA.org/Dec2020

Time:

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Event Info:

This exciting live event on Friday the 13th (7pm PST) is a virtual stand-up comedy show organized by HAYA (UC Hastings Association of Youth Advocates) and hosted by Nowhere Comedy Club! A portion of the proceeds will go to Larkin Street Youth Services, SF’s largest nonprofit provider for young people experiencing homelessness. Featured comedians include Long Beach native Ali Macofsky, Adam Conover and Guy Branum!

We would LOVE to see you there— please join us in having a great time and supporting a wonderful cause! The show is virtual/on Zoom, so friends and family from anywhere in the world are welcome to attend.

Time:

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Event Info:

Pinecrest Gardens presents "Banyan Bowl Live" featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater

WHAT: Faced with canceling their all-star jazz series due to COVID-19, the village of Pinecrest, FL, has reimagined it as a livestream world-wide event and fundraiser for both Pinecrest Gardens and World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit founded by acclaimed international Chef José Andrés, feeding victims and medical personnel nationwide. The full series will feature Jon Secada, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Grace Kelly, Joey Alexander, and Manhattan Transfer. Tickets are $15 each or $100 for the entire series and may be purchased at https://jazzaid.eduvision.tv/liveevents

WHO: Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists, putting her unique spin on standards, as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics.

WHERE: Online only at https://jazzaid.eduvision.tv/liveevents

WHEN: Saturday, November 14, at 8:00 PM (20:00) USA Eastern Time

DETAILS: Ever the fearless voyager, explorer, pioneer and keeper of tradition, the three-time Grammy-winner recently won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee.

Bridgewater’s career has always bridged musical genres. She earned her first professional experience as a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band, and throughout the 70s she performed with such jazz notables as Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie. After a foray into the pop world during the 1980s, she relocated to Paris and began to turn her attention back to Jazz. All but one of her CD's, including her wildly successful double Grammy Award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella, have received Grammy nominations. Bridgewater is also the recipient of an NEA Jazz Masters Fellows Award with honors bestowed at the Kennedy Center.

Hosted by Tito Puente, Jr, Billboard Music Award winner, & Ceci Velasco, Executive Director of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive Association.

Time:

8:30pm - 10:30pm

Event Info:

Having Fun with Elvis on Stage is a 1973 album collaged entirely from Elvis speaking on stage between songs at live concerts — no music. One reviewer wrote: “hearing it is like witnessing a car wreck, leaving onlookers too horrified and too baffled to turn away.” Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage reimagines this vilified recording as the libretto for a sort of ‘ghost opera’ — creating a memetic hologram of the endless purgatory of celebrity afterlife. Concerto for Elvis is the first in a series of collaborations between Corral and Gedeon, in which four 20th century American male icons are dismantled through collage, color constancy, and racialized representation. Members of the Now Hear Ensemble perform composer Corral’s original live musical score along with the original LP as if they were the pit orchestra for opera or musical theater. Meanwhile, Alexander Gedeon’s ‘Elvis’ persona becomes a vehicle to explore all things banal and absurd in pop idolatry. Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage will be preceded by a screening of Count In!, Daniel Corral’s video piece combining the voice of Poly Styrene [from 1970’s British punk band X-Ray Spex] with musical minimalism and hypnotic color.

Time:

7:30pm - 10:00pm

Event Info:

A unique jazz oriented 8 piece mini big band, performing songs in the Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerlad style, with top class, ‘lean and mean’ arrangements by Harry Smallenburg. The band is based in Burbank where most of the members live and although they do play at events and around town, their home base is the VFW Burbank. Angela O’Neill and The Outrageous8 draw people from all over town and appeal to a wide audience, making their music accessible to music lovers and casual jazz fans alike. Being an 8 piece band, they have the fullness of a big band, like a condensed orchestra and each of the musicians are talented in their own right. The arrangements allow for individuality to come through, giving them a vibrant and dynamic sound. It’s been said they sound like the Duke Ellington band with a little Stan Kenton thrown in. The Outgraeous8 Band Members Hank Mehren – keys Harry Smallenburg – trombone and arranger Ron Cyger – alto sax Richard Walker – baritone sax / flute Nathan Phelps – trumpet Michael Rosen – drums Sam Morgan – tenor sax Phil Romo – bass Al Timms – voice Angela O’Neill –

Time:

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Event Info:

Join NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) for a conversation with Film Editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir. Learn what goes into editing some of the biggest action films such as John Wick and Atomic Blonde to cutting the story of a hero with Marvel's Deadpool 2 and upcoming, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

For more information and tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nfmla-panel-heroes-of-the-editing-room-a-conversation-with-elisabet-ronal-tickets-129389849523

Link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nfmla-panel-heroes-of-the-editing-room-a-conversation-with-elisabet-ronal-tickets-129389849523

Date | TIme:

November 20th, 2020 | 3pm PT - 4:30pm PT

Time:

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Event Info:

Join NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and ARRAY Releasing for a conversation with Takeshi Fukunaga. We will discuss Takeshi’s career, his newest film ‘AINU MOSIR‘ which won a Special Jury Mention in the International Narrative Competition at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and the film’s distribution partnership with ARRAY Releasing. This discussion will be Moderated by NFMLA Board Member, Filmmaker and TV Director Varda Bar-Kar.

All event times are Pacific Time.

A ZOOM link will be emailed to you an hour prior to the start time.

For more information and tickets, visit https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/event/nfmla-panel-takeshi-fukunagas-ainu-mosir-an-array-releasing-title/

Time:

10:00am - 9:00pm

Event Info:

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its November Monthly Film Festival powered by Seed&Spark and made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). The month’s line-up includes highlights from indigenous filmmakers from around the world with an InFocus: Indigenous Cinema program, a collection of youth-made films in community partnership with Kids in the Spotlight, an international shorts program entitled "Mortal Bodies," and Los Angeles local thriller "Blinders" by director Tyler Savage.

An All-Access Pass is $30 and provides access to all films, filmmaker Q&As and networking rooms. Single program tickets are $10 per film program.

Catch great films and filmmaker Q&As while building new relationships. For more information and tickets, visit https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/event/november-21st-2020-monthly-film-festival-infocus-indigenous-cinema/