Free Fun in LA - October 2013

October is a fun month for Halloween-related events and spooky film screenings.

FILM AND CINEMA 

Kind Hearts and Coronets

10/1 (Tues): Kind Hearts and Coronets film screening, 1:30pm, Skirball Cultural Center in West LA, More info

Also, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (with James Stewart and Grace Kelly) film screening + discussion with filmmaker Elaina Archer, 6pm, Ocean Park Branchy Library in Santa Monica, More info

10/2 (Wed): Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein film screening, 1pm, Pasadena Central Library Auditorium in Pasadena, More info

10/3 (Thurs): The Full Monty film screening, 2pm, Tustin Library in Tustin,

10/4 (Fri): The Wiz film screening, 8pm, Charles White Park in Altadena, More info

10/5 (Sat): Hunger Games film screening, live music @ 6pm and movies @ 7:30pm, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, More info

Also, The Met in HD: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, 12pm Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

10/8 (Tues): The Lavender Hill Mob film screening, 1:30 p.m., Skirball Cultural Center in West LA, More info

10/9 (Wed): Invaders From Mars film screening, 1pm, Pasadena Central Library Auditorium in Pasadena, More info

10/10 (Thurs): Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas film screening, 2pm, Encino-Tarzana Branch Library in Tarzana, More info

10/12 (Sat): Exit Through the Gift Shop outdoor film screening, live music starts @ 6pm and movies @ 7:30pm, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, More info

10/17 (Thurs):  Persepolis film screening, 2pm, Tustin Library in Tustin,

10/18-10/19 (Fri-Sat): Indian Film Centennial: 1913-2013, Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall and the Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108 on USC's University Park Campus, free but reservations required,  More info

10/19 (Sat):  500 Day of Summer outdoor film screening, live music @ 6pm and movies @ 7:30pm, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, More info

10/22 (Tues): Gus van Sant's Promised Land film screening, 6:30pm, Montana Ave. Branch Library in Santa Monica, More info

10/23 (Wed):  Young Frankenstein film screening, 1pm, Pasadena Central Library Auditorium in Pasadena, More info

10/24 (Thurs):  Mel Brooks' History of the World - Part I, 2pm, Tustin Library in Tustin,

10/30 (Wed):  Arsenic & Old Lace film screening, 1pm, Pasadena Central Library Auditorium in Pasadena, More info

10/31 (Thurs): Wolfen film screening (w/ Edward James Olmos and Gregory Hines), 2pm, Montana Ave. Branch Library in Santa Monica, More info

VISUAL AND GRAPHIC ARTS

10/5 (Sat):  Opening Reception for Group Show (Camey McGilvray, Katherine Rohrbacher and Della Rolle), 5pm-8pm, TAG Gallery in Santa Monica, More info

Della Rolle

10/6 (Sun): Italian and Mediterranean Festival + Last Free Day of Jewels of the Connoisseur exhibit, 10am-4pm, Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, More info

10/7 (Mon): Voices off the Walls, Music off the Walls exhibit + reception, 7pm, USC Fisher Museum of Art on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

10/11 (Fri): ArtNight Pasadena (multi-gallery event of art, music, entertainment and food trucks), 6-10pm, various locations in Pasadena, More info

10/12 (Sat):  Opening of Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986 exhibit (free day), Japanese American National Museum in Downtown LA, More info

Marvels and Monsters

Also, 8th Annual Pasadena ARTWalk 2013, 11am-5pm, various locations in Pasadena, More info

Also, Constructed Visions: New Media From Korea exhibit (four contemporary Korean artists), Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, exhibit continues through Nov. 24 but free only on 10/12, More info

10/13 (Sun): Closing Reception of Chasing Daylight: Philip Latimer Dike, 1927 - 1943 exhibit, 5 pm, The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, More info

thru 10/19 (Sat):  7th Annual Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design exhibit, FIDM Museum & Galleries in Downtown LA, More info

10/24 (Thurs):  Opening of Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie exhibit (free day), Skirball Cultural Center in West LA, exhibit runs through March 2, 2014 but free only on Thursdays, More info

10/27 (Sun): Leimert Park Art Walk, 1pm-8pm, Leimert Park, More info

Brian Brooks Moving Company

PERFORMING ARTS 

10/4 (Fri):   Brian Brooks Moving Company performance, 7:30pm, Bovard Auditorium at USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required,  More info

10/5 (Sat):  Performances by Grammy Award-winning Los Texmaniacs (conjuntos music) and Pacifico Dance Company, 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., W.M. Keck Children's Amphitheatre at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown LA, More info

Also, MP3 Los Angeles (comedy improv, street dance party, food trucks and cupcakes), 1:30 pm, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown LA, download the track before you show up, More info

 Also, Way Over Yonder (afternoon folk music festival), 2pm to 7pm, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, More info

Also, Poetic Piano Quartets with Genevieve Feiwen Lee and fellow members of the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, 8pm, Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, More info

Pacifico Dance Company

10/9 (Wed): Staged reading of "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn, 7pm, Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall at The Brain and Creativity Institute on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

10/11 (Fri): From Page to Stage: Moby Dick - Then and Now (featuring Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and Mixed Magic Theatre) performance + reception to follow, 7:00pm, Annenberg Auditorium on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

10/12 (Sat): Imagining New Communities in the Digital Age (a multimedia performance featuring Low End Theory), 7pm Bovard Auditorium on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

Also, Afrotango Ensemble performance, 11am-4pm, El Molino Jazz Stage in Pasadena, More info

Also, Our American Voice performance (two-person show in partnership with East West Players), 1pm, Japanese American National Museum in Downtown LA, More info

Navarasa Dance Theater

10/13 (Sun): Pomona College Orchestra Concert, 3pm, Also, One World Music Concert Sunday, 3pm, Crowell Public Library in San Marino, More info

10/17 (Thurs): Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony performed by USC Thornton Symphony with Maestro Carl St.Clair, 7:30pm, Bovard Auditorium on USC's University Park Campus in South Central LA, free but reservations required, More info

10/19 (Sat):  Festival Supreme (comedy and music festival), 3pm-10pm, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, More info

10/25 (Fri): An Evening with Navarasa Dance Theater, 7pm, Theater at Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, get stickers for guaranteed seating starting at 6pm, More info

10/26 (Sat):  Claremont Concert Orchestra performance, 8pm, Garrison Theater of Scripps College Performing Arts Center in Claremont, More info

OTHER EVENTS 

10/26 (Sat): Haunted History (Halloween program including pumpkin carving, Haunted Tours, spooky silent film screening and more), 3pm, Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino, More info