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I just received an invitation to this...

What is a toilet alarm spokes-mime, exactly?

 
Zoot Velasco in Very Odd Jobs
Thursday, September 2nd, 7:00 PM, Free

Davis Barber Productions presents Zoot Velasco in Very Odd Jobs.

Zoot Velasco, our Executive Director, will take the audience on a journey from street kid with a bum leg to his jobs as robot, mime, wax figure, mannequin, table centerpiece, toy soldier, break dancer, toilet alarm spokes-mime, RoboCop, Ronald MacDonald finalist, Soul Trainee, Music Video dancer, Crash Dummy, prison artist, storyteller, and rapper... yes, we said rapper!

Few people have had stranger career moves than Zoot!

Muckenthaler Cultural Center: www.TheMuck.org, 866-411-1212

-Krystal

Ed Templeton Artist Talk Tonight @ OCMA

Ed Templeton talks art, life, and inspiration with Juxtapoz magazine co-founders Greg Escalante and CR Stecyk at OCMA tonight. Talk is free with admission and it starts at 6pm.

Funny, I was just thumbing through Beautiful Losers a couple of days ago..

TEDx Fullerton- Line Up Continued

Announcements continue to come out of the TEDx Fullerton camp. The most recent is that Kimberly Brooks will be added to the line-up on Friday Sept 10th.

TEDxFullerton’s special guest speaker is Kimberly Brooks, who recently conceived and launched the Arts Section of the Huffington Post, a new “vertical”, where she serves as Arts Editor.   Ms. Brooks is also a contemporary American painter and new media artist; her works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, LACMA to name a few. 

TEDx Fullerton- Line Up

 
The line up of the upcoming TEDX Fullerton happening on Sept 10th is starting to leak out. Some of the speakers that will be present include:

• Karen Atkinson, The Creation of a Hybrid (Artist)

 

• Bruce Babad, Exposing the hidden notes

 

• Amy Caterina, Vivacious, cheeky and kind

 

• Peter Clothier, Rousing the Creative Spirit

 

• John Crawford, Intermedia software artist

 

• John Eger, “Building Creative Communities”

 

• Jill Anjuli Hansen, Revolutionary, creative, entrepreneur

 

• Andrea Harris-McGee, Infectious Enthusiasm and Fun
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• §  Joe Jewell, Contemporary Guitar Virtuoso

 

• Frank Peters, Angel, artist, entrepreneur

More to info to come.