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07.08.12 - 06.30.13

Nate Page: Instituted Angles of Path and Display

Nate Page Instituted Angles of Path and Display Exhibition Date: July 7, 2012 - June 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7pm - 9pm Armory's Main Stairwell Armory Center for the Arts presents a temporary, site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nate Page in its central stairwell through June 2013.  Page’s newest work, entitled Instituted Angles of Path and Display, challenges the ultra-functional design of the Armory’s main stairwell. Page...
 
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11.15.12 - 12.31.13

The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art on York Blvd. by X. Andrade

All Day
Outpost @ Armory is pleased present The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art, an ongoing, neighborhood-based public art project conceived and launched by X. Andrade, an artist and anthropologist based in Ecuador. Andrade reconsiders the traditions of public art, signage, and murals by inviting collaboration between teams of artists, sign painters, and business owners. In the process he reveals and celebrates the inherent challenges of translation that occur...
 
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04.20.13 - 05.19.13

Children Investigate the Environment: Selections from Classes

Since 1989, the Armory has encouraged thousands of children to hone their critical thinking skills, make real world connections to classroom learning, and appreciate Pasadena’s natural wonders through the power of art. *Children Investigate the Environment (CIE) *takes students into nearby natural environments to learn about the earth and physical sciences through the visual arts.  This long term partnership between the Armory, the Pasadena Water and Power and Public...
 
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05.19.13 - 05.19.13

Community Speculators – Queers, Aliens, Time, Space, Love, Labor, and Value

Time: 
13:00 — 16:00
An afternoon of screenings, presentations, and conversation that expand various ideas and concerns that inform *Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow* and *Contested Destination*, two exhibitions currently on display. Program is as follows: *SPECULATORS* 1–2pm  Artist and writer *Suzie Silver* presents writings and films from her book Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities (co-edited with Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira: Encyclopedia Destructica, 2013). Writer and artist *Anna Joy Springer*...
 
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06.01.13 - 06.01.13

SAVE THE DATE - Make Music Pasadena

All Day
Make Music Pasadena is a FREE music festival in Downtown Pasadena from 11 am until 11 pm on Saturday, June 1, 2013. This year's line up will be announced soon. Photo credit: Sterling Andrews
 
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06.05.13 - 06.05.13

Big City Forum: Creative Placemaking and Collective Impact

Time: 
19:00 — 21:00
What role do creative practices play in strategically shaping the physical and social character of neighborhoods and communities? This panel will explore the resurgence of creative placemaking as a way to revitalize and transform local communities from a perspective based on policy, case studies working in multi-ethnic communities, and design-based approaches to issues surrounding the built environment. Featuring: John Arroyo, an urban planner whose award-winning graduate thesis at MIT...
 
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06.06.13 - 06.06.13

Benefit screening of GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields

Time: 
18:00 — 21:00
*You are Invited to A Fundraiser for Veterans in Food & Farming* Please join us for a special screening of GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields, a documentary Film by Dulanie Ellis & Raymond Singer followed by a conversation with the filmmakers & a farmer-veteran Edgar Hercilla. GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields has begun a national tour to champion a growing network of combat veterans who are transitioning to...
 
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06.13.13 - 06.13.13

Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District

Time: 
19:00 — 21:00
*Conscientious Projector Goes Inside the Pasadena Unified School District* One year ago, 50 small film crews followed Pasadena public school students, teachers, volunteers and administrators as they went about a typical day on the school district’s 28 campuses. The stirring result is Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District, this month’s Conscientious Projector selection, screening on Thursday, June 13, 7:00 p.m. at The...
 
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