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Sunday, May 26

Andell Family Sundays—East Coast Meets West Coast

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 92656

12:30pm

Travel from the East Coast to the West Coast without leaving the room! Take a tour of Compass for Surveyors: 19th Century American Landscapes.

Create your own scenic art, in the following workshops—you can even make a compass!

Maps and Compasses with artist Marianne Sadowski

Make a compass and add it to a map of the United States during the 19th century. Participants will make the map their own work by adding their own drawings.

Finding Your Direction with artist Delia DeVer

Working with images from the exhibition, participants will arrange two images side by side, then add color and texture with oil pastels.  

Your Future Landscape with artist Gloria Westcott

Imagine and then draw the landscape you envision for the future.

Toddler Tarp with artist Hannah Cassell

Artists five years old and younger will make their own landscape thaumatrope using collage materials and watercolor pencils.

While you're here, cruise on over to BCAM to see more than a thousand miniature cars zooming through Chris Burden's kinetic sculpture, Metropolis II, which is in action every Sunday at the following times: 10:30–11:30 am; 12:30–1:30 pm; 2:30–3:30 pm; 4:30–5:30 pm.

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Monday, May 27

27th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA (Reggae Day)

UCLA Intramural Fields

555 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90025

12:00pm

The JazzReggae Festival at UCLA is an annual Los Angeles tradition located in the heart of Westwood, right on UCLA campus. Held on Memorial Day Weekend every year, this two day festival is not only a venue for amazing live music by the top Jazz, Reggae, Sca, and Hip-Hop artists, but also boasts an incredibly diverse range vendors, delicious foods, uniquely personal crafts, and creative art projects from around the greater Los Angeles area. This is one of the biggest music, art, and food festivals in Southern California, and the only one dedicated to Jazz and Reggae. Perfect for the whole family, it's not an event to miss! This year's event features Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Marcia Griffiths and more.

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Memorial Day's Big Daddy's BBQ Kickoff at Ford's Filling Station

Ford's Filling Station

9531 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA

1:00pm

MEMORIAL DAY "BIG DADDY'S SUMMER BBQ” KICKOFF
Monday, May 27, 2013
1pm until we’re out

Memorial Day is the official beginning of Summer and the first Big Daddy's Summer BBQ of the season! We will be on the front patio with meats served directly off our smoker and a beer in hand to celebrate the beginning of the summer barbecue season.

Choice of 2 Meats
Whole Roasted Hog
Beef Brisket
Grilled Chicken
Beer Braised Mattinata Sausage
Pork Ribs

Choice of 2 Sides
 Southern Style Tuscan Greens
Marinated Heirloom Tomatoes
Mac n Cheese with ham hock and fresno chile
Corn on the cob
Red Bee Potato Salad
BBQ Baked Beans 

2 meats & 2 sides| 28
add a beer| 3

A very wise man once said:  "Intelligence is something we are born with. BBQ’ing is a skill that must be learned" - Edward de Bono

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