To celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Hung of The Wax Apple has been hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays through the end of the year.

This is the last in the series!

Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a Taiwanese breakfast must!

We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

We are hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year in our upstairs studio. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

Join us for the second round of this live "cooking show" with The Wax Apple's Juliana Hung—

Learn the process of cooking a traditional Taiwanese meal at Days' bar, eat a communal meal, & take home your own pickles.

Menu:

Starter—pickled celery, marinated woods ear, popcorn chicken with fried basil

Main—pork rib soup with dates, tossed noodles infused with scallion, ginger, oil, soy dressing and topped with sesame oil

Dessert—grass jelly with sweet ginger syrup

Drinks—Taiwan beer, Oolong tea

Limited to 8 people—

$30 - book your ticket here!

The week before Christmas we will be open everyday! Come shop!

Holiday Hours:

Monday - Wednesday December 17th - 19th

2 - 7pm

Thursday - Sunday December 20th - 23rd

11 - 7pm

To celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Hung of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays through the end of the year!

Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a Taiwanese breakfast must!

We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

We are hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year in our upstairs studio. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

FUROSHIKI is a traditional wrapping cloth used for transportation of gifts, food, or clothes.

Join TENZO during the holiday celebration for a hands-on workshop and learn 2 different ways of fabric gift wrapping. We will practice wrapping a gift box of provided cookies.

Each guest will receive printed instructions, 1/2 dozen molasses chocolate cookies, and an additional furoshiki wrap to practice at home.

$15—Buy your ticket HERE

Join us for a laid back holiday party with GAL and TENZO — there will drinks and shopping with an optional Furoshiki wrapping workshop, where you will learn to use fabric and knots to beautifully wrap all of your gifts. Also launching the first of Late Night Pasta, a series of printed chapbooks made by Tenzo & GAL.

Stop by, have a glass of wine and some Tenzo menu classics.

We'll be sharing our favorite cookbooks, selling our kitchen essentials, and teaching a furoshiki gift wrapping workshop.

Bring your favorite cookbook to share with the group!

Tenzo is a new online resource for the adventurous home cook. Part kitchen and homeware store. Part lifestyle magazine. Part culinary resource.

Girls At Library (GAL) is an online journal that features engaging literary interviews with and book recommendations from remarkable, diverse women who share a passion for reading. A unique online resource for literature lovers, GAL invites the exchange of ideas, perspectives, and emotions that underscore what makes reading such a universal pursuit. The books one reads both shape the mind and reflect the soul: literature empowers, transports, and inspires. To this end, GAL promotes reading as a constructive and enriching act for everyone. Each interview offers keen insights, personal portraits, and an artful, intimate look inside the libraries of women from all walks of life.

Offsite

Throughout the season of Oil we are partnering with Hiking Club LA to explore sites of historically or currently relevant oil production around Los Angeles. Hiking Club LA has always been a respite and an incubator for community, creativity and new beginnings. Join us for the second hike as we continue the conversation around cities and oil to the trail:

Mentryville and Pico Canyon

Distance: 7 miles
Elevation: 1,250 feet
Duration: Day Hike
(9AM - 4PM)

Mentryville was one of the very first oil boomtowns in the region, dating back to 1876. It's mostly a ghost town now but original structures are still standing and we've stumbled upon bubbling tar pits in the area before. The climb out of the canyon should offer clear views across Ventura County towards the Channel Islands.

Gas Gallery's “Anatomy of Oil” contributor Susanna Battin will co-lead the hike as our guest artist.

Sign up for this hike

Susanna Battin uses strategies of research and visual art to investigate landscapes she has personal and intimate ties to. Her work specifically focuses on how the Romantic conception of nature continues to permeate contemporary politics, ecology, and dictate the human relation to land. This past work has taken form as performance, video, writing, social practice, and site interventions. Her work has shown at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Gas Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Pieter Space, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Human Resources, PhotoLA, Colorado College, OPAF, and abroad. In 2018 she was the visiting artist in residence at Turning Point School, Culver City, and Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts, where she led exercises in landscape visualization and storytelling. She is an active member of Mother Ditch, NAVEL, and the reading group, OOLA. Susanna Battin lives and works in Los Angeles. http://www.susbatt.com/

Hiking Club LA began in January 2013 as an excuse to have meandering, break-filled conversations while engaging with the bizarre and immense geography of Los Angeles. It continues to offer monthly excursions to a self-selecting group of curious individuals.

RESCHEDULED FROM 12/3 to 12/10!

This open-platform group will be meeting monthly at Days for the duration of Oil as an excavation of the self and community support group.

Girl Army was created to build a support community for women. With no subject off limits we want women to fully and comfortably express themselves without fear of judgment. It can be hard juggling a creative productive lifestyle while battling past traumas. Girl Army is where you go to relieve stress by verbally releasing it to a group who listens and comforts. Our goal is for you to feel like you’re meeting with your sisters for a monthly check-in.

December's focus is: Loving Others

This months group focuses on how we love others. Sometimes we are conditioned to love in a certain way and of course we all love differently. Some of us choose not to love at all, or to give tough love. Some of us love hard and easily. This conversation invites the group to consider questions like “have you observed the way you love?” “has there been any growth in your styles of loving?” and “is there growth needed in your approach?” Join us for the group investigation!

Girl Army opens its doors to anyone who identifies as a woman and is a 100% safe place for everyone.

Limited space—RSVP please!

The official launch of this collaboration with Tanya Rubbak: Communication by Seduction Project (Windows, Real or Imagined), a multi-part risograph print project, with limited edition folios, in which designers and artists have created windows into hidden structures where desires live.

Join us for the party debuting the compiled limited-edition collection of prints!

Are you up for it?

Are you secretly waiting?

Are you a city or a feeling?

A movement or a gesture?

Are you going to stay?

Are you song or scent?

We are looking to fall out of time, can you help us?

Featuring projects by Advanced Sunrise, Alex Pines, Ella Gold, Hayley Barker, Joel Evey, Kate Johnston, Liana Jegers, Mansi Shah, Megan Whitmarsh, Riah Buchanan, Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen (Drawswords), Julie Cho and Katie Hanburger (Slow Season), Neil Doshi and Vanesa Zendejas (doshi-zendejas), Stephanie Specht (Specht Studio), & Victor Hu

All are welcome!

Join us for this live "cooking show" with The Wax Apple's Juliana Hung—

Learn the process of cooking this traditional Taiwanese meal at Days' bar, eat a communal meal, & take home your own pickles.

Menu:

Starter— Pickled cucumbers, Pan fried lotus roots

Main— Minced Pork with shiitake mushrooms over rice. Garnished with green onions and pickled Daikon.

Dessert—Red bean infused jello with shaved ice

Drinks—Taiwan beer

Gift—Pair of Hinoki Chopsticks, Pickles (bring a jar!)

Limited to 10 people—

$30 - book your ticket here!

Come learn about traditional Ayurvedic oil practices, tap into preventative self care routines amidst the winter unravel, and celebrate the launch of a new oil blend during this evening event.

Days is pleased to launch Surya || Chandra Ayurveda’s new herbal body oil in their line of Ayurvedic Healing Oils. This new burgundy red oil is infused with local fresh pomegranate, blood orange, buddawood, juniper berry, rosemary, bala root, silver fir, mugwort, and rose hips.

Lauryn Bellafiore, Founder + Ayurvedic Practitioner of Surya || Chandra Ayurveda will be present highlighting ayurvedic practices for the winter season, showing a live Nasya-Nasal Oil/ Head Massage, and discussing her new collection (including a holiday oil gift set).

Allow yourself the time to nourish your ojas (life force), ease the nervous system, ground in, and anoint your body temple with herbal medicinal oil from the toes up.

Please join us to experience the sensual glow, shop holiday gifts from local women owned businesses, snack, and sip mulled pomegranate blood orange wine.

Free, inclusive, welcome to all!

To celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Hung of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays through the end of the year!

Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a Taiwanese breakfast must!

We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

We are hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year in our upstairs studio. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

Offsite

Throughout the season of Oil we are partnering with Hiking Club LA to explore sites of historically or currently relevant oil production around Los Angeles. Hiking Club LA has always been a respite and an incubator for community, creativity and new beginnings. Join us for this inaugural hike as we bring the conversation around cities and oil to the trail:

Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Loop
Distance: 2.6 miles
Elevation: 243 feet

Few city vistas are more surprising than the vast Los Angeles panorama from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. The rugged Baldwin Hills were home to the Tongva people for over 8,000 years prior to its acquisition by the Spanish in 1843. It remains a place of startling contrasts as its wild oak arroyos and windy grasslands sit side-by-side with the imposing Inglewood Oil Field (which has been in continuous production since 1924 and has yielded over 2.8 million barrels of oil).

We’ll survey the land as we read the text of Marcella Durand’s poem, “Anatomy of Oil” and consider our city’s own complicated composition.

Sign up for this hike

Hiking Club LA began in January 2013 as an excuse to have meandering, break-filled conversations while engaging with the bizarre and immense geography of Los Angeles. It continues to offer monthly excursions to a self-selecting group of curious individuals.

To celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Hung of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays through the end of the year!

Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a taiwanese breakfast must!

We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

We are hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year in our upstairs studio. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

In conjunction with the launch of Oil, Cities of Days will be hosting Gas Gallery (a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art) on Saturdays for the month of November, with their exhibit Anatomy of Oil on view. This Saturday is the closing of the exhibition.

Anatomy of Oil is a group exhibition exploring oil production around Los Angeles. The oil industry greatly influenced the development of the city, which continues to maintain many active extraction sites, often in close proximity to schools, homes, and parks. In some cases, companies build creative solutions to hide oil derricks, disguising them as trees or towers. The derricks are a particular, and sometimes overlooked, feature of the Los Angeles landscape. An object that is itself an invention of oil dependence, Gas’s converted delivery-truck gallery will park at active and former oil extraction sites around Los Angeles (in addition to art spaces) to encourage an ongoing conversation about the hold of the oil industry on all levels. Named after a poem by Marcella Durand that examines these issues through an eco-feminist lens, Anatomy of Oil includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and video in the gallery truck, a browser plug-in available for download at the gallery’s website, as well as a series of site-specific performances and a reading group.

One theme in Durand’s poem is a ceaseless, roaming hunger for oil, and the destructive path that follows each discovery. Coinciding with this violence—realized in the form of environmental damage, the displacement of populations, pollution, etc.—is the routine presence of oil in most aspects of modern life. The works in Anatomy of Oil focus on the effects of petro-capitalism on everyday lived reality.

Featuring:

Susanna Battin, Kate Kendall, LA Transcendental Listenings (David Horvitz and Asha Bukojemsky), Michael Mandiberg, Nina Sarnelle, Molly Tierney, Elia Vargas

Girl Army was created to build a support community for women. With no subject off limits we want women to fully and comfortably express themselves without fear of judgment. It can be hard juggling a creative productive lifestyle while battling past traumas. Girl Army is where you go to relieve stress by verbally releasing it to a group who listens and comforts. Our goal is for you to feel like you’re meeting with your sisters for a monthly check-in.

November's focus is: Self Care Routines

This conversation is an opportunity hear one another’s routines for a happier life. It also serves as a reminder to people that it might seem like a lot of work to rebuild yourself but tools like making one step or consistent reminders can help start the way! We encourage all who join to think of 3 things that they do for themselves to show self love and appreciation.

Girl Army opens its doors to anyone who identifies as a woman and is a 100% safe place for everyone.

Limited space—RSVP please!

On November 17th at noon at Days, Gas Gallery will host a reading group where guests are invited to discuss Marcella Durand’s poem “Anatomy of Oil” from her 2008 collection Area, published Belladonna*. Snacks and light refreshments will be served.

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This event is organized in conjunction with the Gas Gallery group exhibition Anatomy of Oil, which explores oil production around Los Angeles. Named after a poem by Marcella Durand that examines the hold of petrocapitalism through an eco-feminist lens, Anatomy of Oil includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and video in the Gas Gallery truck, a browser plug-in available for download at the gallery’s website, as well as a series of site-specific performances and a reading group.

In conjunction with the launch of Oil, Cities of Days will be hosting Gas Gallery (a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art) on Saturdays for the month of November, with their exhibit Anatomy of Oil on view.

Anatomy of Oil is a group exhibition exploring oil production around Los Angeles. The oil industry greatly influenced the development of the city, which continues to maintain many active extraction sites, often in close proximity to schools, homes, and parks. In some cases, companies build creative solutions to hide oil derricks, disguising them as trees or towers. The derricks are a particular, and sometimes overlooked, feature of the Los Angeles landscape. An object that is itself an invention of oil dependence, Gas’s converted delivery-truck gallery will park at active and former oil extraction sites around Los Angeles (in addition to art spaces) to encourage an ongoing conversation about the hold of the oil industry on all levels. Named after a poem by Marcella Durand that examines these issues through an eco-feminist lens, Anatomy of Oil includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and video in the gallery truck, a browser plug-in available for download at the gallery’s website, as well as a series of site-specific performances and a reading group.

One theme in Durand’s poem is a ceaseless, roaming hunger for oil, and the destructive path that follows each discovery. Coinciding with this violence—realized in the form of environmental damage, the displacement of populations, pollution, etc.—is the routine presence of oil in most aspects of modern life. The works in Anatomy of Oil focus on the effects of petro-capitalism on everyday lived reality.

Featuring:

Susanna Battin, Kate Kendall, LA Transcendental Listenings (David Horvitz and Asha Bukojemsky), Michael Mandiberg, Nina Sarnelle, Molly Tierney, Elia Vargas

To celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Huang of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on Sundays through the end of the year!

Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a taiwanese breakfast must!

We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

We are hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year in our upstairs studio. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

In conjunction with the launch of Oil, Cities of Days will be hosting Gas Gallery (a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art) on Saturdays for the month of November, with their exhibit Anatomy of Oil on view.

Anatomy of Oil is a group exhibition exploring oil production around Los Angeles. The oil industry greatly influenced the development of the city, which continues to maintain many active extraction sites, often in close proximity to schools, homes, and parks. In some cases, companies build creative solutions to hide oil derricks, disguising them as trees or towers. The derricks are a particular, and sometimes overlooked, feature of the Los Angeles landscape. An object that is itself an invention of oil dependence, Gas’s converted delivery-truck gallery will park at active and former oil extraction sites around Los Angeles (in addition to art spaces) to encourage an ongoing conversation about the hold of the oil industry on all levels. Named after a poem by Marcella Durand that examines these issues through an eco-feminist lens, Anatomy of Oil includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and video in the gallery truck, a browser plug-in available for download at the gallery’s website, as well as a series of site-specific performances and a reading group.

One theme in Durand’s poem is a ceaseless, roaming hunger for oil, and the destructive path that follows each discovery. Coinciding with this violence—realized in the form of environmental damage, the displacement of populations, pollution, etc.—is the routine presence of oil in most aspects of modern life. The works in Anatomy of Oil focus on the effects of petro-capitalism on everyday lived reality.

Featuring:

Susanna Battin, Kate Kendall, LA Transcendental Listenings (David Horvitz and Asha Bukojemsky), Michael Mandiberg, Nina Sarnelle, Molly Tierney, Elia Vargas

Join us to launch Oil, on Thursday evening with drinks and Taiwanese shaved ice!

The final installment of Cities of Days brings us into the season of Oil and metaphorical cities. Imbued with the corporeality of Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior, we descend into the sensuousness and mystery of the lived body. Oil is the core—those deepest and darkest, hidden, or perhaps unknown places.

Throughout the year, Cities of Days has been uncovering cities in strata: moving from literal layers of Rock, to imaginary layers of Water, and now into experiential layers of Oil. Ideas give way to desire, plans resolve into ritual, physical structures transmute into emotion.

Over the next four months, we explore these depths with artists, designers, craftspeople, writers, and makers of all sorts. Together, we draw back the curtains of our previously explored buildings, breaching their facades and venturing inside.

In our upstairs studio, we will be hosting The Wax Apple as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires.

In conjunction with the launch of Oil, we will be hosting Gas Gallery (a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art) on Saturdays for the month of November, with their exhibit Anatomy of Oil on view.

The shop will be closed the first week in November as we transition from Water to Oil.

We move from the Water to Oil portions of Cities of Days—from the imagined city to the metaphorical one; from Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) and The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine de Pizan) to Cities of the Interior (Anaïs Nin); from cities of the mind to the sensuousness of the body.

The season of Water at Cities of Days draws to a close and we shift into a slippery place between seasons. Come celebrate all the imagination and exploration of this fluid place.

Matter and Ghost will be on hand from 1-4pm taking Aura Photographs to celebrate! Are the boundaries between spirit and corporeal bodies transient close to Halloween? Come find out! ($20)

Refreshments, community, and conversation as always.

There are over 600 museums in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, yet when people speak generally of our local museums, there is a strong chance they are referring only to a handful of the largest and most well-known. With his project, Todd Lerew is focusing on what he is calling 'specific' museums throughout the Los Angeles region, with an eye towards geographic and thematic diversity and an emphasis on the under-appreciated.

Join Todd Lerew at Days for a brief tour through the SoCal museum-scape using Invisible Cities as a lens for understanding this place as constituting many concentric or simultaneous yet seemingly unrelated worlds.

Todd Lerew is a composer, artist, volunteer host of a fire lookout tower in the San Bernardino Mountains, and generally curious person. He is Program Manager for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Curator of the Central Library exhibition, 21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story. He earned a BA from Hampshire College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He has received commissions from So Percussion and the Now Hear Ensemble, and was winner of the American Composers Forum 2014 National Composition Contest.

Artist and writer Dylan Mira will lead our last writing workshop of the season.

As the wall between worlds goes paper thin we will write on it, listen, make shadows, holes, and spills. Our chance and channeled moves will consider such architectures as the memory palace, the diaspora, the underworld.

Dylan Mira is making writing. Dylan Mira was born in Lawrence, one of seven reported gateways to hell, and grew up in Seoul, Hong Kong, Hiroshima, and Philadelphia. Dylan Mira is half horse. Dylan Mira has exhibited her art widely inside and outside.

Reserve your place here - $5

Every Sunday, you're invited to engage in a community gathering around news and crosswords at Days' terrazzo bar.

Coffee, snacks, and the NY Times provide a backdrop for connection and conversation.

All are welcome!

Join us for a performative event inspired by Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies, transposing the 14th century text and ideas into the present days, performing alchemy between the real and unreal and synthesizing dreamscape and materiality.

Stories of cities are often told through material reminiscing that can feel intangible, the sort of materiality of sidewalks cracked, cathedrals of glass, dust and rust. The stories of all ladies in all cities, and “City of Ladies” happens through material languages and material symbols with wonderful specificity.

Whether it’s through a lady’s trinket, her sewing, her tools of domestic labor, we see and feel her wisdom through her artifacts. What better way to tell a story than through these things.

De Pizan's book is not only a taxonomy, a compendium, an encyclopedia, but a census. She marks the lives of as many ladies as she could because if she were to perish, who else would know to tell.

Imagine it is the year 1347, you are most likely dead from plague. In the unlikely event you lived and went on to reach maturity and bare children, imagine inhabiting a world half empty. Not only is it half empty, it is cloistered, sequestered, where you go and who you see is limited not only by technology, but also fear.

What was a lady to do all day but reinvent the world, brick by brick, lady by lady.

Written & directed by Soffi Stiassni & Jill Spector, mirrors by Olivia Booth, with performances by Nora Beckman and Andrea Tzvetkov.

Writer, producer and artistic collaborator Soffi Stiassni manages the music project Sundaes. She has contributed poems to Night Gallery’s Night Papers and the Amanda+James American Gothic accompaniment book. Her most recent play No Place Like, a Downtown Reparatory Theater Company production, was staged at the Pico House in Los Angles with support from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Soffi graduated from Mount Holyoke College in with a B.A. in English Literature and attended the University of Iowa Young Writer’s Program. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Jill Spector is the founder of In Favor Of, a creative consultancy that works closely with individuals, groups, and businesses to grow their creative projects. Jill Spector's sculptures suggest mimicry and roles to be played, placing the viewer into relationships between bodies and objects. Spector’s sculptures and collages were part of Made in L.A. 2012 at the Hammer Museum. Her work has been included in the exhibitions Biomorphic Forms In Sculpture at the Kunsthaus Graz and Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils… at the Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater in Munich, Germany. Jill Spector’s photography has been featured in publications including Valeria Napoleone’s Catalog of Exquisite Recipes, and SchindlerLab.org published by the MAK Center. Following this project, Spector created The Editor’s President: Models and Mock-Ups for Elaine May, Nora Kaye, and Eileen Gray, an installation for the vitrine at JOAN in Los Angeles. Her works are included in the Zabludowicz Collection, London and The Kunsthaus Graz. In 2015, Jill Spector and Bret Nicely founded TARP, an ongoing series of performances and installations in and around their empty pool in Altadena, California.

Join us for a discussion of Laurel Consuelo Broughton's project The Fantasy Compact and an activation of the Mascots of Surfurbia, the Foothills, Autotopia, and the Plains of Id currently on display at Cities of Days.

As a speculation for the future of Los Angeles, The Fantasy Compact suggests an urban planning that is not rational. The Fantasy Compact is an agreement publicized through government but undertaken between citizens to believe and participate in sympathetic magic. The compact is voted into effect by the citizens of Los Angeles County, thus making the entire county a public theme park. The actual making of the theme park is as much about collective belief and participation as it is about law or physical changes to the environment. The citizenry undertake to believe in their own implication in and labor in the making and preserving of the fantasy environment of Los Angeles.

Fantasy is the oft-overlooked and under-discussed driver of the form and urban experience of the built environment of Los Angeles. In its development over the last 150 years, Los Angeles has been given shape by many hands (citizens, developers, filmmakers, engineers, and architects) through narrative storytelling that has proliferated a kind of fantasy urbanism. To spend a day in the life of Los Angeles is to slip between the real and fictional, banal and fantastic, moment to moment. These juxtapositions occur through a mixture of real design intervention—the streets of Hollywood glittering before your headlights, hyperfictional historic spaces like Olvera Street in downtown, and the banality of eating a slice of pizza on the ground floor of strip mall that is wearing a giant derby hat.

Every Sunday, you're invited to engage in a community gathering around news and crosswords at Days' terrazzo bar.

Coffee, snacks, and the NY Times provide a backdrop for connection and conversation.

All are welcome!

"Trees bristle the ground with a vast quantity of flowered shafts raised up to the sun." -Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

This workshop will be co-led by Aimee Goguen. We will be working with sentences we think are sexy: versions of the erotic like "when my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene" (Georges Bataille). Prepare to engage in passionate writing that is full of feeling even to the point of sensory overload.

The bi-monthly writing group takes inspiration from the imaginative spaces in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Each session we write together and alone, with an element of group work led in partnership with different artists and writers.

No writing experience necessary, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture!

Limited to 10 participants. $5 - Reserve your place here

Aimee Goguen is a video artist and animator currently interested in rupture and the avulsion of energies. Goguen has made many small books including See Dog Read, Alfred Hitchcock, and Bully, Belly, Boom. Goguen’s writing has been published in Issue No.4 “Pink/Punk” Monsters and Dust Magazine, TOM, and Playboy. Goguen completed her undergraduate studies in Experimental Animation, and then received her MFA in Visual Art at California Institute of the Arts.

Every Sunday, you're invited to engage in a community gathering around news and crosswords at Days' terrazzo bar.

Coffee, snacks, and the NY Times provide a backdrop for connection and conversation.

All are welcome!

Each Sunday: drop by, browse the Sunday newspapers, and work on the crosswords with us.

Complimentary coffee and brunchy treats.

All are welcome!

Ike Ike is an introductory workshop to the Japanese flowering arranging technique of Ikebana. This engagement will bring together the idea of space and Days' current iteration of water into a fluid, experiential exploration which will cover the aesthetic variances of the floral art form.

Discussion topics will include minimalism, line form, and overall structure along with philosophical evocations as seen in architecture and environmental design, culminating with each attendee creating a freeform arrangement of their design.

All materials will be provided.

This workshop is limited to 7 people

$35

Reserve your place here

“How can we, future ancestors, align ourselves with the most resilient practices of emergence as a species?” - adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy.

Our bi-monthly generative Writing Group continues as we think about shaping the futures we want to live, led by artist and writer Meital Yaniv.

The session will consist of creative writing exercises and an element of group work! No writing experience necessary, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture.

Meital Yaniv (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, Israel) is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist whose practice embodies language, performance, and video. Yaniv’s labor weaves and merges the personal and the political to find the common thread in disparate struggles, connecting ideas, bodies, and forms of resistance. Since 2015, Yaniv has been organizing intimate reading events with the aim of conceiving alternative communities where vulnerability holds us all accountable. Her book, Spectrum for an Untouchable, was published in October 2016. She has performed and exhibited at Hummer Museum, MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego), Human Resources, LACA (Los Angeles Contemporary Archive), The Situation Room, Visitor Welcome Center, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), PØST, Mana Contemporary, and Wendy’s Subway, among others. She has been published by Los Angeles Review of Books’ Voluble Channel, Nonsensical, Ladyscumbag, Entropy Magazine, Graphite Journal, and notes on looking, with reviews by Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Bitch Media, KCET Artbound, and Fabrik Magazine. Yaniv holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Limited to 14 people

$5 - Reserve your place here

Each Sunday: drop by, browse the Sunday newspaper, and work on the crossword puzzle with us!

Complimentary coffee and snacks.

All are welcome!

Jessica Wang of PIQUE-NIQUE LA will be leading a hands-on pickle workshop!

Centered about watery ideas like osmosis and rehydration, brine and seaweed, participants will learn to make natural fermented pickles and come away with jars of their own.

Jess Wang is a Chinese American food entrepreneur who has spent the last seven years working in some of LA’s most creative and seasonally inspired kitchens. She is known locally for the blue cornmeal hand pies she creates for noted Filipino restaurant LASA. Jess frequently teaches workshops on fermentation, such as the recent LA Times Food Bowl event "Salt and Vinegar Party," hosted by LASA and co-taught by collaborator and friend Nico de Leon. She also contributes to the Chinatown quarterly ‘Wapow’, and is the founder of Pique-Nique, a seasonal hand pie and fermented pickle project that celebrates California’s vibrant produce palette.

Limited to 10 people

$25 - Reserve your place here!

Each Sunday: drop by, browse the Sunday newspapers, and work on the crosswords with us.

Complimentary coffee and brunchy treats.

All are welcome!

Have you ever been curious about energy work? Ever wanted to turn down the energy you get from other people? Wished for some practical ways to engage with energy in the everyday world?

This accessible workshop will teach you the casual basics of energy work: exercises in grounding yourself or your space, calling in energetic helpers, energy transmutation, downloading energetic information, and other useful tools to use on a daily basis. There will be Blue Vervain tea to help open your senses. No prior experience necessary.

The workshop will be led by Mina Beckman with assistance from Saewon Oh of Sunsong.

(bring a pen and paper for notes and/or any visioning in writing!)

Limited to 10 people

$10 - reserve your place!

Taking inspiration from the imaginative spaces in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, we continue our bi-monthly generative Writing Group.

The session will consist of creative writing exercises and an element of group work! No writing experience necessary, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture.

Each meeting will be led in partnership with artists and writers: this session will be led by Audrey Kim. We'll explore concepts of water through a series of experiential exercises from Kublai Khan's ancestry.

Please bring a notebook or paper and a pencil or pen to write with

Limited to 12 participants.

$5 - Reserve your place here

Audrey A. Kim is a writer, editor, and educator in Los Angeles. She is interested in bringing forth the perspectives of people who create and influence culture by rejecting traditional systems, expanding our definitions and practices of learning, and interrogating the role technology should play in our society.

Drop by, browse the Sunday newspapers, and work on the crosswords with us.

Complimentary coffee and brunchy treats.

All are welcome!

Join us for an evening reception and performance with artist Eliza Chaikin Kenan:

"Color Response and Exchange" is a performance using the 6 sided bricks as a starting point for a game of word association. The bricks act as a medium through which the differences between how we see ourselves and how others see us is made more obvious. The combination of colors I see as I hold the brick may trigger a personal memory that will then be impacted further by the person I'm standing across from. I may not be aware of what ideas or memories the same brick is imprinting on my partner, as they are seeing a different set of adjacent colors while watching me hold it. The words exchanged between us will be spontaneous, fluid, and both understandable and mysterious.

Merging traditional quilting techniques with spatial observations both intuited and learned from her work as an architect and art director, Kenan's fabric brick sculptures explore the tension between material and form while acting as a tactile tool for color theory.

American, b. 1977 in New York City, based in Los Angeles, California.

The performance will begin at 5:30.

Snacks by Kori Jones & drinks

All are welcome!

or: celebration and heritage of a lesbian bar

- a lilac journey of participation and communal investigation -

INVITATION :

Dear lezzies & friends,

it’s LILA-X-BASE, the last lesbian bar in LA writing to you.

You got this invitation on purpose. If you are interested in

staying open when it closes,
being part when you don’t know where to go,
getting asked when you don’t know the answer,

this is a heart warm invitation to celebrate my first and last night!
I will set up the room, provide drinks and you can hear me talk one last time. I want to show you my chocolate side, my hottest hits, and my beautiful wrinkles. I want to invite you to a last dance, a common farewell and the first dawn of my fortune.

Important notice: Please bring one thing that is indispensable to build a sense of community!
Besides this, feel free to come as you are.

I asked the German artist duo „the blue distance“, Anna Erdmann and Franziska Goralski, to help prepare this event. They will also release the brand new L.A. edition of their LILA-X-BASE memorial t-shirt - a visionary future space ad!

At the same time I am very thankful for the gorgeous support of „Cities of Days“ and the „June Mazer Lesbian Archives“.

Love!

See you soon!

LILA-X-BASE

P.S.: For the reason of saving our herstory we want to let you know that we will audio and video tape the event.

This performance will begin at 7:30

„the blue distance“ are Anna Erdmann and Franziska Goralski from Germany. They have been working together as an artistic duo for 2.5 years. In their artistic work they are interested in queer ways of living and learning, lesbian realities, (digital) feminist perspectives, how to share knowledge and what does visibility mean in hierarchical structures like the current political one. They explore the influence of role models as same as stereotypes on the construction of female* identity. Are female* role models relevant to find ones place in society? What could it mean not to repeat given categories? What is the relation between strength and visibility? Finding gaps and spotting light on underrepresented decisions is totally important for them.

Currently they are researching in Los Angeles about „Power of Place“ with a scholarship from the Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Bi-costal Triple Motion returns to Cities of Days for a special Water-inspired hand-cranked ice-cream! One last celebration of Summer before September — come participate in this hand-on experiment of flavors. Expect something unusual and delicious (seaweed?!).

All are welcome!

Oneself+ is a gender neutral brand devoted to creating beautiful basics, elevated through
sustainable, luxury fabrics, sensual silhouettes and an obsession with cut. They always consciously strive to be ethical, transparent, and philanthropic.

It’s exciting to host the official launch of a brand that is creating interesting, beautiful clothes that all can wear, one which straddles gender lines and offers a potentiality for a more fluid and inclusive future.

Please join us for this party and keep an eye on Oneself+ as they grow in the world.

They/Them Collins cocktails by folosophy featuring Soto Sake

All are welcome!

thinking about cities means thinking about water

this workshop offers a series of invitations that will have us tangle around waters...those that move inside us, those that flow outside us, the ones that move through and are us, the ones that refuse borders, that reveal different forms of direction, other kinds of memory, other ways to know...those that seep, leak, flow over, run through—the waters on which all cities depend. through a series of writing exercises and meditations, we will generate language around waters and move through, like water, different kinds of knowing and different forms of relating to the seas.

“Still, like water, I remember where I was before I was ‘straightened out.’”

—Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”

(please bring a notebook or paper and a pencil or pen to write with)

litia perta teaches at the university of california, irvine and lives in los angeles with her most challenging and loving teachers: a one-year-old child, a human partner, and a streetcat-foundling named luchalibre.

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Join us for for a listening party of Surfboard C's new album #TBOYF (Think Big Or You're Fucked). Listen to past work here. New merchandise, building off the previous pieces commenting on racial access to water and cultural appropriation, will be available for the first time.

Surfboard C (Cornell Sanaa) is a Songwriter and Graphic Designer based in Los Angeles.

His past clients include GOOD, Thought Catalog, Bravo (NBC), and Open Mike Eagle among others. Musically Inspired by vibrant artists like Pharrell, Beyoncé, and Missy Elliot, he's still managed to carve out his own sonic niche. Beneath the shiny veneer, Surfboard C’s songs are layered with themes of mental health, heartbreak, spirituality, and the politics of living in today’s world.

Learn about the ins and out of fermentation with Brittany Maddocks, a natural food chef and fermentation expert. She will be guiding us through the process of making a variety of fermented foods. Each participant will create and take home a custom pickled vegetable variety and a beet kvass. Brittany will guide us through the kombucha making process and provide a scoobie for participants to take home. We will end the afternoon with kombucha cocktails.

Kombucha cocktails served at 4

$30 per person

Book your spot here!

Go Light Projects is a question and a direction.

What does it mean to go lightly?

As human beings on the earth, in making things, in being alive in process.

A record label, a publishing house, a question, a gentle listening.

Join us for this launch party with sets from Jordan Wainer and Charlyne Yi!

Music at 8pm.

All are welcome: free!

We welcome Weird Sisters, a collection of designers, to Cities of Days this whole week from Thursday - Sunday 11-7pm! In addition to being a thoughtful and interesting addition to the space, there will be special events throughout.

Alterations:

Emphasizing the importance of sustainability, Jillian of 323 will be set up at the shop August 9 - 12 offering free alterations of 323 pieces purchased at Days, and $5 simple alterations on pieces brought from home. We ask that you bring 3 pieces max per person.

Poetry:

In collaboration with Go Light Projects, a book of poems will be created by individuals' response to a prompt at typewriter station in the back.

Weird Sisters is a collection of designers focused on producing goods that are both interesting and ethically made, creating a world that brings together thoughtful curation and sustainability. They will be launching this Fall with a 20 designer lineup merging select clothing, accessories, home goods, and apothecary products together on one platform in order to make it easier to fill your closet with items you're proud to own. Without adhering to a specific season, their volumes encourage shoppers to buy less often, with more love and less waste.

Taking inspiration from the imaginative spaces in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, we continue the bi-monthly generative Writing Group. Each meeting will be led in partnership with artists and writers: this week will be led by Soffi Stiassni.

“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once if I speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities I have already lost it, little by little.”

If we are divers trying to gaze upon our lost cities now sunken, we need equipment, oxygen tanks, lights, to protect and guide us. We’ll use essential oils to help us breathe below, to see in unlit depths, and, as we resurface on the other side of exploration, to reacclimatize above and to better share out stories.

The session will consist of creative writing exercises and an element of group work! No writing experience necessary, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture.

Writer, producer and artistic collaborator Soffi Stiassni manages the music project Sundaes. She has contributed poems to Night Gallery’s Night Papers and the Amanda+James American Gothic accompaniment book. Her most recent play No Place Like, a Downtown Reparatory Theater Company production, was staged at the Pico House in Los Angles with support from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Soffi graduated from Mount Holyoke College in with a B.A. in English Literature and attended the University of Iowa Young Writer’s Program. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

$5 - Limited to 12 participants.

Secure your place here

Join Girls at Library (GAL) for a celebration of women and literature with Feminist Library on Wheels (F.L.O.W.), and The Lev bookstore.

Come exchange books by women authors or featuring female protagonists with other interesting people, and build community and dialogue around literature. Your recommendations may get featured on GAL! GAL is an online journal that features engaging literary interviews with and book recommendations from remarkable, diverse women who share a passion for reading.

F.L.O.W. recently had their wheels stolen, so in addition to donating leftover books we will be collecting donations to help them replace their bike! FLOW is a node of the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, CA. A multimedia collection of feminist texts, artifacts and ephemera made available to as diverse an audience as possible, by bicycle.

The Lev currently needs your help to turn their pop-up bookstore into a long-term establishment! Come support The Lev who will also be selling our top feminist book picks! The Lev is is a community bookstore founded to build a community around women and books, and to promote women and people of color writers.

All are welcome: free!
RSVP appreciated

Compiling the feminist structures that have been built allows us to to better understand and engage with the city around us and see what we are missing.

Mapping Feminist Los Angeles is a collaborative research project currently building The Angelena Atlas, a digital platform that crowdsources intersectional feminist resources and spaces in LA County.

Join members Brittany Arceneaux and Leana Scott for an afternoon of conversation and a presentation on their process for building and imagining a virtual feminist "city center" as the MFLA group plans to roll out its beta launch this fall.

The talk will begin at 2pm.

All are welcome: free!

Join us for a day of inspiration, support, and products like natural skincare, underwear that celebrates the female form, hand-poured candles, thoughtfully designed swimwear, and sustainable clothing from Peet Rivko, Figs Underwear, Blackout Wax Candles, Bikyni, and of course Par en Par.

Refreshments provided by Health Ade.

All are welcome: free!

Taking inspiration from the imaginative spaces in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, we inaugurate a bi-monthly generative Writing Group.

The session will consist of creative writing exercises and an element of group work! No writing experience necessary, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture.

Each meeting will be led in partnership with artists and writers: the first meeting will be co-led by Amanda Joy.

Amanda Joy
b. Frankfurt, Germany
mfa UCLA
former co-organizer of somatic workshop CUNNT
disciple of the Laurie Weeks School for Vulnerable Little Tinies
a habit formed by bacteria
scorpions rising, moon in library

Space is limited to the first 12 sign-ups!

$5

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From a desire to bridge conscious awareness between urban and natural landscapes, Saewon has been creating an ever growing collection of local flower, stone and environmental essences made in the LA wilderness.

Essences are made from an alchemical process involving sunlight, ceremony and the receptive nature of water. When used therapeutically, these waters shift our emotional and energetic patterning in both subtle and dramatic ways. They remind us that our feelings, perspectives, and identities are mutable and boundless.

Saewon will offer one-on-one sessions to create custom blended formulas based on each individual’s specific needs. A session will include a guided plant meditation that will connect you to your formula and support the development of your intuitive inner guidance.

Accompanying Ikebana flower arrangements and kefir spritzes provided by Jennifer Miller.

Sessions offered on a first come first served basis!

$45

OTIS College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045

A microcosm of Cities of Days—objects, books, ephemera—will be at the second annual Otis Art Book Fair!

This is your chance to get a taste of Days on the West-Side!

All are welcome: free!

Celebrate the opening of Water!

Drinks, music, and an elemental experience from Girlfriends' Touch.

All are welcome: free!

With Water, Cities of Days moves beyond literal cities to focus on imagined ones, taking as inspiration the fictitious metropoles in Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) and the protofeminist utopian allegory of The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine de Pizan). Imagining how things can be and striving for that futurity, we embrace the symbolism of water for its mutable nature—that it can change both itself and the rocks it passes over.

For the next four months the store will feature a diverse group of independent designers, artists, architects, writers and artisans. With words, objects, art, apparel, and programming, we engage with these cities of the mind.

We move from the Rock to Water portions of Cities of Days—from the literal to imagined city; from City of Quartz (Mike Davis) to Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) and The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine de Pizan); from the physical cities to cities of the mind.

Continuing the weekly tradition, come read the New York and Los Angeles Times over a cup of coffee and snack. Clever with clues? Help us with the crossword!

All are welcome!

We gather every Sunday to read the New York and Los Angeles Times, discuss interesting articles, and collaborate to complete the crossword.

Join us for coffee, snacks, and community!

The first day of summer corresponds with owner Nora's birthday!

Stop by to celebrate the turning of the seasons!

Partnering with Girls at Library (GAL) and Lisa Cole, we are back with the next installment of the popular Food to Fiction dinner!

This version is based around the question—What is the LA story? We explore this through an evening of vegan food woven around the women whose stories shaped Los Angeles. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Charlotta Bass, Joan Didion to Janet Finch, Lisa See to Vanessa Place, we wander though the fictions of this place. No previous knowledge of the authors required!

One ticket includes a 3 course meal, cocktail by @folosophy, wine, and an interactive evening of fun!

Only 16 seats available! Buy yours HERE

We gather every Sunday to read the New York and Los Angeles Times, discuss interesting articles, and collaborate to complete the crossword.

Join us for coffee, snacks, and community!

2-5pm games, 5pm launch talk w/ drinks

Calling all chess enthusiasts!

Concurrent with the release of Foad Dizadji-Bahmani's limited edition Beton Brut Chess Set, we are having an afternoon of chess at Days, followed by a short presentation about the Beton Brut set with its historical artistic predecessors.

All skill levels welcome!

Foad Dizadji-Bahmani is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, California State University Los Angeles (CSULA), specializing in philosophy of physics and science. He completed his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2012. He is also an aspiring designer and chef (@folosophy). He is passionate about chess and is the advisor for the CSULA chess club.

Helen Poser is an artist based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Always working in series, her art is detailed; inspired by her Chuukese/Wisconsin heritage and life's tall tales. Currently she is putting her art onto fabric, sewing and marbling under the name NIFFICH. Marbling is an ancient craft of little control, continuous learning and great satisfaction. The process is floating paint on water, creating an organic design and picking up the pattern by gently laying fabric on top. Each piece is one-of-a-kind, full of color and movement.

We are wrapping up our discussion of City of Quartz by Mike Davis! We will cover the last chapter, the prologue from the 2006 edition, and any final thoughts about the whole text.

If you haven't been coming but have read the book, please join us for this last meeting!

We are excited to announce a Coffee Pop-Up in partnership with Lisa Tahk to raise awareness and funds for non-profit Akasa all weekend!

Coffee from Devoción, farm-to-cup roasters who maintain high standards of sustainability and provide the best ancestral varieties of coffee from Colombia.

Snacks by Triniti, a local coffeeshop and cafe with a focus on community, sustainability, and a commitment to their motto of zero waste.

Akasa provides a diversified wellness curriculum in partnership with public schools in low-income communities throughout Los Angeles. Students and families learn about the process of growing, harvesting, sourcing and cooking food and examine their own neighborhood food system to make informed choices about their overall health + wellness.

Join us Sunday afternoon to build a party hat in the shape of an iconic Los Angeles Building! Architect/designers behind Besler & Sons, LLC will lead this free workshop—stop in throughout the afternoon for the construction and as a bonus engage with their interdisciplinary practice. Materials and drinks provided.

You will come out with your own party hat!

Erin Besler and Ian Besler are cofounders of Besler & Sons, LLC, a Los Angeles based practice that works to expand the definition of architecture through active participation with amateur creators, construction trades, and design software. They work to create new audiences and opportunities for social engagement.

Come by every Sunday for a browse through the New York & Los Angeles Times, a cup of coffee, and some food!

We have been collectively finishing the crossword each week, but need all the help we can get—stop by!

All gender vintage military clothing pop-up with designer and stylist Elise Bader!

H.A.L.T. is an endless collection of vintage military pieces. Bringing the previously discarded new life. Join us for drinks and fun!

We gather to discuss the ideas presented in Chapter 6 of City of Quartz by Mike Davis: New Confessions.

We will be wrapping up the book in two weeks, so if you haven't been coming but would like to participate in the conversation, please join!

Join us for the ongoing reading of the Sunday New York and Los Angeles Times over coffee and toast. Crossword enthusiasts encouraged!

Are you interested in learning a new craft? Have a skill you'd like to share? Cities are places of information exchange. Join Mina Beckman (jewelry/bookbinding), Devon Nolte (weaving/tarot/tinctures), and Kyra Nolte (paralegal/Eviction Defense Network/LA Tenants Union), for an afternoon of skill sharing!

Bring your own knowledge, questions, something you've made, or a donation to the LA Tenants Union and meet other creative, skilled people!

All are welcome!

Every Sunday, drop by to read the LA & NY Times, drink some coffee, and contribute an answer to the crossword.

All are welcome!

Coinciding with the release of her new stone collection, Mina Beckman of Formina will be at Days this whole week, Thursday through Sunday 11-7.

Equipped with her mobile metal/jewelry tools and letter stamps, she is available to work with you to create a one-of-a-kind brass tag: for a keychain, a pet, or yourself!

Additionally, come with any jewelry-construction questions you might have, or for a consultation about a custom Formina piece.

Buy any Formina pieces in-store with a 10% discount this week!

Celebrate the miniature! Join us for a presentation and talk from designer Anther Kiley about Cardkits, his line of paper toy kits for adults and children, in-development. The collection is inspired by Anther's childhood "Fishworld," a miniature toy world continuously in construction and reconstruction between 1992 and around 2002.

Refreshments throughout, presentation at 7pm.

We gather to discuss the ideas presented in the Chapters 4 & 5 of City of Quartz by Mike Davis: Fortress LA & The Hammer and the Rock.

Click here if you would like to receive more detailed emails about the discussion group!

Every Sunday, drop by to read the LA & NY Times, drink some coffee, and contribute an answer to the crossword.

All are welcome!

Join artists Harry Gamboa Jr., Thomas Lawson, and Jeannene Przyblyski, designers Colin Frazer and Kate Johnston, and East of Borneo Books for a happy hour discussion of Some Place Chronicles.

Some Place Chronicles is a series of creative placemaking projects set in three unincorporated communities located in the Second District of Los Angeles County. Numerous and varied engagements with the people who live and work in these communities have culminated in three unique books—each containing explorations, documentation, and pragmatic and poetic testimonies of what has been and dreams of what might be—created by three different artists/collectives.

We continue to collectively read the NY and LA Times, comparing stories and design over coffee and toast. Last week we finished the LA Times Crossword: can we complete the NY Times this weekend?

All are welcome!

We gather to discuss the ideas presented in the Chapters 2 & 3 of City of Quartz by Mike Davis: Power Lines and Homegrown Revolution.

Click here if you would like to receive more detailed emails about the discussion group!

Join us for a cup of coffee, snack, and a read through the Sunday Times at our terrazzo bar.

All are welcome, sharing news is encouraged!

Come with a book, leave with a book!

We are pleased to join forces with GAL for a book swap! Girls At Library (GAL) is an online journal that features engaging literary interviews with and book recommendations from remarkable, diverse women who share a passion for reading.

Come exchange books that you like with other interesting people, and build community and dialogue around literature. Your recommendations may get featured on GAL! We are also accepting overflow book donations.

Co-hosted with Dana Covit, Leonora Epstein, Dhaujee Kelly, Audrey Kim, and Eliza Wexelman.

RSVP appreciated but not required! All are welcome!

Fashion Revolution aims to form a fashion industry that values people, the environment, creativity and profit in equal measure. To raise awareness about their Fashion Revolution Week #whomademyclothes campaign, and to support independent ethical clothing brands, we are teaming up with NY-based Wolcott Takemoto and LA's own Town Clothes for a soiree.

Join us for drinks and conversation with like-minded women in the industry, including Natasha Takemoto (Wolcott Takemoto), Krista Fox (Town Clothes), Lucinda Trask (Like Clothing), Kelsy Parkhouse (Carleen), and Dominica Peterson (consultant/CFDA sustainability directory). The event is being co-hosted by Virginia Calderón (@chicadeoro) and Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes / Beach House) is providing a music set.

Join us again this Sunday morning at our terrazzo bar for a leisurely browse through the LA & NY Times over coffee and toast.

Come help us with the crosswords!

Join us for the launch of Rebel City Los Angeles and a talk about Llano Guides!

In this talk spanning sociology, movement theory, and urban practices, Robby Herbst of the Llano Del Rio Collective will introduce their new Rebel City Los Angeles guide. He'll present the ideas behind the guide and share their vision for what the city can be.

Inspired by the 2015 movie Tangerine, the Spanish Municipalist Movement, and David Harvey's book Rebel Cities, the illustrated two sided guide helps users imagine the city from below, providing details of an infrastructure of people-centered institutions supporting human activities outside corporate dominion; from electricity, housing, education, medicine, and banking. The publication lists nearly 100 sites and includes essays by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and Robby Herbst. It is a part of the wider Rebel City Los Angeles project.

Rebel City Los Angeles guide is the 6th guide to Los Angeles created by the Llano Del Rio Collective. Previous guides include: Power Points, Utopias of So.Cal., An Antagonists Guide to the Assholes of L.A., Scores For the City, and A Map For Another L.A.

We can collectively make analog selections of what's worth reading.

All are welcome!

Click here if you would like to receive more detailed emails about the discussion group!

Artist Lia Lowenthal will be in-store for a talk about her jewelry and design company, LL, LLC. Her newest collection, The Sapient Owl, interprets systems of social organization—such as plans for public water supply, air traffic control manuals, medical billing systems—into physical forms, embodied in ancient metal alloys dating back to the pre-Columbian era.

These alloys were engineered for their specific sheen and sonic qualities, yet are no longer used for jewelry but are used for prototyping and as a conductive element in batteries. Through conveying these social systems in these alloys, LL, LLC collapses the past with the present to consider an alternative way to interact with the forces and history which shape our perspective and mobility.

Join us to hear about these structures that shape the idea of location and the process of making this collection in Taxco, Mexico while holding the finished pieces.

All are welcome: free!

Interested in the ideas generated by Cities of Days: Rock? Want to delve into City of Quartz? We will be meeting periodically over the next few months to discuss this text and related ones.

The preliminary meeting of our discussion group will be Sunday at 5pm. Drop by!

Click HERE to be involved in this or future meetings

Join us Saturday and Sunday of the opening weekend for concrete-inspired ice cream sandwiches made by Triple Motion, donations for which will go to CARE International and CHIRLA.

While supplies last!

Join us daily Thursday - Sunday during the opening weekend for Gray Russian cocktails thanks to Oatly and Our/ Los Angeles vodka.

Cities of Days begins by investigating literal cities and the structures surrounding us. Informed by City of Quartz (Mike Davis), we situate the current city as a location of its past.

Here are disparate materials coalescing into form, here is a polyglot city of prototypes and experimentation, here is Los Angeles as amalgamation.

In the first three months of our year-long arc, we consider this nexus of ideas through words, objects, art, and programming.

JOIN US FOR THE OPENING WEEKEND THURSDAY - SUNDAY:

We will be open Thursday - Sunday, 11-7pm. Instead of a single opening party, each day of this opening weekend we will serve vegan Gray Russian cocktails thanks to Oatly and Our/ Los Angeles vodka, and coffee will be available during the day. On Saturday and Sunday there will be concrete-inspired ice cream sandwiches made by Triple Motion, donations for which will go to CARE International and CHIRLA.

And finally—interested in the ideas mentioned above? Want to delve into City of Quartz? We will be meeting periodically over the next few months to discuss this text and related ones. The preliminary meeting of our discussion group will be Sunday at 5pm. Drop by! If you can't make it this time click here to be involved with future meetings.

This Saturday & Sunday, Desiree Klein will be hosting a moving sale with clothes, samples, and textiles from her collection!

She will be joined by others moving things—vintage and new clothes, objects, jewelry, apothecary, and more.

Join us for mimosas and hand-cranked sorbet!

The physical version of Days is currently on hiatus.

Sign up for our mailing list to stay up to date with what's happing next.

And browse the selection in our web store!

The Final Day of Falling Days!

Come by for some Persian Tea and snacks and to browse the selection—take 10% off on the last day of this iteration!

More to come in 2018...

Join artist Megan Whitmarsh and Tiny Industries on the winter solstice for an evening of introspection via a readings from a hand-embroidered tarot deck (one-of-a-kind, cards available for purchase) and mocktails.

All are welcome: free!

On one of the darkest nights of the year, an invitation from Sarah Manuwal of Medea/Medusa and Saewon Oh of Sun Song to pause, release, and return through an intentional herbal ceremony. Working with native plants, the ceremony will move through the idea of the snake and shed past selves with White Sage essence, set boundaries and create a "new skin" with Tree Tobacco, and bring in new energies with Elderflower—all with the help of a Mugwort vinegar.

Join us to explore these archetypal ideas and to reset for the Solar New Year. Each participant will receive a custom-made snake goblet as well as an essence from the ceremony for future use.

Come dive into the shadow self, release what is not serving you, and return with light.

Limited to 12 participants: $35

SOLD OUT email nora@days-la.com for the waitlist

Ticket includes participation in the ceremony, a handmade ceramic goblet, and a portion of the herbal essences used.

Taking as inspiration the same poem that Falling Days is based around—The Conference of the Birds—a 12th century epic Sufi poem by Farid ud-Din Attar, LOOK, TOUCH, TASTE, SWALLOW presents a seven-course Persian gastronomic experience.

To find the Simorgh, the mythical Persian bird, an allegorical journey is undertaken by the birds across seven valleys: Quest, Love, Understanding, Detachment, Unity, Astonishment, and Annihilation. The dinner will follow this course too.

Attar was also a druggist, composing poems at the family’s pharmacy, so expect mystical wonderment mixing with culinary chemistry.

Two evenings, 8 seats at each:
Sunday 17th December, 7:30 pm
Monday 18th December, 7:30pm

$85
Vegetarian

SOLD OUT

FULL MENU

Sweet Lemon Mashrube

QUEST

Shirazi Elixir

w/ feta & wet walnuts

LOVE

Jade Sangak

w/ kashke bademjan

Gose

KNOWLEDGE

Kuku Sabzi

w/ pickle aioli

DETACHMENT

Shirin Polo Ta-Chin

Cariñena

UNITY

Fesenjan, Ghormeh Sabzi, & Gameh Bademjan

w/ pollo

AMAZEMENT

Saffron Bastani

w/ pistachio

Coteaux du Layon Clos de la Motte

DEATH

Beh

w/ rose, cardamom cookie, & charcoal cream

Smoked Bergamot Cha-ii

Juliana Huang brings The Wax Apple to Falling Days for a celebration of Taiwanese goods, traditional craft and nostalgic everyday objects—complete with Taiwanese snacks!

Everyday items of elevated elegance like colorful woven market bags, bamboo brushes, aboriginal woven robes, Hinoki soap, and much more transport you to another place.

Growing up, Juliana's grandmother's driver would take the two of them to the countryside to visit various craft villages and communities. She was always fascinated with the craftsman's and their skills and dedication to their work. Wax Apple is all the things that are like a day with her Grandmother.

All are welcome: free

Are you a member of the Women's Center for Creative Work (WCCW)?

If so, come for the annual Holiday party, this year at Days!

There will be drinks, a White Elephant gift exchange, Face Trace with Jenn Witte, a performance by Girlfriends Touch, a mini FeM Synth Lab setup, and a 15% discount at Days LA for the night! We'll also be selling off the last few copies of our new book, A Feminist Organization's Handbook.

Not a member? Sign up to support this incredible organization HERE, and come to the party!

WCCW Members only — RSVP HERE

Join us for the release of a new book instigated by Litia Perta and designed by Shauna Steinbach. Writing Bodies is a constellation of art actions that generates questions, investigations, revelations, risks, fissures, sutures, ruptures, shifts, around the practices, the promises, the politics, of being bodies. The first actions took place at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City from 9 September to 10 October, 2015 and included works by Dylan Mira, Dean Daderko, Jess Arndt, EJ Hill, robbinschilds, Katherine Hubbard, Simone White, Michelle Boulé, and keyon gaskin. This book is the second action.

Drinks by Jess Arndt. Short discussion of the project begins at 6pm.

All are welcome: free

On select hikes through December, Hiking Club LA is inviting Los Angeles creatives to expand on themes contained within each valley of existence as we journey together by foot on our favorite trails in the Southland.

Hand In Hand w/ Agnes Bolt

Towsley Canyon
Distance: 5.3 miles
Elevation: 1,105 feet
Duration: Day Hike
10AM - 4:30PM

It seems that we are all in some form or another living in a transition these days. To most of us, this is uncomfortable, being in a state of unknowing, no longer feeling safe in the way we operated before but not being entirely sure how to proceed. It's present in politics, but perhaps also in our love lives, in our careers, our place in the world, where we should stand on certain issues...

David Wojnarowicz says "transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me.” The intention of this hike is to embrace that transition, to really work towards letting go of expectations, of control, of fear of the dark. To surrender without losing power. Everyone on the hike will receive a gift to help them along with this process.

Agnes Bolt is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of Institute for New Feeling and the curatorial project Blue Ruin but mainly she’s into making ceramics these days.

Space is limited: Sign up HERE

To commemorate Hiking Club LA's collaboration with Falling Days, we’re excited to launch a limited-edition run of artist designed bandanas available for purchase exclusively at Days. Hiking Club LA commissioned three styles from some of their favorite designing Angelenos: Map by Jean Guo, Clouds by Advanced Sunrise, and Hike LA by Kate O'Connor.

Join us with Hiking Club LA and designers for drinks and snacks to celebrate this collaboration! Get a bandana or all 3 while supplies last!

All are welcome: free!

Join Lenae Day for a festive celebration of the irreverent—an unveiling of cheeky videos for the DAYWEAR line, the new DAYWEAR jingle, and 20% off the collection in anticipation of other Holiday parties!

Expect their awesome wrap pants as well as a preview of new pieces: a jumpsuit, tote, shirt, baby pants, and dog scarf. Come buy clothes from this local maker!

All are welcome: free!

Are you curious about herbal remedies but don't know where to start? If you'd like all the essentials in one tidy package, Zizia Botanicals is debuting a new herbal first aid kit, filled with things like: Infection Fighting Tincture (Echinacea, Oregon Grape Root, Ginger), Wear 'N Tear Oil (Arnica, St. Johns Wort, oils, grain alcohol, essentail oil blend), and Desert Lavender Multipurpose Salve, among many others.

Learn herbal protocols for working with food poisoning, minor skin infections, sore throats, ankle sprains, panic attacks, bacterial/viral infections, minor cuts/scrapes, and digestive complaints. + much much more. You will walk away knowing how to make an activated charcoal poultice, how to properly take a variety of herbal remedies, how to dose appropriately these remedies for varying situations, and hopefully feel empowered to use this kit to support your general health.

Reserve a kit for yourself or a friend and attend this two hour class from Zizia Botanicals founder Abbe Findley—an artist, medical herbalist, medicine maker, wildcrafter, and botanist whose herbal practice in Los Angeles includes making handmade products, offering a sliding scale herb clinic in Cypress Park, a free monthly free herb clinic in Skid Row, and volunteering doing medical foot care in Skid Row every week.

Purchase your ticket HERE - $75

Includes an herbal first aid kit & 2 hour class

Gear to trade! Gear to buy! Gear to sell!

Seeing Trails Hike Gang are going to take over Days LA's sidewalk for the very first Seeing Trails swap meet!

Here's some of what to expect:

• Lots of used outdoor equipment for sale (camping, backpacking, biking, etc)
• Caricatures by Arthur Jones!
• MYOG (Make Your Own Gear) Master Chuck Miller will be there with some of his creations and to explain/workshop how to actually make your own backpacking equipment!
• Eli's Bees will bee there selling his raw coastal mountain honey and giving beekeeping advice to anyone interested.
• Our own Wilderness Eatery crew (chef Alina Hardin) will be there slinging gourmet snacks
• All Seeing Trails merchandise will be available at 20% off!
• Lots of vibes!

All are welcome: free!

Artist Christina Mesiti will be discussing her piece Walk Log—an ongoing walk/motion poem experienced by texting the word "WALK" to 323-744-8807.

Join us for a conversation on the practice of walking, the successes and failures of communication, time, motion, aimlessness, art and love.

Join us for a special Thanksgiving weekend pop-up! Buy old instead of new on Black Friday! We're offering a 10% discount if you'd like to get a jump-start on your Holiday shopping and support a small business!

And buy some new-old clothes for yourself from vintage clothes whizzes at A Glass Jar—think comfortably worn Levi's, the ideal boxy shirt, the perfect pieces to tie your wardrobe together. Come shop!

A four-part reading series organized with Meital Yaniv presenting original works from 26 artists and writers, creating vulnerability and strength while falling into the present: do you feel the siren, descends into chapter two.

Part 4 participants: Dylan Mira, Suzy Halajian, Edgar Fabian Frias, Shoghig Halajian, Julie Tolentino, Jheanelle Garriques, Carolina Caycedo

Join Days and Corrina Peipon of Pangaea Outdoor Supply for a Q & A with ICU nurse Lindsay Brant about her time in the Himalayas with Nomads Clinic, a Buddhist organization bringing medical support into very remote, high altitude regions. Come hear about her medical pilgrimage to provide healthcare to the Tibetan people in the remote region of Dolpo in Northern Nepal!

All are welcome to attend.

Formina jewelry designer will be in residence at Days—come hear about the design process, get a tarot reading and mini-massage! Order a custom piece! Receive a 15% discount on any Formina piece in-store!

Join GAL, Lisa Cole, and Days for the newest round of Food to Fiction!

Drawing on the rich tradition of literary translations (think Dostoyevsky, Ferrante, Murakami, the first woman to translate the Odessy) we are hosting an intimate 3 course vegan meal of translations complete with natural wine pairing. The night will be interactive, informative, and hopefully inspirational!

Tickets sell very quickly: don't wait on getting yours.

Limited to 16 seats: SOLD OUT. Email us for the waitlist.

A four-part reading series organized with Meital Yaniv presenting original works from 26 artists and writers, creating vulnerability and strength while falling into the present: do you feel the siren, descends into chapter two.

Part 3 participants: K. Bradford, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, Olga Koumoundouros, Charisse Pearlina Weston, Amanda Joy, Matt Savitsky, Sarah Bay Gachot

Come see the Spring Collections from these two powerhouse designers: they will both be here to help you try on and explain.

This is your chance to place a pre-order at wholesale prices!

A four-part reading series organized with Meital Yaniv presenting original works from 26 artists and writers, creating vulnerability and strength while falling into the present: do you feel the siren, descends into chapter two.

Part 2 participants: iris yirei hu, Ragen Moss, Luisa Martínez, Meg Whiteford, Farrah Karapetian

We are bringing the ping pong table from Summer Days for an evening! Now that the weather has cooled we find ourselves nostalgic for summer...

Come by for a game and a drink!

A four-part reading series organized with Meital Yaniv presenting original works from 26 artists and writers, creating vulnerability and strength while falling into the present: do you feel the siren, descends into chapter two.

Part one participants: Christy Roberts Berkowitz, Dorit Cypis, Meital Yaniv, Nora Beckman, D Hill, Kim Ye, Estelle Srivijittakar

do you feel the siren, reading series

Falling

Falling

It’s not this time, it’s both gone and happening in some distant future

Into unfamiliar waters

falling into my own death

Falling, and then finding your way

Falling, don’t catch me, stop chasing me, you can’t save me or be me, this valley is mine alone and I’m falling into you and I’m falling into me

You fall, I fall, we all dance into oblivion

Turning, upending aspects, cycling and tumbling

I’m writing this in summer knowing I’ll be hearing your words in the fall-ing to come, wearing another layer of protection, longing for the torching heat that belongs to other days, past days.

It’s not enough to be one thing anymore, show your complexities

Falling

Falling

Out of control, into being always falling away from the sound

Falling into a new place, falling into an empty space

What will be your final fall, my final beginning

Falling into the idea of one thing while really understanding the other

Falling

It’s not enough to have a solid idea, firm and unchangeable

It’s not enough to say that you’re one thing and I respond with another

I can't catch my breath and it's already too late

Falling into the journey

How many more times can you get up, rise up, restart

Please please me

Please let me know

Please let me go

Walking the dark valley shamefully looking for a source of light because mine has run dry and I don’t want to need you but the stars are hiding and the moon forgot to rise and now I need to find my own way back into other days, echoing days, falling days.

It’s not enough to be free

The yearning for, not against

Stepping on past adventures from lost souls that found amazement right before death and now the ghosts of time are here to tell me I’m failing at falling

Supplicants file in long lines through the dark, stopping for a moment at the waystation on their questing

It’s not a question but a snake of impossibility

And I try to explain that I am falling

Falling

Do you know how to find your way?

Falling

I’m not sure what it means

Part 2 of the journey inward with Matter and Ghost, who return to set up shop at Days with aura photography. Have your colors shifted since last month? Are the boundaries between spirit and corporeal bodies more transient close to Halloween? Come find out!

$20

Join Hiking Club LA for our next installment of the Waystation Trail Series:

On hikes from now through December, Hiking Club LA is inviting their favorite Los Angeles creatives to explore themes contained within the three valleys of existence Falling Days is traversing, as they journey by foot on their favorite trails in the Southland. Hiking Club LA has always been a respite and an incubator for community, creativity and new beginnings.

Sign up for the Hiking Club LA mailing list here

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25th
WAYSTATION TRAIL SERIES (QUEST TO COMMUNITY)
A Poetic Walk with Nikki Darling

featuring a To-Go Vegan Hiking Lunch by Lisa Cole

** RESCHEDULED & EXTENDED! **

Nikki Darling is a badass artist, just like you. Razz is her little companion gifted by the universe. You are invited to join Nikki and Raspberry Beret as they lead you on a poetic walk where each hiker is encouraged to be 'present' (please no phones or social media). Bring a small notebook, tape and colored pencils and pens. If you don't have pencils we can all share.

Lisa Cole (@hungryrightmeow) cooks delicious vegan meals. Her food is clever, colorful and always makes us smile. For this one-of-a-kind Waystation Trail, Lisa is preparing a special lunch for each hiker to carry along their journey. You don’t want to miss this!

Waterman Mountain Loop

Distance: 6.2 miles
Elevation: 1,225 feet
Duration: Day Hike
9AM - 5PM

The middle San Gabriels are always shockingly remote and this trail is no exception. Honestly: the hike is a subtle showstopper. There's something inherently cinematic about this mysterious loop through incense cedar, piles of boulders and an abandoned ski village. Wonder, decay and menace –– it’s like stepping into a Spielberg or Miyazaki film

• Reserve your spot with a $12 lunch ticket: HERE

With so much nature to explore around LA, there are multiple groups that gather to hike together.

Days is bringing together Hiking Club LA, Hiking Vikings, and Seeing Trails to discuss hiking philosophies, favorite trails, trade tips, and plan for the future.

Talk moderated by Corrina Peipon of Pangaea Outdoor Supply

Come hang out! Meet another hiker! Enjoy a beer!

$5 suggested donation per drink

Donations benefit the Mojave Desert Land Trust, protecting the Mojave Desert ecosystem and its scenic & cultural resource values.

www.mdlt.org

Come celebrate smart design! LA based designer Desiree Klein joins forces with NY brand House of 950 for a party.

Desiree Klein is launching her fall collection into the world—come be the first to get her coveted convertible pieces in new colors and fabrics: think fawn corduroy, bright yellow plaid wool, and rich, hiking green.

DESIGN GIVEAWAY: Eric of House of 950 will be offering a conceptual trade to those willing to participate. Clothes for a New Experience is a chance to dream of something new: bring an idea of a new experience you'd like to have, and Eric will choose the most compelling experiences to receive gift outfits!

Join Hiking Club LA for our second installment of the Waystation Trail Series:

On hikes from now through December, Hiking Club LA is inviting their favorite Los Angeles creatives to explore themes contained within the three valleys of existence Falling Days is traversing, as they journey by foot on their favorite trails in the Southland. Hiking Club LA has always been a respite and an incubator for community, creativity and new beginnings.

Sign up for the Hiking Club LA mailing list here

WAYSTATION TRAIL SERIES #2 (QUEST)
A Poetic Walk with Nikki Darling

Nikki Darling is a badass artist, just like you. Razz is her little companion gifted by the universe. She leads Nikki much like The Fool's faithful White Dog. You are invited to join Nikki and Raspberry Beret as they lead you on a poetic walk where each hiker is encouraged to be 'present' (please no phones or social media). Bring a small notebook, tape and colored pencils and pens. If you don't have pencils we can all share. 'There is no moment more important than the one you're in.'

Winston Peak & The Pacific Crest Trail
Distance: 5 miles
Elevation: 800 feet
Duration: Day Hike
9AM - 5PM

RSVP here

Join Days and Corrina Peipon of Pangaea Outdoor Supply for a Q & A with Courtney Cecale, an anthropologist studying climate change in the high mountains of Peru. An accomplished climber and mountaineer, Cecale documents her work and her travels in stunning photographs that have been published widely, including in National Geographic. We will discuss the joys and challenges of living and working in high alpine conditions in a foreign country.

A daily reading of The Conference of the Birds!

Stop by to listen and participate in reading the epic poem by Attar of Nishapur that inspired Falling Days.

Come by at 6:30 daily to listen and participate!

We are excited to announce our partnership with Hiking Club LA for a Waystation Trail Series:

On select hikes from now through December, Hiking Club LA is inviting their favorite Los Angeles creatives to explore themes contained within the three valleys of existence Falling Days is traversing, as they journey by foot on their favorite trails in the Southland. Hiking Club LA has always been a respite and an incubator for community, creativity and new beginnings.

Join them!

WAYSTATION TRAIL SERIES #1 (QUEST):

Making Art During Fascism with Beth Pickens

Bee Rock - Griffith Park
Distance: 3.8 miles
Elevation: 574 feet
Duration: Short Hike

After the 2016 election, arts consultant Beth Pickens responded to artists' fears and anxieties by producing a tool-kit pamphlet called Making Art During Fascism. You are invited to join us on the trail with Beth as we hike, listen, and share: support, resources, community-building, information, methods to enter movements, and ways to sustain both your activism and your practice. You will receive a free pamphlet with tips and self-assessment tools for continuing your practice during this administration. Bring a notebook and something to write with! Be ready to leave inspired and mobilized.

Space is limited: click below to sign up for the hike

RSVP

Join Matter and Ghost as they make the unseen seen through aura photography. Take a glimpse into your own color-coded biofeedback!

$20

In celebration of the Fall Equinox, Days is teaming up with Triple Motion for an ice cream/sorbet bonanza! We will be hand-cranking not one but two batches:

Charcoal and Chocolate Sorbet (yes vegan, yes delicious)

Whiskey and Honey Ice Cream.

Welcome one of our partners for the fall, Pangaea Outdoor Supply: a shop for gear and apparel with an eye on utility and aesthetics, offering a concise selection of technical kit and other functional items with a focus on backpacking and camping.

Owner Corrina Peipon will be here to give advice about backpacking gear (bring yours!), and talk about the philosophy and aesthetics of ultralight backpacking—including her inspiration by the ultralight backpacking philosophies of outdoorsfolk like Ray Jardine, the environmentalist politics of Stewart Brand and The Whole Earth Catalog, and the aesthetic ideologies of artists like Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Yvonne Rainer, and Robert Smithson!

Join us to hand-crank Oregon foraged huckleberry ice cream with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani, donations for CHIRLA.

Come launch Falling Days! Journey bites and trail mix by Lisa Cole and beer by Fort Point Beer Company. Donations will be accepted for CHIRLA — protecting immigrants rights is keeping space for journeys.

The sun sets on Summer Days!

Last chance to view, engage with, and purchase anything from the Summer Days offerings. We will be open 12-7pm with cool drinks, playlists from a variety of DJs, and an all-day Ping Pong Marathon.

Come celebrate!

Join us in merging style with purpose. Nicole Wilson is a collection blending the richness of African fabric and modern style. With each purchase, a portion of sales are sent to the HRI (Health Rights Initiative) organization in Uganda to assist with maintaining a LGBTQ Community center, running groups, providing health checkups, and being a safe space for all.

Dress well while knowing you're contributing to the success of your global LGBTQ family.

Get custom fit for a shirt from the collection, donate, and enjoy music, drinks, and light snacks!

Artists Pilar Gallego and Megan Whitmarsh come together in conversation about their work and shared engagement with consumer culture. They will be discussing their practices including their work, Garramone Knock-Offs, and Beachcomber Trash currently presented at Days.

Megan's work uses the visual noise of her youth as inspiration, making drawings, hand embroidered pieces, and soft sculptures about the detritus of the modern world.

Pilar's work is an interdisciplinary investigation of fashion and style through the lens of gender and psychoanalytic theory, prompting viewers to question their own engagement with commodity fetishism.

You are invited to participate in this discussion!

Ping Pong Parlor is fun! All skill levels welcome. Come hit a ball with us.

Join us for a conversation about the many facets of pools: subject, object, and signifier.

Talking Pools:

Aubrey Bauer, Jesse Hammer, & Joyce Ip, editors of POOL magazine

Norma Studios, creator of risograph print Pool project

AND contributors to Art Papers' special edition Pool Issue:

Pita & Bloom, design collaborative

Anna Hermann, architect

Laurel Broughton, WELCOMEPROJECTS studio

The publications and prints will be available for perusal and purchase.

Your participation in the conversation is welcome.

Come get sweaty with us! Get your table tennis game on, and have a cool beverage. Wednesdays and Sundays through July 23rd.

Come by for a game of table tennis! Join the Days team, have a drink, laugh. Wednesdays and Sundays.

Days is represented at this daylong design fair at OTIS College of Art and Design!

Author Michelle Tea has a new book, Modern Tarot, and will be at Days with a sampling of decks from her personal collection, giving readings and answering Tarot related questions in this salon-style event. Buy your own copy and get an opportunity to engage in a direct conversation with the author!

"While tarot has gone mainstream with a diverse range of tarot decks widely available, there has been no equally mainstream guide to the tarot—one that can be applied to any deck—until now. Infused with beloved iconoclastic author Michelle Tea’s unique insight, inviting pop sensibility, and wicked humor, Modern Tarot is a fascinating journey through the cards that teaches how to use this tradition to connect with our higher selves."

Stay refreshed during the event with morning rolls from vegan bakers Air + Day, along with iced tea and coffee.

Days hosts San Francisco-based Pali Swim founders Martha Duerr and Naomi Gassel in an evening celebrating the tropical.

LA-based Illustrator Vanessa Lilak will be co-hosting with a display of her prints.

Join us for drinks, a music experience by Girlfriends Touch, and great swimwear!

Join us for our bi-weekly Ping Pong Parlor Wednesdays and Sundays—drinks, games, good company!

Days partners with Girls at Library and Lisa Cole for Round 2 of the Food to Fiction Series. A vegan dinner with literary elements!

The Surrealist Edition will find us navigating some twisting territories, unsure footing, and a few bizarre juxtapositions.

A dinner ticket includes 3 vegan courses by Lisa Cole

A drink ticket gets you 3 paired drinks by Brandon Schwartzel

A portion of the proceeds will be going to GAL (girls at library) and their recently launched Kickstarter campaign! You can make more donations here: GAL Kickstarter Campaign

Ceramic installation by Nicola Vruwink

Come celebrate the turning of the seasons on June 22nd! It's summer! Owner Nora Beckman will be in-store ready to play cards, ping pong, drink champagne and eat cake!

Celebrate the first day of summer at this weekly edition of Ping Pong Parlor

Join us for this Father's Day Edition of Ping Pong Parlor!

Come for another round of Ping Pong!

Campari-orange drinks.

Ice cream bars and popsicles by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani raising money for CHIRLA:

Apricot ice cream w/ apricot preserves & dark chocolate ice cream bar

Strawberry ice cream w/ strawberry jam & white chocolate ice cream bar

Super Sour Lemon popsicle

Super Sour Lime popsicle

In town from Oaxaca by way of New York, TRUSS co-founders Elise Durbecq and Gillian Tozer will be hosting an evening celebrating Oaxaca at Days—come drink some mezcal and hear about their work with the artisanal and weaving communities within Oaxaca and Mexico at large.

Bonus: TRUSS will be gifting bags to prize winners!

Come have a friendly game on the Days table, with refreshments. Further dates tba, and also by request.

Summer Days opens June 2nd! Come and play with the next iteration of Days—

Opening Night: Friday, June 2nd, 6 - 9pm

Join us as we launch Summer Days with ice cream bars and popsicles from Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and cocktails

Opening Weekend: Saturday - Sunday, June 3rd - 4th, 12 - 7pm

Ping Pong Parlor from 5 - 7pm both days

Join Days for a special Color based dinner from NYC-based chef Diane Chang of Po Po's!

“Color”: eye-catching and pleasing colors reflect not only the natural color of the
ingredients (on top of good natural color and other elements such as good control of
heat), but also the blend of different ingredients. Good color presentation is another
marker of assessment. Beautiful color displays not only the natural beauty of the
ingredients but also of cooking techniques and skills. In addition, various ingredients have
harmonious color combinations. Color and smell are the indicators appealing to the
senses that basically decide the aesthetic value of a dish. The ideal is the natural color and
beauty of the ingredients.”

- The History of Food and Culture in China by Rongguang Zhao

藥食同源, 五色五味養生
Colors: 黑 ,赤(紅色), 青(藍綠色)白,黃

Food is medicine. Five colors, five flavors for your health.

$45

Course 1 - White
Sauteed fermented cabbage-daikon
White sesame- pickled enoki and lotus root.

Course 2 - Green
Very green scallion pancake.
Cucumber, avocado, Chinese green “salsa”

Course 3 - Red
Beet, cabbage, radish slaw with five-spiced strawberry vinaigrette

Course 4 - Yellow
Golden-crispy egg noodles with poached chicken and ginger-yellow chive oil

Course 5 - Black

Hoji-cha pudding, black sesame brittle, candied hijiki

16 Seats Available, purchase your ticket here

Last chance to shop the spring selection! Celebrate all that Vernal Days has offered with this closing party. Come have a spritz, eat some of Foad Dizadji-Bahmani's hand-cranked ice cream, and catch a surprise performance!

Iris Alonzo & Carolina Crespo are the founders behind EVERYBODY.WORLD, a clothing and lifestyle goods company that approaches design and manufacturing as a new frontier–conscious of Workers, Ecology and Ideas. They will be discussing the process behind their Trash Tee, the first 100% recycled cotton tee (produced in Los Angeles!) and taking orders for new custom-colors of their unisex Flightsuit.

Stop by for homemade vegetarian snacks, mezcal from Carolina’s mom’s village in Mexico, and fresh turmeric ginger lemon soda.

Come and meet the members of the Artemisia Cooperative, buy plants, build a terrarium, learn something new about plants, share an experience of your own, enjoy refreshments, and celebrate in the evening with food from Conjure Kitchen. Feel free to come to some or all of the following:

10am - 12pm Neighborhood Walk

Meet at Days at 10am for a guided walk through the neighborhood. We'll check out some "secret" stairs and see what flora is growing and blooming. Returning to the space by noon.

1 - 4pm Zine Workshop

Artemisia will facilitate a zine workshop centered around creatively recording our interactions with plants. Participants are invited to bring personal photographs and/or memories of their relationships with plants which will serve as the foundation of the zine project. Collaging supplies will be available for all to create a 1 to 2 page spread that visually captures interactions with and memories of plants past and plants present.

5 - 8pm Dinner with Conjure Kitchen and Music

NYC-based Conjure Kitchen will be offering food in LA for the first time! Come eat delicious food ($10 - $15 suggested donation), and hang out with the folks from Artemisia and get to know the co-op better.

Come learn about Alma Community Outreach and get a glimpse into a new art book project by Ashleigh Parsons, Dario Solari, and Sean Pierce. The book celebrates environmentalism and activism through text and photography compiling elements of land, community, and education.

The book will be out later this year, so this is a chance to get involved—a $30 donation reserves a copy, $60 will get you a copy with your name listed in the book!

Snacks by ALMA and garden-inspired cocktails sponsored by Loft + Bear.

Nicole Calhoun and Matt Orenstein will be playing selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins by Bartók on cello and double bass.

RSVP appreciated.

ACO (alma community outreach) is a 501(c)(3) providing a diversified Wellness Curriculum in partnership with public schools in low-income communities throughout Los Angeles.

Meital Yaniv organizes and presents a three-part reading series with original works from 16 artists and writers, sharing vulnerability and strength while mirroring the present.

Part three: Kim Ye, Tanya Rubbak, Johanna Breiding, Nora Beckman, Neha Choksi

GAL (girls at library) & Lisa Cole host a Noir themed dinner party: 3 chapters of vegan food & surprises paired with martinis. Join literary-minded folks for an evening of culinary plot twists and ingestible intrigue.

Limited to 16 participants. SOLD OUT

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Women Behind Bars Book Drive.

The Cocktails:

The Kiss: Pomegranate juice, Fresh Lime, Gin, Champagne, Pomegranate seed garnish

The Knife: Gin, Dry Vermouth, Olive Brine, Olive garnish

The Shadow: Vodka, Black Raspberry Liquer, Blue Curaçao, Lemon Twist Garnish, Dry Ice

The Food:

A KNOCK AT THE DOOR

Beet & cashew cheese tarrine served on pumpernickel cristini

Platter of snacks & fermented cashews cheese

HAVE YOU GOT THE GUTS TO STICK AROUND?

Zoodles w/ black tahini sauce & pops of red peppers

THE HIT MAN

Lacuma cashew strawberry and chocolate 'cheese'cake

Bi-coastal Triple Motion ice cream makers reunite at Days for a special secular Easter edition flavor! Join us for for some hand-cranked ice cream this Sunday.

Blood orange curd ice cream

Reimagining how dinner is served and how food is eaten, Foad Dizadji-Bahmani presents a series of increasingly complex dishes to navigate and share. Join us for a five course Italian-inspired dining adventure!

Limited to 8 participants. SOLD OUT.

Five Italian classics, reimagined:

prosciutto & melon (bacon and pistachio dust balloons burst over cantaloupes)

bruschetta (ciabatta w/ seven pestos)

calamari (slow braised squid and fried bread w/ bubbling broth)

lasagna (lamb and laurel ragu over a single 8 foot long sheet of pasta (true!) w/ bechamel and parmesan crisps)

tiramisu (suspended ristretto ice cream and mascarpone cream, crumbed Savoiardi)

Meital Yaniv organizes a three-part reading series with original works from 16 artists and writers, sharing vulnerability and strength while mirroring the present

Part two: David Bell, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Noelle Armstrong, Greg Luna, Jennifer Moon, Catherine Wagley

Join DESIREEKLEIN, Nancy Stella Soto, The Palatines, Pari Desai, and Vere Verto for a weekend sample sale and launch party.

Meital Yaniv organizes a three-part reading series with original works from 16 artists and writers, sharing vulnerability and strength while mirroring the present.

, do you feel the siren.

When you reach to the moon and your scream gets shattered into a million unspoken hopes. Do you look back, or do you look ahead. Do you dream in color? I do too, thank you for asking. I hold you in the street, your sign shadows me from the sun, can you imagine rising over and over again just for [the sake of] us. Constantly hiding from the moon to make the waves wash us clean. Swells of war, wash my blood, it is nasty, and it holds the names of all the warriors who died for the unborn. Protect everyone, I beg, we cry, I fly, we lay naked on the edge of your wall, drip, drip, drip, can you smell the red liquid pour. Recognizing enemies as family, aliens as allies, loved ones as shields. We show up, we wash up, we ride. Millions of people around the world just want to hold hands, imagine that. Your breath is the sorrow fragility we’ll overbuild with love. Can you make the bottom of my shattered glass overthrown the person acting like. Charge. Is a given rather than a quest. How many more will die, hide, climb, descend to the sky. Bury me with treasures or don’t bury me at all, cleaning the dirt from the distraction of your voice I will ask for a revolution everyone can see. Beyond the seas of lies and the lands of power there is a silent roar waiting to be unleashed. Me from the cage while sparkling my back with hits of joy, I can take it, I swear, just keep the extra sweat pouring from the cracks. Shake my head when I yell in your ear that vulnerability is our secret key. Digging wounded fingers looking for a shade of skin, cover me with warmth first and then suffocate the shedding tears. I will follow you anywhere I promised under a tree, the fire took you whole and your wish is my morning, rising with every decision to move a limb.

part one: Ali Kheradyar, Thinh Nguyen, Christine Cangelosi, laub, and Meital Yaniv

a creative exploration of the perception heightening properties of mugwort and wormwood teas served with flower-based snacks, participants receive a plant to take home

Saewon Oh (Sun Song) and Artemisia, A Worker-Owned Cooperative Nursery

Reconnecting with the city as habitat via a foraging walk for edible and medicinal local flora with Yara Zair and Sage Sherlock

Cilantro, dill, and parsley ice cream, hand-made and hand-cranked by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani

Shiso plant giveaway by Soyoung Shin

Days asks, how can we celebrate what’s good and magical while staying engaged in care and active in serious matters? The new iteration, Vernal Days, explores this question through a series of events and collections manifesting plants, words, and nourishment.

The opening party will feature:

Drinks and sounds by Girlfriends' Touch, A Feel the Magic Experience

Vegan snacks by Lisa Cole

Join us for churros and spiked Mexican hot chocolate!

Foad Dizadji-Bahmani cooks a dinner inspired by his recent trips to Mexico. Cocktail and five courses.

Space is limited to 15.

A portion of the proceeds will go to The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), and a donor has generously offered to double the money raised.

Menu:

K'atun mezcal, white sherry, grapefruit shrub

Bacalar Sopa de Camerones w/ patterned tortilla chips

Spiced Coconut Shrimp w/ mango & burnt habenero salsa

DzotibiCAL Pumpkin oil tamale w/ egg and salsa roja

Chard w/ crema fresca

Taco de Escamoles w/ achiote butter

Avocado Sorbet and Lime & Chili Meringues

A Persian feast by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Farideh Dizadji

Menu:

Sabzi Pollo Mahi

Pomegranate and Walnut Stew

Split Yellow Lentil and Persian Dried Lime Stew

Saffron and Rose-water Handcranked Ice Cream

An Indian-inspired communal meal by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani, raising money for the Downtown Women's Center.

Menu:

Popadom with mango chutney and lime pickle

Saag Paneer

Chana Masala

Coconut Potato Curry

Pilau Rice

Roti

A Tunisian-inspired family meal by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani, raising money for Standing Rock

Menu:

Tunisian-Style Vegetable Tagine

Herbed Cous-Cous

Fried Cauliflower with Tahini

Shakshuka with Eggs

Saffron Yogurt

A weekend of cocktails, hand-cranked ice cream, coffee, and conversation.