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Free Coffee, Pancakes and Music this weekend at H.D. Buttercup

H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, United States

Did someone say FREE Pancakes?

It’s the last weekend of H.D. Buttercup's Half Yearly Sale so they are bringing in Coffee + a Pancake pop-up stand to celebrate.  Coffee and a DJ spinning music will be set up inside the showroom. Pancake stand just outside the front door.

LAXART’s director Hamza Walker with Yusuf Hassan and Kwamé Sorrell of BlackMass Publishing at Arcana Books

Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA

Free
In collaboration with the University of California, Irvine and Arcana Books, we are excited to announce an in person discussion between LAXART's director Hamza Walker and Yusuf Hassan and Kwamé Sorrell of BlackMass Publishing. Their discussion will be held at Arcana Books on Saturday, January 28th at 4pm. 

War Time Graphics Poster Exhibition

Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United States

Free


Graphic arts were always one of the quickest forms of creative response to current social and political issues. War Time Graphics is an exhibition of war posters featuring anti-war 50 posters by contemporary Ukrainian artists. Organized by The 4th Block association and PosterTerritory. By appointment only.

Path of Resistance Charity Event

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
Support Ukraine! Path of Resistance is a pop-up exhibition and a silent auction featuring a selection of fine art pieces by contemporary Ukrainian artists that celebrate creative authenticity and share with the audience their vision of beauty, hope, freedom, and love.

Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

The inaugural Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium will bring together ranchers and farmers, designers, advocates, academics, and changemakers for a day of project presentations and networking. If you’re interested in regen ag and local fiber (or sheep and goat grazing for fire mitigation), please join us.

Book Signing for Family: The Source Family Scrapbook

Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA

Free
Join us for a very special Sunday afternoon presentation with authors Isis Aquarian, Jodi Wille, and Charlie Kitchings to celebrate the publication of Family: The Source Family Scrapbook. For the event the three will host an exhibition of rare photographs and printed materials from the Source Family Archive housed at the UC Santa Barbara Library's Special Research Collections, engage in a discussion about the Family and the book, and sign copies afterwards.

Material and Mind: An Author Talk with Chris Bardt

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Material Encounters in partnership with PLP So Cal is delighted to welcome Christopher Bardt, AIA, to discuss his recent book, Material and Mind in which he delves deeply into the interaction of mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and the process of making.

Small Infrastructures: Exhibition & Panel Discussion

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
Small Infrastructures is an exhibition of ADU designs that uses the economics of building assembly as the groundwork for experimentation and addresses how cities can work with architects to build quality, affordable housing under the American Jobs Plan. Ten architects teaching at Harvard GSD and Berkeley CED consider the overlaps between academia, where cost is often external to conceptual work, and practice, where budgeting is an integral task.

Seeding the City: Nature’s Story

Helms Bakery District 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Free
Join us on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM for a full day of playful visualizations to spark your (re)connection with nature.

Kohler Design Open House

Kohler Signature Store 3250 Helms Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Join Kohler Signature Store on April 28th and 29th for a complimentary private consultation on bathroom design.

Book Signing at Arcana with Ed Templeton for Wires Crossed

Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA

Free
Please join us Saturday, May 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with artist / photographer / skate legend – and all-around awesome human being – Ed Templeton! Hot off the presses, his latest is the years-in-the-works Wires Crossed, which documents nearly twenty years of life on the road with some of the most notable skaters of his generation.

A reception, lecture, and discussion with Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
Join renowned architect Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Phillips, Director of Cal Poly Metro Program, for an innovative discussion about Architecture and Design. O’Herlihy has built a robust portfolio of work rooted in embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. Enacting a powerful alliance of inventive designs with vigorous social ideals, O’Herlihy’s work prospers whether it is supportive affordable housing in South Los Angeles, working with grassroots neighborhood advocates in Detroit, or designing cultural institutions like Chapman University Dance School.

A reception, lecture, and discussion with Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi of JA Architecture Studio

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice led by Iranian-Canadian architect Nima Javidi and landscape designer Behnaz Assadi, combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. From small to medium sized buildings that confront detail-level building constraints to ambitious international competitions, the studio’s work tries to find meaningful tangencies between iconographic, geometrical and formal properties of architecture of different backgrounds and invests in inventing new architectural hybrids as responses to the diverse realities of 21st century cities.

Creative / Perspectives: Exhibit (02) Visual Contrast Studio

H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, United States

Join us Thursday, June 8th, for opening night of the second installment of Coco Republic’s newest art exhibition, featuring Los Angeles based art studio Visual Contrast as they display their custom collection at H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic.

L.A. GOAL and Helms Bakery District present Moving Together, an Inclusive Art Exhibit

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
L.A. GOAL, a non-profit organization committed to creating opportunities and equity for adults with developmental disabilities so they can live more fulfilling lives, presents Moving Together, an inclusive art exhibit exploring the theme of "movement" through various art forms.

Book Signing at Arcana with Jason Lee: CA | TX 17

Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA

Free
For the past fourteen years, artist, actor, and skateboarder Jason Lee has traversed America making quiet, reflective photographs detailing the landscape and its oft-overlooked and forgotten places. TX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing.