Events

On Saturday, April 4th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a doubleheader book signing with Thomas Campbell: SEEING FATIMA’S EYES and Ed Templeton: WAYWARD COGNITIONS. Seeing Fatima’s Eyes: Surf, Life, Stuff, Morocco is a new photographic essay on surfing and life in Morocco by the self-taught painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell. Wayward […]

Join us on Thursday, April 9th from 6:30 – 9:00pm as we team up with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design to bring you a reception, lecture and discussion with Marcelyn Gow, partner and founding member of Servo Los Angeles, a design collaborative invested in the development of architectural environments integrating synthetic ecologies with shifting […]

On Wednesday, April 15th from 6:00 – 8:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing in celebration of William Hackman’s Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties. Out of Sight chronicles the rapid-fire rise, fall, and rebirth of the L.A. Art scene – from the emergence of a small bohemian community in […]

On Thursday, April 23rd at 6:00 pm, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA, Los Angeles to bring you you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives. Join us for a tour of our newest showroom Danish furniture company Carl Hansen & Son, enjoy […]

On Thursday, May 7th from 6:30 – 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Erick Carcamo from X/A (X Atelier) for a reception, lecture and discussion. Mr. Carcamo is Principal and co-founder of X/A, an internationally based and recognized design firm whose intentions and processes deviate toward the extreme conditions of innovation and the pure coherence of invention. Introduced and moderated […]

On Sunday, May 10th from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a double book signing of Dennis McGrath’s Heaven and Deanna Templeton’s They Should Never Touch The Ground. Round out your Mother’s Day celebrating with a lemonade or beer to toast these two authors. 8675 Washington Boulevard Culver City 310.458.1499

Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects

On Thursday, May 14th from 6:30 - 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Stanley Saitowtiz, partner, principal and founding member of San Francisco based firm, Natoma Architects. Saitowitz produces architecture as an un-programmed and indeterminate blank slate, which is highly refined and evolved.

Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Erin Besler of Besler & Sons

On Thursday, May 21st from 6:30 - 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Erin Besler, co-founder and principal of the Los Angeles based design collective, Besler & Sons. Holding both a B.A. from Yale University and a M.A. of Architecture with Distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Besler is a faculty member in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, where she was the 2013-2014 Teaching Fellow.