"I Like Peace" FREE party: music, art, food

Mandy Kahn (Eventbrite.com), Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Artist-in-Residence Mandy Kahn brings free live music and art in "I LIKE PEACE"

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Mandy Kahn (instagram.com) is the current PRS artist-in-residence presents live music, art, food, and a poetry installation that coordinates nine poets reading their peace-building works — in a continuous offering that moves through the buildings, grounds, and courtyards.

The decorated Los Angeles area poets — Brendan Constantine, Elena Karina Byrne, Lois P. Jones, Seven Dhar, Peggy Dobreer, Frankie Drayus, Nicelle Davis, Nancy Romero, and Eric Ernest Johnson — have authored 18 collections between them.

Musical guest Henry Wolfe, who’s been the musical guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and was named an artist to watch by the Los Angeles Times, will give a concert in the library.

• I Like Peace, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, 7:30 PM
• Philosophical Research Society (Hollywood)
• 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles (RSVP Free)

Mandy Kahn (girlatlibrary.com)

Scholar and writer Dr. Gustavo Turner, Ph.D. (Harvard, English literature), who re-catalogued a portion of the PRS’s collection, will present and discuss rare peace-focused volumes from Manly P. Hall’s library vaults.

Concert pianist Marina Pakowski, professor from the Conservatory Maurice Ravel in France, plays peace works by Ravel and Debussy.

Kahn explains, “The revolution of peace begins with the individual: with the tiny, private peace-building practices we choose to incorporate into our own lives.

Peace is right here right now.

“When we build peacefulness in the self, we become conduits of peace in the world. This series gives its guests — musicians, choreographers, filmmakers, writers — the chance to both share their work and to speak of the ways that they choose to build peace into their lives.” More

MANDY KAHN is included in The Best American Poetry 2018 and was featured in US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s newspaper column American Life in Poetry; interviewed by BBC Radio; read at Cambridge University; made pieces with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid; was librettist for Yuval Sharon’s opera Hopscotch; presented her immersive poems at the Getty Center.

Dharma Buddhist Meditation  (L.A., UCLA, Pasadena, Valley, Recovery Dharma)