UPCOMING
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
3:00 pm Venice Culture Salons with Gerry Fialka VHM, 228 Main Street, Venice 90291 Free Event Beginning in April 2024 and continuing monthly since, Venice-based curator, filmmaker, and interviewer Gerry Fialka hosts a series of Venice Culture Salons at VHM. These free, public events are billed as “live oral history,” where guests discuss varied topics on Venice’s past and present. Special guest speakers are invited to the Salons as well, to guide the interactive conversation. May's special guest is Patrick Liberty. |
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Friday, May 23, 2025
5:00–7:00 pm Fourth Fridays VHM, 228 Main Street, Venice 90291 Free Event The museum becomes a happy hour hub every fourth Friday of the month. Mingle among other locals and learn more about Venice's past with a guided tour through the museum collection. Beer and wine available. |
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
4:00–6:00 pm Opening Reception for Buried Years VHM, 228 Main Street, Venice 90291 Free Event Join us for the opening of Buried Years, presented at the Venice Heritage Museum by the Advanced Photography students at Venice Arts. In 2024–25, these students embarked on a special project, examining archival materials, visiting historical sites, conducting interviews, and creating artwork in response to the forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles during WWII. Blocks from the Venice Arts campus is the Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument, marking the historic departure point to the Manzanar internment camp in the Eastern Sierras. Our students followed the same route, traveled to Manzanar, stayed overnight, and photographed throughout the National Historic Site. The results of this twenty-four-week project are this exhibition and a zine—a creative effort to connect this history to contemporary civil liberty threats and the personal lives of the participating students. |