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Fail Better Story Time
Wed, Aug 19, 2:00 AMOn **Tuesday, August 18** Fail Better Arts presents Fail Better Story Time, a storytelling-workshop-show for new and seasoned storytellers at Studious Space in LA. 7(ish) mins to work out any mess-in-progress you may have. Notes are welcomed. Our audience offers optional supportive feedback according to the needs of each storyteller. Hosted by our Managing Director and Moth Storytelling Instructor Christopher Moncayo-Torres. Our resources are designated for BIPOC. Allies are still welcome to submit. **Want to tell a story? [Fill out our submission form.](https://forms.gle/WghokBnDnNiWDC636)** **Admission: $10**

Literary Open Mic
Tue, Sep 1, 2:00 AMBring a five-minute (maximum) original reading to share with a community of writers. Or just come drink beer and soak in the poetry, short stories, songs, monologues, and more! It's free to attend and free to read. Check out our [merch](https://noholitmic.threadless.com/)! **Please note that the only way to reserve a spot to read is to follow this link to our [sign-up form](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYc12KZ9c_P_6jbylgF1R1ER03S35XghUYgCR52Irf8/edit?tab=t.0) (or copy and paste the link below).** RSVPing on MeetUp doesn't guarantee you a spot! If you'd like to come listen without reading, you are very welcome to, and you do not need to sign up or RSVP. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYc12KZ9c_P_6jbylgF1R1ER03S35XghUYgCR52Irf8/edit?tab=t.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYc12KZ9c_P_6jbylgF1R1ER03S35XghUYgCR52Irf8/edit?tab=t.0)

Shut Up and Write - Los Feliz Writers Festival Closing Party!
Sun, Aug 23, 10:00 PMWe are partnering with PorchFest! Come and listen to music and write!!! There is no wifi and seating is picnic style! Bring your journal, hangout, and write while enjoying local musicians! This event will be hosted by Los Feliz Writers Festival in partnership with PorchFest LA - East as the closing party and open mic! They'll be music, they'll be an open mic, they'll be writing! These are the details from PorchFest LA! Free Family friendly LIVE music & entertainment every Sunday from 3 to 6pm at the Vermont Triangle on the Corner of Vermont and Hollywood A new summer FREE LIVE PEROFRMANCE series from the organizers of Porchfest LA. -Every Sunday in May, June, July and August, visit the Vermont Triangle in Los Feliz for “Sundays Before Sunset” featuring free family-friendly entertainment 3-6pm! “The idea for Sundays Before Sunset developed from a desire to reimagine the triangle of land bordered by Vermont, Prospect and Hollywood—which has had a polarizing identity—into a central gathering place, where neighbors and visitors can meet and spend time enjoying art in-person with one another” -Brian Morrison, Co-Chair, Los Feliz Neighborhood Council Cultural Affairs Committee Sunday Before Sunset is a new summer event series devised By LFNC Cultural affairs co-chair Brian Morrison, and produced by Hélène Udy for [www.PorchfestLA.com](http://www.porchfestla.com/ "http://www.porchfestla.com/"), where artists of all kinds are taking the stage every Sunday, inside Vermont Triangle, at the corner of Vermont and Hollywood, to offer their talents to the community, for Free. “Events like Sundays Before Sunset show how arts and cultural programming can help transform public spaces into welcoming community gathering places. We're excited to see free performances and family-friendly programming activate the Vermont Triangle this summer for Los Feliz residents and visitors alike!” — Councilmember Nithya Raman Quote from Nythia Ramen: “There is no greater joy for us than to make performance and art available to a community, and watch it grow through gathering, participation and momentum, to the point where it has such a life of it's own, PorchfestLA is no longer needed. That is the goal. ” Hélène Udy Porchfest LA has already signed up performers through June, and we are offering supported Sunday Production opportunities to any seasoned producing talent that wants to take the mantle for a Sunday or two. The potential of this space to gain recognition as a safe, family friendly place to spend any given Sunday, thereby contributing to the making of community, at a time were it is most needed is invaluable. LINK TO SIGN UP TO HOST OR PRODUCE A SUNDAY HERE: [https://forms.gle/xN1VtnuiEEmMTMJy7](https://forms.gle/xN1VtnuiEEmMTMJy7 "https://forms.gle/xN1VtnuiEEmMTMJy7") LINK TO SIGN UP TO PERFORM O A SUNDAY IN JULY AND AUGUST HERE: [https://forms.gle/JFNVXqMeY1yFxiKv7](https://forms.gle/JFNVXqMeY1yFxiKv7 "https://forms.gle/JFNVXqMeY1yFxiKv7")

Screenwriting Tribe 7-9 p.m. Aug. 16th
Mon, Aug 17, 2:00 AM**FIRST WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS FREE.** Bring a friend. **After 1st visit: Donation only.** Collected during workshop. QR codes to Venmo and PayPal provided, Or cash. The aim is to cover the expenses of the workshop. It's not set up to be a money-making venture. **TO WORKSHOP PAGES** OF YOUR SCREENPLAY: YOU 👉MUST👈🏼 HAVE AN RSVP 👉AND👈🏼 WRITE "PAGES" AS A COMMENT HERE ON THIS EVENT PAGE. Read details below... We meet in the community room of the HULU building/Colorado Center, **2500 Broadway, Santa Monica** CA 90404. **First floor.** **Short walkway to glass door right near street (by "HULU" sign next to sidewalk)**. **• Tribe consists of writers and some actors helping writers to sharpen their screenplays, and their skills in the craft.** • A diversity of ages, life experiences, and voices, are helpful to have in the workshop. Ages 16 and over. • Maintain your RSVP status. If you RSVP, but can't attend: • Please, cancel your RSVP ASAP. You do so on this MeetUp page. It prevents writers from spending money to make copies of their script pages for you. • To sign up for having your script pages read by and get feedback from the group: • First RSVP to sign up for pages. • If you sign up for pages, and change your mind: DELETE your pages comment AND leave a post "Canceling pages." This gives another writer time to prepare pages. **• Canceling pages does not cancel your RSVP.** If you ARE NOT going to attend, please: ALSO cancel your RSVP. **• Sign up for pages: A, B, C, D...** A • **Know you need to bring sets of pages for those who attend so they can both read and write notes on them.** B • **Get the books:** 1. **Screenplay Repair Manual** by Daniel John Carey 2. **The Screenwriter's Bible** by David Trottier 3. **Dr. Format Tells All** by David Trottier C • **Have an RSVP** D • **Be one of the first 4 to sign up for pages.** **• We workshop feature and short film screenplays, and episodic, anthology, limited/mini series, serial series, and single cam sitcom screenplays, and also multi-cam sitcom scripts.** (We previously didn't workshop multi-cam scripts. Writers may want to consider that multi-cam sitcoms are not as popular as they were ten or more years ago. This makes getting a sitcom produced even less likely - unless you are an established sit-com writer, or an established stand-up comic. But maybe you will be the person who is successful in getting a new sitcom produced.) **• WE DO NOT WORKSHOP SOAP OPERA, MUSICAL, NC-17, OR X SCRIPTS.** **• Please format scripts in industry-standard 12 point Courier font**. **• Take one script through the workshop at a time from the first page to "The End."** **• Own the material in the script.** No plagiarism. The script has to be something you can copyright. (No lyrics, poetry, book excerpts, life stories, or other material to which you do not own the rights. For instance: don't use Beatles song lyrics in your script.) **• The workshop is as good as the participants make it.** **Aim to write engaging scripts with broad market, investor & distributor appeal, and that may advance the careers of actors, directors, DPs, editors, and you.** **👉A screenplay is an investment proposal for film financiers.👈🏼** **To sign up for pages: 1, 2, 3.** 1. **RSVP.** 2. **After RSVPing, type “pages” in the comments section.** **Bring enough copies of your script pages for everyone who has RSVPd.** (Closest Staples copy center location is on Bundy just north of Olympic open to 6 p.m. You can print from your laptop - the attendant can tell you how. Make sure the copy machine is set to black and white, and NOT color - so you aren't paying three times as much for color copies when all you need is B&W. You can also ask the attendant to make sure it is the thinner paper, and not the heavier paper that costs more). Also, print double sided copies to save $ and paper. **We write feedback directly on the pages, and also give verbal feedback.** **Be prepared to assign your character dialogue to be read out loud by various people in attendance, and assign one person to be the narrator of the scene headings and description.** **We give verbal feedback after each set of pages.** **As a writer receives feedback, they are to be silent, even if asked questions. Listen. Take notes.** Feedback you consider "wrong" could instead be helpful in giving you some excellent ideas. Welcome it. Even if you then do the direct opposite in your script revision. **Sometimes attend when your pages aren't being read.** This will build your skills in unexpected ways. Participate in helping other writers with their scripts. **👉Please stay for the entire workshop.👈🏼** **If you are not of the first 4 signing up for pages,** you can type **"backup pages"** as a comment – in case anyone cancels pages. **After you workshop 13 pages** (or the entire episode of a multi-cam) – **before you bring in the next pages – READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT to give it a wave of polish.** **If you only have a few pages remaining unworkshopped,** still bring in 13 pages of the script = the remaining pages + pages before it = re-workshopping some of the previous pages. **Each script is the intellectual property of the writer.** **“If you’re not early, you’re late.”** – John Ritter

Photography Exhibition, Book Launch & Creative Evening
Thu, Sep 3, 1:00 AMJoin us on September 2 from 6–10 PM in Glendale for a photography exhibition, book launch, wine, light bites, and an evening of creativity and connection. Explore 50 photographs across four collections: sunsets, ocean, black and white, and travel, and celebrate the launch of my first book, “I Found My Ikigai. It’s Photography. What’s Yours?”. The book combines photography with short reflections on fear, confidence, change, and finding the courage to begin. There will also be a Letter to Your Future Self corner and space to connect with local creatives and new people. Whether you’re a photographer, writer, artist, or simply looking for inspiration and community, you’re welcome here. Admission is free. Please RSVP so we can prepare enough wine, bites, and space for everyone. See you on September 2!

Inaugural Community Brunch
Sun, Aug 16, 8:00 PMA gathering for artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, actors, and anyone who believes human creativity should never have been automated in the first place. Right now, artists in every discipline are navigating enormous changes fueled by Generative AI. Questions around consent and ownership are everywhere and many are wondering what it means to sustain a creative career. Join fellow artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, and creative workers for a relaxed afternoon of good food and community. Whether you’ve been organizing around generative AI for years or you’re simply trying to make sense of what’s happening, you’ll find a welcoming space to share your frustrations and wins with others who care deeply about protecting human creativity. Be ready to discuss what you’re making, what’s challenging you, or how this community can support you.
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