Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead
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We’ve listed select home and garden events below. Suggest your own via reader comments. Submissions must be fewer than 50 words and must be for one-time events with legitimate value to other readers. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. L.A. at Home staff will determine which submissions will be made public, but we will not be editing the postings.
Oct. 26: Frances Anderton moderates a discussion between architects Elena Manferdini, designer and principal of Atelier Manferdini, and Greg Lynn, designer and principal of Greg Lynn FORM, in conjunction with the exhibition “From the Spoon to the City: Objects by Architects from LACMA’s Collection.” 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Decorative Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. $15 to $20. Brown Auditorium, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Bvd. Los Angeles. (323) 857-6528 or e-mail decartscouncil@lacma.org.
Oct. 26: Jo Ann Carey leads this class on square-foot gardening, a way of planting vegetables and flowers in one foot sections. 9 a.m. to noon. $22 to $25. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Registration: (626) 821-4623.
Oct. 29: The Thursday Garden Talks With Lili Singer series continues with “Easy Gardening With Native Plants With Barbara Eisenstein.” 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. $20. Registration: (626) 821-4623.
Oct. 30: Designers Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams will sign their new book, “The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less,” at their Los Angeles showroom. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. 7960 3rd St., Los Angeles. (323) 651-0200.
Oct. 31: The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden hosts nature-related art and craft projects, storytelling, games, music and face painting in honor of Halloween. Surprises for children 10 and younger dressed in costume. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. $10 per child plus regular arboretum admission of $3 to $8. 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. (626) 821-3222.
Continuing: Orange County and Los Angeles designers will be featured in Casa California, a design house presented by California Homes Magazine and benefiting the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. Public tours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, through Nov. 8. Extended hours to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. $35. Free parking with complimentary shuttle service from the upper lot of Quail Hill Community Park, 35 Shady Canyon Drive (entrance off Interstate 405 at Shady Canyon exit). For tickets and Information: (714) 840-7542.
Spider Pavilion: Visitors can get up close with non-venomous spiders in this outdoor, walk-through exhibit on the Natural History Museum’s South Lawn. Reservations are required. Tickets are sold in half-hour intervals throughout the day. $1 to $3. Through Nov. 8. 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. (213) 763-DINO.
— Lisa Boone
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