Open- Tuesday, February 17 to March 21
Reception – Friday, February 27 (6-9pm)
Special Events
SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel
Join us for an evening of SMC student films and a lively panel discussion on creative activism with producers, directors, actors, and journalists. The panel will be led by Kathy Eldon, Director of the Creative Visions Foundation (www.creativevisions.org) and mother of photojournalist Dan Eldon, killed while covering the conflict in Mogadishu. An award will be presented for the best student film. Dan Eldon’s journals and photographs are on exhibit through March 21 at the adjacent SMC Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery. Art gallery will be open before the film festival.
Fri, March 13 • 7pm=2 0 • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center
Barrett Art Gallery
SMC’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery is located at the SMC Performing Arts Center (Santa Monica Blvd. & 11th St., Santa Monica). For information and gallery hours, please call (310) 434-3434 or (310) 434-8204, or visit our gallery website (www.smcbarrettgallery.com). Exhibits and opening receptions are free.
Dan Eldon: Traveling Exhibit
Tues, February 17 – Sat, March 21
Join us for an exhibit of remarkable travel journals and images of war and peace photographed by journalist Dan Eldon, who celebrated his life and death at 22 as a creative activist and whose art became a means of positive social change. Opening reception on Friday, February 27, from 6 pm to 9 pm. A film festival and panel discussion with producers, directors, actors, and journalists on creative activism will also be held. Please see the SMC Stu dent Creative Activist Film Festival listing in Special Events for details.
SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel (See listing in Special Events for details)
Fri, March 13 • 7pm • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center
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BBC Piece on Dan Eldon’s Manhattan Exhibition
BBC world produced this piece the second week of Dan’s images and art at their permanent home in NYC’s SoHo at the Candela/Decker Gallery.
Dan Eldon: The Art of Life
