Event co-hosted by the City of West Hollywood and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), WHAP! is a new lecture series ranging from critical and political theory to film screenings and conversations about art and architecture. WHAP! (which stands for West Hollywood Arts and Politics) is a year-long lecture series at the West Hollywood Library. This event continues the MA Aesthetics and Politics program’s ongoing investigation of literature’s relation to the political with a workshop and an evening reading. MA Aesthetics and Politics faculty Douglas Kearney and MFA Creative Writing faculty Janet Sarbanes read from their work in poetry and fiction. Admission is free. Validated parking available in the 5-story West Hollywood Park Parking Garage. For further information and a full schedule of lectures, please visit http://aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu/lecture-series/whap
or call (323) 848-6460. TTY for the deaf and hard of hearing at (323) 848-6496.