This Weekend's Big Read Events!

Saturday, October 10

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Jeffers in the Ethnobotanical Garden opening
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Engage with Jeffers poetry while walking through the Ethnobotanical Garden. Poetry chosen and placed in the garden by the girls of Girl Scout Troop 235.

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Tongva Tiat Sculpture Dedication
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065
The dedication of a sculpture donated to the museum by the Southwest Museum Docent Council will be highlighted by readings of Jeffers poetry. The sculpture, installed in the patio at the museum entrance, is a steel model of the Tiat, the traditional plank canoe with which the Tongva/Gabrielino peoples plied the waters between the mainland and the Channel Islands. The sculpture is the work of local artist, Gerardo Hacer, who creates what he calls “steel origami”. Light refreshments will be served.

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Poetry Reading by Los Angeles Poetry Festival
El Alisal / Lummis House
200 East Avenue 43, Los Angeles, CA 90031
"The Deer Lay Down Their Bones:” Poems by and in the spirit of Robinson Jeffers. California poets will read Jeffers’ poetry and their own responses. Led by Suzanne Lummis of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and featuring Charles Harper Webb, Cecilia Woloch, actress Dale Raoul (True Blood) reading the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, and special guest poet Jamie Asae FitzGerald. Presented by the Historical Society of Southern California.