Craft and Folk Art Museum’s award-winning shop holds a two day trunk show. The show features four nationally hailed artists, Chris Triola, Randall Darwall (see image right), Valerie Hector  and Terri Logan.

A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit Craft and Folk Art Museum.

JAUS presents “White Soup & Weighty Air”  a group show curated and organized by Alevé Mei Loh.

Artists include: Daniel Aksten, Reed Barrow, Michelle Carla Handel, Alevé Mei Loh, Georgie Mattingly, Sherry McLane, Mark Power, Julia Schwartz, Dani Tull, Malte Wagenfeld, Peter Wu.

Or get your groove on by the beach…..It will be a gorgeous day today, so I can guarantee the Venice Boardwalk will be busy tonight….

I will be popping in to sing a few tunes with these guys (from 6-6:30pm)….they rock.

A wonderful band, that performs classic country rock. Greg Cruz is the ultimate Johnny Cash.

First Fridays on Abbot Kinney takes place tonight…

Most of the stores will be open late. Yes it’s slowed down quite a bit….except for those food trucks….so go at your own discretion….but here’s an event that is happening for sure.

Mystic Journey Bookstore hosts an artist reception for Bruce Harman: “Transcendent Images to Evoke your Spirited Self”

What: Book Signing, Meet & Greet, Q & A
Where: Mystic Journey Bookstore, 1319 Abbott Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
When: 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm
Website: http://www.mysticjourneybookstore.com

Or in Culver City….

Enjoy a live show with TopTune, The Songwriters Game.

Grab six songwriters, give them a title and a premise for a new song, seventeen minutes offstage with a rhyming dictionary.

They will be judged by a celebrity commentator/judge panel, a house band, and a heckler, TopTune is a musical circus and variety show.

What: Performance
Where: fanaticSalon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd., corner of Venice Blvd., Culver City.
When: 8:00 pm
Phone: 310 622 2046
Website: http://www.facebook.com/toptuneshow/photos_