Community Corner

Five Things You Need to Know, June 6

Learn about the upcoming 405 closure, attend a Brentwood Community Council meeting, or take a writing class at the Skirball Center,

1. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — in conjunction with Metro and Caltrans officials, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, and Los Angeles County Supervisors Don Knabe and Zev Yaroslavsky — will advise the public of ways to avoid the 405 Freeway July 16-17. The freeway will be closed for 53-hours for the demolition of the Mulholland Bridge. The mayor’s conference begins at 9 a.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center’s top-level parking lot at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.

2. The Brentwood Community Council will host a meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Donald Bruce Kaufman-Brentwood Branch Library at 11820 San Vicente Boulevard.

3. The Getty Center offers a sketching gallery for would-be artists to sketch paintings by the masters. The gallery features six original oil paintings from the Museum’s collection, including Adriaen de Vries' dynamic Juggling Man. Anyone can drop by the sketching gallery whenever the museum is open. The gallery is located in the East Pavilion, second floor. The Getty is at 1200 Getty Center Dr. Visit http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/index.html for museum operating hours.

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4. Registration has opened for the Skirball Cultural Center’s summer writing workshop. Offered in partnership with Otis College of Art and Design, the eight-session workshop will focus on how to transform personal experiences into an essay, short story, novella, or chapters of a memoir or novel. The workshop is $385 for non-credit, $419 for certificate credit and $1,075 for one unit of college credit. To register, call the Otis College of Art and Design at 310-665-6950. The workshop begins June 9.

5. Brentwood Patch is looking for local bloggers to share their voices on our site. Do you have something to say? Are you passionate and knowledgeable about Brentwood? Do you like to write? Then this could be for you. For more information, contact Patch Regional Editor Diana Swartz at diana.swartz@patch.com.

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Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story mistakenly stated the date of the Brentwood Community Council meeting as Monday. The meeting is Tuesday.


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