Days

Opening Sunday, March 17th ICA Days

If you were waiting for the final weekend to visit Days in Los Feliz, THIS IS IT! We have 3 more days, 2 more parties, and 1 more weekend to go! This has been a yearlong investigation of literal, imagined, and metaphorical cities. Throughout the year, Cities of Days uncovered cities in strata: moving from literal layers of Rock, to imaginary layers of Water, and ending with metaphorical layers of Oil. Check your inbox for more details!

We come to the final event of Oil at Cities of Days! We are delighted to welcome Busted Brand to the upstairs studio for a weekend shop-in-shop featuring their collection of latex garments. This weekend-long event caps a season-long exploration of corporeality, sensuousness, and the mystery of the lived body. Conceived over months of conversations between Days and Busted Brand, we are excited to showcase this fresh perspective on latex at the shop. The owners will be on hand to fit people into the existing collection as well as take measurements for custom-fitted pieces! Join us for the opening party sponsored by Wiens Brewing Company to celebrate, Friday from 6 - 8:30pm, or all weekend 11 -7pm. Busted is a Los Angeles based fashion brand. They specialize in latex and plastic ready-to-wear garments. Busted was created to make you think, question, and explore the nature of latex. While latex is often associated with kink and fetish wear, our goal is to bring this textile to the mainstream. Busted pieces are designed and constructed to empower those who choose to wear them.

Excited to announce the new initiative highlighting and exploring different healing modalities in our upstairs studio for the duration of January and February! Days:Spa Spa:Days is a weekly forum for therapeutic healing and practices of self care, launching us into the New Year with freshly rejuvenated bodies and minds. In a series of sensory-oriented workshops, meals, performances and conversations co-hosted by therapeutic textile project SHELL (@shell.studies), we will be connecting those working in disparate practices throughout Los Angeles with our community at Days. Our list of makers, thinkers, therapists and alternative healers include both those working experimentally as well as projects deeply rooted in historical practices of natural therapeutic technique. Each offers guidance developing personal toolkits of self-care and intentioned living. Find more of the program of events via the link in our bio!

Give the gift of art! The Communication by Seduction Project (Windows, Real or Imagined) is up online, ready for purchase and to ship! Get the whole set or an individual print! A collaborative project made by Days with Tanya Rubbak: Communication by Seduction Project (Windows, Real or Imagined) is a multi-part risograph print project, with limited edition folios, in which designers and artists have created windows into hidden structures where desires live. A numbered, limited edition of 20. Each folio feature the complete set of 15 risograph images plus the cover and index. Featuring projects by Advanced Sunrise, Alex Pines, Ella Gold, Hayley Barker, Joel Evey, Kate Johnston, Liana Jegers, Mansi Shah, Megan Whitmarsh, Riah Buchanan, Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen (Drawswords), Julie Cho and Katie Hanburger (Slow Season), Neil Doshi and Vanesa Zendejas (doshi-zendejas), Stephanie Specht (Specht Studio), & Victor Hu.

Hope everyone’s Monday is as delicious as this red bean & brown sugar jello cake from The Wax Apple “cooking show” dinner last week! Should we have one more dinner next week? y/n

Tomorrow we debut a collaboration with Tanya Rubbak (@tatjjjjjana): Communication by Seduction Project (Windows, Real or Imagined), a multi-part risograph print project, with limited edition folios, in which designers and artists have created windows into hidden structures where desires live. All are welcome to join for this lauch party at Days! Saturday, December 8, 4-7pm Featuring projects by Advanced Sunrise, Alex Pines, Ella Gold, Hayley Barker, Joel Evey, Kate Johnston, Liana Jegers, Mansi Shah, Megan Whitmarsh, Riah Buchanan, Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen (Drawswords), Julie Cho and Katie Hanburger (Slow Season), Neil Doshi and Vanesa Zendejas (doshi-zendejas), Stephanie Specht (Specht Studio), & Victor Hu.

This Thursday evening 6:30 - 8pm we have a live "cooking show" with The Wax Apple 's Juliana Hung— Learn the process of cooking a traditional Taiwanese meal at Days' bar, eat a communal meal, & take home your own pickles. Only 10 tickets! Get yours through our site (or direct link at The Wax Apple bio)

This Sunday evening at Days! 5-8pm, come learn about traditional Ayurvedic oil practices, tap into preventative self care routines amidst the winter unravel, and celebrate the launch of a new oil blend during this evening event. Days is delighted to launch @suryachandraayurveda new herbal body oil in their line of Ayurvedic Healing Oils. This new burgundy red oil is infused with local fresh pomegranate, blood orange, buddawood, juniper berry, rosemary, bala root, silver fir, mugwort, and rose hips. SuryaChandra Ayurveda, Founder + Ayurvedic Practitioner of Surya || Chandra Ayurveda will be present highlighting ayurvedic practices for the winter season, showing a live Nasya-Nasal Oil/ Head Massage, and discussing her new collection (including a holiday oil gift set). Allow yourself the time to nourish your ojas (life force), ease the nervous system, ground in, and anoint your body temple with herbal medicinal oil from the toes up. Please join us to experience the sensual glow, shop holiday gifts from local women owned businesses, snack, and sip mulled pomegranate blood orange wine. Free, inclusive, welcome to all!

Sunday (tomorrow!) morning, join us for Taiwanese breakfast with Juliana Hung of The Wax Apple from 11-2—tomorrow featuring tea stewed eggs 🥚

In conjunction with the launch of Oil at Cities of Days, we will be hosting @gasdotgallery (a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art) on Saturdays for the month of November, with their exhibit Anatomy of Oil on view!

The Wax Apple is in the upstairs studio as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires. — @the_wax_apple will be active during Days' open hours: Thursdays - Sundays 11-7pm — Additionally, to celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Huang of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays from 11am - 2pm through the end of the year! — Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a taiwanese breakfast must!�— We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

The Wax Apple is in the upstairs studio as a shop-in-shop through the end of the year. The space is a container for, and creation of, memory, conjuring artist Juliana Hung’s Taiwanese childhood, with products selected with her Grandmother for sale. Regular Taiwanese food will help activate this project and the memories, new and old, it inspires. — Active during Days' open hours: Thursdays - Sundays 11-7pm — Additionally, to celebrate her shop-in-shop at Cites of Days, Juliana Huang of The Wax Apple will be hosting a series of Taiwanese breakfasts on select Sundays from 11am - 2pm through the end of the year! — Traditionally, breakfast in Taiwan is treated as the important meal of the day. Taiwan was primarily a farming culture so breakfast was always very dough and rice heavy to fill up and energize for the day. Shops would generally open only for the early morning customers to come by and pick up food before going to work, but because the food has become so popular, some shops are now open throughout the day or even 24hrs for late nights snackers. Soymilk is also a taiwanese breakfast must!�— We will be serving things like tea stewed hard boiled eggs, Taiwanese eggs crepe, or sticky rice stuffed pork and pickled daikon along with traditional Oolong tea.

The final installment of Cities of Days brings us into the season of Oil and metaphorical cities. Imbued with the corporeality of Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior, we descend into the sensuousness and mystery of the lived body. Oil is the core—those deepest and darkest, hidden, or perhaps unknown places. — Throughout the year, Cities of Days has been uncovering cities in strata: moving from literal layers of Rock, to imaginary layers of Water, and now into experiential layers of Oil. Ideas give way to desire, plans resolve into ritual, physical structures transmute into emotion. — Over the next four months, we explore these depths with artists, designers, craftspeople, writers, and makers of all sorts. Together, we draw back the curtains of our previously explored buildings, breaching their facades and venturing inside. — Graphics by @tatjjjjjana, store design by @kelsey_sundberg & @infavorofus, featuring @the_wax_apple shop-in-shop, and @gasdotgallery ! With projects/work by @shell.studies @bodylanguage_shop @oabooth @ziziabotanicals @primary.elements @michaeladaly_la @kaaremvn @chelmak @alexastark @houseof950 @[email protected] @oneself_label @molly.allis @donni @figsunderwear @hanselfrombasel @wackywacko @effiebonestudio @jameskidd_studio @ikoikospace @hoppstudios @artistsandtherapy @eunbilievable @sammmroth @elisbees @capriciouspublishing @disciplinepress @philemagazine @[email protected] @haydendunham @feministlibraryonwheels @_formina_ @yuun.studio @vanessalilak @dani.danya @bullhornpress @[email protected] @lianajegers @goldella @advancedsunrise @neildosh @darkcirclz @mansishah & more!

The final installment of Cities of Days brings us into the season of Oil and metaphorical cities. Imbued with the corporeality of Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior, we descend into the sensuousness and mystery of the lived body. Oil is the core—those deepest and darkest, hidden, or perhaps unknown places. — Throughout the year, Cities of Days has been uncovering cities in strata: moving from literal layers of Rock, to imaginary layers of Water, and now into experiential layers of Oil. Ideas give way to desire, plans resolve into ritual, physical structures transmute into emotion. — Over the next four months, we explore these depths with artists, designers, craftspeople, writers, and makers of all sorts. Together, we draw back the curtains of our previously explored buildings, breaching their facades and venturing inside. — Graphics by @tatjjjjjana, store design by @kelsey_sundberg & @infavorofus, featuring @the_wax_apple shop-in-shop, and @gasdotgallery! With projects/work by @shell.studies @bodylanguage_shop @oabooth @ziziabotanicals @primary.elements @michaeladaly_la @kaaremvn @chelmak @alexastark @houseof950 @bustedbrand @ruffcutofficial @oneself_label @molly.allis @donni @figsunderwear @hanselfrombasel @wackywacko @jameskidd_studio @ikoikospace @hoppstudios @artistsandtherapy @eunbilievable @sammmroth @elisbees @capriciouspublishing @disciplinepress @philemagazine @iiiiicolumns @metatronpress @haydendunham @feministlibraryonwheels @_formina_ @yuun.studio @vanessalilak @dani.danya @bullhornpress & more!

This Thursday (tomorrow!) 7pm join @toddlerew at Days for a brief tour through the SoCal museum-scape using Invisible Cities as a lens for understanding this place as constituting many concentric or simultaneous yet seemingly unrelated worlds. - There are over 600 museums in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, yet when people speak generally of our local museums, there is a strong chance they are referring only to a handful of the largest and most well-known. With his project, Todd Lerew is focusing on what he is calling 'specific' museums throughout the Los Angeles region, with an eye towards geographic and thematic diversity and an emphasis on the under-appreciated.�- Illustrations by @juliana_wisdom Thursday, October 25th, 7pm

As the wall between worlds goes paper thin we will write on it, listen, make shadows, holes, and spills. Our chance and channeled moves will consider such architectures as the memory palace, the diaspora, the underworld. . This Sunday we host the final writing workshop in the season-long series of Water! Led by artist and writer Dylan Mira, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture. No writing experience necessary, expect in-person writing with an element of group work. . Dylan Mira is making writing. Dylan Mira was born in Lawrence, one of seven reported gateways to hell, and grew up in Seoul, Hong Kong, Hiroshima, and Philadelphia. Dylan Mira is half horse. Dylan Mira has exhibited her art widely inside and outside. . Reserve your spot through our site! $5, Sunday, October 21st, 6-8pm

As the wall between worlds goes paper thin we will write on it, listen, make shadows, holes, and spills. Our chance and channeled moves will consider such architectures as the memory palace, the diaspora, the underworld. . This Sunday we host the final writing workshop in the season-long series of Water! Led by artist and writer Dylan Mira, this is an open and inclusive co-creative venture. No writing experience necessary, expect in-person writing with an element of group work. . Dylan Mira is making writing. Dylan Mira was born in Lawrence, one of seven reported gateways to hell, and grew up in Seoul, Hong Kong, Hiroshima, and Philadelphia. Dylan Mira is half horse. Dylan Mira has exhibited her art widely inside and outside. . Reserve your spot through our site! $5, Sunday, October 21st, 6-8pm

This Sunday from 3-5pm, come explore The Fantasy Compact, a project from @laurelconsuelobroughton @welcomeprojects. The experimental mascots from this project—Surfurbia, the Foothills, Autotopia, and the Plains of Id—are currently on display at Cities of Days through the end of the month! Learn more about what could happen if citizens agreed to believe and participate in sympathetic magic. ✨

Feeling underwater? Transport to another dimension at Days

This Sunday from 6-8pm, join us for Writing Group: Overflow with Aimee Goguen! We will be working with sentences we think are sexy: versions of the erotic like "when my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene" (Georges Bataille). Prepare to engage in passionate writing that is full of feeling even to the point of sensory overload. Reserve your place through our site! "Trees bristle the ground with a vast quantity of flowered shafts raised up to the sun." -Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

This Sunday 6-8pm Writing Group with @meitalyaniv! She offers this quote from adrienne maree brown, in the book Emergent Strategy as a frame: “How can we, future ancestors, align ourselves with the most resilient practices of emergence as a species?” Join us as we write and think about shaping the futures we want to live! Everyone is welcome in this generative writing space, but there is limited seating—reserve your place through our site.

This Sunday afternoon, Jessica Wang of @piquenique_la will be leading a hands-on pickle workshop! Centered about watery ideas like osmosis and rehydration, brine and seaweed, participants will learn to make natural fermented pickles and come away with jars of their own. Only 2 spots left! Reserve a spot through our site!

Have you ever been curious about energy work? Ever wanted to turn down the energy you get from other people? Wished for some practical ways to engage with energy in the everyday world? This Thursday, from 7-8:30pm, we are offering an accessible workshop to teach you the casual basics of energy work: exercises in grounding yourself or your space, calling in energetic helpers, energy transmutation, downloading energetic information, and other useful tools to use on a daily basis. There will be Blue Vervain tea to help open your senses. No prior experience necessary. The workshop will be led by Mina Beckman with assistance from Saewon Oh of @ssuunsong. Only 10 spots available, going fast! Reserve yours through our site.

Looking for a way to end your weekend on a creative note? Join us tomorrow (Sunday) evening for our Writing Group, 6-8pm, this week led by @audreyakim, as we explore concepts of water through a series of experiential writing exercises from Kublai Khan’s ancestry. The concept of the group takes inspiration from the imaginative spaces in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and are open and inclusive co-creative ventures! Only 12 spots available—reserve through our site. Audrey A. Kim is a writer, editor, and educator in Los Angeles. She is interested in bringing forth the perspectives of people who create and influence culture by rejecting traditional systems, expanding our definitions and practices of learning, and interrogating the role technology should play in our society.

🍦This Thursday evening! Bi-costal @triplemotionice returns to Cities of Days for a special Water-inspired hand-cranked ice-cream! One last celebration of Summer before September — come participate in this hands-on experiment of flavors. Expect something unusual and delicious (seaweed?!). Triple Motion is @folosophy @petergerard 🍦

Get ready! This Saturday, August 25th 2-5pm, we are hosting the launch party of @oneself_label. It’s exciting to host the official launch of a brand that is creating interesting, beautiful clothes that all can wear, one which straddles gender lines and offers a potentiality for a more fluid and inclusive future. Oneself+ is a gender neutral brand devoted to creating beautiful basics, elevated through sustainable, luxury fabrics, sensual silhouettes and an obsession with cut. They always consciously strive to be ethical, transparent, and philanthropic. Please join us for this party and keep an eye on Oneself+ as they grow in the world. Featuring They/Them Collins cocktails by @folosophy using @sotosake

@shopweirdsisters are here for you all weekend! 💥

This Sunday, Weird Sisters Presents: A Fermentation Workshop! There are still spots left—book your ticket through our site! We invite you to learn the ins and out of fermentation with Brittany Maddocks, a natural food chef and fermentation expert. . She will be guiding us through the process of making a variety of fermented foods. Each participant will create and take home a custom pickled vegetable variety and a beet kvass. Brittany will guide us through the kombucha making process and provide a scoobie for participants to take home. We will end the afternoon with kombucha cocktails. . Kombucha cocktails served at 4pm $30 per person

Weird Sisters Presents: Go Light Projects this Saturday evening from 7-9pm! . @golightprojects is a question and a direction. What does it mean to go lightly? As human beings on the earth, in making things, in being alive in process. A record label, a publishing house, a question, a gentle listening. . Join us for this launch party with sets from Jordan Wainer @jordanwainer and Charlyne Yi @charlyne_yi ! Music at 8pm. All are welcome: free! @shopweirdsisters is taking over #citiesofdays all week, Thursday-Sunday 11-7pm! . Design by @dani__vwj