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Theater Calendar

October 6
San Pedro Film Festival
The San Pedro Film Festival will be at the Warner Grand Theatre through Oct. 6.
The festival will present new films from top international film festivals around the globe.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

October 6
Signal HIll Speed Run/Day of the Dead Shred
The Warner Grand Theatre will be screening Signal Hill Speed Run and Day of the Dead Shred at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 6.
The story is about the Signal Hill Speed Run which was the world’s first skateboard race and the world’s most dangerous. Men and Women hurled down the steep top, risking life and limb for bragging rights.
The Day of the Dead Shred takes viewers to San Pedro where it showcases the beauty of what a modern skate park looks like. It was constructed on a low budget with the blood, sweat and tears of local skateboarders.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Hometown Heroines
The San Pedro Film Festival is showing Hometown Heroines at 3 p.m., Oct. 6.
Equal pay, designer clothes and respect. It’s the story about the greatest generation that you’ve never heard. The movie introduces a group of quirky, independent and determined women who went where no other women had gone before: into the Navy as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location: 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
October 10
NOSFERATU Live Score Screening
The Long Beach Cinematheque presents the NOSFERATU Live Score Screening at 8 p.m., Oct. 10.
NOSFERATU is F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German vampire classic.
Admission is $10.
Details: www.nosferatu-lb.eventbrite.com
Venue: SunnysideCemetery
Location:1095 E. Willow St., Long Beach

October 11
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Neil Young: Heart of Gold concert film will take place at 8 p.m., Oct. 11.
The film documents Young’s premiere of songs from his album Prairie Wind.
Admission is $12.
Details: (310) 833-4813; www.grandvision.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

October 13
Loose Ends
The Cal State University of Dominguez Hills presents Loose Ends at 8 p.m., Oct. 11, 12, 18 and 19.
Loose Ends delves into the relationship between a couple as they navigate dating, love and marriage in the exciting, turbulent, quirky and quickly changing 1970s, and the balancing act of life.
Admission is $15 and $12 for seniors and students.
Details: (310) 243-3589; www.csudh.edu/theatre/tickets
Venue: CSUDH, Edison Theatre
Location:1000 E. Victoria St., Carson

October 17
Eraserhead
The Long Beach Cinematheque presents an outdoor screening of Eraserhead at 8 p.m., Oct. 17.
The screening will take place at the Cal State University Long Beach campuses’ Los Alamitos Lawn.
Details: www.lbcinema.org
Venue: CSULB, Alamitos Lawn
Location:1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

October 19
Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary
The Golden State Pops Orchestra presents its Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary at 8 p.m., Oct. 19.
Join GSPO as they celebrate Varese Sarabande with this special Halloween edition. The concert presents highlights from the label’s past, celebrating the rich variety of music used for Halloween and horror films.
Tickets range from $28.50 to $60.
Details: (424) 703-4776; www.gspo.com
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre

Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

 

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