Welcome to the world of Smart Gals, a
nonprofit, public benefit organization based in Los Angeles. Dedicated
to developing the greater arts community in the city, and to constructing
original theater in unlikely places, Smart Gals is known for creating
transformative, idiosyncratic performance events and social gatherings
through our site-specific performance series, Are You
Interested? and our one-of-a-kind semi-literary salon,
the Speakeasy. Now in its seventh year,
Smart Gals has been featured in the LA Weekly, Los Angeles
City Beat, LA Alternative Press, The Los Angeles
Times, Bitch, Los Angeles magazine and on KPFK
radio. Smart Gals’ visionary approach to collaborative work
has introduced audiences and artists to a wide array of alternative
venues, from a local church basement, to a machine shop in El Segundo,
to Cleveland High in Reseda, to the land and sites along the Metro
Gold Line.
Join us for the West
Hollywood Book Fair and Smart Gals Reading Preserve on Sunday,
September 30, 2007.
Via the Speakeasy, Smart Gals has presented
numerous visual artists, writers, directors, musicians and assorted
cultural innovators, including Gary
Baseman, John Powers,
David Rees,
Steve Almond, Clam
Lynch, Friends of the LA River,
Jerry Stahl, the Center
for Land Use Interpretation, and internationally renowned architect,
Julie Eizenberg of Koning Eizenberg
Architecture. The Speakeasy is currently enjoying a restorative
hiatus, following five years of uninterrupted monthly programming.
Look for its return in January of 2008.
