A new Art Salon exhibit, the first since the pandemic, will have a Reception on Thursday, May 26 5.00-8.00 pm. Entitled A Family Affaire, the exhibition features works by father and daughter Michael and Koa Warren. Michael “Mike” Warren Known to many as an actor and athlete, artistic photographer Michael Warren, has a most interesting backstory. … Read more »

PLANTING THE SEEDS OF KINDNESS A celebration of what kindness to others can achieve- RCA helping the LA community through grants and volunteerism Each year, the Ebell Rest Cottage Association (RCA) honors its grant recipients at a spring luncheon. This year on Monday, June 6th at 11.30 am , the RCA will hold its luncheon… Read more »

Meet our newest members and please welcome them! Sonia Lara Sonia is a makeup artist and model, with degrees from FIDM and Berkeley College.  She also makes documentaries about youth homelessness.  She joined The Ebell after meeting and being ‘blown away’ by member June Bilgore.  She enjoys yoga, hiking and cooking.  “My main motivation,” she says,… Read more »

  April is Classics Month at the Book Chamber, and surprise! Many of us had not read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations¸ the life story of Pip, the blacksmith’s apprentice, who comes into unexpected money and “great expectations” (“From whom?”, you might ask).  He becomes a young gentleman, but never forgets his childhood love – Estella… Read more »

Wednesday, April 13 at 3.00 pm Member Spotlight: In Person, featuring Rosalind Goddard Rosalind Goddard will present What’s On a Stamp: African American Imagery on US Postal Stamps, and show her personal collection. Wednesday, April 13 4.00 – 7.00 pm Confab In person, following Member Spotlight Thursday, April 14 at 7.00 pm Partnership Program Concert: LA… Read more »

In 1927, when Mrs. William Read opened our historic building, she expressed the members’ aspirations for the new campus and the exciting work of serving the community through the support of arts and culture that would take place within our building’s Italian Renaissance walls. Mrs Read said, “so we may at last dedicate this house… Read more »

Hello and, though it may be officially a few days away, let me wish you all a happy spring! Certainly, after the terrible hardness and deep suffering of the last few years connected to the pandemic, I have been thinking a great deal about what it means to gingerly step into the sunlight of this… Read more »

In keeping with the guidelines posted last week by the CDC and LA County, we will be further loosening some of the requirements for staff, guests, members and vendors. As of now, we will continue to require vaccines and boosters for all staff and any visitors to the Ebell campus, including event guests, filming representatives… Read more »

The Ebell has won one of only 50 places on the Doors Open California weekend, where historic buildings open their doors to the public and ‘tell an untold story.’  Held  June 11-12, 2022, Doors Open California is an event spearheaded by the California Preservation Foundation (CPF), the longest-running statewide organization dedicated to the protection of… Read more »