Upcoming

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1.24.2025

Departure from Music Venue(s)

On the occasion of Ben Borden’s Los Angeles presentation of Blue Thin Horizon, NOON Projects is pleased to host The Departure from Music Venue(s), a one-night musical program presented by The D.M.V.

Featuring:

Community Drone Ensemble (8 PM — bring an instrument; all are welcome)

Michael Gross

Exhibition

LXS COCHINXS

The evening runs from 7–11 PM and includes three musical performances, beginning with a community drone session. Attendees are invited to bring an instrument or sound-making object to contribute to a collective drone lasting approximately 10–15 minutes, gradually giving way to the first act. Performances will continue throughout the evening until 11 PM. Refreshments will be served.

Founded in 2021 by artist and musician Dakota Higgins, The Departure from Music Venue(s) (The D.M.V.) is dedicated to presenting music from Los Angeles’s expansive DIY and experimental scene. Past participants include Muscle Beach, Lxs Cochinxs, Los Angeles Woodwind Skill Share, Black NASA, Jacob Wolff, Qur’an Shaheed, You, Me, and the Whales, Psychobuildings, and Steve Kado. Originally based in an autobody shop in Commerce, CA, The DMV has since organized events in garages, living rooms, and backyards throughout Los Angeles.

Performance

Saturday, January 24, 2025
7– 11 PM

NOON Projects
951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles

Past

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12.6.2025

Presents: A Holiday Market

NOON Projects is excited to host “Presents,” our first annual holiday market, taking place in Chung King Plaza on December 6, 2025, from Noon–6 PM.

We’ve partnered with Alex Kerr to curate 28 of our favorite artists, designers, ceramicists, winemakers, and crafty grandmas to bring their beautiful products to you. We hope you’ll join us!

Saturday, December 6, 2025
Noon–6 PM
Chung King Plaza, Los Angeles

Featured Artists:
A History of Frogs | Artist Curated Projects | Boy Kloves | Brice James | Classic Franz by Evan Franz | Clownache by Alex Chaves | Dr. Max's | Elaine / Zao An | The Fulcrum | fruitful interpretation of time (FiOT) | Gama Grocery | Josh Cloud | Leeann Huang | Lyanne Rodriguez | Mal+Al | Marina Weiner | Max Hertz Studio | Miguel Torres-Macias | Nicky Fisher | NOON Family Projects | North Loop West | Plot 田 | Richard Nam | tenpopo | Tierra del Sol Gallery | Ulsi Omen | Wax tabatha | Zack Benson

Coffee by Senses

Holiday Market

Saturday, December 6, 2025
Noon– 6 PM

NOON Projects
Chung King Plaza, Los Angeles

10.19.2025

Messages Messages

NOON Projects and Del Vaz Projects are excited to announce an intimate presentation of Steven Arnold's 1968 short film Messages, Messages at Yuval Pudik's current exhibition The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama. For this one-night program, the film will be screened through Pudik’s cardboard reconstruction of the nineteenth-century stereoscopic viewing cabinet. A technology that preceded modern cinema, Pudik’s Kaiserpanorama reimagines communal, lens-based spectatorship—a custom-built apparatus with viewfinders activated as queer lenses and portals for queer sensibility.

Created in collaboration with Michael Wiese when Arnold was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, Messages, Messages is based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With surreal, psyche-driven cinematography in which the audience confronts close-ups of the actors' piercing gaze, the film's penetrating effect is heightened when projected through Pudik's glory holes.

Messages, Messages premiered at the Palace Theater in San Francisco, after which Arnold was invited to host a recurring avant-garde film series there that he called the "Nocturnal Dream Shows”—which included a debut performance by the Cockettes, who became a regular opening act for the late-night screenings.  The film was also featured in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. This event anticipates Del Vaz Projects’ forthcoming exhibition Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven, opening in February 2026.

Film Screening

Sunday, October 19, 2025
4–6 PM

NOON Projects
951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles

Presented in partnership with Del Vaz Projects