The document provides information about upcoming events and attractions in Los Angeles in 2011, including the completion of airport renovations in December 2012, new cruise voyages launching in January and fall 2011, the Dodgers season beginning March 31st, X Games being held July 28-31, the Pacific Standard Time art exhibition running from October 2011 to March 2012 featuring work from over 30 cultural institutions, theatre performances at the CSUN Performing Arts Center beginning January 29th, museum exhibits at places like the Da Vinci Museum, FIDM Museum, and LACMA, the reopening of gallery exhibits at the Ronald Regan Presidential Library on February 7th, the opening of new exhibits at the Natural History Museum and Aquarium of the Pacific in
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2. Los Angeles World AirportsBradley West Terminal Modernization Completion 12-12-12
3. Port of Los Angeles - Cruises Launching New Voyages in January 2011 Launching New Voyages in Fall 2011
4. Year-Round Sporting & Entertainment Events 2011 Dodger Season Begins March 31st Home Opening Game X Games 2011 July 28-31, 2011
5. Coming in Fall 2011 Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 Oct. 2, 2011-March 25, 2012 More than 30 LA-area cultural institutions will present work by LA artists in an unprecedented celebration of LA creativity and output spanning four decades. This event was initiated and funded in large part by the Getty Research Institute and include venues throughout Southern California.
6. 2011 – Year-Round Theatre in LA CSUN Performing Arts Center- Valley Opening January 29, 2011
7. Coming in 2011 The Da Vinci Museum Exhibit Hollywood and Highland January 21-December 31, 2011 Oscar Winning Costumes FIDM MuseumFebruary 8-April 30, 2011 LA Starts Here! LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes April 16, 2011
8. Coming in 2011 Ocean Science Center Exhibit Aquarium of the Pacific Long BeachMay 28, 2011 Tim Burton LACMAMay 29-October 31, 2011 Hollywood Bowl Season HollywoodJune 18-September 30, 2011
13. Conventions Coming to Los Angeles IDG World Expo - E3 June 7-9, 2011 65,000 Expected in attendance Estimated economic impact of $22.8 Million Anime ExpoJuly 1-4, 2011 40,000 Expected in attendance Estimated economic impact of $12.1 Million Microsoft World Partner Conference July 11-14, 2011 12,500 Expected in attendance Estimated economic impact of $ 44.3 Million
Los Angeles International Airport, the sixth busiest airport in the world, offers more than 565 daily flights to 81 destinations in the U.S. 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 65 international destinations. The Bradley West Project is composed of approximately 1.25 million square feet of new building area, including food/beverage and retail concessions, new premium lounge space, enlarged Federal Inspection/Customs and Border Protection facilities In addition, the new concourses will contain 15 new boarding gates and enlarged passenger seating/holdroom areas sized to accommodate new-generation aircraft such as the Airbus A380 super-jumbo jet and the Boeing B787 Dreamliner. By 2012, LAX is expected to serve more Airbus A380 flights than any other airport in North America.
Two significant cruise lines will add new voyages out of San Pedro’s Port of Los Angeles in 2011.Disney’s World of Wonder will begin cruises in January.Carnival will begin new service in the fall of 2011.
This game will be the 60th edition of the National Basketball Association(NBA) All-Star Gameand will be played during the 2010–11 NBA season. The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers will serve as host as the STAPLES CENTER.NBA All-Star Jam Session being held at the Los Angeles Convetnion Center will feature over 300,000 square feet of NBA All-Star excitement, where the chance to meet & collect FREE autographs from NBA Players & Legends is just the beginning!
Los Angeles International Airport, the sixth busiest airport in the world, offers more than 565 daily flights to 81 destinations in the U.S. 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 65 international destinations. The Bradley West Project is composed of approximately 1.25 million square feet of new building area, including food/beverage and retail concessions, new premium lounge space, enlarged Federal Inspection/Customs and Border Protection facilities In addition, the new concourses will contain 15 new boarding gates and enlarged passenger seating/holdroom areas sized to accommodate new-generation aircraft such as the Airbus A380 super-jumbo jet and the Boeing B787 Dreamliner. By 2012, LAX is expected to serve more Airbus A380 flights than any other airport in North America.
Los Angeles continues to have more live theater than any other city in the United States.The LA theatre scene brings both first run as well as world premier productions of plays and musical theater.This month, Califonria State University in Northridge will open their new state of the art performing arts center. This new facility will provide both theatrical, dance and orchestral productions in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.
In honor of President Reagan’s 100th birthday, the museum will be reopening on February 6th with new gallery exhibits as well as an entire year of events and activities celebrating the late President’s term in office.
The Natural History Museum is adding 3.5 acres of urban wilderness garden to its north campus. They are letting sunlight into the building, and bringing its scientists and their work into public view. Five major new exhibitions will feature not only extraordinary specimens, but also the ways they are discovered and studied — using the latest interactive technology to tell stories and stir inquiry about our planet.
This new production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to color, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.Previews begin in July 2011 with the official opening in September 2011.
In 2010…King Kong made his re-emergance in the form of 360 3-D at Universal Studios. The new attraction is part of the updated tram tour that also includes new backlot sets that were destroyed in 2008.In 2012, Universal Studios Hollywood will unveil a new thrilling attraction…we can’t give you any more details at this time, but as you would expect from Universal Studios…it will be exciting!