Join us for an evening with Steve Lopez

Tuesday Oct. 21st. 6:00 pm, please join us for a special event for close friends of Lamp Community - a discussion and book signing with Los Angeles Times columnist and best-selling author, Steve Lopez . Lopez will discuss The Soloist, chronicling his friendship with and the dramatic change in Nathaniel Ayers, a musician living with mental illness who spent decades on the streets before gaining access to a real home and clinical & supportive services. Lopez describes Ayers’ journey from the streets of Skid Row to Lamp Community to the Disney Concert Hall. The Soloist is also a major motion picture from Dreamworks Productions scheduled for release in November 2008.
As The Soloist illustrates, “no-strings attached” housing with voluntary supportive services restores dignity to homeless individuals living with mental illness and helps them to rebuild their lives. At Lamp Community, we have the answer to ending chronic homelessness - a home. Instead of managing homelessness, we end it. Seating is limited. RSVP to Lara Long at laral@lampcommunity.org

or (213)488-0879 as soon as possible.
Lamp Community respectfully requests a minimum contribution of $100 per person. Your gift is fully tax deductible. More importantly, your gift will help men and women living with mental illness move from streets to homes and transform their lives.

Join us for a Vision Quest-Oct. 18th. 5:00 pm

Join us as we welcome Deborah Pratt a 27-year veteran of the entertainment industry. Her credits include co-executive producer, as well as head writer of the award winning Sci-Fi series, Quantum Leap, which still airs in syndication. Quantum Leap, which aired for five years, was awarded multiple Emmys, 2 Golden Globes and numerous other prestigious awards. Quantum Leap became a cult phenomenon, with an active, loyal fan club (Leapers) of approximately 7 million worldwide. As a producer, she is a four-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe nominee. As a television writer, Ms. Pratt was awarded the Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film, The Angel Award, The Golden Block Award and five B.E.N. awards. As a producer, she is a five-time Emmy nominee as well as a Golden Globe nominee. Join us as she launches the next installment in her Vision Quest series, The Odyssey.
In the Vision Quest saga, Earth was transformed by the Great Quakes, weather shifts and eruptions that redefined the planet in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Huge land mass shifts, submersions and resurrections from the bottom of the sea redefined the world, as we now know it. But Man in his genius to survive has triumphed over the resulting destruction and chaos and has created the Age of Light.
The Vision Quest, Book One: The Age of Light: On a spring day in the territory of Atlantia, 18-year old Cole “Lazer” Lazerman witnesses the slaughter of his father and 2,700 innocent people by the Black Guard, biodroids who had been created only to protect humans by Ducane Covax, a brilliant scientist. Lazer must learn to transform his hatred, fear and passion for revenge if he is to achieve the greatness that can be his through the universal forces or forgotten powers of the Visionistic Arts. To do this, he embarks on a Rite of Passage journey, the success of which will determine the fate of all humanity.
The Vision Quest, Book Two: The Odyssey: With his beloved father murdered and his Atlantian home under the control of the biodroid Black Guard and their evil leader, Five, Lazer enters a series of explosive battlefields – both virtual and real. Along with his friends – and hopefully the newfound love of his life – can he master the Visionistic Arts, harness the limitless power of the human mind and spirit, survive the perilous odyssey to save himself, his mother, his home in Atlantia and ultimately the world?Deborah Pratt Join us as we welcome a 27-year veteran of the entertainment industry. Her credits include co-executive producer, as well as head writer of the award winning Sci-Fi series, Quantum Leap, which still airs in syndication. Quantum Leap, which aired for five years, was awarded multiple Emmys, 2 Golden Globes and numerous other prestigious awards. Quantum Leap became a cult phenomenon, with an active, loyal fan club (Leapers) of approximately 7 million worldwide. As a producer, she is a four-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe nominee. As a television writer, Ms. Pratt was awarded the Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film, The Angel Award, The Golden Block Award and five B.E.N. awards. As a producer, she is a five-time Emmy nominee as well as a Golden Globe nominee. Join us as she launches the next installment in her Vision Quest series, The Odyssey.
In the Vision Quest saga, Earth was transformed by the Great Quakes, weather shifts and eruptions that redefined the planet in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Huge land mass shifts, submersions and resurrections from the bottom of the sea redefined the world, as we now know it. But Man in his genius to survive has triumphed over the resulting destruction and chaos and has created the Age of Light.
The Vision Quest, Book One: The Age of Light: On a spring day in the territory of Atlantia, 18-year old Cole “Lazer” Lazerman witnesses the slaughter of his father and 2,700 innocent people by the Black Guard, biodroids who had been created only to protect humans by Ducane Covax, a brilliant scientist. Lazer must learn to transform his hatred, fear and passion for revenge if he is to achieve the greatness that can be his through the universal forces or forgotten powers of the Visionistic Arts. To do this, he embarks on a Rite of Passage journey, the success of which will determine the fate of all humanity.
The Vision Quest, Book Two: The Odyssey: With his beloved father murdered and his Atlantian home under the control of the biodroid Black Guard and their evil leader, Five, Lazer enters a series of explosive battlefields – both virtual and real. Along with his friends – and hopefully the newfound love of his life – can he master the Visionistic Arts, harness the limitless power of the human mind and spirit, survive the perilous odyssey to save himself, his mother, his home in Atlantia and ultimately the world?

Meet a Hollywood Legend-Oct. 11th. at 4:00 pm

Meet Hollywood Legend Mark Damon this weekend!!

If you saw Mark Damon in a tux at the 55th Annual Academy Awards you probably wouldn't picture him in a toga. If he flashed his dazzling smile at his wife, Maggie, your first thought wouldn't be "Oooh, vampire fangs." But Mark played a beast and a vampire, rode across the desert in a toga as the son of Cleopatra, walked the streets of Toledo as a Spanish king named Peter the Cruel and cleaned up the West as two Spaghetti Western cowboys named Johnny. As an actor he played a hero, a rebel and a fool in over fifty teenflicks, Spaghetti Westerns and swashbucklers. As a producer and film distributor, he was involved in the success of over 350 films. Teen idol, singer, film director, writer and producer, astute businessman, inventor of the foreign film sales business - by 1983, Damon had pursued almost as many careers as a tomcat has lives..." - From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster. Twenty-five years later, Mark Damon continues to reinvent himself in the film business. His is a never ending story.