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Upcoming events at the Turner Center
2012
February
26: Bridal Boutique at the
Turner Center
A Spring Bridal Boutique will be held on Sunday,
February 26, 2012 from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Los
Angeles Turner Center. For the newly engaged it’s a
place to begin planning. What a better place to start
than Westchester’s newest venue for wedding receptions.
The Los Angeles Turner Center is located at 8946
Sepulveda Eastway and ample parking is available
directly across from the Center. Among those
companies scheduled to exhibit will be caterers, party
planners, tux rentals, photographers, bakeries and
florists. One stop idea-shopping.
For additional information email
info@LATurners.org,
call: 562-208-3445 or 310-926-7699.
March 4: Argentine Tango at the
Turner Center
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www.LivingTango.com
The
Los Angeles Turners organization was founded in 1871,
when the city of Los Angeles had a population of
only 6,000.
It began with a merger of the Los Angeles Turnverein and the Teutonia-Concordia Turn- und Singverein
(which was already founded in 1859). The
new organization was initially named Turnverein Germania
and changed the name to Los Angeles Turners in later
years.
The Los Angeles Turners is the oldest German-American
organization in Southern California and it is a member of the
nationwide American Turners and also of the
German-American League
in Los Angeles.
The "Turner Center" in Westchester, on
Los Angeles’ West Side, is home to regular choir
rehearsals, social and cultural events, Dance evenings
(Ballroom Dancing), Gymnastic Classes, and
movie-Sundays. The fencing squad rehearses off-site. The Los
Angeles Turners contribute to public radio, opera
competitions and youth athletics and actively support
events that perpetuate the German, Austrian and Swiss
culture in the Western United States.
If you are interested to rent the
Turner Center for a function or your event, please click
here.
In 2001, the Los Angeles
Turners celebrated their 130th Anniversary with a
Gala Ball. On this occasion, the respected actor and
national German-American spokesman Eric Braeden became
an honorary member of the Los Angeles Turners.
Toward the shared goal of perpetuating the German,
Austrian and Swiss culture in the United States, the
Turners marked the 135th Anniversary of their
founding by co-hosting with the
Goethe Institut Los Angeles a shared evening of jazz,
featuring the North Atlantic Jazz Alliance on August
30, 2006.
From the Principles
of the American Turners:
"The
American Turners is a Federation of Turner Societies
in the United States of America, organized to
promote physical education and disseminate rational
ideas in order to advance health, happiness,
prosperity, and the progress of mankind".
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