When: Date: Saturday, March 05, 2016 at 3:00 PM

Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Poetry reading by actor Joe Mantegna in front of The Hope Herakles (Hercules) a Roman, 2nd- or 3rd-century marble sculpture copy after a Greek original of circa 370–350 B.C. by Skopas that is part of the William Randolph Hearst Collection at LACMA. Hercules, hero and demigod of Greek mythology, the strongest of men, is sung by poet Gabrile Tinti through the lamentation of his son Hyllus.

Tickets
Attendance requires a paid general admission ticket to LACMA and a free ticket for the reading. The free event tickets will be available at 2 pm on March 5 at LACMA's LATCC box office location, near the Bing Theater. A line to obtain tickets will form there at 1 pm.

Source: http://www.iiclosangeles.esteri.it/