Join Arts for LA for our annual State of the Arts Summit. This year’s program will focus on the theme of “Legacy” to honor significant arts and culture leaders and challenge participants to think, “What is the legacy that I, personally and professionally, want to leave behind?“
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TreePeople is thrilled to announce MALIA at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre on Sunday, September 29.
Often described as healing, MALIA's sounds aren’t just something you listen to, they’re something you feel. Originally from the pacific northwest, the alternative R&B/neo-soul songstress garnered some initial buzz after opening for The Internet’s Syd on her West Coast tour in late 2017.
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Join Clockshop for their 4th Annual Community & Unity People’s Kite Festival. This year’s festival will celebrate multicultural kite traditions at Los Angeles State Historic Park on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 2:00–6:00 PM. As part of our inaugural kite commission program, our 2024 artist, Stevie Choi, will be creating three unique Korean kites to bring awareness to animal species native to Los Angeles whose continued existence is threatened by urban and industrial development such as the North American cougar, El Segundo butterfly, and the Least Bell’s vireo. For the first time, a kite competition will take place, inviting attendees to compete for the best handmade kite, judged by kite masters.
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Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and the girl next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is Why?
Now we have answers. As award-winning science journalist and writer, Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in her recent book, Girls on the Brink, new findings reveal that today’s growing girl crisis is a biologically rooted phenomenon: the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny that mixes badly with puberty, the onset of which is happening earlier. When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence, it can alter the female stress-immune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development.
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The Open Mind is a free community lecture and film series that brings together thought leaders in science and culture for relevant and meaningful programs about mental health issues. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, these programs were held in-person at UCLA but are currently presented on a virtual Zoom platform, attracting a national and international audience. We are honored that the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors has joined The Friends of Semel in support of the Open Mind.
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What are the approaches to researching collections and archives gathered in the early 20th century?
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What are the approaches to researching collections and archives gathered in the early 20th century? Henry S. Wellcome’s enormous holdings included material from around the world, mostly obtained by his staff, researchers, collaborators, friends, and acquaintances. The material was first consolidated in Wellcome's possession, then dispersed to museums across the globe after his death. At both stages, much of the history of this material was obscured, if not lost. This program offers a glimpse at the work currently being conducted at the Fowler Museum and the Wellcome Collection to recover and highlight information about these objects, the artists who created them, circumstances of their acquisition, financial transactions surrounding them, and the roles of different individuals involved.
Join curators from the Fowler and the Wellcome Collection in London for brief presentations and a moderated discussion. The program will address some of the complexities of tracing the provenance of objects from this collection and highlight the importance of collaboration in performing such work.
Alexandra Eveleigh is Collections Information Manager at Wellcome Collection in London, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of archivists, librarians, and museum professionals responsible for documenting and maximizing access to Wellcome’s rich holdings of archives, manuscripts, books, and paintings. Her role also complements her research interest in digitally-enabled participatory practices in cultural heritage contexts. In March 2020, Eveleigh’s team launched Transcribe Wellcome, opening up the Wellcome archive to the public in order to facilitate provenance research and a virtual reunification of the “Wellcome diaspora”—former Wellcome objects dispersed to museums and libraries across the world.
Carlee S. Forbes is the Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Fowler, where she researches African objects donated by the Wellcome Trust to the museum in 1965. Forbes received her PhD in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Ackland Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Her research focuses on art produced during the colonial period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, museum and collecting histories, and issues of provenance.
Ruth Horry is Collections Curator in the Exhibitions team at Wellcome Collection, London, where she works on temporary exhibitions and permanent galleries. Her background is in history, medical and science museums, and collections research. Previously she was part of the collections staff at the Whipple History of Science Museum in Cambridge, and a post-doctoral researcher mapping dispersed Iraqi archaeological collections in UK museums. Horry studied Henry Wellcome’s Historical Medical Museum for her PhD. More recently she has been researching Wellcome’s junior museum staff and the networks of people involved in his collecting.
Erica P. Jones is Curator of African Arts at the Fowler Museum. She received her PhD in Art History from UCLA. Since joining the Fowler in 2015, Jones has organized several exhibitions. In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition of Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, and authored the accompanying publication. Her 2019 exhibition, On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925, directly relates to the research conducted by the Fowler’s Mellon team.
Helen Mears is Inclusive Collections Officer for Wellcome Collection, London. Her former roles include Keeper of World Art for Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove; and African Diaspora Research Fellow for the V&A Museum, London. She is interested in the intersections between colonial-era collections and contemporary diaspora communities.
The premier progressive awards gala in Los Angeles, the City of Justice Awards Dinner honors the nation’s leading changemakers and celebrates a bold, common vision of a new economy for all. Every year, the City of Justice Awards attracts 1,000 attendees, including labor leaders, elected officials, philanthropists, celebrities, artists and activists. Past honorees and speakers include Vice President Kamala Harris, IUPAT General President Ken Rigmaiden, Norman Lear, Jane Fonda, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Teamsters General President James Hoffa Jr., ABC's Modern Family, AFT President Randi Weingarten and many others.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Reception: 6pm PST
Program: 7:30pm PST
RSVP and ad deadline: November 12, 2021
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Our cultural infrastructure in cities across America – the spaces where creative people and professionals live, work, make, rehearse, present, and perform – is under threat. Even before the pandemic, museums, artist and recording studios, rehearsal spaces, and independent music venues and theaters have been feeling the squeeze of growing development pressure and restrictive planning policy, rising rents, and changing business and revenue models across the creative industries. And while the pandemic has had a profound impact across the economy, it has been uniquely brutal for cities’ creative economy and cultural sectors. Due to these sectors’ dependence on in-person events, many cultural venues saw revenue losses of up to 90 percent, and some of our cities’ most beloved cultural spaces have closed permanently.
The thought of a post-pandemic without the arts and cultural ecosystems that gives our cities their sense of place and community is a bleak one.
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Join ULI-LA as we (virtually) tour Exposition Park, where recent and ongoing projects are transforming the area and inspiring further investment and development. The recently approved master plan improves connections to the surrounding community and adds more than 14 acres of street-level green space to the Park, which has undergone significant transformation with construction of the LA Football Club Bank of California Stadium and the ongoing construction of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The tour will shed light on the inspiration behind the master plan and other upcoming Exposition Park projects, and drive discussion on how they may influence the surrounding community.
Wander through a digital matrix of virtual exhibition galleries at 2×8: Domum, the first year that the AIALA’s 2×8 Student Exhibition and Competition goes completely virtual.
As designed by Garet Ammerman, THR.D studio, Inc, and developed by Bryan Zheng, WbML at USC, the virtual exhibition space offers an untethered immersive gallery experience within a field of equally accessible student pods distributed by a graphic scaffolding.
The 2×8 annual exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 16 Architecture and Design Universities throughout California to celebrate the diversity of architectural philosophy and encourage conversation around a central theme. This year’s theme reflects on the dialogue surrounding housing in Los Angeles and other urban centers across the country. Students were encouraged to submit presentation materials and 3d models that respond to the theme with innovative solutions.
Winners of the competition are award scholarships which will be awarded at the opening November 5.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Exhibition Design: Garet Ammerman, THR.D studio, Inc
Developer/UX: Bryan Zhang, Worldbuilding Media Lab at USC
On October 24th and 25th Rio Reveals opens a donor and press sneak peek of the original spectacle, Firefly Nights.
A COVID-safe experience at a hidden spot along the LA River. Firefly Nights are a miraculous happening. Fireflies glow around your car through visions in the sky, epic songs, and delightful surprises. Dine from a local restaurant in a secret garden while performers dance nearby. You and your car-group are led by foot to find yourself at the edge of the river in what could only be a magical mirage. Each component is crafted by leading Los Angeles artists, resulting in an immersive experience of the river like you have never imagined.
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AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is proud to host The Blue Hour on October 10, 2020 from 600-830PM in San Pedro, CA, next to the USS Iowa.
About this Event
Highlights of The Blue Hour include:
*Never seen before on a big screen, footage of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
*The U.S. debut of a pivotal section of Peter Sellars’ production of Mozart’s Idomeneo.
*An evocative and motivational collection of videos about the Wonders, Dangers, and Solutions found at sea.
*An appearance from Dr. Bob Ballard (Ocean Exploration Trust) accepting the Explorer Award.
*A one-night only commissioned art installation projected over the USS Iowa by artists Mason Rothschild and Annie Sperling, in collaboration with world renowned artist, Refik Anadol
Click here for more information on location, food, and artist bios.
August 6th marks the 55th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
INTO ACTION kicks off with a celebration of black life. Join us as we honor the legacy of black leadership and uplift the critical work being done to address voter suppression in the context of ongoing systemic voter disenfranchisement.
Featuring John Legend, Usher, Stacey Abrams, Common, Billy Porter, Kendrick Sampson, Chuck D, Phillip Agnew, Christian McBride, The Wide Awakes and more!
Artists are the tip of the spear of social change.
In collaboration with the Kennedy Center, join artists + activists using their talents to build momentum towards lasting change.
International Youth Day
Young people are at the front of local, national and global movements demanding justice. Together we will celebrate youth leadership and the work being done to build momentum towards a massive youth turnout in November.
From pay to power, from self-determination to protecting the air we all breathe, we will celebrate the women who continue to drive change in and out of government.
With continued attacks upon access to women’s health and safety and continued inequitable pay - glass ceilings remain unbroken while toxic men ascend to power. Today’s feminist movements are being led by women of color and becoming more and more potent and powerful.
Sign Up To Be a Part of Into Action 2020 so you can attend one or more of their events!
On Wednesday, July 29, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City for our webinar with Taneshia Nash Laird, president and CEO of Newark Symphony Hall. During this webinar, she will discuss “How To Revitalize A Historic Arts Institution.”
Join us for a special partner event on the Los Angeles River! Las Fotos Project is hosting "Flow", an examination of the ongoing global water crisis, its connection to women and the impact on communities in Los Angeles. The student exhibit features the work of four teenage girls who combine photography, storytelling, and GIS mapping in an experimental media exhibition to illuminate the crosshatches of indigenous water practices, water policy and nature in Los Angeles.
Featured Photographers:
Andrea Popoca, age 12
Celeste Umaña, age 13
Maria Romero, age 16
Xochitl Cruz, age 14
When: Opening Night is March 16 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Closing Night is April 13 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
This exhibit is free and open to the public! To RSVP for the opening night or closing night, click here!
Proud Community, a non-profit community art,education and youth resource organization. We are hosting our first annual, County wide, one day, mainstream art, education and multi-genre music festival held in Los Angeles, California on June 23,2018. This inaugural year is expected to draw nearly three thousand (3,000) attendees throughout LosAngeles County. This year the American Peace Day Music Festival is committed to raising awareness forLA County homeless youth between the ages of 13-24.
American Peace Day will feature food, live music entertainment, speakers, art, retail and interactive activities throughout the day to raise awareness for LA County Homeless youth ages 13-24.
Paul Pescador | Going West, or 15 Years in Los Angeles
Exhibition & Artist Lab Residency | Main Gallery
April 23 - June 29, 2018
Reception & Screening
June 9, 2018 | 5-8 PM
Daniel Canogar, Asia Sztencel, and Roey Victoria Heifetz
Visiting Artists in Residence | Open Studios
18th Street Arts Center presents an exhibition and Artist Lab Residency featuring the work of LA-based artist Paul Pescador. As part of this experimental residency, Pescador will produce a feature-length film emerging from a set of actions, gestures and images oriented around neighborhoods he has lived in since moving to Los Angeles. Pescador asks questions of himself and others about being a resident in Los Angeles through examining his own experiences and those of residents in each neighborhood. His work weaves in personal anecdotes about his personal experiences learning to live in a large metropolitan area, including past relationship heartbreaks, isolation, and “getting lost within a crowd.”
Pescador will initiate the project by trying to understand the socio-economic wealth of Santa Monica as a model for other Los Angeles neighborhoods, serving as both an aspirational image and as a source of anxiety over gentrification and displacement. Focusing specifically on the Pico neighborhood which surrounds 18th Street Art Center, he asks, does the popular version of Santa Monica exist in reality or is it more nuanced and complicated?
In the gallery, Pescador installs framed photographs based on his initial research, using a colorful palette and collage techniques. Over the residency period from April 23 through June 29, he will add additional objects, notes, and documentation, filling the space with a large collection of photographs and written texts by the end of June. Pescador also invites viewers to share their written and audio experiences of living in Los Angeles County and how they see their own neighborhood changing throughout the time they have lived there. These experiences will be incorporated into the artist’s research and source material for his film.
ArtsDay is an annual opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the arts and to talk with elected officials about why the arts are important to us. We thank our elected officials for their investments in arts and culture in their communities and ask them to keep their pledges to foster healthy, vibrant, and prosperous communities that include the arts.
The first annual ArtsDay held on April 11, 2012 brought together more than 75 arts supporters and city council office representatives inside City Hall in celebration of the City’s nonprofit arts and cultural sector and its role in building a vibrant, economic, social and civic Los Angeles.
ArtsDay 2012 pioneered a dialogue between arts advocates and city council representatives with the goal of advancing access to arts throughout Los Angeles. Specifically, advocates urged council members and staff to retain the full 1% of the Transient & Occupancy Tax, the sole revenue stream for the Department of Cultural Affairs.
