This summer a group of high school students brought a whole new meaning to foreign exchange programs.

Wendy Rojas of Koreatown immersed herself in Sioux Falls, S.D. Expecting to see Mt. Rushmore, she instead found herself setting the record straight about her hometown. No, she explained to locals, her neighborhood is not overrun with gangs and rife with gunfire like they’d seen in the movies.

Maggie Quine of Kilgore, Texas, was just as shocked with what she had to clarify to L.A. teens visiting her hometown. No, Texans don’t get around on horseback.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.

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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Please join us on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm to celebrate the launch of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises written by the Berggruen Institute’s COO and Senior Vice President, Nils Gilman, and Associate Director, Planetary Program, Jonathan Blake.

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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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Join us in-person at SCG's 2023 Annual Conference!

Join SCG’s 2023 Annual Conference to reimagine economic prosperity deeply grounded in mutuality. We invite you to envision an economy that prioritizes relationships with each other and our planet over profits.

Our current economy is already profoundly dependent on mutuality, but systemic inequities undermine this spirit of reciprocity and our economic well-being. We can commit to interdependence and collective freedom by divesting from exploitative and extractive practices. We can better align with movement leaders and organizers to shift capital and power toward communities most impacted by oppressive systems.

During REIMAGINE Our Economy, we will participate in an incredible journey from imagination to integration with movement leaders, culture workers, and cross-sector practitioners. Together, we will hear from experts and engage in dialogues to share prosperity, listen to our land, resource our communities, heal our culture, and repair our relations. Our philanthropic community will learn how to apply these principles through a systems change approach in economic justice, climate and culture change, and other issue areas.

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Join us on November 16th for Rooted - an annual fundraiser for LA Más with food, music, dancing, art and family-friendly fun!

We’ll be honoring teams in our solidarity ecosystem who have invested deeply and nurtured tenderly the foundations of a regenerative economy. Support our growing movement to transform our relationship to land, labor, and care in Northeast LA.

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Join FoLAR on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023, at the LA State Historic Park for our second annual River Fest — a free open-air film, arts, and community festival bringing the River to the People and the People to the River! River Fest 2023 will feature a variety of local artists, live performances, short environmental film screenings, interactive art and education exhibits, food trucks, raffles, and more!

Learn more HERE.

The Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of artist and activist Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center, housed at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues. Streisand’s transformative gift helps to expand our combined centers’ reach beyond UCLA and Los Angeles, fund faculty and students, and support research and programming that seek to address critical issues facing people of all genders.

The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to the inaugural public lecture on the topic of Truth in the Public Sphere

The Center for Truth in the Public Sphere will be the first area of study and advocacy and will focus on truth in the public sphere, which Streisand is especially passionate about. Speakers and research will delve into urgent and existential threats to democracy, and examine how lies and the proliferation of disinformation can destroy a civic sense of decency, as well as entire countries.

Featuring

André Brock, Frances Haugen, Stuart Stevens

Moderated by

Safiya Noble

Learn more and RSVP here.