Family Friendly

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

In 2019, Lawson answered more than 1,000 questions in his Story File so that future generations can continue conversing with him to learn about his legacy. What would you like to ask Lawson?

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m.
Adults – $16, Seniors and Youth – $9, Members and Children under 5 – Free

Event Date
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Event Location

Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0492315, -118.239116
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$9 – $16
Event ID
10312999
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Mark Bradford’s 150 Portrait Tone, a mural-size composition that contains elements of both abstraction and realism, is based on an idea for a work that the artist conceived after the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a police officer in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in July 2016. Castile, a nutrition services supervisor at an elementary school, was shot after being pulled over in his car—an incident that was livestreamed on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was sitting in the passenger seat next to him.

The painting features excerpts of Reynolds’s dialogue from the video. The title, 150 Portrait Tone, refers to the name and color code of the pink acrylic used throughout the painting. Like the now-obsolete “flesh” crayon in the Crayola 64 box (renamed “peach” in 1962), the color “portrait tone” carries inherent assumptions about who, exactly, is being depicted. In the context of Bradford’s painting, the title presents a sobering commentary on power and representation.

Event Date
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Event Location

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0637913, -118.3588851
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10 – $25
Contact Phone
213.202.5567
Event ID
10296901
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition features 15 Inland Empire artists who use the concept of alienness to explore personal and communal identities that defy societal norms. The show includes a diverse range of works—paintings, textiles, sculptures, photographs, video installations, and more—each reimagining “alien” as a metaphor for transformation, empowerment, and self-reclamation.  

 

Wednesdays – Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Sundays 12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m.
Event Date
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Event Location

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum
3581 Mission Inn Ave.
Riverside, CA 92501
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9826903, -117.3717005
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
(951) 684-7111
Event ID
10355408
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Asian American Expo features 7 large exhibition halls, over 1,000 vendors, 9 non-stop performance stages, and 3 distinctly unique food courts. The Asian American Expo is hosted at the beginning of each year to celebrate the coming of the Lunar New Year Festival, with the goal of recreating the New Year celebrations found across Asia.
Event Date
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Event Location

Fairplex
2118 N White Ave
Pomona, CA 91768
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.087107, -117.763224
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$20
Event ID
10355448
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Event Type
Family Activity
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical splashes onto the stage with a song to sing! Join Lyle as he and his new human friends face their fears and find their voices. Inspired by Bernard Waber’s much-loved picture books, this lively musical features new music by EGOT-winning composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land). A celebration for the whole family, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical is packed with humor, heart, and showstopping tunes that will have audiences of all ages roaring with song.  

 

 AGES: 5 – 12 YR OLDS + FAMILIES Two shows on Saturday and Sundays at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm
Event Date
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Event Location

Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1451149, -118.137375
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
626-356-7529
Event ID
10355513
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival includes America’s largest and most prestigious Black film festival. The event showcases many Black creative works worldwide, highlighting those that reinforce positive images and help destroy negative stereotypes. Nowhere else can audiences find this unique opportunity to come together through film and art to explore new worlds, meet new people, and acquire new information and ideas. In-person and virtual screenings. Check the website for ticket and time information.

Event Date
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Event Location

The Culver Theater
9500 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, 90232
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0234499, -118.3940916
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check website for more information
Event ID
10349663
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

This installation features some of the many forms incarceration has taken in the American West over time, in conversation with a new photo series taken in a California state prison by fine art photographer Pep Williams. Located in the jail cell area of the Autry’s firearms galleries, the installation brings past and present into dialogue.

 

 

Adults – $14, Students (with current ID) and Seniors (60+) – $10, Children (3–12) – $6

Tuesdays – Fridays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Saturdays – Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Event Date
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Event Location

Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1487135, -118.2812551
Fee Required
Yes
Contact Phone
323.667.2000
Event ID
10352665
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

George Washington Carver was a pioneer of plant-based engineering and one of the nation’s earliest proponents of sustainable agriculture. In the early 1900s, he built his “Jesup Wagon,” a moveable school to share soil and plant samples, equipment, and other agricultural knowledge with farmers. Carver’s then-radical ideas—including organic fertilizers, crop rotation, and plant-based medicines, and construction materials—are now recognized as the forerunners of modern conservation.

Event Date
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Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10352908
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice considers Black image making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation, and possibility. At CAAM, Fazlalizadeh will present a series of portraits of Black Angelenos wheat-pasted across the atrium’s monumental walls. Based on photographs and conversations that took place this spring while the artist was living in Los Angeles, the portraits ask how safety is inferred, built, and felt for the city’s Black residents.

Event Date
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Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10352965
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Ben Caldwell envisioned cinema as an instrument that could heal and emancipate. In 1984, he opened KAOS Network, the media arts hub that has helped steward Leimert Park Village’s traditions of Black artistry, fellowship, and love for over four decades. This multimedia exhibition explores Caldwell’s varied practices of photography, film, video, music, performance, community-based design, and interactive media and celebrates the creative life and communities of KAOS Network.

Event Date
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Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10352934
Event Main Image