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The Crazy Superhero Vacation is a production by Ms. Neate’s class at Vena Avenue Elementary. Animation and editing are by Pieter Hardeman of Toy Story Lab. Southland Sings is a creative organization using the arts to unlock creative potential through live opera, musical theatre production, education assemblies, and music composition for all ages.

JazzPOP returns in its 17th season with leading lights of West Coast jazz and improvised music in the Hammer courtyard. This edition showcases innovative SoCal and Bay Area bandleader-composers who explore a range of influences, from hip-hop to free jazz to Italian cinema, featuring infectious grooves, masterful improvisation, and dynamic ensemble interplay.

Create fun memories during summer vacation with a free tour of The Music Center’s sprawling campus. The 90-minute tours encompass The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Tuesdays – Fridays, 11:00 a.m., Saturdays – Sundays, 10:15 a.m.

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

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) presents UPEND Female Experience and Activism, a new group exhibition featuring contemporary women artists. Providing a counter to the increased societal distress of a return to toxic hypermasculinity, UPEND depicts strength and resistance in a decidedly female-identifying voice – upending expectations for what can and cannot be said, and how women should act.

UPEND includes works by Kennedi Carter, Nonny de la Peña with Emblematic Group, Ibuki Kuramochi, Andrea Patrie, Elyse Pignolet, She Loves Collective, Suzanna Scott, Sheli Silverio, and Kayla Tange and is curated by AGCC Director of Exhibitions, Cecelia Koger.

UPEND Female Experience and Activism explores contemporary, intersectional feminist issues through the lens of radical empathy for the female experience. Works explore both the inner personal lives of women and their outward expressions of resistance. UPEND is a response to the cultural resurgence of hypertoxic masculinity and recent political upheavals diminishing bodily autonomy and rights for women. By sharing the unique perspectives of women, UPEND hopes to create empathy for the experiences of others.

UPEND Female Experience and Activism will be on view in the gallery alongside Displacing Structures through August 17th, 2024 with free public visiting hours Thursdays through Saturdays, from 10am to 4pm. Please note that pets are not allowed inside our buildings. For questions, please email gallery@angelsgateart.org.

Visit angelsgateart.org to learn more.

This exhibition is supported by the California Natural Resources Agency for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Image: Kennedi Carter, Hidden Mother II, 2022. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the Artist and ROSEGALLERY.

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) presents Displacing Structures, an exhibition guest curated by local artist and CSULB Professor Fafnir Adamites. In Displacing Structures, traditional methods of weaving, netting, lacemaking, and basketry techniques are expanded upon to reveal and embrace personal and shared experiences, queer bodies and the tensions between structure and deviation.

Displacing Structures includes works by Fafnir Adamites, Molly Haynes, José Santiago Pérez, Jade Yumang, and Tomorrow, Asteroid x Jeanne Medina Le.

Displacing Structures is focused on artists who create with materials or techniques that are traditionally within the field of fiber or textile art. These five contemporary artists utilize both traditional and unconventional materials to reveal forms that hold, frame, expand and otherwise make room for the permeable edges. The grid structure found within weaving and netting acts as a stand-in for the societal, political, and binary-heavy structures around us. The artists in Displacing Structures disrupt these strict edges of the grid, instead using it as a visual framework to investigate place, identity and belonging. Languages, bodies, desires, abilities and anomalies of all kinds are given space within their practice to breathe and thrive. Straying from pattern allows room for critique of power structures, imposed binaries and systems of oppression.

Whether permeable or opaque, obvious or veiled, all of the artists included in Displacing Structures push against borders and defy fixed perspectives by examining personal and collective experiences. The artists use thoughtful intention to manipulate, activate and engage materials to create portals, fresh topographies and defiant patterns that offer respite for anyone seeking a break in the grid.

Displacing Structures, alongside UPEND Female Experience and Activism, will be on view in the gallery through August 17th, 2024 with free public visiting hours Thursdays through Saturdays, from 10am to 4pm. Please note that pets are not allowed inside our buildings. For questions, please email gallery@angelsgateart.org.

This exhibition is supported by the California Natural Resources Agency for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Visit angelsgateart.org to learn more.

Image: Jade Yumang, Obedience Training (detail), 2023. Discharged dye, cotton, sublimation dye, mercerized cotton yarn, fiberfill, cotton piping cord, and bamboo.