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A Community Learning and Networking Program for Arts Professionals

Program Description

The DCA Evening Webinar Series for Arts Workers, in partnership with Arts for LA, is an opportunity for the local arts and cultural community to build networks through listening, learning, and exchanging insights. This year, the program comprises three cohorts.

These evening exchanges offer opportunities for attendees to ask questions, share comments or recommendations, and interact at the end of the sessions. If interested, local artists and arts workers are welcome and encouraged to join multiple cohorts throughout the course of the series.

These meetings (starting at or after 6:30 p.m. PST) are virtual and held on regular intervals to encourage consistent enrollment, continuous participation, and evolving benefits. Please note that all the cohort meetings will be recorded.

2025 Cohorts

(attendees can join any cohorts at any time)

Leadership Cohort for Artists with Disabilities

Dates: March 26, April 23, May 21, June 4, June 25, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Registration: https://bit.ly/3FjfIU9
Speakers: Laura Brody, Socks Whitmore, and Vanessa Cruz

Important information: This cohort will include American Sign Language interpreting and real-time captioning throughout the five sessions. For registration assistance or additional support, reach out to mouna.benbouazza@lacity.org. To request a reasonable accommodation in advance, please contact (213) 202-5503 (Voice), dial 7-1-1 for CA Relay, or email mouna.benbouazza@lacity.org at least five business days before the event. We’ll make every effort to accommodate requests with less notice. Copies of documents are available in alternative formats upon request.

Outdoor Festival Producers

Dates: March 27, April 16, May 14, June 11, June 26, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Registration: https://bit.ly/4kXOTW0
Speakers: Pierre Arreola, Tanisha Hall, Diane Robertson

Entertainment Industry Writers of Color – Coordinated by Arts For LA

A Community Learning and Networking Program for Arts Professionals

Program Description

The DCA Evening Webinar Series for Arts Workers, in partnership with Arts for LA, is an opportunity for the local arts and cultural community to build networks through listening, learning, and exchanging insights. This year, the program comprises three cohorts.

These evening exchanges offer opportunities for attendees to ask questions, share comments or recommendations, and interact at the end of the sessions. If interested, local artists and arts workers are welcome and encouraged to join multiple cohorts throughout the course of the series.

These meetings (starting at or after 6:30 p.m. PST) are virtual and held on regular intervals to encourage consistent enrollment, continuous participation, and evolving benefits. Please note that all the cohort meetings will be recorded.

2025 Cohorts

(attendees can join any cohorts at any time)

Leadership Cohort for Artists with Disabilities

Dates: March 26, April 23, May 21, June 4, June 25, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Registration: https://bit.ly/3FjfIU9
Speakers: Laura Brody, Socks Whitmore, and Vanessa Cruz

Important information: This cohort will include American Sign Language interpreting and real-time captioning throughout the five sessions. For registration assistance or additional support, reach out to mouna.benbouazza@lacity.org. To request a reasonable accommodation in advance, please contact (213) 202-5503 (Voice), dial 7-1-1 for CA Relay, or email mouna.benbouazza@lacity.org at least five business days before the event. We’ll make every effort to accommodate requests with less notice. Copies of documents are available in alternative formats upon request.

Outdoor Festival Producers

Dates: March 27, April 16, May 14, June 11, June 26, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Registration: https://bit.ly/4kXOTW0
Speakers: Pierre Arreola, Tanisha Hall, Diane Robertson

Entertainment Industry Writers of Color – Coordinated by Arts For LA

This public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619?

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database is a resource for the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Launched online in 2018, it documents more than 27,000 voyages that trafficked enslaved Africans and African-descended people from one part of the Americas to another from 1550 to 1860. This database strengthens research throughout the University of California system on the history and impact of the slave trade and slavery in the Americas by connecting scholarship on the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds.