This family-oriented event returns on the third Thursday of each month from June through August. The event features musicians, artists, vendors, and food trucks through the streets of Historic Downtown Canoga Park.
Website Link
cpia.la/events
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Downtown Canoga Park Intersection of Sherman Way and Topanga Boulevard Canoga Park, CA United States
This will be the first major international tour of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas’s work. Marking its debut at The Broad with over 80 works from the last 20 years, the exhibition highlights how Thomas has mastered and innovated within several disciplines, from mixed-media painting and collage to installation and photography.
May 25 – September 29
Tuesdays – Sundays, check the website for times
$22, Reserve a timed entry ticket at the website
Website Link
thebroad.org/art
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The Broad 221 S. Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA90012 United States
Spend an afternoon at a special collection of the LA County Library that encompasses academic materials, film, music, novels, magazines, and newspapers. The collection focuses on the Asian American Pacific Islander American experience, with core holdings in history, art, and culture. The center has over 100 titles on microfilm of historical Asian immigrant newspapers published in the US.
Website Link
lacountylibrary.org/asian-pacific-resource-center
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Rosemead Library 8800 Valley Blvd. Rosemead, CA91770 United States
Best Life is an online series created, written, and filmed by Jordan Michael Green. He explores the slings, arrows, and joys of the entertainment business as an artist, actor, and performance artist. These episodes feature a chat with the series’ most notable characters, and the stars/actors look back at some of the series’ most significant moments.
Artist and retired Director of Global Advocacy & Partnerships for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Joey Terrill, speaks about his life’s work as an artist and activist focusing on issues facing queer Chicano communities in Los Angeles and beyond.
Acclaimed author/historian Stuart Timmons was in the process of writing his West Hollywood LGBTQ History Tour, the final in a trio of walking tours, when he suffered a debilitating stroke in 2008. The tour remained incomplete until the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division funded its completion to help finish his research, bringing it to a rousing completion as both a self-guided walking tour and a special in-person event with performance artists as tour guides. In 2021, through a special grant, the tour was recorded as a collection of short films.
This project joins LGBTQ+ seniors and young performing artists, in various disciplines, to explore how the gay community has been built by creating paths and interconnectedness.
Architect John Elgin Woolf’s work defined luxury living for Hollywood’s famous. He became a master of the Hollywood Regency style, creating glamorous homes for figures including Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Mae West, and John Wayne. Take this self-guided architectural trail curated by filmmaker and journalist Matt Tyrnauer.
An open-access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals drawn from the extraordinary collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Website Link
voices.revealdigital.org
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Virtual Event 150 E 10th St Claremont, CA91711 United States
The LGBTQ+ Pride at Los Angeles County Library has a selection of resources and materials that inform about and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles County and beyond. The scope encompasses academic materials, poetry, film, music, novels, magazines, and newspapers.
Website Link
lacountylibrary.org/pride
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Virtual Event 150 E 10th St Claremont, CA91711 United States
