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WeHo Pride Arts Festival

Event Type
Culture & Community
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Each year, the City of West Hollywood celebrates the artistic contributions of the LGBTQ+ community with its vibrant Arts Festival. This year’s event will begin with two art exhibits, a Vogue ball, a poetry happening, and a Transmasculine comedy show, along with additional arts grant programs, Prism Comics Q-Con, a free concert from GMCLA, and interactive typewriter poetry from Pride Poets.
Website Link
wehopride.com
Event Date
Event Location

Various locations
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10321622
Event Main Image

Parks After Dark

Event Type
Dance
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Music
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Parks After Dark returns for summer with activities at 34 Los Angeles County parks. Bring your family and friends to an LA County Parks location for summer concerts, movie nights, or various free programs.
Website Link
parks.lacounty.gov/?s=parks+after+dark+2024
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles County Parks
Los Angeles
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0549076, -118.242643

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10318915
Event Main Image

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles – 50 Free Summer Concerts

Event Type
Dance
Family Activity
Music
Culture & Community
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Located in Westlake’s historic MacArthur Park, Levitt LA has become a favorite gathering spot for Angelenos of all ages and backgrounds to relax, share a dance together, and experience the power of free, live music. Concerts feature local favorites to celebrated international artists from over 20 music genres.

 

Check the website for events, dates, and times.
Website Link
levittlosangeles.org
Event Date
Event Location

MacArthur Park Levitt Pavilion
West 6th Street and South Park View Street
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0609307, -118.277996

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10319059
Event Main Image

JANM Digital Film Festival

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the past JANM Digital Film Festivals.
Website Link
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYnGMFWDDhthI3LswU_4f5k0frC3Rnung
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10316758
Event Main Image

OUTMUSEUM

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The OutMuseum is the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum available free to the public. Home to a combination of rotating and permanent exhibits centering themes, identities, and experiences which celebrate and commemorate the queer and trans communities. Through short film collections, panels and roundtables, oral histories, and other multimedia within our exhibits, this space can foster discussions, increase access to art and information, and, most importantly, speak to histories regularly omitted from the record. Because what is history if not storytelling?
Website Link
outfest.org/outmuseum
Event Date
Event Location

OutMuseum
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10317715
Event Main Image

DAYS OF RAGE, MULTIMEDIA EXHIBIT ON ACTIVIST POSTERS

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Days of Rage is a web exhibition that enlivens historical activist posters through analysis and storytelling. Grounded in the experiences of activists and graphic designers, the exhibition positions LGBTQ+ graphic design as embodied in community realities and histories, producing subjective reflections on the interdependence of design and activism.  
Website Link
daysofrage.onearchives.org
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming – One Archives at the USC libraries
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.821.2771
Event ID
10317655
Event Main Image

Robert Mapplethorpe Papers and Photographs Archive

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The archive is now available to researchers. The archive spans the artist’s career from his student days at Pratt Institute in the 1960s through his more well-known photographs from the 1980s. The archive includes sculpture and assemblages, collages, cut-outs, early drawings and paintings, Polaroids, and examples of large-format photographic prints of flowers, portraits, nudes, and sadomasochistic subjects.
Website Link
getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113Y6W
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Getty Center
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.440.7300
Event ID
10317775
Event Main Image

The Life and Work of George Hoshida

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

This project honors the spirit and talent of George Hoshida, an incarcerated artist who documented life with pencil and brushwork in a series of notebooks he kept between 1942 and 1945. Through examples of Hoshida’s artwork and personal correspondence with his family, this site hopes to provide insight into one individual’s incarceration experience.

Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/hoshida
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10314456
Event Main Image

Wakaji Matsumoto – An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944

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

This exhibition highlights an artist’s rare photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles prior to World War II and of urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/wakaji-matsumoto/wakaji
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event ID
10314406
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Island Block Jam Sessions

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) presents Island Block Jam Sessions, six live contemporary music performances by seasoned Pasifika artists. This Virtual Backstage provides an inside look into the artists’ backstories. Their music is a gift for our ancestors and all the little spirits of the human journey. This is where music and mana meet.  
Website Link
pieam.org/virtual-backstage
Event Date
Event Location

Online at Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum
695 Alamitos Ave.
Long Beach, 90802
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.7751664, -118.1804853

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10315059
Event Main Image
Evening