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
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
Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena present an epic WWII play. Inspired by the true-life experiences of Ralph J. Preiss, Mix-Mix tells the coming-of-age tale of 13-year-old Rudy Preissman, who escapes Nazi Germany at the age of nine with his family to find safety in the Philippines. Their tropical refuge is upended when Japan invades the islands, forcing the family and their Filipino friends to hide in the heights and depths of sacred Mount Banahao.
As a Portuguese immigrant, storyteller, and sleight-of-hand magician, Helder Guimarães arrived in America at age 29. Wide-eyed and full of ideas, he discovers a fascinating puzzle of cultural and professional challenges to solve while he tries to build a home. The Hope Theory offers a unique perspective on America through the eyes of an optimistic outsider.
Tuesdays – Fridays, 8:00 p.m., Saturdays, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.,
Sundays, 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Website Link
geffenplayhouse.org
Event Date
-
Event Location
Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Ave. Los Angeles, CA90024 United States
American Mariachi is a big-hearted, feel-good comedy with live music about familia, amor, and tradición. It’s the 1970s and women can’t be mariachis…or can they?
Thursdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 4:00 p.m.
Check the website for ticket prices
Website Link
latinotheaterco.org/2024season
Event Date
Event Location
Los Angeles Theatre Center 514 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA90013 United States
This is the story of an Indigenous musician whose works have been attributed to Europeans. It is a mix of music, magic, drama, passion, spirituality, and dance in a celebration that explores people of color’s lives during the late 19th century Americas and their ghostlike impact on our lives today.
Thursdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 4:00 p.m.
Check the website for ticket prices
Website Link
latinotheaterco.org/2024season
Event Date
-
Event Location
Los Angeles Theatre Center 514 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA90013 United States
It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life, and hope. Girl From the North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs by Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before.
A night of brilliantly crafted songs delivered by two artists who know how to inhabit a story. Silvana Estrada sings from down deep, telling her soulful coming-of-age stories in a voice that embraces the legacy of Latin American song and carries into the 21st century. Cécile McLorinSalvant applies her passion for storytelling to find the connections between vaudeville, blues, and folk traditions from around the world.
Website Link
laphil.com/events
Event Date
-
Event Location
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA90012 United States
Fujii Kaze is a rising singer-songwriter from Japan. Fujii Kaze writes/composes all of his songs. Fujii’s music has been described as “fresh yet familiar,” with an evident influence stemming from the Western music he grew up with. His vocals are “reminiscent of Japan’s kayōkyoku pop standards,” making his music also distinctly Japanese.
Website Link
theunitedtheater.com/events
Event Date
-
Event Location
The United Theater on Broadway 929 S Broadway Los Angeles, 90015 United States
The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film
Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and as a tool to raise our collective consciousness about science-based solutions to the mounting global climate crisis.Click the here to see the featured films selected for this series.
The film series runs between January 4th to January 28, 2024.
