African American Heritage Month

Shades of LA Photo Collection

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The library has an archive of over 7,000 photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and copied in a project sponsored by Photo Friends, a library support group. They include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations.
Website Link
tessa.lapl.org/pc10
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10290302
Event Main Image

African American Experience: The American Mosaic

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The online archive encompasses the myriad contributions of African Americans who have achieved cultural and historical prominence. This electronic resource includes biographies of such famous political and social figures, primary and secondary sources, including the complete WPA (Works Progress Administration) Slave Narratives collection, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, and photographs, maps, and other images.
Website Link
lapl.org/african-experience
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10290363
Event Main Image

Stories of Sugar Hill

Event Type
Culture & Community
Tours
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Stories of Sugar Hill presented by Friends Of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles

Map and guidebook available for download on February 13, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. for FREE!

Stories of Sugar Hill is a seven-stop self-guided Trail map accompanied by  in-depth research that celebrates the influential legends, icons, and trailblazers of West Adams’ Black history.

This project supports the neighborhood’s efforts in collecting, archiving, and sharing the stories of West Adams by working with residents of the area.

The experience is told through the neighborhood’s historic and unique architecture and is led by narrative accounts and reflections of the residents themselves.

 

The accompanying map and research will be accessible for download on February 13, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. on the FORT website.

Participants can log onto the FORT website and download the material for FREE, and take the self-guided tour at their leisure.

 

Website Link
https://www.fortla.org/
Event Date
Event Location

West Adams Neighborhood
2105 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90006
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0437915, -118.3028265

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
+91 7578946602
Event ID
10292308
Event Main Image

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre 31st Annual Festival

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

“Empowering Voices of Solo Female Performers for 31 Years.” LAWTF will present solo actors, musicians, vocalists and more!

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) will present solo performers live on stage for our 31st Annual Festival

“TELLING OUR TRUTHS”

Empowering Voices of Solo Female Performers for 301Years.

Festivities begin on Thursday, March 28, 2024 with our Champagne GALA and Awards Ceremony that honors powerful female voices in theatre. This powerful line-up of performers and events will span a 4-day, 6 program Festival, March 28 – March 31.

Our powerful 2024 performers will again transport our appreciative audiences as they touch hearts, tear eyes, tickle funny bones and transport our audiences beyond their own experiences as they share their diverse stories.

Join hands with us during this milestone celebration as we continue to empower female solo voices.

Not to be missed!

Website Link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-our-truths-tickets-807463614407?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Event Date
-
Event Location

Theatre 68 Arts Complex
5112 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, 91602
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1633694, -118.3733361

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$20 – $150
Event ID
10295827
Event Main Image

18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium, is an exhibition that recount the 80-year history (1925-2005) of the Olympic Auditorium, the home for visceral entertainment in Los Angeles and a historic venue that shaped Los Angeles’ past and influenced its future. From the dangerous combat of boxing to the dramatic theatricality of wrestling, roller derby, and music, the gritty punch palace at the corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue distilled the beauty and brutality of a divided city.
Website Link
lapca.org/exhibition/18th-grand-the-olympic-auditorium-august-11-2023-may-12-2024/
Event Date
-
Event Location

La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
501 N. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0564554, -118.2398448

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.542.6200
Event ID
10296083
Event Main Image

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Started over 50 years ago, the Kinsey’s have been on a journey of collecting fine art and primary source historical objects that document the African American experience and illuminate the untold stories of Black Excellence throughout U.S. history. The exhibition focuses on the lives, accomplishments, and brilliance of African Americans from the 16th century through the years of slavery and emancipation to the civil rights movement and modern-day.
Website Link
sofistadium.com/kinsey/
Event Date
-
Event Location

SoFi Stadium
1001 Stadium Dr.
Inglewood, CA 90301
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9530049, -118.3385242

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15
Contact Phone
213-808-6220
Event ID
10296155
Event Main Image

The American Library

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition creates a library setting where the shelves are filled with more than six thousand books individually wrapped in Shonibare’s signature Dutch wax-printed cotton textiles. Each book bears a name on its spine of a notable American individual. First- and second-generation immigrants and Black Americans affected by the Great Migration are featured alongside one another. A further set of books features the names of people who have spoken against immigration, equality, or diversity.
Website Link
https://www.skirball.org/museum/american-library-yinka-shonibare-cbe-ra
Event Date
-
Event Location

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049
Los Angeles, CA 90049
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1247412, -118.4791706

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15 – $18
Event ID
10291338
Event Main Image

The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The exhibition brings together over 100 sacred artworks including carved sculpture, vibrant beadwork, dazzling costumes, and other art forms from Nigeria and Benin and across the Yoruba diaspora of Brazil, Cuba, and the U.S. Together these objects trace continuities and innovations within the religious material culture of the Yoruba Atlantic, a cultural sphere profoundly affected by empire-building, colonialism, the violence of enslavement, international trade networks, and global immigration patterns.

 

 

Website Link
https://fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/the-house-was-too-small-sacred-yoruba-arts/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Fowler Museum at UCLA
W. Sunset Blvd. and Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0738276, -118.4452915

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.825.4361
Event ID
10285268
Event Main Image

The GRAMMY Museum

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The GRAMMY Museum aims to educate individuals about the history and cultural significance of American music and to inspire the next generation to explore and create new forms of music using the roots that have existed in interactives, and exciting exhibitions.  The Museum accomplishes this through innovative programming, cutting-edge interactives, and exciting exhibitions.

 

Sundays & Mondays, Wednesdays – Fridays 11:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00p.m,  Tuesdays – Closed
Website Link
grammymuseum.org/visit/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Grammy Museum
800 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite A 245
Los Angeles, CA 90015
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0447954, -118.2652703

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
213.765.6800
Event ID
10296039
Event Main Image

Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Surveying twenty-five years of the multi-disciplinary practice of artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii; lives in New York), Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom will celebrate a pioneering artist known for his incisive work that interrogates ideas of spectacle, belonging and identity. Inspired by televised sporting events and popular entertainment, Pfeiffer’s work deconstructs our fascination and obsession with celebrity culture, unpacking how collective consciousness is shaped and manipulated through his masterful editing of found footage. In tracing the global trajectory of image circulation, Pfeiffer demonstrates how desire, heroism, and worship operate as part of the mechanisms of art, religion, politics, and nationhood. Bringing together more than thirty works and debuting a new commission, Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is the first retrospective of the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice.

 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,
Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.,
Saturdays and Sundays 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Website Link
moca.org/exhibition/paul-pfeiffer-prologue-to-the-story-of-the-birth-of-freedom
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0497071, -118.2391003

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10 – $18
Contact Phone
(213) 625-4390
Event ID
10296205
Event Main Image
African American Heritage Month