African American Heritage Month

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.
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10290359
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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.

 

Event Date
Event Location

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

Event Lat/Long
34.0437915, -118.3028265
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
+91 7578946602
Event ID
10292300
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Stew is a captivating funny, and intimate story about the relationships between mothers and daughters and the realities that bind them together.

 

Fridays at 8:00 pm Saturdays at 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm Sundays at 3 pm & 7:00 pm
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
4718 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0395836, -118.3420399
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$30
Contact Phone
323.964.9766
Event ID
10302162
Event Main Image
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.
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
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.542.6200
Event ID
10296077
Event Main Image
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.
Event Date
-
Event Location

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

Event Lat/Long
33.9530049, -118.3385242
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15
Contact Phone
213-808-6220
Event ID
10296151
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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.

 

 

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
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.825.4361
Event ID
10295224
Event Main Image
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
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
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
213.765.6800
Event ID
10296032
Event Main Image
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.
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
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10 – $18
Contact Phone
(213) 625-4390
Event ID
10296198
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Museum of Latin American Art is pleased to present Alexandre Arrechea: Intersected Horizons, the first solo museum show in California that explores the artistic practices of the well-known and multidisciplinary artist Alexandre Arrechea. A contemporary Afro-Cuban artist based between Spain and the USA for more than two decades and the former co-founder of the Los Carpinteros collective,

 

In this exhibit, Arrechea’s method of transgressing the limits of traditional artifacts and materials as a point of examination is redefined as a social and political exploration that melds art, history, and archaeological forms.

 

Adults – $15 Seniors & Students – $10, Members and Children under 12 Free,
Free Admission every Sunday
Event Date
-
Event Location

Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Ave
Long Beach, CA 90802
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.774467, -118.17985
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10 – $15
Contact Phone
562.437.1689
Event ID
10296121
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition surveys over five hundred years of intaglio prints drawn from the extensive collections of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum. The intaglio medium comprises engravings, etchings, dry point, aquatint, and mezzotint, all of which involve the use of a copper or zinc plate that is incised, inked, and printed. These materials and techniques have remained more or less the same since the fifteenth century. The exhibit includes examples of Renaissance engraving, through contemporary etchings. Groove includes more than eighty prints, organized chronologically, with important examples of Renaissance engraving by Albrecht Dürer and Giorgio Ghisi; major etchings of the Dutch baroque period by Rembrandt van Rijn; nineteenth- and twentieth-century prints by Stanley William HayterErnst Ludwig KirchnerKäthe Kollwitz, and Pablo Picasso; and contemporary etchings by Mark BradfordVija CelminsNicole EisenmanToba Khedoori, and Martin Puryear.
Event Date
-
Event Location

Hammer Museum, UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0591217, -118.4436674
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.443.7000
Event ID
10295298
Event Main Image