Dca Grantee Event

Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 will feature artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean, Taylor Lee, Mike Shinoda, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 is presented by JANM and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot.

Top: Felicia Chiao, Imagination (detail), 2023, Copic marker and ink on brown toned paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Join the weekly Latin Jazz Sessions, led by Matthew Hernandez, for an introduction to various Latin music styles, including cha-cha, boleros, salsa, cumbia, and merengue. Open to all ages, these sessions provide sheet music and drumming pattern worksheets. No prior musical experience is necessary, and instruments are available for use.

Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 will feature artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean, Taylor Lee, Mike Shinoda, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 is presented by JANM and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot.

Top: Felicia Chiao, Imagination (detail), 2023, Copic marker and ink on brown toned paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 will feature artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean, Taylor Lee, Mike Shinoda, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 is presented by JANM and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot.

Top: Felicia Chiao, Imagination (detail), 2023, Copic marker and ink on brown toned paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 will feature artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean, Taylor Lee, Mike Shinoda, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 is presented by JANM and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot.

Top: Felicia Chiao, Imagination (detail), 2023, Copic marker and ink on brown toned paper. Courtesy of the artist.

The Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra’s Juneteenth Festival features renowned Dramatic Soprano, Gwen Brown from the Fisk Jubilee Singers performing “Five Freedom Songs” by Jessie Montgomery and Virtuoso Violinist, Jordan Busa performing “Fantasy in G” (The Gospel Train) by Julius P. Williams who has performed for Grey’s Anatomy and a plethora of film and entertainers.

The Juneteenth Festival is on Saturday, June 8, 3:00 to 4:30 at the Los Angeles Fifty-Fourth Street Seventh-day Adventist Church.

To learn much more about this event, visit aacmsorchestra.org/events.html.

To purchase tickets, visit eventbrite.com/e/juneteenth-festival-concert-tickets-1353034194699?aff=erelexpmlt.

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC), in partnership with the artist group FLOOD, is pleased to announce the soundpedro2025 chthonic on-site event on Saturday, June 7, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Produced by FLOOD, and hosted by AGCC since 2017, soundpedro features over 100 single and multi-media sound artists who experiment in sound and its modes of perception.

The one-night event includes: sculptures, environments, installations, timed and ongoing performances, interactions, and presentations placed throughout Angels Gate Cultural Center located at 3601 S. Gaffey Street in San Pedro, California. soundpedro is an annual season of experimental sound art events presented through November. soundpedro is not a music event.

soundpedro2025 chthonic shows June 7 through July 5, 2025. Gallery hours Thursdays through Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Learn more about soundpedro2025 chthonic at soundpedro.art/.

Performance and installation by Eden Knutilla, photo by Jose Cordon

Performance of Meanderthals by Melissa Lavabre, photo by Jose Cordon

Jazz at LACMA is a celebration of L.A.’s finest jazz musicians and has featured such legends as Wayne Shorter, The Yellowjackets, Quincy Jones All Star Orchestra with John Clayton, Arturo Sandoval, Jeff Lorber, Billy Childs, Tierney Sutton, Ernie Watts, and many more. Concerts are broadcast on KJAZZ (88.1 FM) every Sunday evening from 7–9 pm and include interviews with featured performers. Jazz at LACMA is produced under the direction of Director of Music Programs Mitch Glickman.

Come celebrate the completion of the current cohort of Fresh Track. For the last 12 weeks youth have been engaging in multi-disciplinary arts and wellness practices with Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) members Jail Guitar Doors, No Easy Props and Street Poets Inc. This free event will take place Friday, June 6, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the C.A.P.O. Center. 

Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 will feature artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean, Taylor Lee, Mike Shinoda, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto.

Giant Robot Biennale 5 is presented by JANM and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot.

Top: Felicia Chiao, Imagination (detail), 2023, Copic marker and ink on brown toned paper. Courtesy of the artist.