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Are you a small business owner or a street vendor? Do you want to know more about business permits in California? View an online workshop with representatives from the US Small Business Administration (SBA)and the Koreatown Youth Community Center (KYCC). The video is in Spanish.

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East West Players’ Theatre for Youth Touring Production presents the the story of  Kailani, an 18-year-old senior and star athlete, at Maui High School. While anxiously waiting to find out if she’s been accepted into her dream school, Patsy Mink, the first Asian-American congresswoman and former valedictorian of Maui High school, appears before her. As Patsy walks Kailani through the many trials and tribulations she faced throughout her political career and life, Kailani realizes that no matter how many setbacks she encounters, she can succeed as long as she perseveres. Good for ages 11 years old and up.

See this performance of Patsy, Sunday, October 13, 2024 at the East West Players Courtyard, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

No tickets required.

Valley Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Nithya Raman, the Los Angeles City Councilmember for the 4th District, is thrilled to announce its upcoming Fall Festival. This one-day event will take place at Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park on Sunday, October 13, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM, promising an unforgettable experience for attendees of all ages.

The Fall Festival will feature a vibrant blend of family-friendly activities and live entertainment. Children will enjoy a dedicated area filled with fun, including pumpkin painting, and a claw machine packed with toys. For fans of Taylor Swift, a designated area will offer the chance to create friendship bracelets while listening to “Blank Space,” a tribute band celebrating the pop star. Later in the evening, festival-goers can groove to the energetic sounds of “Locked Out of Heaven,” a dynamic Bruno Mars tribute band.

The event will also showcase a variety of local small business vendors, offering a range of unique products and services. Food trucks will be on-site, serving an assortment of delectable options to satisfy every palate.

At the heart of our mission, Valley Cultural Foundation is committed to celebrating the rich tapestry of talent, community, business, and education. We achieve this by curating live entertainment programs and events in the arts, bringing our diverse community together in the spirit of creativity and unity.

Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park is located at 14201 Huston Street in Sherman Oaks, CA. The concerts will be held between the pool and Houston Street; please look for the tents and the stage. Parking is located around the park and within the two park parking lots.

Support for this program was provided through the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Arts Development Fee Program

On October 13, 2024, the fourth annual Indigenous Peoples Day will take place in Big Tujunga Canyon  under the Mother Oak. Please join the educational and participatory event of music, dance, storytelling and spoken word celebrating the historic and contemporary cultures and wisdom of our local Tongva, Tataviam, Chumash, other native populations of California, and the Americas who make LA home.

A festival informed by workshops, gifted with craft, fed by fry bread and lifted up by the life-saving environmental worldview of the Indigenous.

Please, BRING CASH for food, beverages, and vendor purchases . There is no reception in the area for electronic transactions!!

This event is free and open for all to attend.

Used as a teaching tool, pottery is one of the most enduring indicators of culture. We at the American Museum of Ceramic Art are celebrating the rich and enduring history of Latinx and Indigenous pottery this  Latino Heritage Month. Bring our Mud Mobile outreach program to your school or event. Led by our teaching artists, this educational art experience allows students to interact with artwork from our Mata Ortiz and Pueblo pottery collections and create their air-dry clay projects.

In 2019, Lawson answered more than 1,000 questions in his Story File so that future generations can continue conversing with him to learn about his legacy. What would you like to ask Lawson?

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m.
Adults – $16, Seniors and Youth – $9, Members and Children under 5 – Free

Mark Bradford’s 150 Portrait Tone, a mural-size composition that contains elements of both abstraction and realism, is based on an idea for a work that the artist conceived after the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a police officer in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in July 2016. Castile, a nutrition services supervisor at an elementary school, was shot after being pulled over in his car—an incident that was livestreamed on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was sitting in the passenger seat next to him.

The painting features excerpts of Reynolds’s dialogue from the video. The title, 150 Portrait Tone, refers to the name and color code of the pink acrylic used throughout the painting. Like the now-obsolete “flesh” crayon in the Crayola 64 box (renamed “peach” in 1962), the color “portrait tone” carries inherent assumptions about who, exactly, is being depicted. In the context of Bradford’s painting, the title presents a sobering commentary on power and representation.