Latino Heritage Month

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

The DCA’s Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery at City Hall will feature the Fiesta del Pueblo exhibition from September 9 to September 30, 2024, featuring artwork from Latino and Chicano artists in the Los Angeles area and curated with help from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture. This year’s theme and celebration will highlight the working people, indigenous peoples, women, and organizers who have been such an integral part of the revolutionary spirit of Latinx culture and history – both in LA and around the world.

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Event Location

Bridge Gallery Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring St., 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0537126, -118.2428145
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10330266
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Event Type
Fairs & Festivals
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

LéaLA, the premier Spanish Book Fair & Literary Festival, returns from September 19-22, 2024, at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes located at 501 N. Main Street in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Organized by the University of Guadalajara Foundation USA, this year’s event, themed Building Peace Together, celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month by honoring the rich traditions, language, and culture of the Latino community through literature, art, and intellectual dialogue.

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, LéaLA will highlight the profound influence of Latino heritage on global literature and culture. The event will feature a wide range of activities for all ages, including author discussions, poetry readings, film screenings, and children’s workshops. Highlights include the opening event, El Mariachi, where Juan Villoro will read his story of the same name, and a special screening celebrating the 20th anniversary of A Day Without a Mexican, with filmmakers Yareli Arizmendi and Sergio Arau in attendance. Guests will also enjoy comedy, gastronomy, and thought-provoking discussions on literature and contemporary issues.

“We invite you to join LéaLA in celebrating our Latin roots, which form a bond stronger than nationalities and unite us under a shared identity: the Spanish language,” said Marisol Schulz Manaut, Executive Director of LéaLA. “This year, as we observe Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re proud to showcase the cultural wealth and literary talent of the Spanish-speaking world.” Notable participants include Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Cristina Rivera Garza, cartoonists Jis & Trino, and writers Rosa Beltrán, Évolet Aceves, Benito Taibo, and Élmer Mendoza. This year, LéaLA will host over 40
publishers offering a wide selection of Spanish-language titles, further enriching the festival’s offerings.

Join us in this vibrant celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month through Spanish literature and culture! All activities are FREE and open to the public.

La Feria del Libro en Español y Festival Literario de Los Ángeles

La Feria del Libro en Español y Festival Literario LéaLA 2024 regresa este verano en uno de los lugares más emblemáticos de Los Ángeles, LA Plaza de la Cultura y las Artes. Durante cuatro días tendremos a las voces más importantes de nuestro idioma en diálogos abiertos a todo público.

Con el objetivo de continuar y fortalecer sus programas de difusión de la cultura y las artes para la comunidad de origen latino en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, California, la Fundación Universidad de Guadalajara USA realizará durante cuatro días en septiembre un festival literario a manera de foro abierto a las ideas y la reflexión.

LéaLA 2024 tiene como propósito la promoción de la lectura y el libro en español, así como el reconocimiento a la cultura y costumbres de la comunidad latina en Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, una población que cada vez adquiere más importancia a nivel cultural, político y económico.

Asimismo, habrá sesiones de lectura de poesía, sesiones de discusión académica y talleres infantiles a cargo del programa Letras para volar de la Universidad de Guadalajara.

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, en el corazón histórico de Los Ángeles, será la sede de todas las actividades que se realizarán del 19 al 22 de septiembre, con acceso gratuito.

Los libros de los autores participantes y una selección de títulos de interés en español para todas las edades estarán a disposición del público gracias a la participación de la Librería Carlos Fuentes de la Universidad de Guadalajara.

LéaLA 2024 es organizado por la Fundación Universidad de Guadalajara USA, con el apoyo del Legado Grodman y la colaboración del Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles, la Asociación de Egresados de la Universidad de Guadalajara en Los Ángeles, así como varias instituciones públicas y privadas de ambos lados de la frontera.

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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) 542-6259
Event ID
10335762
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility: as they adorned the surfaces of buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, and sculptures with color, they (quite literally) made the world. Color mapped the very order of the cosmos, of time and space. The exhibition explores the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica. See website for ticket prices and registration.
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Event Location

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0637913, -118.3588851
Fee Required
Yes
Contact Phone
213.202.5567
Event ID
10332512
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Event Type
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Film
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The festival strives to connect the audience to Mexico through cultural entertainment, creating the most authentic experience. The festival is for all audiences, and every event is open to the general public. Every film has English subtitles.
Event Date
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Event Location

United States

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15
Event ID
10329567
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
ARTEONICA* revisits a lesser-known Latin American art movement, initiating a discussion between a group of innovative computer artists from the 1960s and 1970s, and contemporary Latin American artists whose work is influenced by their legacy. Despite the political and social conflicts across Latin America in the ’60s and ’70s, artists in the region explored the interconnectedness of art, science, and technology during that time.
Event Date
Event Location

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

Event Lat/Long
33.774467, -118.17985
Fee Required
Yes
Contact Phone
562.437.1689
Event ID
10328806
Event Type
Family Activity
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

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.

Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Central Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.228.7250
Event ID
10330355
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Event Type
Family Activity
Culture & Community
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
In the mid-1960s, cumbia was a style of dance music gaining popularity in northern Colombia. Six decades later, it’s the beat behind some of the most popular songs on the planet. Built on a blend of sounds taken from Indigenous, African, and Spanish music, its shuffling rhythm is flexible enough to power everything from big-band jazz to big-time pop. Get ready for a high-tempo party when three bands who helped turn Cumbia into a worldwide phenomenon pop up for a stacked triple bill.
Event Date
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Event Location

Hollywood Bowl
2301 N. Highland Avenue
Hollywood, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1127392, -118.3388562
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Event ID
139280
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition featuring large-scale mixed-media paintings and ink diagram drawings. Muñoz’s body of work navigates themes of labor commodification, the conflict between colonial history, notions of modernity, and reveals nuanced narratives often overlooked. Through his decorative and symbolic imagery, he challenges myths about the American experience.
Event Date
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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) 542-6259
Event ID
10329982
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Brazilian art pioneer Waldemar Cordeiro was one of South America’s first computer artists. His treatise on arteônica—a compound of the words “art” and “electronic” and the title of an exhibition he organized in 1971—frames the computer as an instrument for positive societal change, one that could democratize art and culture. ARTEONICA* revisits this little-known Latin American art movement, creating a dialogue between a group of pioneering computer artists from the 1960s and 1970s and Latin American contemporary artists whose work responds to their legacy.
Event Date
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Event Location

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

Event Lat/Long
33.774467, -118.17985
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
562.437.1689
Event ID
138865
Event Main Image
Event Type
Family Activity
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

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.

Event Date
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Event Location

American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
399 N. Garey Ave.
Pomona, CA 91767
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0611548, -117.7507227
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
909.865.3146
Event ID
10328226
Event Main Image