Featured Events

After the sold-out 2024 – Holi & The Beach returns to Redondo Beach Seaside Lagoon, a paradise by the water’s edge. Enjoy 180′ degree backdrop of water as you splash colors on your friends on the sandy beach. Holi & The Beach expands with two days on Saturday/Sunday with an all-new stage design, festival elements & bigger experiences.

FESTIVAL VIBES & Insta-Worthy Moments

Join 5,000+ for an epic fusion of an outdoor music festival and the vibrant energy of Holi. Feel the main-stage of Bollywood celebrity DJs, endless color plays, and non-stop music as the beach transforms into a kaleidoscope of music, dance, and good vibes. This isn’t just a festival—it’s a one-of-a-kind experience you don’t want to miss.

DRESS CODE: WEAR WHITE

Make sure to wear white because this party gets colorful. The colored powders used in Holi represent happiness, love, and the freedom to live vibrantly. Take the opportunity to cover yourself and your friends in colorful powders and dance your heart out.

VENDORS ON-SITE:

• Popular Indian street food (veg/non-veg)
• LA Sera (Pizza & Sandwiches)
• Creamy Boys (Hand-crafted Premium New Zealand Ice-Cream)
• Fiesty Poke (Poke Bowls)
• Mocktails Bar (Premium Mocktails)

Like to be a vendor? mandeep@radio5events.com

COLORS:

Certified organic, clothes & skin safe. Available for purchase. (No outside colors allowed)

AGE: All ages (family friendly) – Children under 5 free

All races and backgrounds are welcome to celebrate the Festival of Colors at ‘Holi & The Beach’

HOLI & THE BEACH HIGHLIGHTS:

• MAJOR Bollywood Celebrity DJ’s performing LIVE
• State of the Art Sound & Stage (Music Festival style)
• Enjoy food trucks and food vendors on the beach
• Free swag giveaways
• Non-Stop Color Play From 12:00pm til 4:00pm

CONTACT LINKS
VOLUNTEER: https://holiandthebeach.com/volunteers/

Vendor & Sponsorships: mandeep@radio5events.com

Official Site: holiandthebeach.com

Instagram.com/Radio5Events

As part of the NEA Big Read: Los Angeles initiative McGroarty Arts Center invites you to celebrate The House on Mango Street  by Sandra Cisneros in this two day event through art making that explores the themes of the self-identity and sense of belonging.

Activities Include:
Saturday, March 29,

• Poetry / Creative Writing Workshop, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Participants are welcome to express their feelings about home, community, and personal identity, themes that reflect this years 2024/25 NEA Big Read: Los Angeles book selection, “The House On Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros.

Sunday, March 30

• Personal Collage Art Activity, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  and again from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
  Bring photos and personal memorabilia to create a collage based on a fun guided discussion about personal identity!
• Improvisation Workshop, 1:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Join in or just enjoy watching and laughing along.

• Memory Mosaic Art Activity, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  and again from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Bring personal and found objects to create mosaic that celebrates your unique personality.

All materials will be provided to arts workshop participants, while supplies last.

Free RSVP available at mcgroartyartscenter.org/big-read-2025.

For more information, visit www.mcgroartyartscenter.org, or email, info@mcgroartyartscenter.org

The McGroarty home was acquired by the City of Los Angeles in 1953. The house was declared a City of Los Angeles historic-cultural monument (#63) in 1970.

John Steven McGroarty wrote several poems and plays, most notably the Mission Play, which was a three-hour pageant portraying the history of the California missions. The play ran for twenty years and was seen by over two million people. In 1933, Mr. McGroarty was appointed Poet Laureate of California, a position which he held until he died in 1944, at the age of 82.
McGroarty Arts Center’s mission is to provide access to the arts, community and history by offering affordable or free in-depth arts instruction, and a wide range of creative experiences and events, to people of all ages, for many years to come. The Center provides a historic and cultural venue for artists to present their work in all forms, while preserving the legacy of John Steven McGroarty and his truly historic home. A home that is dearly treasured by so many members of our wonderful and supportive community.

Join us for the Closing Reception of Black in Place, a group exhibition curated by Naomi Stewart, on Saturday March 29, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Angels Gate Cultural Center. This free, public event will include an Artist Talk with selected artists from the show. Black in Place is a holding space for invocation, re-memory, and unbridled Black expression. Remedying erasure that historically fueled what esteemed African-American collectors Bernard and Shirley Kinsey refer to as the “myth of absence,” artworks in this exhibition dispel the notion that what is unseen does not exist.

The exhibition features works by Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja, Denise ‘deLaSNP’ Coke, Leslie Dubois-Adkins, Dea Jenkins, Steven A. Johnson II, Kandy G. Lopez, Rosalyn Myles, Cheyann Washington, and Fallon Williams.

RSVP for this event, at eventbrite.com/e/black-in-place-closing-artist-talk-tickets-1275281494279?aff=oddtdtcreator

Questions? Please contact Angels Gate Cultural Center at 310-519-0936 or info@angelsgateart.org.

A weekend of events celebrating performances by female solo performers in drama, dance, and music. The festival also awards distinguished women of theatre.

After the sold-out 2024 – Holi & The Beach returns to Redondo Beach Seaside Lagoon, a paradise by the water’s edge. Enjoy 180′ degree backdrop of water as you splash colors on your friends on the sandy beach. Holi & The Beach expands with two days on Saturday/Sunday with an all-new stage design, festival elements & bigger experiences.

FESTIVAL VIBES & Insta-Worthy Moments

Join 5,000+ for an epic fusion of an outdoor music festival and the vibrant energy of Holi. Feel the main-stage of Bollywood celebrity DJs, endless color plays, and non-stop music as the beach transforms into a kaleidoscope of music, dance, and good vibes. This isn’t just a festival—it’s a one-of-a-kind experience you don’t want to miss.

DRESS CODE: WEAR WHITE

Make sure to wear white because this party gets colorful. The colored powders used in Holi represent happiness, love, and the freedom to live vibrantly. Take the opportunity to cover yourself and your friends in colorful powders and dance your heart out.

VENDORS ON-SITE:

• Popular Indian street food (veg/non-veg)
• LA Sera (Pizza & Sandwiches)
• Creamy Boys (Hand-crafted Premium New Zealand Ice-Cream)
• Fiesty Poke (Poke Bowls)
• Mocktails Bar (Premium Mocktails)

Like to be a vendor? mandeep@radio5events.com

COLORS:

Certified organic, clothes & skin safe. Available for purchase. (No outside colors allowed)

AGE: All ages (family friendly) – Children under 5 free

All races and backgrounds are welcome to celebrate the Festival of Colors at ‘Holi & The Beach’

HOLI & THE BEACH HIGHLIGHTS:

• MAJOR Bollywood Celebrity DJ’s performing LIVE
• State of the Art Sound & Stage (Music Festival style)
• Enjoy food trucks and food vendors on the beach
• Free swag giveaways
• Non-Stop Color Play From 12:00pm til 4:00pm

CONTACT LINKS
VOLUNTEER: https://holiandthebeach.com/volunteers/

Vendor & Sponsorships: mandeep@radio5events.com

Official Site: holiandthebeach.com

Instagram.com/Radio5Events

Commissioned on the occasion of Hollyhock House’s centennial, Janna Ireland: Even by Proxy presents twenty-one photographs by the artist that introduce new perspectives on Los Angeles’ only World Heritage site. Ireland’s photographs privilege the quiet, subtle details of Hollyhock House and make visible the care and conservation that sustain the site over time.

The title of the exhibition comes from Frank Lloyd Wright’s autobiography, in which he describes the process of realizing Hollyhock House. For Ireland, Wright’s phrase “even by proxy” points to the fraught relationship between client and architect in building the house as well as the ongoing project of preservation.

Even by Proxy is presented in partnership with Project Restore and the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University.

Janna Ireland lives in Los Angeles, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College. Her photographic work is primarily concerned with the themes of family and domestic life, the built environment, and interactions between humans and the natural world.

Her 2024 mid-career survey, Janna Ireland: True Story Index, was jointly hosted by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. In 2016, she began photographing structures designed by legendary Black architect Paul R. Williams. A collection of 250 of these photographs was published in a monograph entitled Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View, in 2020. In 2021, Ireland was awarded a Peter E. Pool Research Fellowship by the Nevada Museum of Art to photograph Williams’ work in Nevada. The resulting solo exhibition traveled from the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno to the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas and the AIA Center for Architecture in New York.

Ireland’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of institutions including LACMA, SFMOMA, the Nevada Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Janna Ireland is the 2024 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award, which is presented to a photographer who honors Shulman’s legacy by challenging the way we look at physical space. She is the recipient of the 2023 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize, a 2023 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Program (COLA-IMAP) grant, and is a 2024 runner-up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Her work has been the subject of articles in publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Harvard Design Magazine, and Aperture. She holds an MFA from the UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU.

Advance reservations recommended. To book a self-guided tour ticket, CLICK HERE.

As part of the NEA Big Read: Los Angeles initiative McGroarty Arts Center invites you to celebrate The House on Mango Street  by Sandra Cisneros in this two day event through art making that explores the themes of the self-identity and sense of belonging.

Activities Include:
Saturday, March 29,

• Poetry / Creative Writing Workshop, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Participants are welcome to express their feelings about home, community, and personal identity, themes that reflect this years 2024/25 NEA Big Read: Los Angeles book selection, “The House On Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros.

Sunday, March 30

• Personal Collage Art Activity, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  and again from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
  Bring photos and personal memorabilia to create a collage based on a fun guided discussion about personal identity!
• Improvisation Workshop, 1:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Join in or just enjoy watching and laughing along.

• Memory Mosaic Art Activity, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  and again from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Bring personal and found objects to create mosaic that celebrates your unique personality.

All materials will be provided to arts workshop participants, while supplies last.

Free RSVP available at mcgroartyartscenter.org/big-read-2025.

For more information, visit www.mcgroartyartscenter.org, or email, info@mcgroartyartscenter.org

The McGroarty home was acquired by the City of Los Angeles in 1953. The house was declared a City of Los Angeles historic-cultural monument (#63) in 1970.

John Steven McGroarty wrote several poems and plays, most notably the Mission Play, which was a three-hour pageant portraying the history of the California missions. The play ran for twenty years and was seen by over two million people. In 1933, Mr. McGroarty was appointed Poet Laureate of California, a position which he held until he died in 1944, at the age of 82.
McGroarty Arts Center’s mission is to provide access to the arts, community and history by offering affordable or free in-depth arts instruction, and a wide range of creative experiences and events, to people of all ages, for many years to come. The Center provides a historic and cultural venue for artists to present their work in all forms, while preserving the legacy of John Steven McGroarty and his truly historic home. A home that is dearly treasured by so many members of our wonderful and supportive community.

Sing It, Bring It: Family Karaoke Night on Fridays from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. is where everyone can unleash their inner rockstar! Grab the mic, belt out your favorite tunes, and get ready for some serious family fun. Whether you’re a pop diva, a country crooner, or a rock ‘n’ roll rebel, this is your chance to shine! Expect laughs, applause, and maybe a little bit of friendly competition. It’s not just about singing—it’s about bringing your best performance and making unforgettable memories together. So, warm up those vocal cords, and get ready to sing it, bring it, and have a blast with the whole crew!

Friday Night Family Flicks at 6:00 p.m. provides free popcorn and movies in our 44 seat micro cinema featuring classic favorites like the Wizard of Oz, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, The Princess Bride, Hook, Speed Racer, and Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse.

A weekend of events celebrating performances by female solo performers in drama, dance, and music. The festival also awards distinguished women of theatre.