Featured Events

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Native Land Digital is the largest free interactive map of Indigenous territories available online. It strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms. In doing so, Native Land Digital creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can be invited and challenged to learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.
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Event Location

Online
Online
Online, NY 10001
United States

Event Lat/Long
40.7136487, -74.0087126
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
(800) 805 5385
Event ID
10346678
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The library has an archive of over 7,000 photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and copied in a project sponsored by Photo Friends, a library support group. They include daily life, social organizations, work, personal, and holiday celebrations. In addition to the images, there are oral histories about living in Southern California.
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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
10344483
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Celebrate Native Americans in LA’s film industry with author Angela Aleiss as she discusses her new book Hollywood’s Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance.
Event Date
Event Location

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

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10345919
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Numerous Native American-related events have taken place at the Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ ALOUD series. Explore the best of those conversations online.
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Event Location

Online at the Los Angeles Central Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10342225
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
L. Frank Manriquez is a Two-Spirit person of Tongva, Ajachmem, and Rarámuri descent. Her art has been featured worldwide in museums and art galleries. We sat down with L. Frank to hear about her art and how it speaks to communities typically erased from mainstream L.A. culture.
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Event Location

Streaming, Los Angeles Natural History Museum
900 W. Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0173004, -118.2888392
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.763.3466
Event ID
10342104
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Are you looking for children’s books but don’t know where to start? Let the library surprise your child (and you!) with a beautiful selection of books from Book Bundles To Go. Each Bundle consists of five books based on interest level, theme, or type of book. Every bundle is different! We will choose exciting books for you from our libraries throughout Los Angeles. To receive your personalized Book Bundle To Go, fill out the form on the website.
Event Date
Event Location

Your local branch library
United States

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10341889
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal is a multi-site project offering an expanded understanding of cochineal’s scientific and Indigenous origins, a red dye developed by the Zapotec people. This multivocal exhibition will center ancestral knowledge and technical experimentation and bring a special focus to issues of immigration and labor justice.
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Event Location

Fowler Museum, UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. N.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0729274, -118.442983
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.825.9672
Event ID
10344904
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Desert Forest focuses on the plight of the iconic Joshua tree and the vital and sensitive Mojave Desert ecosystem that supports it. The tree’s survival is threatened by climate change as well as development, wind and solar energy industries, and wildfires.    In August 2020, a lightning strike ignited a fire that destroyed more than 1.3 million trees, prompting the California Fish and Game Commission to consider granting western Joshua trees protection under the California Endangered Species Act. This multidisciplinary project brings together natural history, Indigenous knowledge, public policy, conservation science, and creative works by historic and contemporary artists to spotlight the threatened tree and preservation efforts around it. From the first known photograph of a Joshua tree by Carleton Watkins to recent photographs by Cara Romero, the exhibition brings attention to the Joshua tree, current pressures on its fragile desert ecosystem, and its future viability.
Event Date
-
Event Location

Lancaster Museum of Art and History
665 W. Lancaster Blvd.
Lancaster, CA 93534
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.6981717, -118.1418003
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
661.723.6250
Event ID
10342383
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art explores the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica. Histories of colonialism and industrialization in the “color-averse” West have minimized the deep significance of color in the Indigenous Americas. This exhibition follows two interconnected lines of inquiry—technical and material analyses, and Indigenous conceptions of art and image—to reach the full richness of color at the core of Mesoamerican worldviews.
Event Date
-
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
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
213.202.5567
Event ID
10347474
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Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of the PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition, Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics on Saturday, September 7, 2024, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Presented by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions LACE at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, this exhibition revisits the collaborative artistic practice of the late Beatriz da Costa (1974–2012) as an investigation into technoscientific experimentation, politics, activism, and art-making, contextualized for our contemporary moment. Curated by LACE’s former Chief Curator/Director of Programs Daniela Lieja Quintanar with Ana Briz, the project weaves together an exhibition, public programming, performances, educational workshops, and study groups as an evocation of da Costa’s approach to the intersections of ancient and non-academic forms of knowledge. This exhibition is complemented by a publication surveying da Costa’s entire artistic career with curatorial essays, reflections from previous collaborators including Donna Harraway and Robert F. Nideffer, and more. The catalog is the most extensive analysis of da Costa’s practice to date, and is distributed by MIT Press. Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September 2024, presenting more than 70 exhibitions from organizations across the region exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.
Event Date
-
Event Location

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1003674, -118.29433
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
323.644.6269
Event ID
10335210
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