Storytelling

The Crazy Superhero Vacation is a production by Ms. Neate’s class at Vena Avenue Elementary. Animation and editing are by Pieter Hardeman of Toy Story Lab. Southland Sings is a creative organization using the arts to unlock creative potential through live opera, musical theatre production, education assemblies, and music composition for all ages.

Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena present an epic WWII play. Inspired by the true-life experiences of Ralph J. Preiss, Mix-Mix tells the coming-of-age tale of 13-year-old Rudy Preissman, who escapes Nazi Germany at the age of nine with his family to find safety in the Philippines. Their tropical refuge is upended when Japan invades the islands, forcing the family and their Filipino friends to hide in the heights and depths of sacred Mount Banahao.

Tonality’s spring choral concert. Tonality sings of the labels placed on those with mental illness. These fellow community members, treated as “different” reflect on our shame and feelings of misunderstanding.

Additionally, the concert explores how we can be of support to members of our community who need compassion, understanding, and validation.

Additionally, the concert will include spoken stories of those within our Los Angeles and Tonality community as well who are personally affected by these issues. We can heal and grow together, through our united story and bond through singing. Come join us.

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

Arroyo Art Collective presents What Do You See – What Do You Hear, a collaboration of dance and musical instrument, set within the Audubon Center at Debs Park compound. Over the course of four days and 16 performances, musicians are asked to interpret their dance partner, while dancers respond and contribute to the music so that each elevates the other’s art.

This improvisational and alternating dance and music performances accompanied by workshops open to the general public. All events are family friendly and free. April 28th, May 11th, May 18th, and May 19th.

There is free parking available in the Audubon Center lot onsite, however spots fill up quickly. If the lot is full, please park along Griffin Ave. and walk up to the Center.

The Crazy Superhero Vacation is a production by Ms. Neate’s class at Vena Avenue Elementary. Animation and editing are by Pieter Hardeman of Toy Story Lab. Southland Sings is a creative organization using the arts to unlock creative potential through live opera, musical theatre production, education assemblies, and music composition for all ages.

Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena present an epic WWII play. Inspired by the true-life experiences of Ralph J. Preiss, Mix-Mix tells the coming-of-age tale of 13-year-old Rudy Preissman, who escapes Nazi Germany at the age of nine with his family to find safety in the Philippines. Their tropical refuge is upended when Japan invades the islands, forcing the family and their Filipino friends to hide in the heights and depths of sacred Mount Banahao.

Álvaro Enrigue and Percival Everett
In Conversation with author and book critic Anita Felicelli
Saturday, 7PM, May 18 // The Preserve
$10

You Dream of Empires, Álvaro Enrigue turns the historical novel upside down and inside-out, set in 1519, when the conquistador Hernán Cortés enters Tenochititlan (present-day Mexico City) to meet Moctezuma. In his new novel, James, Percival Everett rewrites Mark Twain’s notorious novel to let us hear the enslaved Jim’s point of view, finally giving “one of the noblest characters in American literature a novel worthy of him.” Both of these retellings offer remarkable revelations; funny and horrifying meditations on history real and imagined; as well as characters we think we know—shown in a radically new light.