2D portraits and artwork of key Asian Pacific American female activists and advocates in Los Angeles who have demonstrated the power of speaking up and making change to showcase diverse stories of empowerment and leadership through portraits, story blurbs and an interactive social media #TogetherWeSpeak.
Mondays – Fridays 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sponsors: City of Los Angeles, Pacific Bridge Arts Foundation, Los Angeles City Councilmember David E. Ryu, 4th District, and Kore Asian Media
Project by Project (PbP) educates and empowers issues specific to the needs and experiences of the Asian Pacific Islander community. This year’s PbP non-profit panel will feature local experts to discuss homelessness in Los Angeles.
On this 50th anniversary of Stonewall, West Hollywood will transform into a literary salon of love, with a diverse group of queer poets on typewriters helping residents convert their unique love stories into poetry. Anyone may commission and take home a love poem from a testament to the idea that love is love, and every love story is worth a poem. May 22, 6:30 p.m., at the One City One Pride kickoff June 7, 6:00 p.m., at the Dyke…
Each year the City of West Hollywood celebrates pride with its One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, which runs from between Harvey Milk Day (May 22) through the end of June Pride month (June 30). The theme for 2019 is “Love is Love,” celebrating the universal bond that unites us especially during this 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall riots.
Each year the City of West Hollywood celebrates LGBTQ Pride through art and history, focusing on telling the stories of our community and history. Events take place from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) to June 30. This year the theme is ‘Love is Love.’ Check the website for dates, locations, times, and prices.
Featuring paintings, sketches, and lithographs, Coyote Leaves the Res: The Art of Harry Fonseca focuses on the recurring figure of Coyote, a trickster, shape shifter, and storyteller capable of moving undetected between different worlds. This exhibition explores the complexity of Harry Fonseca’s (Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, Portuguese, 1946–2006) art within the context of a contemporary world, in which new freedoms and old biases often exist side-by-side. As both a gay man and a person of mixed heritage, Fonseca used his work…
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