Before Los Angeles’s name was first written on a map, there was Tovaangar: a gathering place and nurturing home to the Tongva people. Tovaangar Today is a virtual celebration of the Native artists and cultural creators who still thrive in the region working as poets, actors, emcees, multimedia artists, and advocates.
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Upcoming Events
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Lunch à La Park Food Trucks
Grand Park continues its tradition of lunchtime in the park by providing downtowners and park visitors a wide variety of food trucks three days per week.
Free
Maru Garcia: membrane tensions
Transforming the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery into an active laboratory, membrane tensions features a constellation of new, site-specific works composed of cellulose. The cellulose (produced and harvested on-site at the Gallery) is used as both an intervention in the Gallery’s balcony windows and an installation of sculptural objects and light projections, alluding to the beginning of life where the delineation between internal and external was essential for life forms to first emerge. In using and placing cellulose (literally and figuratively) as…
$25
“Animals Share A Message” with Rolandas Dabrukas (Ages 7-9)
Teaching artist Rolandas Dabrukas will work with children to draw animals. Following step-by- step instruction, students will create illustrations of animals that share positive messages of love and joy. All enrollment is through Eventbrite! Last day to register is February 5th! “”Animals Share A Message”” with Rolandas Dabrukas 6-Week Workshop: Tuesday, Feb 9, 2021 Tuesday, Feb 16, 2021 Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021 Tuesday, Mar 9, 2021 Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Ages:…
$75
Advanced Graphic Storytelling Workshop
In this advanced comics workshop from Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, we will be working from memory and current experiences to tell our stories. The goal is to complete stories that have been started, or begin new stories that can be completed within the 6-week timeframe. Members of the workshop will contribute feedback to the other artists from a place of observation and goodwill! Tuesdays, 4pm – 6pm 6 sessions: February 2 to March 9, 2021 21+ $75 Register…
Free
LA Opera Happy Hour
Add our Tuesday bi-weekly cocktail date to your calendar and join Associate Chorus Master-turned-mixologist Jeremy Frank at the piano for a refreshing Bellini (and a pre-Anonymous Lover palate cleanser) in an exploration of the ever-evolving perceptions of vocal beauty in this new episode of Opera Happy Hour.