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May 2020
LA Jazz Caravan On-Line
KJAZZ created a brand new series to support promotion of artist and projects funded by the Leimert Park Cultural Hub and the LA Jazz Caravan, and to promote funding available to artists affected by COVID19. For more information visit www.jazzandblues.org.
June 2020
NFMLA Virtual Film Festival – InFocus: Female Cinema & InFocus
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) showcases and champions emerging filmmakers and diverse storytellers from around the world. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve moved our programming to virtual platforms. This includes the NFMLA Monthly Film Festival, now powered by Seed&Spark. This edition will include short and feature film programs, Q&A’s, panels and selections from our InFocus initiative which combats the lack of diversity in media. On June 5th, we’ll be hosting three panels. They’re listed below. For tickets and information…
Reimagine – a virtual music & arts festival by Venice-Mar Vista Arts Coalition benefitting West Side Food Bank
Eight hours of bands, DJs, artists, workshops, poetry, and more! It’s through art that we translate our imaginations into shared experiences. And it’s through art that we can begin to reimagine our collective lives during a global pandemic. We’ve all been forced to rethink ourselves on every possible level, whether it’s the simple daily structure of our routines, or the vast and complex underpinnings of our society and our economy. In the midst of illness, panic, and isolation, we know…
Dancing on the Edge
The Bootleg Theater presents BlakTinx Dance Festival’s “Dancing on the Edge”. This is a video performance/presentation of BlakTinx alumni that features the creativity of these choreographers as they deal with the pandemic, sheltered in their homes. These video performances are soulful, imaginative, personal and sometimes truly joyful expressions of what it means to deal with the reality of covid 19. Come witness these exciting pieces as they share their personal spaces and feelings!
soundpedro 2020 schizophonia
On Saturday, June 6th beginning at 7pm listeners can live stream soundpedro2020schizophonia at soundpedro.org. Following the live kick-off and Earmaginations sound performances, sound works will be continuously released throughout the month of June concluding with a SynthLab online dance party on June 30th at 7pm. Schizophonia is a term coined by R. Murray Schafer to describe the splitting of an original sound and its electroacoustic reproduction. The invention of electroacoustic equipment enables the recording and transmission of sound to anywhere…
Blackouts
Padua Playwrights kicks off the 2020 season with a series of performances with Blackouts. A new virtual performance piece showcases writer and director Murray Mednick’s poetic gifts to address the Covid-19 crisis. BLACKOUTS combines streetwise lyricism and dry humor to bear on an infernal encounter with the health care system, American style. Explains Mednick, “BLACKOUTS is a partially autobiographical account of a recent surreal hospital stay.” Starring the award-winning actor Tony Abatemarco (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Four Fathers, the…
Barbara Morrison: Black Music Month Tributes
The Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center celebrates Black Music Month with eight fantastic tributes to Black music legends. Barbara Morrision Performing Arts Center celebrates June’s Black Music Month with Bili Red and our tribute to the great Ray Charles. Join us June 5th 2020 @8pm. Barbara Morrision Performing Arts Center celebrates June’s Black Music Month with Pat Sligh and our tribute to the great Sarah Vaughan. Join us June 12th 2020 @8pm. Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center celebrates Black Music…
The World Stage Elegy For The Fallen Soldiers
Dwight Trible, director of the World Stage, presents this moving musical elegy featuring Dr. Michael Datcher and Rene Fisher Mims in tribute and celebration of people in the community people who have lost their lives due to Covid 19. The Live Stream will include African and Native American Rituals and Words of inspiration, as well as Songs of Love Peace and Hope.
Celebrating Bernstein ONLINE – SFVMC on Lockdown
A 3-5 part web series released slowly to replace what was to be a concert celebrating Leonard Bernstein and his influence on American music. In an age of online performance exploration, the San Fernando Valley Master Chorale (SFVMC), continues to innovate and offers you performance art created by your local San Fernando Valley singers from your local college music programs. Click, subscribe, support today! www.sfvmc.com
Barbara Morrison: Black Music Month Tributes
The Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center celebrates Black Music Month with eight fantastic tributes to Black music legends. Barbara Morrision Performing Arts Center celebrates June’s Black Music Month with Bili Red and our tribute to the great Ray Charles. Join us June 5th 2020 @8pm. Barbara Morrision Performing Arts Center celebrates June’s Black Music Month with Pat Sligh and our tribute to the great Sarah Vaughan. Join us June 12th 2020 @8pm. Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center celebrates Black Music…