"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
FORT BRAGG—The Larry Spring Museum invites you to help construct the fabric model of Fort Bragg’s redwood round and contribute to the conceptual development of their new community-generated timelines. Come on over to discuss the current timeline, share your ideas for new ways of marking time, cut out pattern pieces, and help hand-stitch the fabric […]
REDDING—StoryMap Workshop Participants will learn the basics of using the StoryMap platform to present information in a compelling and interactive way. They will practice the skills involved in completing a StoryMap project by helping to curate historical material from various sources that show and describe the experience of Black residents in Redding and the surrounding […]
LOS ANGELES—Join us for a special Friday night poetry show as we delve into LA Stories: Music is History with Mike the PoeT. Inspired by Questlove’s Music is History, this night will be an exploration through spoken word of the history of music in LA, from the jazz era on Central Avenue to the punk […]
SHASTA—Shasta Stories is happy to host a film screening presenting 2 new Shasta Stories episodes. BYRDS OF A FEATHER: The Story of the first Black sheriff in California, and the community of Lincoln Heights. THE WILD ONES: Untamed stories of Hornbrook’s wild residents and how they band together. Location: MOUNT SHASTA BREWING Co. (360 College Ave, […]
LANCASTER— 12,000 Years of Antelope Valley History Lecture with Dr. Bruce Love A slide lecture by Bruce Love, Ph.D. in conjunction with the exhibit “This Valley Is Sacred: The Ancestors Are Speaking,” which closes August 11. Sunday, July 28, 2 -3 PM. The local tribes that share the Antelope Valley believe they have been here […]
LOS ANGELES—Join LAist for summer vibes and sugar highs at our ice cream social, hosted by LAist Associate Editor of food and culture Gab Chabrán (he/him) and How To LA’s Brian De Los Santos (he/him). They’ve invited inventive purveyors of frozen delights to share how they incorporate their cultural traditions into their creations. And yes, there will be […]
SANTA CRUZ—Explore the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's new exhibition Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley. In an interactive two-hour tour featuring family heirlooms, oral history interviews, and works of art, students will learn about Filipino labor and migration to the Pajaro Valley from the 1930s to the present. Dates: […]
INGLEWOOD—The Oaxaca Regional Organization’s Biblioteca del Maíz is a project made by and for the Oaxacan community in Los Angeles, will document the community's memories, values, recipes, and traditions about maize and maize-based foods. The Biblioteca’s public engagement table will gather statements from the Oaxacan community and, with permission, share those as a community resource […]
LOS ANGELES—Join us for a special Friday night poetry show hosted by poet and writer Carribean Fragoza. What defines a sense of Home for you? Is it a place, is it a person, is it a feeling? LA has a complex, multilayered history that lives and evolves as a beautiful spectrum of culture and the […]
LOS ANGELES—“Rooted” is a community-based discussion series, designed by filmmaker Elizabeth Gray Bayne and in partnership with the Nature Nexus Institute & Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, inviting Black residents to reflect on their relationship to nature, environmental racism, and ways they might increase their engagement with the natural world. This three-part […]