Events

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 […]

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 […]