"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
Caption: Soon-duk Kim, Taken Away, 1995, courtesy of Comfort Women: Then and Now–Who They Were and Why We Should Remember Them. LOS ANGELES—In collaboration with Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education (CARE), a California-based organization led by survivors of World War II-era institutionalized sex slavery and human trafficking, a new interpretive exhibit opening in […]
Caption: Photos courtesy of Dr. Sudarsky. LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is pleased to announce the opening of its new Skid Row History Museum & Archive exhibition, Welcome to the Covid Hotel. Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County […]
Caption: Alice Wiggins, "The Beginning," c. 1942, Photograph, 3.5" x 5", Collection of Mariano Family, https://wiith.ucsc.edu/items/show/929 SANTA CRUZ—Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley explores Filipino labor and migration to the Pajaro Valley from the 1930s to the present. The exhibition brings together oral history, archival materials, and contemporary works of art to […]
SAN FRANCISCO TREASURE ISLAND—Do you have questions about how the current redevelopment of the island has anticipated and prepared for climate change, earthquakes, and sea level rise? Our current exhibition has answers. Where: One Avenue of the Palms, San Francisco, 93041 When: Open daily. 10am to 7pm. For details, see: https://www.treasureislandmuseum.org/single-post/our-new-exhibition
LANCASTER—The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce This Valley is Sacred: The Ancestors are Speaking, a multi-faceted exhibition and community engagement project that seeks to expose audiences to the harsh realities and beauty of Native existence as dictated by the Tribal groups that surround the Antelope Valley. This project brings […]
*Rescheduled from May 2 to June 30. More details coming soon! LOS ANGELES—The Muslim Musical Mosaic Project is a conversation about the many influences of American Muslims in music, starting from the enslaved Africans, to jazz, and looking at the common influences in the very diverse Muslim demography. The project's 3-part series of salons, held from […]
Caption: The cast of Henry 6, 2024. SAN DIEGO—A once-in-a-generation event comes to San Diego in 2024: The Old Globe becomes one of only a small handful of theatres in the country’s history to complete Shakespeare’s canon with Henry 6, the largest Shakespeare production the Globe has ever presented. Acclaimed Shakespeare director and the Globe’s Erna […]
Los Angeles—Muslims for Progressive Values will be putting on a “live” event, a hybrid of a panel discussion and performances anchored in an American musical history, the music the enslaved Muslims brought to America, gnawa, which then led to blues, country and jazz. Musical performances will illustrate that music, but, with a twist! Where: Cats […]
FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE—The Muses & Melanin Fellowship for California Black Women Creative Writers is a supportive, virtual, fully funded eight-month cohort-based professional development program for 30 talented California African American, Afro Latina, and multiracial women creative writers of the African diaspora who aspire to become professional authors. The fellowship is designed for women who do not […]
LANCASTER—Acompáñenos el 11 de julio a las 5 PM para una visita guiada en español de las exposiciones actuales en MOAH: Imprints y This Valley is Sacred: The Ancestors Are Speaking. Explore el uso del suelo y los recursos naturales en California a través de las obras de seis artistas en sus exhibiciones individuales y descubra las duras […]
Graphic courtesy of Zócalo Public Square RIVERSIDE—In the 1920s, Southern California’s Inland Empire was a bucolic place, dotted with small towns set amid orange groves. It was also a growing outpost for the Ku Klux Klan, whose members subjected the region’s minority residents to exclusion, harassment, and violence in following decades. Today, antisemitic, anti-Muslim, anti-Black, […]
YUBA CITY—Join Sutter County Museum for a panel discussion with some of the local residents who worked on the upcoming Black History of Yuba-Sutter exhibit, which will be opening at the Sutter County Museum later this year. Learn about the research process, facts learned through researching local Black history in the area, and the next […]
LOS ANGELES—The climate emergency affects restaurants in many aspects of their operations, from rising food costs to fewer customers showing up to eat. As extreme weather becomes ever more frequent, how are restaurants in L.A. coping? From changing their menus to collaborating even more closely with their farmer suppliers, LAist science reporter Jacob Margolis (he/him) […]
FORT BRAGG—Join the Larry Spring Museum on July 20 as former Fort Bragg resident and current UC Davis professor of English and American Studies Jeff Solomon draws upon the historical record and recent cultural and ecological scholarship to illuminate the history behind the memorial and the people it celebrates. They'll take a close look at […]
LOS ANGELES—Join Voices of Experience at Goethe-Institut LA from June 20 - July 19, 2024! Developed and curated by Los Angeles-based artist Anne Kim, Voices of Experience is an intergenerational and multilingual interdisciplinary project that aims to amplify the rich narratives of community elders residing near the Goethe-Institut in MacArthur Park. Voices of Experience includes […]
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 […]
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: […]
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