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SUMMARY:Juneteenth Workshop & Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Hood Rave Juneteenth Workshop and Wellness in collaboration with Black Techno Matters \n\n\n\nAn afternoon of music\, healing\, and creative exploration guided by Black artists. Dig into a hands-on Digitakt workshop with Jack TP2\, settle into ambient selections and a live performance by yNOTi and MyGhettoRomance\, get loose at the arts and crafts station\, and close the day with a sound bowl experience led by E.M. Bae.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re here to learn\, to rest\, or to connect\, this programming is rooted in the spirit of Juneteenth and what liberation looks and sounds like in practice. \n\n\n\n$10 Suggested donation \n\n\n\nfree with the purchase of tickets to Hood Raves Juneteenth warehouse party  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFlyer design by @leona_joo
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/hood-rave-juneteenth-workshop-wellness/
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SUMMARY:Lechedevirgen: XOCHIHUA Ancestral Blooming
DESCRIPTION:$15 Suggested donation \n\n\n\n“Travestis somos\, vestimos fores\, y nos transformamos con las estaciones”Dusting off a seemingly withered past\, this performance addresses the transvestite ancestrythat survives and flourishes in Abya Yala\, emphasizing the sacred role of sexual dissidenceand trans people in precolonial times. \n\n\n\nLechedevirgen reclaims the symbolic power of flowers and their ancestral connection totransvestism\, using the metaphor of blossoming (the blossoming of the trans/travesti body\,the same blossoming of revolutions and liberation) to reclaim the history that was erasedand extirpated by the processes of domination that imposed compulsory heterosexuality anda cisgender fundamentalism that still pathologizes\, criminalizes\, and takes the lives of ourtransvestite/trans/non-binary communities. \n\n\n\nThe word “Xochihua\,” translated as “she who carries the flower\,” is the Nahuatl term fortransvestites and queer men—homosexual men who dressed and acted as women—inAztec times before colonization in the territory now known as “Mexico\,” the second deadliestcountry for trans people in the world in the current context. Xochihuas are strongly linked toXochipilli\, the “lord of flowers\,” a deity of art\, joy\, ecstasy\, sexual pleasure\, sacred flowers\,and entheogens. \n\n\n\nLechedevirgen (they/them)\, is a non-binary sexual dissident mexican artist that conceives oftheir artistic work as the creation of acts of disobedience and symbolic revenge\, combiningwriting\, performance\, ritual\, and expanded transvestism from an anti-patriarchal\, anti-colonial\, and anti-racist perspective. A representative of the LGBT+ counterculture and apioneer of post-pornography in Mexico\, their invented “Heterosexual DeconversionTherapies” and is the author of “Deshacer el Arte” (OnA Ediciones\, 2025)\, “PensamientoPuñal” (Dos Filos\, 2022)\, and the phrase “I Don’t Feel Pride\, I Feel Rage\,” which addresseshate crimes and critiques pinkwashing. Them has presented their work in Colombia\,Ecuador\, Mexico\, the United States\, Canada\, and Europe.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/lechedevirgen-xochihua-ancestral-blooming/
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SUMMARY:Isaura String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:$15 sugested donation \n\n\n\n“The brilliant playing of the Isaura Quartet is a technical triumph\, equal to the emotional demands of the music.”— SEQUENZA 21 \n\n\n\n“[The music] was felt in the body\, in the nerves and sinews\, under the ribcage\, and in the throat. All this from a remarkable string quartet that extended the syntactical and sonic range of their instruments.”— JACKI APPLE\, FABRIK MAGAZINE \n\n\n\nIsaura String Quartet returns to the Dog Star Festival for the first time since 2016\, presenting music by Laura Cetilia\, inti figgis-vizueta\, Sarah Hennies\, and Gloria Coates. Inspired by their collaboration with Coates on the west coast premiere of her 9th string quartet\, ISQ’s program explores themes of transformation\, liberation\, and imagining new futures as we want to see them. Coates wrote of her 9th quartet’s final movement\, The Cry\, that it “suggests heralding of a new world of sound.” Audiences are invited to join ISQ for an evening of musical embodiment through microtonal tuning\, improvisatory soundscapes\, extended technique\, and very many long\, slow glissandi. \n\n\n\nIsaura String Quartet is a Grammy Award-nominated ensemble based in Los Angeles. Described as “venturesome” and “edgy” in the LA Times\, the quartet pushes boundaries while staying true to their mission of promoting contemporary chamber music through live performance\, workshops\, and collaborative projects with composers and interdisciplinary artists. Founded in 2013\, ISQ’s practice is centered around music\, community\, and developing systems to support and examine the spaces in which they work. The quartet has commissioned 35 new works\, prioritizing new pieces through their programming with a focus on workshopping and supporting the work of emerging composers. Isaura String Quartet is Betsy Rettig (she/her)\, Emily Call (she/her)\, Laila Zakzook (she/her)\, and Mads Falcone (they/them).  \n\n\n\nPhoto by Zeynep Yeldan
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/isaura-string-quartet-2/
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SUMMARY:NO SLEEP/NO PICNIC
DESCRIPTION:On View: July 2–12\, 2026Hours: Wednesday–Sunday\, 12–6PM \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: Thursday\, July 2\, 6–9PMwith live performance \n\n\n\nNO SLEEP/NO PICNIC brings together work by queercrip artists Halo Starling and Libby Paloma in a two-person exhibition at Human Resources Gallery\, Los Angeles. The show pairs Starling’s textile installation NO SLEEP (2026) with Paloma’s soft-sculptural installation NO PICNIC (2023)\, two works that refuse the idea that surviving difficulty should be invisible\, dignified\, or done alone. \n\n\n\nStarling’s NO SLEEP (2026) draws on their experience of Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)\, chronic nightmares\, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Starling’s ensuing years-long sleep debt required five months of convalescence in their bed. The work takes the form of a sleep temple: the bedsheets from Starling’s recovery hang like temple walls\, adorned with pillow-shaped votives. The votives — silkscreened onto hand-woven linen\, the material of ancient Greek bedding — reference the stone offerings of affected body parts that Ancient Greek supplicants would bring to these temples. Viewers encounter vertical bed sheets that cannot be slept on\, mirroring the struggles of living with a sleep disorder. Private convalescence becomes sacred architecture; befriending sleep becomes a ritual.  \n\n\n\nPaloma’s NO PICNIC (2023) is an 18-foot-long soft-sculptural installation that transforms idiomatic expressions into an absurd\, meticulous picnic scene. Living with a connective tissue disorder and autoimmune illness\, Paloma draws on her background in Speech-Language Pathology to materialize phrases like “bigger fish to fry\,” “the whole enchilada\,” “in a pickle\,” and “when life gives you lemons” as soft sculptures in fabric\, vinyl\, polyfill\, and felt — a metallic rainbow fish\, a frying pan\, a lemonade pitcher sweating vinyl ice cubes\, lace enchiladas. The installation enacts what Paloma calls “world softening”: the practice of imagining a softer world\, while also considering who has the privilege to luxuriate in public spaces\, and what life circumstances might prompt someone to express these phrases. \n\n\n\nTaken together\, the NO SLEEP/NO PICNIC diptych is a meditation on the near-constant state of queercrip survival\, encountering and resisting barriers to access\, and the resulting body trauma\, all day and all night. NO SLEEP was created as a response to NO PICNIC\, meditating on the embrace and challenges of a “world-softening” bedtime for traumatized crips. NO PICNIC is about seeking softness in the daytime in public; NO SLEEP is about struggling with softness in the nighttime in private. Together the works ask what it costs to keep going\, and what forms of care make it possible. \n\n\n\nHalo Starling (he/they\, b. Perth\, Australia) is a Los Angeles–based artist\, filmmaker\, and writer whose work explores dreaming\, trans and queer countercultures\, crip futurity\, and the transformative potential of altered states. Drawing from archives\, ritual\, and speculative worldbuilding\, they create poetic forms that blur the boundaries between memory\, myth\, and collective imagination. Their debut solo show\, Fairy Prince (2025)\, was exhibited at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Starling earned their MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University\, and is a Ph.D. student in Media Arts + Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts. \n\n\n\nLibby Paloma (she/they\, b. Santa Ana\, CA) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture\, installation\, and performance. Embracing maximal aesthetics\, humor\, and craft traditions\, Paloma transforms familiar materials into representational forms imbued with layered meaning. Immersive and labor-intensive\, Paloma’s soft sculptures draw on craft practices and traditional sewing techniques passed down by the women in her Mexican and Chicana lineage. Through the conceptual framework of “world-softening\,” Paloma explores intersectional identity and the radical potential of softness. Paloma earned a Master of Science in Communicative Disorders from San Francisco State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design at The New School.
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