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ETERNAL TELETHON: 55+
“Eternal Telethon: 55+” will broadcast non-stop from 1:00pm on April 28th through the evening of May 1st. The broadcast can be watched live online at EternalTelethon.com and will feature a wide range of creative contributions from over 150 artists.
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DecolonizeLA – Song of Eurydice
DecolonizeLA – Song of Eurydice
Song of Eurydice re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists, emphasizing a discourse between Eurydice (mecca vazie andrews) and the deity of the underworld, Persephone (Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs). Picking up where the ancient tale left off, as Eurydice descends into the underworld and grapples with re-arranging established ways of […]
DecolonizeLA – The Hag
DecolonizeLA – The Hag
The Hag, “worship, brainstorm sesh + pizza party” The Hag is suspicious of the myth of progress. We are inviting like-minded individuals, also wary of the propagation of expensive, exclusive “arts & culture initiatives,” to discuss their own qualms with top-down hierarchies at the institutional level, as well as to worship at the altar of […]
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DecolonizeLA
Between May 3 and May 11th, HRLA will host an exhibition of work from artists who applied to the DecolonizeLA call for proposals. The work will be shown in the lobby, and second floor space.
Decolonize LA – Michelada Think Tank
Decolonize LA – Michelada Think Tank
MTT member Shefali Mistry, as part of her graduate Public Practice thesis project, has conducted a series of interviews on the experiences of artists of color in graduate school. From these discussions, Michelada Think Tank (MTT) continues the “PoC Survival Guide” project with a public conversation about higher education and art school.
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Decolonize LA – Cura Tierra Cura presents: DIS * Locate
Decolonize LA – Cura Tierra Cura presents: DIS * Locate
A participatory performance where rocks, pollinators, plants and animals weave participants through critical conversation on displacement in our city and share healing practices of toning, movement and visualization for the future.
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DecolonizeLA : Suzanne Kite’s “Sources” and “Some Numbers”
DecolonizeLA : Suzanne Kite’s “Sources” and “Some Numbers”
"Sources" is a performance that takes a body through an environmental simulation of the Oglala Lakota cosmologyscape. "Some Numbers" is a lecture/performance that asks the question "WHY?" "Why are there so few Indigenous working artists? Why are there so few Indigenous art school graduates?"
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DecolonizeLA: Un-casting colonization from our dreams, casting spells, igniting our decolonized collective dreams through dance and plants w/ Charmaine Bee + Joy
DecolonizeLA: Un-casting colonization from our dreams, casting spells, igniting our decolonized collective dreams through dance and plants w/ Charmaine Bee + Joy
Join us to co-create change collectively as well as release restrictive and oppressive structures that limit expansion. Together let's un-cast the nightmares of colonization!
RecolonizeLA- Isaac Ledesma: New Los Angeles
RecolonizeLA- Isaac Ledesma: New Los Angeles
This event is part of the DecolonizeLA series, and was made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.
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DecolonizeLA – Critical Resistance LA
DecolonizeLA – Critical Resistance LA
Join the LA No More Jails Coalition on Mother’s Day! We will be at the Lynwood Women’s Jail (Century Regional Detention Facility), hosting a rally and interactive event to build opposition to the proposed women's jail in Lancaster and LA County’s $2.3 Billion Dollar Jail Plan.
DecolonizeLA: Project Q
DecolonizeLA: Project Q
Project Q presents: 'We don't have mothers' a 1-day art installation at Human Resources LA.
I will be cutting hair for the kids as well as Patty Wack Vintage giving them clothing. Music workshops and yoga class all at once. I really hope you can be apart of this homage to homeless queer youth and possibly be a person that they can also look up to!
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Decolonize LA – Window to the Inside
Decolonize LA – Window to the Inside
From Habeus Corpus to prison art practice, Liberated Lifers will lead a discussion about our experiences within California’s State Prisons.
DecolonizeLA – DivineBrick
DecolonizeLA – DivineBrick
DivineBrick (josie j) makes research-based existentially iconoclastic artwork. A lifetime of re-configuring views, beliefs, self-structure and modeling a research-oriented existence that explores belief and where it stems from, this is where it has lead. Bass pushing air, creaking, cracking a wooden device called the Basso, to set the bio and molecular rhythm of the space. […]
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DecolonizeLA: The Crop Project
DecolonizeLA: The Crop Project
The Crop Project is a public art piece that invites people to grow corn in USC Roski School of Art and Design from April- July 2016. The Crop Project's exhibition includes an installation of the cornfield’s digging process and found objects from underground.
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James Gamboa: 50/50
50/50 presents the question, given the chance to peer into the future of your health, would you opt in or out? Using the artist’s personal screening and diagnostics, 50/50 examines and abstracts the predictive genetic screening process, and brings the private experience into a public space.
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The Institute for New Feeling – Felt Book Screening
The Institute for New Feeling – Felt Book Screening
The Institute for New Feeling presents a 70-min video program to complement the current exhibition in the Arts District, and celebrate the launch of the Felt Book as a complete digital anthology.
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LACHSA: NEX(T)US
Works by Seniors in the Visual Arts program at L.A. County High School for the Arts. Opening Reception: Fri, May 20 5:30 - 8:30pm with gallery hours Sat, May 21 noon-5pm
Decolonize LA – QT*POC RUN
Decolonize LA – QT*POC RUN
This is run is open for Queer Trans* People of Color to address issues around (dis)placement we may face in our neighborhood, communities, spirit cultivating spaces, families, etc. We will run around 5 miles in displaced communities of Chinatown, Echo Park & Chavez Ravine.
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Too Much Information
Please join CLOSING for a week of presentations that invite 8 artists to play with form of public address and take on the task of communicating a substantial amount of information to an audience.
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REHEARSAL: Song of Eurydice
REHEARSAL: Song of Eurydice
Song of Eurydice is a choral / movement piece that re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists. REHEARSAL, founded in 2011, is a works-in-progress performance series in which one artist or group shares their work with the opportunity to hear back from their audience.
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The Distance Plan – Climate and Infrastructure
The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure brings together work by 10 practitioners whose works address major infrastructural forms of the present—energy generation, digital frameworks and mass transport networks—in relationship to future alternatives.
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LFZ / OFFING / Odeya Nini / r.r. barbadas
LFZ / OFFING / Odeya Nini / r.r. barbadas
Music at LACA by LFZ (Sean Smith), OFFING (Chris Duncan), Odeya Nini, r.r. barbadas (Rona Rapadas & Robbee Barber)