Los Angeles Events Calendar
11:00am
Dance
East Wind Foundation with Bob Baker Marionettes
A vibrant cultural celebration will feature a live Lion Dance performance by the renowned East Wind Foundation, a Chinatown-based organization empowering at-risk youth through martial and performance arts. Following the performance, BBMT will host a hands-on dragon puppet-building workshop for…
1:00pm
Visual Arts
FROM THE GROUND UP: NURTURING DIVERSITY IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS
What can seeds tell us about the future? Seeds and the plants that grow from them have provided us with food, clothing, shelter, and medicine for millennia. For just as long, humans have used sciences, technologies, myths, and art to…
3:00pm
Theater
Noises Off
Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theater company desperately trying to get their act together. Both onstage and backstage, chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced…
7:00pm
Music
Colburn Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Two works on this program, both critically panned at their premieres, have since become audience favorites. Unlike most symphonies, Shostakovich’s Sixth starts with an achingly emotional slow movement before plunging toward a fast and fiery finish. In Tchaikovsky’s lively Violin…
7:30pm
Music
Lunar Harmonies Asia / America New Music Institute
This concert by the Asia / America New Music Institute (AANMI) features compositions inspired by the Moon. With works by Chad Cannon from Los Angeles, SunYoung Sunny Park from Korea, and Angel Lam from Hong Kong and New York, the…
7:30pm
Theater
LACHSA Theatre Presents: Theatre Fourth Year Project
Senior Theatre majors will produce 2 plays for the evening: "Speech and Debate" and "Twelve Angry Men."
8:00pm
Music | Theater
BACK BEFORE, AFTER WHICH: A Kind of Life Journey in Cabaret Style
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Step into a winter cabaret: Tony Abatemarco (The Lost & Found Trilogy) returns to sing songs & tell tales from a life well-lived in this musical journey arranged and accompanied by John Snow. Abatemarco - a veteran theatre artist and…
8:00pm
Theater
Fake It Until You Make It
A bold world premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse and director Michael John Garcés, about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are. In her uproarious new comedy, a collision of friends and…
8:00pm
Theater
Sleeping Giant
When a firework-filled marriage proposal goes awry, the explosions wake up something very old that has been sleeping in the nearby lake for thousands of years. What follows are intimate, darkly comic, and sometimes startling vignettes about the lengths people…
8:00pm
Theater
Night Miracles
The Actors' Gang Theater @ Ivy Substation
Start your year with a powerful burst of creativity and emotion at Night Miracles, a festival of ten original 10-minute plays written, directed, and performed by The Actors’ Gang ensemble. This electrifying collection explores the full spectrum of the human…
8:00pm
Theater
Noises Off
Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce about a theater company desperately trying to get their act together. Both onstage and backstage, chaos reigns for a troupe of floundering actors whose forgotten lines, misplaced…
All Day
Visual Arts
Craft Contemporary Museum Admissions
Located on Los Angeles’ historic Miracle Mile since 1965, Craft Contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower.CHECK OUT THEIR CURRENT EXHIBITIONS HERE:tierra (May 31 - October 25)It names what is beneath, what is held, what…
All Day
Music
Django à Gogo
Back by popular demand, this year marks the 3rd edition of Django à Gogo Los Angeles, a music event dedicated to the art of the greatest guitar master who ever lived: Django Reinhardt. The stellar lineup, including the internationally acclaimed…