Los Angeles Events Calendar
12:00pm
Visual Arts
On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues
What does the study of languages teach us about our shared history?Experience B.A. Van Sise’s poetic, visual, and linguistic invitation to reflect on the complex cultural heritage and diversity of the country. These portraits and languages are presented together to…
12:00pm
Visual Arts
Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain reimagine old and new ways of understanding trees at a time when technology further removes us from the natural world. In Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology, artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken…
2:00pm
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…
7:00pm
Music
Colburn Presents: Marko Topchii, Guitar
Thayer Hall - The Colburn School
Marko Topchii, winner of the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition, performs guitar classics, contemporary works, and unique arrangements.
7:30pm
Theater
LACHSA Theatre Presents: Theatre Third Year Project
Come see our third-year student perform pieces from Maid, Shape of Things, Seminar & Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's a coming-of-age showcase!
8:00pm
Theater
WHITE/OUT
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
On a sweltering summer day during the height of the pandemic, I step outside of my apartment and melt into a protest in progress. As I march through the streets of Los Angeles in support of Black Lives, complex 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
Bounds
City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
City Garage is proud to present the west coast premieres of two plays dealing with displaced people. Though "Bounds" is from Sicily, and the other "I Want A Country" is from Greece, both speak to not just the worldwide crisis…
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
Alabaster
June lives alone in a small farmhouse in Alabaster, Alabama, three years after a tornado killed her family. June is covered with scars from the catastrophe, with only her two goats, Weezy and Bib, as companions. Alice, a noted photographer…
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…
8:00pm
Music
Christian McBride & Ursa Major
Revered master of the upright bass, Christian McBride is also the foremost master of finding new talent and surrounding himself with young musicians. His New Quintet is precisely that. Jazz Club audiences have a rare opportunity to be up close…
8:00pm
Theater
Flayed
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Joshua is fresh out of pastor’s college and delivering his first sermon to a conservative church in Southwest Virginia. This trial-run sermon will determine if he will join the church staff as an Associate Pastor, something he’s longed for his…
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
Visual Arts
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
Ever wondered what artist inspires much of today’s fashion?Explore the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This exhibition includes a selection of over sixty garments drawn from the DVF archives along with artwork, ephemera, fabric swatches…
All Day
Launching Our Creativity & Community Care Room at the Armory
We are pleased to announce the opening of our Creativity & Community Care Room at the Armory at The Gale Kohl Center for Creativity in Old Pasadena. Co-hosted by our friends at Gale’s Restaurant, we invite you and any members…