Los Angeles Events Calendar
11:00am–12:30pm
Dance
DANCE | KAYAMANAN NG LAHI PHILIPPINE FOLK ARTS
Welcome the Year of the Dragon with Pagdiriwang, a vibrant celebration of Philippine culture by Kayamanan Ng Lahi. Through spirited folk dances, timeless traditions, and dynamic interpretations, this performance honors Filipino heritage while weaving stories of renewal, hope, and unity.
1:00–2:30pm
Panel Discussion
Mutualista; towards a new cosmic methodology
For Mutualista, artist Marcus Zúñiga will moderate a panel discussion taking its cue from his mutualism imager project. Currently on view in the Armory’s From the Ground Up exhibition, Zúñiga’s installation conflates references to sun and moon alignments and the…
1:00–5:00pm
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…
2:00–3:30pm
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!
8:00–10:00pm
Comedy
The MisMatch Game: All Thorned Up Edition
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.’s most love-starved comic minds for a rose-scented evening of pop culture skewering, R-rated game show hijinks and optional flirting. Whether you’re single, taken or finished with love forever, you're going to…
8:00–9:00pm
Theater
Black Bastard
Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Queer. Southern. Creole… “Black Bastard” transports audiences to 1990s Houston in a humorous, heartfelt coming-of-age tale. Jon, an inquisitive Black boy, develops a love for literature until his family fractures, thrusting him into the role of “man of the house.”…
8:00–9:30pm
Theater
I Want a Country
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 "I Want A Country" is from Greece, both speak to not just the worldwide crisis of unwanted…
8:00–9:30pm
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…
8:00–9:30pm
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…
8:00–9:30pm
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…
8:00–9:30pm
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…
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…