Los Angeles Events Calendar
10:00am–4:00pm
Visual Arts | Storytelling
2:00–3:00pm
Visual Arts
my hands are monsters who believe in magic
my hands are monsters who believe in magic features works of Asian diasporic artists that explore the process of unmaking and remaking the self in their work. Focusing on the potential for art as a site of radical reimagination, the…
6:30–10:45pm
Film
DocuSlate Documentary Film Festival Day 1
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) presents its annual line-up DocuSlate documentary program, spotlighting documentary filmmakers and stories from around the world with a selection of features and short documentaries across six programs, beginning on Friday evening and continuing on Sunday afternoon.DocuSlate…
7:30–9:30pm
Music
Main Series No. 2: Beauty in Tension
Sometimes, music soars. Sometimes, it aches. And sometimes, it refuses to resolve — until it finally does. This program explores the fragile, cathartic space between dissonance and harmony. From Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet and Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Prokofiev’s lyrical modernism…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
Mariology
In a mythical fifth-grade classroom, indoctrination explodes into fantasy and rebellion in Nancy Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Group’s form-busting and exuberantly theatrical West Coast Premiere. Mariology explores the Virgin Mary both as a source of faith and a weapon…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
The Aaron Play
The Independent Shakespeare Company Studio
Tragic, darkly funny, and terrifyingly relevant, The Aaron Play picks up right where Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus left off: with its self-proclaimed villain, Aaron the Moor, sentenced to death for his many crimes and buried up to his chest in earth. Desperate to…
7:30–9:30pm
Opera
Fra Diavolo
Pacific Opera Project presents Fra Diavolo, Daniel Auber’s lively comic opera. This rarely performed gem is a rollicking adventure full of disguises, deception, and delightful melodies. Little known today, but a favorite of 19th-century audiences, Fra Diavolo bridges the world…
8:00–9:30pm
Theater
Border Crisis
City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
An average American family suddenly finds themselves at the center of an international border dispute. As the crisis unfolds, their home is invaded by a succession of government agents, diplomats, and border guards who quickly turn everything upside down. The…
8:00–10:00pm
Theater
Pointy Scissors
A play about love and small motor skills. When a barber with low self-esteem has a mishap with a new pair of scissors, his sister and a new friend come to his rescue.
8:00–10:00pm
Theater
नेहा & NEEL
Latino Theater Co. at The Los Angeles Theater Center
Neha (नेहा) fears she has failed to pass her language and culture down to her 17-year-old son, Neel (नील). A summer trip to visit colleges could be Neha’s last chance, if only she can get Neel to visit the historic…
9:00–11:00pm
Theater
Arrest The Clowns!
The Actors' Gang Theater @ Ivy Substation
An action-packed nail-biter about a revolutionary freedom squad of buffoons who will stop at nothing to take down the elusive artificial intelligence LOLA and save the world!
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 | Exhibit
Sanctuaries
Sanctuaries is a group exhibition of Armory contemporary teaching artists who expand upon the meaning and imagination of sanctuaries, true and metaphysical, as spaces of protection, agency, preservation, and healing. Through painting, textile, ceramic, photography, risography, and mixed media, each…
All Day
Visual Arts
Wende Museum - General Admission
Check out a list of these exhibitions below:Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, AgencyThe exhibition Counter/Surveillance traces the historical roots of such surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them. It explores the precursors of current biometric…