Los Angeles Events Calendar
1:30–3:30pm
Visual Arts | Workshops/Classes
The House that Love Built: Mid Mod House and Finger Puppet-Making with Linda Santiman
Join felt fiber artist Linda Santiman in celebrating playful mid-century modern design by constructing a butterfly roof felt house and making a bespoke finger puppet buddy, a nod to the spirited finger puppet designs of Evelyn Ackerman. Participants will receive patterns for the…
2:00–4:00pm
Poetry
POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE: The June Jordan Experience
Mixing words, music, and movement, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE: THE JUNE JORDAN EXPERIENCE launches our 35th season celebrating the noted writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Featuring a performance and music of world renowned…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Amadeus
The stage is set for a riveting rivalry between two composers: Antonio Salieri, the court’s celebrated musician, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the vulgar prodigy whose brilliance threatens everything Salieri holds dear. Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays (A Christmas Carol, I Am My Own Wife)…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Octopus’s Garden
A World Premiere Co-Production with Circle x Theatre Co. and Outside In TheatreWhen two marine biologists and a struggling composer discover that an octopus in a cephalopod lab has written the most transcendent piece of music ever heard, their worlds…
3:00–5:00pm
Opera
Turnadot
Puccini’s final masterpiece gets the full POP treatment in this stunning new production of Turandot, set in a magical world of ice and snow—frozen, like the heart of its title character. Featuring real-life husband and wife 2024 Richard Tucker Award-winning…
4:00–6:00pm
Theater
Uncle Vanya
City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
Acclaimed playwright Neil LaBute brings a fresh edge to Chekhov’s tragicomic masterpiece about disillusionment, unrequited love, frustrated passion, and the search for meaning. Set in a rural estate at the end of the 19th century, the lives of Vanya, his…
5:00–6:00pm
Dance
Metropolis
Lineage Performing Arts Center
The JMHS Mystics dance team invites you into a fearless Afrofuturist journey inspired by Janelle Monáe’s first four albums. This electrifying dance concert fuses futuristic beats, bold storytelling, and powerful movement to explore freedom, identity, and rebellion across time and…
7:00–10:00pm
Music
Forever Flamenco : Soul of Spain
The Yuval Ron Ensemble – with guest flamenco artists Andres Vadin and Lakshmi Basile “La Chimi” explores the Jewish and Flamenco traditions of Andalusia, Spain. With fiery Flamenco, Sephardic-Jewish music, dance and story telling, the program revisits the Golden Age of Spain, a time when collaboration…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
Amadeus
The stage is set for a riveting rivalry between two composers: Antonio Salieri, the court’s celebrated musician, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the vulgar prodigy whose brilliance threatens everything Salieri holds dear. Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays (A Christmas Carol, I Am My Own Wife)…
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
Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman with Porfirio Gutiérrez, Joli Ngo, and Vince Skelly
Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman with Porfirio Gutiérrez, Jolie Ngo, and Vince Skelly features the vibrant designs of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in dialogue with works by contemporary artists Porfirio Gutiérrez, Jolie Ngo, and Vince Skelly. Showcasing…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination
Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination brings together seven artists who turn to craft to divine memory, enact ritual, and seek knowledge of the future. Working with earth, fiber, metal, cyanotype, terracotta, and film, they carry ways of understanding the world…
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…