Los Angeles Upcoming Events
Preoccupied LA August Walking Book Club with Amy DuBois Barnett Free
Next Up: Saturday, August 22 | 11:00am | 11th Street & Alta Ave
Join The Preoccupied as we walk and discuss our August Book Club book, If I Ruled The World, with author Amy DuBois Barnett . We will meet in Santa Monica, where we will provide attendees with complimentary drinks and goodies…
WTC View: 25th Anniversary Reading
Next Up: Friday, September 11 | 7:30pm | Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
This isn't a play about September 11th — it's about the strange, tender weeks after, when a gay photographer in Lower Manhattan places a roommate ad the night before the towers fall. Queer survival, chosen family, and the strangers who become lifelines when the world cracks open - Experience…
LA September Walking Book Club with Amy Chan
Next Up: Sunday, September 27 | 11:00am | 11th Street & Alta Ave
Join The Preoccupied as we walk and discuss our September Book Club book, UnSingle, with author Amy Chan. We will meet in Santa Monica, where we will provide attendees with complimentary drinks and goodies. Then we will walk through the…
LA October Walking Book Club with Virginia Hume
Next Up: Sunday, October 18 | 11:00am | 11th Street & Alta Ave
Join The Preoccupied as we walk and discuss our October Book Club book, Liberty Island, with author Virginia Hume. We will meet in Santa Monica, where we will provide attendees with complimentary drinks and goodies. Then we will walk through…
AUTHOR | Camille Hernandez
Next Up: Sunday, November 15 | 4:00pm | Sierra Madre Playhouse
Poet, performer, and educator Camille Hernandez presents an immersive reimagining of her celebrated chapbook Motherlands—now transformed into a choreopoem that merges movement, rhythm, and language into living performance. Rather than reciting from behind a podium, Hernandez animates her poetry through…
AUTHOR | The Angel and the City: Dana Gioia
Next Up: Friday, November 20 | 8:00pm | Sierra Madre Playhouse
Former California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia curates an evening celebrating the voices that define Los Angeles poetry today. The Angel and the City brings together a constellation of writers whose work captures the spirit, contradictions, and radiance of Southern California…