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METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION\, G OLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION
\nGrand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.
\nBEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//172.67.220.67//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Grand Park X-WR-CALDESC:The Park for Everyone X-FROM-URL:https://archive.grandparkla.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-36050@grandparkla.org DTSTAMP:20240328T161043Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Event Calendar\,Events CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Grand Park brings Our LA Voices 2021: A Digital Spring Arts and Culture Fest right to your screens! Join us as we celebrate the multicult ural and diverse landscape of Los Angeles County’s arts community through the lens of identity\, impact\, and resiliency. Tune in every Thursday fro m April 15-29 at 6PM.\n\n\n\nWEEK 1 LINEUP\nLIVE PERFORMANCE\nViet Trap: L ive\nDJ Lani Love\nDJ Lani Love spins a set of hip hop tracks from Vietnam and Vietnamese Diaspora.\n\n\nTALK\nVietnamese New Wave: Then and Now\nDJ Lani Love & Elizabeth Ai\nLani Love in conversation with filmmaker and di rector Elizabeth Ai to discuss Ai’s current project\, New Wave Documentary \, a project documenting and preserving the sociocultural influence and im pact of the popular 80s music genre\, New Wave\, on Vietnamese diaspora. D J Lani Love and filmmaker Elizabeth Ai as they chat about the origins of V ietnamese New Wave and its cultural significance then and now.\n\n\nTALK\n Creation Stories of the Los Angeles Basin\nDepartment of Cultural Affairs & the NEA Big Read ft. Metzli Projects\nLearn about some of the creation s tories of the Los Angeles Basin by joining Elder Alan Salazar (Tataviam/Ch umash) to hear excerpts from his new book “Tata\, the Tataviam Towhee\,” a nature story illustrated by Mona Lewis using pigments made from rocks and soil collected in Tataviam territory.\n\n\nFILM\nChanging Landscapes (Isl e of Eigg): Film Premiere\nArthur King & AKP Recordings\nThe experimental documentary short Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) was filmed in the Sco ttish Hebrides. The process\, or artistic methodology\, of the Changing La ndscapes series is focused primarily on field recordings\, and is the unch anging framework that allows the location to truly serve as the focus of t he art.\n\n\nWEEK 2 LINEUP\nLIVE WORKSHOP\nMilagros: Live\nDepartment of C ultural Affairs & the NEA Big Read ft. Ofelia Esparza & Rosanna Esparza Ah rens. This session will explore the question\, ‘What is the miracle needed right now?’ We will tap into our artistic abilities and create a Milagro to ourselves.\n\n\n\n\nTALK\nA Conversation With\nJonah Elijah\nConversati on with LA-based artist Jonah Elijah\, His work encapsulates black life in America and addresses controversial issues that actively affect the Afric an American community. Using materials to explore economic inequality\, di splacement\, or human rights Elijah’s artist practice embraces discomforti ng realities.\n\n\n\n\nWORKSHOP\nWelcome To My Neighborhood!\nJocelyn Ayal a of the dA Center for the Arts\nWe will take a walk around Downtown Pomon a\, note our most eye-catching features\, and then replicate them onto a v ision board for what we would like our neighborhood to look like post-covi d.\n\nRecommended Supplies: Paper\, pencil\, pen\, watercolors – and any o ther art supplies you have at home!\n\n\n\n\nTALK\nChanging Landscapes (Is le of Eigg): Talk\nArthur King & AKP Recordings\nThis interview and sneak peek at the Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) Gallery Exhibition features Dublab’s Alejandro Cohen in conversation with Arthur King’s Peter Walker. They discuss the multi-layered project that began on a remote Scottish is land\, and is now a record\, film\, and pop-up gallery installation in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\nWEEK 3 LINEUP\nLIVE TALK\nMaking Our Neighborhood: Live\n Samanta Helou Hernandez & Jimmy Recinos\nA two-part informational livestre am on how to “Make a Neighborhood” in response to gentrification in histor ically ethnic and working-class Los Angeles communities. Part one will des cribe how Jimmy and Samanta first came together and conceptualized a discu ssion series for their community centered on three themes: historic redlin ing\, current gentrification\, and present and future housing affordabilit y issues in the Virgil Village and East Hollywood areas. Part one will als o describe the evolution of the discussion series into a public art projec t\, an educational pamphlet campaign\, archival research and blog storytel ling\, and finally\, round-table discussions with various community member s affected by our series’ three major themes. Finally\, Jimmy and Samanta will discuss the importance of language justice and accessibility througho ut the process of “Making Our Neighborhood.” Part two will describe Jimmy and Samanta’s final installment for the series\, Making Our Neighborhood: The Magazine\, discussing the importance of memorializing the findings of the discussion series in a tangible form for communities to access\, and t elling the stories behind finding the various voices featured in their mag azine. Part two will also touch on the need to uplift art and literature i n times of hardship\, noting how despite many resources “taken” by the pan demic\, including public schools\, public libraries\, and other public spa ces\, working-class communities can still come together to voice and respo nd to ongoing struggles\, as we have done so historically.\n\n\n\n\nPERFOR MANCE\nParty In My Living Room\nThurz\nIn an intimate setting from his liv ing room\, Thurz\, LA hip hop artist hailing from Inglewood\; will perform songs inspired by the experiences in his community. Thurz will be perform ing songs from his ‘MORE THURZ ON THURZDAY’ playlist\, accompanied by Wali Ali Jr. on talkbox and a special band configuration TBD. In 2020\, Thurza released ‘MORE THURZ ON THURZDAY’ playlist\, a song per week\, every week of the year\, from January through December.\n\n\nLIVE TALK\nMusicians As Workers: Live\nJosephine Shetty\nThroughout the 20th and 21st centuries\, there are many examples of music workers building worker power. However\, exclusionary union models\, individualism\, increasing inequality\, and t echnological changes in the music industry have also hindered music worker s from massively collectivizing or uniting in solidarity with the rest of the working class. This conversation dives into the meaning of positioning musicians as workers\, building broader movements of music workers\, and how we can learn from an existing lineage of musicians organizing to build stronger movements of workers today.\n\n\n\n\nDANCE PIECE\nRasquanchecias \nPrimera Generación Dance Collective\n“Rasquachencias” showcases our coll ective’s past\, present\, and future works to consolidate a vibrant pictur e of our Mexican American sociality. This piece explores the power of rasq uache play\, engaging the possibilities in loud colors\, Latinx iconograph y\, and recycled juxtapositions to highlight the creative survival strateg ies produced by the brown\, working-class communities that we grew up in. \n\n\nDANCE PIECE\nLove for the Prairie《苍穹之恋》\nChinese Dance Company of So uthern California\nThe Mongols have always regarded the world as a compone nt of nature\, and believe that man and the earth coexist and prosper\, an d all the phenomena of nature are the products of the earth. “Love for the Prairie” shows the Mongols’ love and reverence for their homeland and nat ure.\n蒙古人一向把天地万物看成是大自然的构成部分,认为人与天地万物共存共荣,大自然的一切现象都是天地的产物。《苍穹之恋》表现的就是蒙古人对大自 然的热爱和崇敬。\n\n\n\n\nFind out more info at olav.grandparkla.org.\n\n\n\n\n \n METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION\, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION\nGrand Park is an LA County park power ed by The Music Center. 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METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION\, G OLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION
\nGrand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.
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