Calendar

Apr
13
Tue
2021
LUNCH À LA PARK Food Trucks @ Grand Park
Apr 13 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

lunch truck in Grand Park

Grand Park’s Lunch a la Park Food Trucks returns in an adjusted format, for local workers, jurors, and all parkgoers to enjoy. Trucks will be parked on Olive Court (between Grand and Hill, near Starbucks).

Please practice ongoing safety protocols to help prevent the spread of Covid-19:

  • Wear a mask
  • Wash your hands
  • Practice physical distancing – a minimum of 6 feet apart
  • If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms associated with Covid-19, please stay home.

JURORS: Enjoy 10% off during your lunch break, simply show your juror badge.


Truck schedule for May 11 – May 13, 2021:

TUE MAY 11

Flaming Grain

WED MAY 12

The Surfer Taco

THU MAY 13

None

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Apr
14
Wed
2021
LUNCH À LA PARK Food Trucks @ Grand Park
Apr 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

lunch truck in Grand Park

Grand Park’s Lunch a la Park Food Trucks returns in an adjusted format, for local workers, jurors, and all parkgoers to enjoy. Trucks will be parked on Olive Court (between Grand and Hill, near Starbucks).

Please practice ongoing safety protocols to help prevent the spread of Covid-19:

  • Wear a mask
  • Wash your hands
  • Practice physical distancing – a minimum of 6 feet apart
  • If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms associated with Covid-19, please stay home.

JURORS: Enjoy 10% off during your lunch break, simply show your juror badge.


Truck schedule for May 11 – May 13, 2021:

TUE MAY 11

Flaming Grain

WED MAY 12

The Surfer Taco

THU MAY 13

None

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Grand Park’s REC Center: Introduction to Chinese Dance @ rec.grandparkla.org
Apr 14 @ 12:00 pm
INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE DANCE
Presented by Pan America Chinese Dance Alliance / South Coast Chinese Cultural Center

Christy Yip will demonstrate a warm-up exercise and introduce the different hand movements in Chinese hand dancing. She will also demonstrate a low-impact dance combination that uses all the different hand movements.
Simplified Chinese:
中国舞入门 – 手型练习。中国舞的手型有很多种,如兰花指、轮指、点指、空心拳等。在这个教学视频里,叶雅婷老师将介绍不同的手型及一个练习手型的组合。
Traditional Chinese:
中國舞入門 – 手型練習。中國舞的手型有很多種,如蘭花指、輪指、點指、空心拳等。在這個教學視頻裡,葉雅婷老師將介紹不同的手型及一個練習手型的組合。
Christy Yip, Board Member of Pan America Chinese Dance Alliance (PACDA), is a certified teacher of Chinese Folk Dance Graded Test Level 1-12. Miss Christy’s passion for dance started at the young age of five in Hong Kong. Her passion for dance continued as she immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. She earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of California Irvine with a major in Economics and a minor in Dance. Christy was one of the award-winning dancers in the Taoli World Dance Competition. She is now a dance teacher at the South Coast Chinese Cultural Center, and a Principal Dancer in the Chinese Dance Company of Southern California (CDCSC). Christy committed to promoting Chinese dance and Chinese culture, her goal is to bring awareness and cultivate the next generation to continue to love dance and love life!
Tradition Chinese:
葉雅婷,中國民族民間舞等級考試1-12級教師。
五歲開始接觸舞蹈,十六歲從香港移民到美國,大學時主修經濟副修舞蹈。曾是 Bliss Dance Company 主要成員之一。現任《泛美中國舞蹈聯盟》理事,致力推廣中國舞蹈和中華文化,希望有更多的人能更了解中國各民族,培育下一代繼續熱愛舞蹈,熱愛生命!
Simplified Chinese:
叶雅婷,中国民族民间舞等级考试1-12级教师。五岁开始接触舞蹈,十六岁从香港移民到美国,大学时主修经济副修舞蹈。曾是 Bliss Dance Company 主要成员之一。现任《泛美中国舞蹈联盟》理事,致力推广中国舞蹈和中华文化,希望有更多的人能更了解中国各民族,培育下一代继续热爱舞蹈,热爱生命!

EVERY WEDNESDAY get well with Grand Park’s REC Center, an all-new virtual program centered around physical, mental and emotional wellness! Feed your mind, body and soul with multilingual and accessible yoga, dance classes, workshops, and more. Find out more info at rec.grandparkla.org.

 

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

LUNCH A LA PARK Yoga reTREAT GOES ONLINE! @ Grand Park Facebook and Instagram Live
Apr 14 @ 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

AS OF MARCH 20, 2020, the LUNCH Á LA PARK YOGA reTREAT! Program moves online!  In-person classes will be suspended per the Safer at Home order by the County and City of Los Angeles. We will update accordingly, in compliance with County and City mandates. Thank you for your patience during this time.

We will go LIVE on our YouTube (grandparklosangeles)INSTAGRAM (@grandpark_la) and FACEBOOK (@grandparklosangeles social media platforms at 12:15 p.m.

If you can’t make it for the live class, not to worry! We will archive the classes for you to participate on your own schedule.

Please note that we will NOT be having in-person classes at the Park until further notice. Thank you!

Wednesdays and Fridays 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Grand Park’s popular yoga sessions return, giving participants the opportunity to relax, rejuvenate and re-energize.

For more information about free fall and winter programming at Grand Park, visit grandparkla.org. Follow Grand Park on Facebook (GrandParkLosAngeles), as well as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat (@GrandPark_LA).

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Apr
15
Thu
2021
LUNCH À LA PARK Food Trucks @ Grand Park
Apr 15 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

lunch truck in Grand Park

Grand Park’s Lunch a la Park Food Trucks returns in an adjusted format, for local workers, jurors, and all parkgoers to enjoy. Trucks will be parked on Olive Court (between Grand and Hill, near Starbucks).

Please practice ongoing safety protocols to help prevent the spread of Covid-19:

  • Wear a mask
  • Wash your hands
  • Practice physical distancing – a minimum of 6 feet apart
  • If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms associated with Covid-19, please stay home.

JURORS: Enjoy 10% off during your lunch break, simply show your juror badge.


Truck schedule for May 11 – May 13, 2021:

TUE MAY 11

Flaming Grain

WED MAY 12

The Surfer Taco

THU MAY 13

None

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Grand Park’s Our LA Voices 2021 @ olav.grandparkla.org
Apr 15 @ 6:00 pm
Grand Park brings Our LA Voices 2021: A Digital Spring Arts and Culture Fest right to your screens! Join us as we celebrate the multicultural and diverse landscape of Los Angeles County’s arts community through the lens of identity, impact, and resiliency. Tune in every Thursday from April 15-29 at 6PM.

WEEK 1 LINEUP

LIVE PERFORMANCE
Viet Trap: Live
DJ Lani Love
DJ Lani Love spins a set of hip hop tracks from Vietnam and Vietnamese Diaspora.
TALK
Vietnamese New Wave: Then and Now
DJ Lani Love & Elizabeth Ai
Lani Love in conversation with filmmaker and director Elizabeth Ai to discuss Ai’s current project, New Wave Documentary, a project documenting and preserving the sociocultural influence and impact of the popular 80s music genre, New Wave, on Vietnamese diaspora. DJ Lani Love and filmmaker Elizabeth Ai as they chat about the origins of Vietnamese New Wave and its cultural significance then and now.
TALK
Creation Stories of the Los Angeles Basin
Department of Cultural Affairs & the NEA Big Read ft. Metzli Projects
Learn about some of the creation stories of the Los Angeles Basin by joining Elder Alan Salazar (Tataviam/Chumash) 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.
FILM
Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg): Film Premiere
Arthur King & AKP Recordings
The experimental documentary short Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) was filmed in the Scottish Hebrides. The process, or artistic methodology, of the Changing Landscapes series is focused primarily on field recordings, and is the unchanging framework that allows the location to truly serve as the focus of the art.

WEEK 2 LINEUP

LIVE WORKSHOP
Milagros: Live
Department of Cultural Affairs & the NEA Big Read ft. Ofelia Esparza & Rosanna Esparza Ahrens. 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.
TALK
A Conversation With
Jonah Elijah
Conversation with LA-based artist Jonah Elijah, His work encapsulates black life in America and addresses controversial issues that actively affect the African American community. Using materials to explore economic inequality, displacement, or human rights Elijah’s artist practice embraces discomforting realities.
WORKSHOP
Welcome To My Neighborhood!
Jocelyn Ayala of the dA Center for the Arts
We will take a walk around Downtown Pomona, note our most eye-catching features, and then replicate them onto a vision board for what we would like our neighborhood to look like post-covid.
Recommended Supplies: Paper, pencil, pen, watercolors – and any other art supplies you have at home!
TALK
Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg): Talk
Arthur King & AKP Recordings
This 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 island, and is now a record, film, and pop-up gallery installation in Los Angeles.

WEEK 3 LINEUP

LIVE TALK
Making Our Neighborhood: Live
Samanta Helou Hernandez & Jimmy Recinos
A two-part informational livestream on how to “Make a Neighborhood” in response to gentrification in historically ethnic and working-class Los Angeles communities. Part one will describe how Jimmy and Samanta first came together and conceptualized a discussion series for their community centered on three themes: historic redlining, current gentrification, and present and future housing affordability issues in the Virgil Village and East Hollywood areas. Part one will also describe the evolution of the discussion series into a public art project, an educational pamphlet campaign, archival research and blog storytelling, and finally, round-table discussions with various community members affected by our series’ three major themes. Finally, Jimmy and Samanta will discuss the importance of language justice and accessibility throughout 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 telling the stories behind finding the various voices featured in their magazine. Part two will also touch on the need to uplift art and literature in times of hardship, noting how despite many resources “taken” by the pandemic, including public schools, public libraries, and other public spaces, working-class communities can still come together to voice and respond to ongoing struggles, as we have done so historically.
PERFORMANCE
Party In My Living Room
Thurz
In an intimate setting from his living room, Thurz, LA hip hop artist hailing from Inglewood; will perform songs inspired by the experiences in his community. Thurz will be performing 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.
LIVE TALK
Musicians As Workers: Live
Josephine Shetty
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, there are many examples of music workers building worker power. However, exclusionary union models, individualism, increasing inequality, and technological changes in the music industry have also hindered music workers 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.
DANCE PIECE
Rasquanchecias
Primera Generación Dance Collective
“Rasquachencias” showcases our collective’s past, present, and future works to consolidate a vibrant picture of our Mexican American sociality. This piece explores the power of rasquache play, engaging the possibilities in loud colors, Latinx iconography, and recycled juxtapositions to highlight the creative survival strategies produced by the brown, working-class communities that we grew up in.
DANCE PIECE
Love for the Prairie《苍穹之恋》
Chinese Dance Company of Southern California
The Mongols have always regarded the world as a component of nature, and believe that man and the earth coexist and prosper, and 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 nature.
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。

Find out more info at olav.grandparkla.org.

 

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Apr
16
Fri
2021
LUNCH A LA PARK Yoga reTREAT GOES ONLINE! @ Grand Park Facebook and Instagram Live
Apr 16 @ 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

AS OF MARCH 20, 2020, the LUNCH Á LA PARK YOGA reTREAT! Program moves online!  In-person classes will be suspended per the Safer at Home order by the County and City of Los Angeles. We will update accordingly, in compliance with County and City mandates. Thank you for your patience during this time.

We will go LIVE on our YouTube (grandparklosangeles)INSTAGRAM (@grandpark_la) and FACEBOOK (@grandparklosangeles social media platforms at 12:15 p.m.

If you can’t make it for the live class, not to worry! We will archive the classes for you to participate on your own schedule.

Please note that we will NOT be having in-person classes at the Park until further notice. Thank you!

Wednesdays and Fridays 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Grand Park’s popular yoga sessions return, giving participants the opportunity to relax, rejuvenate and re-energize.

For more information about free fall and winter programming at Grand Park, visit grandparkla.org. Follow Grand Park on Facebook (GrandParkLosAngeles), as well as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat (@GrandPark_LA).

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Apr
20
Tue
2021
LUNCH À LA PARK Food Trucks @ Grand Park
Apr 20 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

lunch truck in Grand Park

Grand Park’s Lunch a la Park Food Trucks returns in an adjusted format, for local workers, jurors, and all parkgoers to enjoy. Trucks will be parked on Olive Court (between Grand and Hill, near Starbucks).

Please practice ongoing safety protocols to help prevent the spread of Covid-19:

  • Wear a mask
  • Wash your hands
  • Practice physical distancing – a minimum of 6 feet apart
  • If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms associated with Covid-19, please stay home.

JURORS: Enjoy 10% off during your lunch break, simply show your juror badge.


Truck schedule for May 11 – May 13, 2021:

TUE MAY 11

Flaming Grain

WED MAY 12

The Surfer Taco

THU MAY 13

None

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Apr
21
Wed
2021
LUNCH À LA PARK Food Trucks @ Grand Park
Apr 21 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

lunch truck in Grand Park

Grand Park’s Lunch a la Park Food Trucks returns in an adjusted format, for local workers, jurors, and all parkgoers to enjoy. Trucks will be parked on Olive Court (between Grand and Hill, near Starbucks).

Please practice ongoing safety protocols to help prevent the spread of Covid-19:

  • Wear a mask
  • Wash your hands
  • Practice physical distancing – a minimum of 6 feet apart
  • If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms associated with Covid-19, please stay home.

JURORS: Enjoy 10% off during your lunch break, simply show your juror badge.


Truck schedule for May 11 – May 13, 2021:

TUE MAY 11

Flaming Grain

WED MAY 12

The Surfer Taco

THU MAY 13

None

Information subject to change.

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.

Grand Park’s REC Center: Yoga Gentil Para Todos Cuerpos @ rec.grandparkla.org
Apr 21 @ 12:00 pm
YOGA GENTIL PARA TODOS CUERPOS
Presented by The Tree Yoga Cooperative

Movimiento y aliento gentil y suave para principiantes y todas las edades. (These classes focus on gentle movement and breath for beginners and all ages.)
Rita, Jonié (aka J.Cole), Jana, and Jenni launched The Tree Yoga Cooperative in August of 2020 after years of teaching yoga and meditation throughout South Los Angeles. Their community leadership at The Tree South LA (nonprofit organization) united them to reimagine the ways we connect, heal, build and celebrate ourselves and community.
Rita, Jonié (también conocido como J.Cole), Jana y Jenni lanzaron The Tree Yoga Cooperative en Agosto de 2020 después de años de enseñar yoga y meditación en todo el sur de Los Ángeles. Su liderazgo comunitario en The Tree South LA (organización sin fines de lucro) los unió para reinventar las formas en que nos conectamos, sanamos, construimos y celebramos a nosotros mismos y a la comunidad.

EVERY WEDNESDAY get well with Grand Park’s REC Center, an all-new virtual program centered around physical, mental and emotional wellness! Feed your mind, body and soul with multilingual and accessible yoga, dance classes, workshops, and more. Find out more info at rec.grandparkla.org.

 

METRO RED or PURPLE LINE TO CIVIC CENTER/GRAND PARK STATION, GOLD LINE TO LITTLE TOKYO/ARTS DISTRICT STATION

Grand Park is an LA County park powered by The Music Center.

Los Angeles County. Grand Park. The Music Center.