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February 2023
LAnded: Diaspora and the Southeast Asian Refugee
Phung Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator with a practice in drawing, painting, public art, and community engagement. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed public art commissions throughout Los Angeles County. Phung Huynh is Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College . Huynh has served as Chair of the Public Art Commission for the city of South Pasadena and Chair of the Prison Arts Collective Advisory Council, which supports arts programming in California state…
Ticket Information »Where the Horizon meets the Earth
Virginia Grise will discuss the evolution of her career as a theatre artist, from blu to her most current project, Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, inspired by Helena María Viramontes' epic novel Their Dogs Came with Them. The talk will include excerpts of her work and her methodological and artistic practices for creating ecologies of care in the face of state violence, how we dream when our communities are under attack, how we create spaces for movement, joy…
Ticket Information »March 2023
Get Up, Stand up!!!
Michael McCarty learned storytelling from his mother. And his life has indeed been one heaven of a story to tell: a student activist, Black Panther, US Army martial arts instructor, acupuncturist, world traveler, spiritual seeker, construction worker, storyteller, husband, father, and crazy friend, he first learned about professional storytelling in 1992 when he met Joel ben Izzy from Berkeley, CA. McCarty’s life has since been a series of studying, learning and absorbing storytelling from different parts of the world including…
Ticket Information »April 2023
Body as a Crossroads: “Womb”
Scripps Dance and The Humanities Institute Present Body as a Crossroads: "Womb" “Womb” is a raw and intimate dance piece spearheaded by LA-based dace-maker, Marina Magalhães. “Womb” lives in the sacred meeting space of dualities, wherein it is possible to conjure spirit through flesh, find joy in grief, and create ritual out of rupture. “Womb” is currently a work-in-progress with plans to develop premiere, and tour over the next 2-3 years. “Womb” is the first activation of Magalhães’s Creative Capital…
Ticket Information »Great Leap’s FandangObon
Nobuko Miyamoto Founded by Nobuko Miyamoto and Quetzal Flores, Great Leap’s FandangObon convenes into one circle the participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Vera Cruz, Mexico rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in remembrance of ancestors; and West African dance and drums of Nigeria, Mali, and New Guinea. As we continue to build this practice, we have also welcomed the Sufi Muslim traditions of the Hadra as well. Rooted in culturally-based sustainability…
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