Celebrate African American and Black History Month with LA County Library. Food nourishes the body and helps tell people’s stories. Explore the rich culinary traditions of Black Americans through cookbooks and capture your own culinary story using the recipe card template.
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African American and Black History Month: Culinary Traditions
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PEN World Voices Festival
Author Sang Young Park joins PEN America World Voices Festival following the publication of his Booker-Prize nominated English-language debut, Love in the Big City, translated from Korean by PEN/Heim Translation Awardee Anton Hur. Discussing his best-selling novel chronicling the joy and loneliness of millennial life in Seoul, Park will be joined by Rex Ogle, a prolific and award-winning author of nearly a hundred children’s books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs set across the United States. Join us for a reading…
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THE MUSIC CENTER’S DANCE DTLA
Join the thousands who dance the night away under the stars. The Music Center’s Dance DTLA returns for its 20th summer with eight nights of in-person beginner dance lessons that include easy-to-follow steps and a different dance genre experience each week.
$5 – $10
Film Series: Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film
The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and…
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Girl From the North Country
It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life, and hope. Girl From the North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs by Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before. Tuesdays – Saturdays – 8:00 p.m. Saturday – 2:00 p.m. Sunday 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. For more information, please visit: northcountrytour.com
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Beethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre
Dudamel conducts, in collaboration with the Deaf West Theatre, an innovative production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, created for both deaf and hearing audiences. A story told through the composer’s music sung by hearing vocalists accompanied by the expressive gestural poetry of sign language by deaf actors. Don’t miss this innovative performance, May 16 and May 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. For more information and tickets, click here.