The tour follows the progress of the African American community in Los Angeles. It includes the Biddy Mason Wall, Sugar Hill, the Island, Central Avenue, Leimert Park, and other locations throughout the city. This year’s Association for the Study of American Life and History’s national theme is African Americans and the Arts.
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2024 AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH – 2024 ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY BUS TOUR
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Freaky Friday – Movies at the Autry
Grab your picnic blanket and basket and head to the Autry Museum’s lawn to watch Freaky Friday projected on the giant screen. Some of the city’s best food trucks and local bands will be on hand. Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 p.m., the movie starts at 8:00 p.m. Tickets Required. Purchase tickets here.
Free
Pomona Art Walk
The Downtown Pomona Arts Colony has an art walk every second Saturday of the month that bring big crowds to stroll the streets. Over a dozen galleries host receptions and open houses to showcase their latest exhibits and artists. Enjoy music, food, wine.
$10
PEN World Voices Festival: To Our Foremothers: Love, Grief and How Art Sustains Us
Drawing inspiration from foremothers as varied as Agnes Martin, Jane Jacobs, Maria Sibylla Merian, grandmothers, and the countless unnamed women who history has anonymized—four distinguished writers explore topics of gender, art, depression, and grief. Poet Victoria Chang’s new collection With My Back to the World engages the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression. How do we see and how are we seen? Daniela Naomi Molnar’s debut collection…
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THE ALI WONG RESIDENCY
The award-winning creator, director, actor, and hilarious stand-up comedian moves into the Wiltern for a limited run of shows you do not want to miss! Catch Ali’s latest hour of stand-up to be filmed for her next comedy special.
$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…