The Taxco Theatre, DCA/PERF, has produced Fall/Winter programming that celebrates the unique voices, cultures, and communities of Canoga Park and the West Valley since 2021. These events included a Day of the Dead procession for the Mainstreet Canoga Park Day of the Dead Festival, a performance and procession called Walking in Our Light, and this year, Spirits Rising, a shared altar of remembrance. These three events occur in Canoga Park from October to December 2024. Each event requires a variety of music, dance, theatre performances, food, and artmaking activities.
The Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles (DCA) sees to enter into a non-exclusive, project-based agreement with a qualified event producer (“Curator”) to conceptualize, curate, and deliver three (3) family-friendly events for the Fall and Winter programming of the Taxco Theatre in Canoga Park.
The Curator, in collaboration with the Taxco Theatre Director, will provide the following services (including but limited to)
Spirits Rising, a shared altar of remembrance
- Design a festive atmosphere, welcoming visitors of all ages and cultural backgrounds within the designated event space.
- Create family activity spaces for intergenerational engagement, such as crafts centers.
- Secure and schedule subcontractors to perform traditional, contemporary, and/or cultural performance elements throughout the event, representing the communities of Canoga Park and the West Valley.
- Utilize social media and other outlets to promote the event before the day.
Day of the Dead Procession / Mainstreet Canoga Park Day of the Dead Festival
- Secure and schedule subcontractors to perform traditional, contemporary, and/or cultural performance elements throughout the event, representing the communities of Canoga Park and the West Valley.
Walking In Our Light
- Design a festive atmosphere, welcoming visitors of all ages and cultural backgrounds within the designated event space.
- Create family activity spaces for intergenerational engagement, such as crafts centers.
- Secure and schedule subcontractors to perform traditional, contemporary, and/or cultural performance elements throughout the event, representing the communities of Canoga Park and the West Valley.
- Define the performance space, both outside in the street and within the Taxco Theatre and build the necessary staging and strike it at the end of the event.
- Contract from a reputable theatrical production house all production and technical elements, including but not limited to power generators, audio, visual, and lighting equipment, and necessary trusses, platforms, cabling, and production expendables
- Set food purveyors to offer food and nonalcoholic beverages for sale to attendees; Secure approval and all necessary permits for closing the affected streets.
- Ensure onsite security will be present from load-in to event day through load-out
- Coordinate waste receptacles and post-event clean-up.
- Utilize social media and other outlets to promote the event before the day.
Anticipated Schedule
- Call Issued Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Deadline for Submissions: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Selection of Curator / Contract Awarded: Friday, October 4, 2024
- Term of Contract Begins: Monday, October 14, 2024
- Term of Contract Ends: Sunday, December 8, 2024
Proposals must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2, 2024. DCA|PERF is not obligated to consider proposals received after this date and time.
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