DCA’s 2022 Arts Month Events List
Events Through April and Beyond
Events Through April and Beyond
LACMA at Charles White Elementary School Gallery
Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA
Open Saturdays, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring Arthur Jafa, Coby Kennedy, Christopher Myers, and Hank Willis Thomas showing across South LA and Downtown LA
Bright Half Life written by Tanya Barfield
Classic Couples Counseling, a Bardful Comedy by Lloyd J. Schwartz
LACMA at Charles White Elementary School Gallery
Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA
Open Saturdays, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring Arthur Jafa, Coby Kennedy, Christopher Myers, and Hank Willis Thomas showing across South LA and Downtown LA
Bright Half Life written by Tanya Barfield
Classic Couples Counseling, a Bardful Comedy by Lloyd J. Schwartz
April 8 to 12:
Ebony Rep Theatre’s Dance@theHolden
Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
April 9:
Blaktinx Dance Festival
Leimert Plaza Park
Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC)
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Opening reception April 9, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the AGCC galleries
William Grant Still Arts Center
Quadrophonic – 14th Annual African American Composers Series featuring Chris Terry, Mark Maxwell, Dexter Story, and Miguel Atwood Ferguson.
Performance by Spanish Mallorca singer Buika
Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery
Big Read: Los Angeles Initiative / NEA
Storytelling Through Graphic Novels with Teaching Artist Donna Letterese
Video screening of work by Cindy Rehm and Yon Natalie Mik
Community Arts in the Park family art workshops in Hermon Park
Saturdays 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
April 13 through 17:
In our Daughter’s Eyes, composer Du Yun, libretto/direction Michael Joseph McQuilken
World premiere at REDCAT
April 15:
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Easter Workshop
Free, All Ages
In-Person at Eagle Rock Plaza
April 22:
Gen X Festival – Voices of a Generation
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thomas Adès curates and conducts an international selection of Gen X composers, and violinist Pekka Kuusisto performs work by Francisco Coll and the U.S. premiere of Adès’ Märchentänze.
April 23 and 24:
Corigliano and Norman
Walt Disney Concert Hall
April 24:
Mercado La Paloma presents Roots for Challenging Times Concert Series
Hollywood Movies Music with Dennis Karmazyn, principle cellist of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Hauser & Wirth
Black Ark: Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘For George Lewis’ Performance
LA Phil
GEN X Festival – Alarm Will Sound
Free post-concert performance taking place in BP Hall after the Corigliano and Norman concert by the esteemed contemporary ensemble Alarm Will Sound
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April 29:
Very Special Arts Festival
Jerry Moss Plaza
Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA
Performance by Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas
DCA’s Performing Arts Program
Voices of the Rebellion: 30th Anniversary Reflections of the LA Civil Uprising
Featuring poems, plays, and spoken word performances by LaRita Shelby, Peter J. Harris, Clayton Lawrence, Penelope Lowder, Gary Jones, and Conney D. Williams
Leimert Plaza Park in Leimert Park Village
Details TBD
Through April 10:
The Lehman Trilogy
Ahmanson Theatre
April 2 to 30:
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Wild Life: Printmaking Artists Address Issues Facing Wildlife
Special Earth Day event including outdoor printmaking workshop April 23
April 8:
Episode of Theatre Dybbuk’s podcast “The Dybbukast,” exploring The Temple Bombing, a play written by Jimmy Maize
April 10:
Mercado La Paloma presents Roots for Challenging Times Concert Series
African Music and Dance with Anindo Marshall and Marshall Dance Academy
April 12:
“Explore Dance” Program
Los Angeles Mission College’s Philosophy Department and Department of Arts, Media & Performance
ASSEMBLIES Art into Action Public Programming series, a project-based learning pods to study, create, and practice together
April 14 through 16:
Beethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre
Gustavo Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre partner on an innovative semi-staged production of Beethoven’s only opera
April 19 through May 1:
30th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival
Cinemark Baldwin Hills and XD and Crenshaw Plaza
April 23:
LA Times 25th Anniversary Festival of Books
University of Southern California
Día de Los Niños Family Day
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA)
Monthly Film Festival
InFocus: Asian Cinema Program
April 23 and 30:
Big Read: Los Angeles Initiative (NEA)
Comics & You: Telling Your Story, virtual workshop with Donna Letterese
April 26:
Center Theatre Group
Ahmanson Theatre
Runs through May 29
April 28 to May 1:
Reseda Rising Mural Festival
April 26:
Hadestown
Ahmanson Theatre
Runs through May 29
April 28:
Gen X Festival – I Heart the Valley
Zev Terrace at the Ford
Gen X Festival
Dudamel Leads Adès’ Dante
Walt Disney Concert Hall
April 30:
North Hollywood Business Improvement District
NoHo Day, a free celebration of theatre, music, dance, art, dining, and unique shopping experiences in the NoHo Arts District
Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA
Performance by Latin Grammy Award-winning singer Lila Downs