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Join Cultural Treasures of South LA & The Tree Yoga Cooperative for a fun plant-based food demo, story-telling activities, and a yoga & sound bath meditation suitable for all bodies and experience levels.
To register for The Tree’s donation-based classes on June 3rd @ 8:30am, 9:30am, & 11am visit: thetreeyogacoop.org/studio-classes.
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…
POP kicks off the new year with the US premiere of Antonio Salieri’s La Scuola De’ Gelosi. POP’s colorful period production of this comedy of errors features some of the best of Salieri’s music, with a plot mirroring Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Complete with table seating, food, and wine, La scuola de’ gelosi will be presented on the elaborate proscenium set originally built for POP’s 2023 production of Ercole su’l Termodonte. Kyle Naig will lead from the harpsichord, and Josh…
WICKED, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, another young woman is born with emerald-green skin—smart, fiery, misunderstood, and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets an exceptionally popular bubbly blonde, their initial rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships…until the world decides to call one “good,” and the other “wicked.” Tuesdays – Saturdays – 8:00 p.m. Saturday – 2:00 p.m. Sunday 1:00 p.m. and 6:30…
The Crazy Superhero Vacation is a production by Ms. Neate’s class at Vena Avenue Elementary. Animation and editing are by Pieter Hardeman of Toy Story Lab. Southland Sings is a creative organization using the arts to unlock creative potential through live opera, musical theatre production, education assemblies, and music composition for all ages.
A More Than Human Tongue explores the fusion of ancestral practices and modern tech with a pair of innovative experiences. One Who Looks at the Cup, by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian with Atlas Acopian, and Lara Sarkissian, uncovers the secrets of tasseography (the fortune-telling method of reading coffee grounds) reimagined through AI. Voice in My Head, created by Lauren Lee McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, delves into the mind’s inner workings, in which guests hear voices in their heads through earbuds – but…
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