
Fostering Photovoice: a photo exhibition about the foster youth experience, features photographs that depict identity, family, and the foster care system by six LA based foster youth artists. Join us for our Closing Reception on March 8, 2025. Stay tuned for upcoming details.
Fostering Photovoice is a group photography exhibition that reflects the lives and experiences of youth impacted by foster care. The project was conceived by a photovoice research collective that included six artists—all former foster youths between the ages of 18 and 25 who reside in Los Angeles County. Several UCLA undergraduate and graduate students were involved, among them, participants who have had lived experience in foster care, or had expertise in using the arts-based empowerment method called photovoice for research and social policy.
The collective came together over 7 weeks during the summer of 2023. The exhibition is organized by prompts and considers the differences in the views of each artist. It includes reflections on who the youth are, how they think about family, and how they would have liked the system to respond to and support their needs.
The series invites the viewer to beliefs about foster youth and the foster care system, including any biases they may have. It is also an opportunity to reflect on how to best support foster youth who enter state care through no fault of their own—both as children and as they transition to adulthood.
Upcoming Events
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Gather around our story circle for folktales and songs from Libya, Ghana, and Tanzania for African American and Black History Month. Play your shaker and leg drums as we celebrate together. For ages 5 – 12 with parent or caregiver.
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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.
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The City of West Hollywood returns indoors for its 2025 Winter Sounds Free Indoor Concert Series. January 25 – Mae Sun and Gengis Don and The Empire February 8 Chien Chien Lu and Danny Janklow + Elevation Band February 22 Theo Croker Doors at 6:00 pm. Must be 21 and older to attend. Early arrival is strongly suggested.
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Marseille, 1941: A liner sails for Martinique with artists and intellectuals on board fleeing from Vichy France, including surrealist André Breton, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, Communist novelist Victor Serge, and exiled German author Anna Seghers. The journey mixes history with fiction, augments reality, and invites other celebrated figures to join this new kind of ark, an allegory of all past and present forced expeditions.
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Revered master of the upright bass, Christian McBride is also the foremost master of finding new talent and surrounding himself with young musicians. His New Quintet is precisely that. Jazz Club audiences have a rare opportunity to be up close with the acclaimed bandleader, composer, and educator alongside his fresh crop of next-gen superstars.