LA Starts Here!

Date

September 23

Time

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Cost

Free

Council District

City Council District 14

Event Series Dates

Permanent Exhibition

Event Schedule

September 2026

  • Wednesday 23rd 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 24th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 25th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 26th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 27th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 30th 12:00 PM

October 2026

  • Thursday 1st 12:00 PM
  • Friday 2nd 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 3rd 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 4th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 7th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 8th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 9th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 10th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 11th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 14th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 15th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 16th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 17th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 18th 12:00 PM

LA Plaza's groundbreaking permanent exhibition presents an alternative to traditional interpretations of LA history, aiming to change what we know about Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the city. Using personal narratives, photographs, artifacts, oral testimonies, and videos, LA Starts Here! highlights untold and overlooked indigenous, Mexican, and Mexican-American stories.

 

Upcoming Events

September 24 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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$0.00 - $7.00

Hollyhock House Tours

Experience the interior of Hollyhock House at your own pace with a self-guided tour. Docents are on hand to provide information and answer questions.

September 23 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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Free

Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects

Over the past year and a half, artists and collectors have donated 80 works by almost 35 artists to The Cheech Center Collection. This year's exhibition will highlight some new additions alongside works from Cheech Marin's initial gift of 500 works. The latest exhibition, Cheech Collects, explores different forms within the Cheech Marin Collection. It introduces photography and sculpture alongside paintings, prints, and mixed media works for which the collection is celebrated. See website for ticket prices.

September 23 @ 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm -
See event website.

Construction, Occupation

Construction, Occupation presents the work of 24 artists and collectives that engage art’s potential to shape the city through the power of community. Drawing on myriad visual languages and poetics grounded in collective action, the exhibition investigates a radical urban vocabulary that blurs art and activism to address questions of infrastructure and vulnerability, circulation and segregation, and the body in public

September 22 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
$0.00 - $19.00

BEHIND BARS: INCARCERATION IN THE WEST

This installation features some of the many forms that incarceration has taken in the American West over time, in conversation with a new photo series by fine art photographer Pep Williams, taken in a California state prison. Located in the jail cell area of the Autry’s firearms galleries, the installation brings past and present into dialogue.

September 23 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm -
$0.00 - $15.95

Bernard Hoyes: Out from Under the Net

Presenting the evolution of Bernard Hoyes’ signature Rag Series, developed during the 1970s and expanded through collage, painting, and printmaking. His rhythmic compositions reflect Afro-Caribbean spirituality, rituals, and the power of women across music, dance, and magic. The works explore themes of race, identity, memory, and liberation through layered visual language.