Join the Aquarium for its twentieth annual Pacific Island Festival. This festival features traditional music and dance, cultural displays, and craft demonstrations and celebrates Pacific Islander cultures, including Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Chamorro, Marshallese, and Māori.
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Pacific Islander Festival
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Upcoming Events
Free
The Crazy Superhero Vacation
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.
Free, Reservations required
8th Annual BFF Binge Fringe Festival of Free
Productions and workshops from the festival touch on diverse subjects, from political to personal, love to loss, sensuality to spiritual, and hierarchy to hope. All bets are off, limits on boundaries and form wide open, with shows that range in style from classic comedy to poignant drama, from Shakespearian to one-woman-shows, from slam poetry to stand-up comedy and improv, from parody to fairytale – something for everyone. Inclusive theatre arts workshops for youth and adults are available throughout the festival.…
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Encuentro 2024: A National Theatre Festival
Encuentro 2024 features three weeks of artistic exchange, cross-company co-creation, and presented performances, all in repertory, for Los Angeles audiences. Encuentro 2024 will host fellow teatristas from across the country to present work, and share processes, challenges, aspirations, and goals.
Free
Dia de los Muertos Festival at Olvera Street
For over 35 years, the merchants on Olvera Street have celebrated Dia de los Muertos. The celebration has evolved to incorporate the pre-Columbian, Aztec, Mayan, and Catholic rituals surrounding death. A vibrant and colorful procession sets the stage for our ceremony each night. Dia de los Muertos is, in fact, a celebration of life – it is not a time to mourn our loved ones; rather, it is a time to remember the lives they led and the many…
ARTEONICA*: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America Today
ARTEONICA* revisits a lesser-known Latin American art movement, initiating a discussion between a group of innovative computer artists from the 1960s and 1970s, and contemporary Latin American artists whose work is influenced by their legacy. Despite the political and social conflicts across Latin America in the ’60s and ’70s, artists in the region explored the interconnectedness of art, science, and technology during that time.