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JazzReggae Festival @ UCLA is a two-day festival for music, art, culture and diversity, held every Memorial Day Weekend on the UCLA Intramural Field. By featuring artists such as Jill Scott, Buju Banton, The Roots, Beenie Man, and Stephen Marley, as well as unique opportunities to experience new ethnic foods, [1] crafts and cultures, the event has been highly acclaimed by the press, artists ...
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza, is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011. [1] Housed in two historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles it includes a museum, a 30,000-square-foot outdoor space with a performance stage, an edible garden, and LA Cocina de Gloria Molina, a teaching kitchen and flexible event space.
By the late 1980s, the Sawdust was becoming a bigger tourist attraction than the Festival of Arts. [21] By 2003, the festival had acquired professional management, was charging $5.50 for admission, had about 200,000 visitors a season, and new artists were only allowed to exhibit if they were Laguna Beach residents. [17]
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is the official Los Angeles, California, arts council. The agency approves the design of structures built on or over City property and accepts works of art to be acquired by the City. The Commission meets on the first and third Friday mornings of each month.
The aim was to offer Los Angeles residents exposure to innovative art forms more consistently than occasional events (e.g. 1984 Olympic Arts Festival). [ 2 ] Harvey Lichtenstein , then president and executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music , was brought in as a consultant during the development phases of REDCAT in 1999.
It is the first comic arts festival to be held in Los Angeles. [4] Since 2015, CALA expanded from one to two days of programming, with the second day reserved for panel discussions. [ 5 ] The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , [ 6 ] and has since been on hiatus.
The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the Hammer Museum.
It is the largest and most comprehensive contemporary art fair on the West Coast. [2] The LA Art Show began in 1995, at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA; then moved to the John Wooden Center on the campus of UCLA; then on to Santa Monica's Barker Hangar before making its final home at the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2009. [3]