Check out this terrific festival happening in Los Angeles this week: http://latinadanceproject.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/blaktina-festival/
They are also nearing the end of an Indiegogo campaign – help out if you can! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blaktina-festival
“Cultural Collisions” – a benefit performance for Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC)
Joe Hernandez-Kolski, two time HBO Def Poet, is performing his one-man show at the Bootleg Theater (2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057) as a benefit for MASC. The show is about the realities of being mixed race, and how American society is rapidly changing, and he does so with laughs on the way to truth.
If you live in Southern California, make sure to represent and show your support on December 7, 2013 – 7:30pm
Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles
August 11, 2013 – January 5, 2014
In this video installation, Los Angeles artist Bia Gayotto investigates how people respond to navigating and inhabiting two or more places and cultures. Through an open call, she invited Los Angeles-area residents living along Route 66 who identify as bi- or multicultural to participate in an interview and video shoot that examines life in fourteen neighborhoods along the route from Pasadena to Santa Monica, including Chinatown, Little Armenia, Echo Park, and Thai Town.Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles is the third iteration in a series that previously centered on Silicon Valley and Chicago. The questions Gayotto asked of the participants were designed to stimulate a dialogue reflecting the pluralities of place, identity, and belonging. By juxtaposing cityscapes, architecture, and domestic settings with images of the participants performing simple, everyday actions and a soundtrack that consists of abstract music and ambient sound, Gayotto explores the experiences of those who live in an intercultural space and offers a broader, multilayered portrait of the greater Los Angeles area.
This exhibition is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, and is supported by the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Bia Gayotto is a recipient of an ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
Bia Gayotto, still from Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles, 2013. Two-screen video installation with sound. TRT 20 min. Courtesy of the Artist.
Check out this great opportunity for kids and families at the KPCC Crawford Family Forum: http://www.scpr.org/events/2013/07/20/kidreads-live/
One Drop of Love is a solo-show about a culturally Mixed daughter and her Pan-African father, both of whom are searching for their ‘racial’ roots. Currently playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Click HERE for tickets and info.
Elizabeth Liang, multiracial actress, performs her one-woman play about growing up as a “third culture kid.”
Use the code “MASC” to get $5 off the cost of admission for the Friday, May 31st show on-line or at the box office. A portion of the proceeds from this show will go to MASC! There will be a talkback after the show with Elizabeth Liang and MASC Board member Sonia Kang. More info here: MASCsite.org
About Alien Citizen
Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England. Elizabeth Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms… Liang, like President Obama, is both of mixed heritage and a Third Culture Kid or TCK. TCKs are the children of international business people, global educators, diplomats, missionaries, the military — anyone whose family has relocated overseas because of a job placement. How does a young girl cope as a border/culture/language/religion straddler in country after country that feels “other” to her when she is the “other?” Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?
An Intimate Evening of Words and Music / Musician and essayist, Jason Luckett brings an evening of song, story and movement to the boulevard, Saturday, May 18, when he performs at Live Arts Los Angeles. A singer and guitarist, Jason’s work celebrates the cultural richness of Los Angeles and this performance continues his effort to bring music out of clubs and into venues where a more intimate dialogue may occur. Recently, Jason has performed at Highways in Santa Monica, the Los Angeles Central Library as part of the ALOUD series, and locally in a residency at the Left Coast Wine Bar in which he and his invited guest artists create a musical salon. Percussionist Ossie Mair and dancer Haize Hawkins will accompany Jason, at LALA. Advanced tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for students and seniors and can be purchased from jasonluckett.com or jasonluckettlala.brownpapertickets.com.