Our L.A. Voices

Grand Park’s spring arts experience, Our L.A. Voices: A Pop-up Arts+Culture Fest, goes virtual as Grand Park celebrates the richness and resilience of Los Angeles’ arts community with a free performing and visual arts exhibition featuring L.A. based artists.

Click to Watch Livestream at 6pm Thursdays April 15-29!

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Missed an event? Or just want to rewatch a session because it was sooo good? Click on the links below to check out the full lineup & view the events that were featured each day!

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Join Us April 15-29, 2021

Tune in every Thursday April 15-29 at 6PM to experience Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices. We will explore the beautiful, diverse and multicultural landscape of L.A. through talks, workshops, art, performances and film.

April 15

*VIET TRAP presented by DJ Lani Love* *Vietnamese New Wave: Then and Now Presented by: DJ Lani Love & Elizabeth Ai* *CREATION STORIES of the Los Angeles Basin Presented by Department of Cultural Affairs and the NEA BIG Read, featuring Meztli Projects* *Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) film Presented by AKP Recordings*

April 22

*MILAGROS Presented by: Department of Cultural Affairs and the NEA BIG Read, featuring Ofelia Esparza and Rosanna Esparza Arhens* *Conversation with Artist Jonah Elijah* *Welcome to My Neighborhood! Presented by: Jocelyn Ayala of the dA Center for the Arts* *Changing Landscapes Talk Presented by AKP Recordings*

April 29

*Making Our Neighborhood: How Two Community Journalists Came Together to Redefine Storytelling in East Hollywood; Presented by: Samanta Helou Hernandez, of This Side of Hoover, and Jimmy Recinos, of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast* *Thurz: Party In My Living Room* *Musicians as Workers with Josephine Shetty* *Rasquachencias, created by Primera Generación Dance Collective* *Love for the Prairie《苍穹之恋》Presented by: Chinese Dance Company of Southern California (CDCSC)*

Stream Day 1 of Festival On Demand

Each individual video now available to view at your convenience!

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Stream Day 2 of Festival On Demand

Each individual video now available to view at your convenience!

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Featured Collaborators

Digital episodes of Grand Park’s Our LA Voices will feature artists exploring the power, impact and change in the diverse cultural landscape of Los Angeles.

DJ Lani Love spins a set of hip hop tracks from Vietnam and Vietnamese Diaspora.

Lani Love

VIET TRAP

“Rasquachencias” showcases the collective’s past, present, and future works to consolidate a vibrant picture of their Mexican American sociality.

Primera Generación Dance Collective

Dance Work & Interview

"Love for the Prairie" shows the Mongols' love and reverence for their homeland and nature.

Pan American Chinese Dance Alliance

Presented by: Chinese Dance Company of Southern California (CDCSC)

Learn about some of the creation stories of the Los Angeles Basin by joining Elder Alan Salazar (Tataviam/Chumash)

Big Read

Creation Stories, Presented by Department of Cultural Affairs and the NEA Big Read, featuring Meztli Projects

Experience the multi-layered project that began on a remote Scottish island, and is now a record, film, and pop-up gallery installation in Los Angeles.

Arthur King + AKP Recordings

Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg)

Jonah Elijah's work encapsulates black life in America and explores economic inequality, displacement, and human rights.

Jonah Elijah

Conversation with Artist

Take a walk around Downtown Pomona, note our most eye-catching features, and then replicate them onto a vision board for what we would like our neighborhood to look like post-covid.

Jocelyn Ayala

Welcome to My Neighborhood! Presented by Jocelyn Ayala of the dA Center for the Arts

A two-part informational livestream on how to “Make a Neighborhood” in response to gentrification in historically ethnic and working-class Los Angeles communities

J.T. the L.A. Storyteller

Making Our Neighborhood: How Two Community Journalists Came Together to Redefine Storytelling in East Hollywood; Presented by: Samanta Helou Hernandez, of This Side of Hoover, and Jimmy Recinos, of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast

A two-part informational livestream on how to “Make a Neighborhood” in response to gentrification in historically ethnic and working-class Los Angeles communities

Samanta Helou Hernandez

Musical performance by Inglewood hip hop artist featuring songs from his ‘MORE THURZ ON THURZDAY’ playlist, accompanied by Wali Ali Jr. on talkbox and band.

Thurz

Party In My Living Room

Filmmaker and director Elizabeth Ai discuss Ai's current project, New Wave Documentary, a project documenting and preserving the sociocultural influence and impact of the popular 80s music genre, New Wave, on Vietnamese diaspora.

Elizabeth Ai

Vietnamese New Wave: Then and Now Presented by: DJ Lani Love & Elizabeth Ai

A conversation exploring musicians organizing to build stronger movements of workers today

Josephine Shetty

Musicians as Workers

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