A week-long series will feature two hands-on workshops where participants can remix and remake everyday objects and software and alter the ways we think about technology, culture and the environment. Throughout the week, artifacts from the workshops will be featured in a gallery show that is part art exhibition and part interactive junkyard.

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Join us for a series of live performances and video projects inspired by the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The artists that will be featured explore trans content in their multidisciplinary work and will look at the Ts and Qs that are often missing from LGBTQ historical records.

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A fascinating walking tour of the Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District will explore the social, cinematic and architectural history of this unique street. Home to twelve movie palaces built between 1910 and 1931, Broadway was once the entertainment epicenter of Los Angeles.

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A provocative multimedia performance will feature actress Vanessa Bell Calloway as Zora Neale Hurston. Written by Gabrielle Pina and directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks, Letters from Zora will illuminate Hurston’s prose, her life, her distinctive array of friends and foes and her unique view of a jazz-age world.

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Following a pre-opera discussion, a satellite broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will feature Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate.

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A fascinating evening of performance and conversation will explore issues raised by blindness. The event will feature the West Coast premiere of Do You Dream in Color?, composed by Bruce Adolphe and sung by blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, followed by a conversation with USC professors Antonio Damasio and Jim Weiland. 

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The opening concert of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival will present seven international artists in an evening of diverse cello concertos and will feature the Festival Orchestra led by the principal players of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra partnered with students from the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School.

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Based on personal interviews, SEVEN is a collaborative documentary theatre piece that tells the stories of seven incredible women who are campaigning for human rights around the globe. From Pakistan, Russia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nigeria and Guatemala, the women share their struggles to end corruption, illiteracy and violence against women.

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Explore the unique contributions of African Americans to the literature of classical music, focusing on orchestral works by African American composers past and present. The event will include a discussion with distinguished artists and scholars as well as performances by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles.

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Independent publishers, writers, artists and designers will come together for a unique, vital and historically charged event that will push the boundaries of popular culture. The event will include presentations, workshops and a fun and festive bazaar!

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