Upcoming Events
Dance is a Story!
Colores del Pueblo Veracruz
November 23rd, 2025
2:00pm to 4:00pm at the James R. Armstrong Theater
Don't miss the decadence of Colores del Pueblo, a celebration of dance for all ages. The first 50 people to sign up receive free entry!
Enjoy a visual feast offered by Youth Culture Moves the World; an Eastside Arts Initiative grantee alum.
Latino Theater Co: La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin
December 5 - 6, 2025
Cathedral of Our Lady of Angeles, 555 W Temple St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Experience the beloved holiday tradition!
Join the Latino Theater Co. at Downtown L.A.’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin — the timeless story of Juan Diego and the Virgin Mary’s miraculous apparition on Tepeyac Hill.
Featuring over 100 performers, singers, and Aztec dancers, this spectacular pageant has inspired tens of thousands since 2002.
🎟️ General Admission is FREE! Premium seating: $45.
Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
Past Events
Don’t miss out Saturday, November 15! 🗓️
Join Richard Montoya of Culture Clash and an ALL-STAR lineup of Talent including Death Row Records Julian Torres of Dodger Mariachi fame, Raul Pacheco of Ozomatli and Mark Guerrero & Friends and EAI grantee alum Nancy Sanchez for a night of Music, Comedy, and Community at Steven’s Steakhouse.
🎟️ Presale Discount code: Nanchez
October 6 - October 12, 2025
Cinépolis Cinema Hollywood Park
The Film Festival at Hollywood Park is hosting FREE panels Oct. 6–12 
featuring 50+ filmmakers, executives & creators volunteering their time to uplift the filmmaking community.
Discover new insights, connect & be inspired alongside fellow creatives. Seats are limited — register at HollywoodParkFilmFest.com
October 3 & 4, 2025
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
501 N Main St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join a groundbreaking celebration! This milestone event unites two visionary festivals and a historic cultural institution under one banner, combining storytelling, heritage, and creativity.
Together, these collaborators bring a bold new initiative that merges resources, talent, and films from around the world.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
11:00am – 9:00pm
Gardena Cinema
14948 Crenshaw Blvd
Gardena, CA
Open Call for Photo Submissions
Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective
Entry deadline: August 29 at 11:59pm (PST).
The Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), in preparation for the upcoming Fall 2025 exhibition Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective, formally invites community members to contribute images featuring Ofelia Esparza and/or her work. A Chicana artist, altarista (altar maker) and educator from East Los Angeles, Esparza is a sixth-generation altar maker and is recognized for her work with Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG), specifically for her community ofrendas (altars/shrines) for Dia de Los Muertos.
We invite you to share images that showcase the vast and personal impact Esparza and her art have contributed to East Los Angeles and beyond. Emphasis on submissions includes Esparza and Day of the Dead photographs in Los Angeles since the late 1970s, her printmaking years at Self Help Graphics from the 1980s–2000s, or personal photographs with friends and loved ones, but all material content is welcome.
Selected submissions may be displayed in the forthcoming exhibition and/or accompanying publication. Please click the link below for full details.
Before You Now: Artist Talk and Collage Workshop with Kalli Arte Collective
Saturday, August 23, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm
As part of Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture, Kalli Arte Collective will lead an intergenerational hands-on collage workshop inviting participants to explore overlapping themes of convening (with others) and conceptualizing (family and self) through the creative process of art-making. Extending the exhibition’s themes beyond the gallery, this workshop offers a reflective space for participants to consider their sense of self and how it connects to community, family, and place—while creating new work grounded in their personal experiences.
This workshop invites participants to create their own collage art using silk screen patterns and designs created by Kalli Arte collective. Each participant will have a chance to cut and assemble their own art piece using the provided materials.
This program is free and open to the public.
About the Artists
Kalli Arte is a family artists collective based in Boyle Heights. Kalli Arte was started by two self-taught artists: Adriana Carranza, Alfonso Aceves and their four children. Kalli Arte is dedicated to speaking directly to their community and beyond through printmaking, gallery exhibitions, art installations, community workshops and marketplaces.
"Della" Film Screening
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at the @lomafilmfest at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Levitt Pavilion’s free summer concert series featuring
“Afro Funke' Africa”
Saturday, August 9, 2025 @levittla
Women Who Submit (@womenwhosubmit) Presents: “Bookseller Tips for Writers”
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 10am on Zoom
Always Running: Photography by Luis J. Rodriguez
Closing reception on Friday, August 8, 2025 from 6pm to 8pm at @plazadelaraza
Hedy Torres
Saturday, August 02, 2025
2pm to 4pm
A collective homage and salute to the iconic Roberto Chavez, part of a courageous generation of postwar Mexican-American artists who defied the zeitgeist of their era and painted their people out of invisibility. His art was the spark that fueled the Chicano Renaissance of the 1960s, and generations of artists stand on his shoulders. Rest in Power.
Roberto Chavez, Iconic Chicano Artist of the Postwar Era, Dies at 92
#Chicanoartists #eastsideartists #eastside #eastsideartsinitiative
East LA Film Festival
October 5th 2024
10am to 10pm
California Arts Council Seeks Arts Providers
at State Correctional Institutions
Request for proposals will promote healing and well-being through creativity
The California Arts Council (CAC) is now accepting proposals from organizations interested in providing arts services promoting healing and well-being as part of California’s Arts in Corrections (AIC) program. Organizations of all sizes are encouraged to submit programming proposals for up to $86,000 per institution that broaden the art and cultural disciplines of institution workshops.
The Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks to contract with new, current, and returning Coordinating Organizations to provide AIC programming that promotes healing and well-being through creativity to replace expiring contracts.
The final deadline for submitting proposals is Monday, October 14, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
Ugly Little Monkeys Film Screening 2024
