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SoCal Community Events Calendar

From cultural festivals to exhibition openings, Southern California has something for everyone. Here are some of the best events around.

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Emily Mast, PLAY: A Play World Premiere

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Los Angeles)
$12

PLAY: A Play is a conceptual performance structured to playfully expose the contradictions of freedom and authority, individuality and interdependence, control and surrender.

The Battle of Algiers — 60th Anniversary

Billy Wilder Theater (Los Angeles )
Free

60 years after its first screening in Algiers, The Battle of Algiers has lost none of its political punch.

Seen Anew: California Modernist Art from The Hilbert Collection

Hilbert Museum of California Art (Orange)
Free

A fresh look at 20th-century California modernism through the concept of modern stylization.

Jean Stern Presents Connoisseurship: A Personal Perspective

Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach)
22

Art historian Jean Stern gives a slide-illustrated lecture introducing the basics of art collecting and connoisseurship.

Día de los Muertos - Palm Springs Art Museum

Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs)
Free

Palm Springs Art Museum honors Día de los Muertos with a community celebration featuring dance, music, art, and storytelling.

Free Family Day - Día de los Muertos

Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara)
Free

For the 37th year, SBMA honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students and community groups.

Dia de los Muertos Festival at MOLAA

Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach)
Free

The Museum of Latin American Art's annual Día de los Muertos Festival is back!

DrumatiX: Rhythm, Redefined!

The Ford (Los Angeles)
$11 (+ $2 fee)

DrumatiX brings an interactive, high-energy performance that transforms recycled and found objects into rhythmic and musical soundscapes.

GYOPO: As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) (Los Angeles)
Free

As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance brings together artists and scholars of diasporic Asian Pacific Islander identities whose work and scholarship examine the legacies of militarization and war, Indigenous resistance, and environmentalism in and around the Pacific.

Festival for All Skid Row Artists

Gladys Park (Los Angeles)
Free

Get ready for the next – 17th – FESTIVAL FOR ALL SKID ROW ARTISTS!

Story Time: Amazonian Myths and Kené

The Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles)
Free

Join The Fowler Museum at UCLA for a special Story Time presented in conjunction with Kené: Lines of Healing, Paths of Connection.

Día de los Muertos at the LA County Arboretum

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden (Arcadia)
Adult $18; Children (3-12) $8; Arboretum members $15

Join us for our first ever celebration of Día de los Muertos!

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