Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Join us for an evening of fun, film, and music with “West Side Story: David Alvarez and the making of a cross-cultural musical.” This event begins at 5PM with an unveiling and short presentation on select costumes from the 2021 film, directed by Steven Spielberg. At 6PM, MOLAA’s Education department will host a Q&A with actor David Alvarez (“Bernardo”). An indoor screening of the film will start at 6:30PM and has a run time of 2 hours and 36 minutes. Local food trucks will be onsite offering delicious food and beverages for purchase. Limited capacity. Click here to RSVP by Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
Enjoy a fun Bachata dance class led by Founders of In lak'ech Dance Academy and Organizers of the annual Queer Afro-Latin Dance Fest. No experience necessary, come and learn the Bachata basics. Move your body with Sabor to Bachata music.
Podcast en vivo: Infancias con Afro Chingonas / Live Podcast: Childhood with Afro Chingonas
Este programa se presentará en español / This program will be presented in Spanish.
Featured Participants: Afro Chingonas (Valeria Angola, Mar Bella Figueroa, Scarlet Estrada)
Afrochingonas es un podcast entre amigas dedicado a temas random, desde la experiencia de 3 mujeres Negras en Ciudad de México. / Afrochingonas is a podcast hosted by friends and dedicated to random topics as experienced by three Black women in Mexico City.
Judy Baca, ever the innovator, can’t be confined within the walls of a single medium. But walls are where Baca’s work is best seen. Join us to learn about El Taller Siqueiros, the great Mexican muralist himself and how his work influenced Judy Baca’s murals today. This program will be held via Zoom Webinar format. Attendance is free with registration.
In collaboration with the Government of Baja California, Women’s Salon LA and Salon Mexico, MOLAA will host a virtual event featuring women artists from Baja California and Southern California in a binational artistic event. Details of submission available here.
Celebrate with us this traditional holiday! This year MOLAA will present an onsite event on Sunday October 17th, 2021 with accompanying online programming, accessible to all.
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MOLAA’s adjusted 2021 Summer programming features three weekly sessions (Monday -Thursday) of morning on-site workshops for children ages 6-10 and afternoon remote workshops for children ages 9-12. Participants will be featured in an online virtual exhibition and are invited to an on-site culmination event on Friday, July 30th from 3PM to 4PM.
Session 1: July 12 – July 15, 2021
Session 2: July 19 – July 22, 2021
Session 3: July 26 – July 29, 2021
Class size is limited to 15 participants per week. COVID protocols, including the wearing of masks while on-site, will be observed.
Onsite: $120/week for non-members & $100/week for MOLAA members
Remote: $75/week for non-members & $65/week for members
Head to our “Education” tab and look at Summer Art & Culture Camp for more information on how to register!
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Eating Up Easter explores the challenges faced by the Rapa Nui people, and the intergenerational fight to preserve their culture and a beloved environment against a backdrop of a modernizing society and a booming tourism trade. A Q & A with native filmmaker Sergio Rapu will follow the screening. Presented in partnership with Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM)
In this panel discussion, we bring together 5 accomplished Latina and Latin American artists featured in the HERland exhibition, with distinct styles and approaches to their art-making processes, but united in making powerful work connected to a surrealist imaginary and defined a new powerful land with new meanings.
Performed by Zuri Adia
Zoom link (meeting): https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qc-yrpzIrGdV5LAfQ1nh7tXc_NIfOEYZ3
Constructing Blackness through the Young Lords
This session seeks to interrogate the notion that blackness can only be expressed through a singular African American lens. The Young Lords are heirs to the Black Power Movement echoing the freedom cries of antiwar and black radicalism by African American organizations like the Black Panther Party and the Independence Movement in Puerto Rico by Afro Puerto Rican figures like Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, the movement's outspoken leader.
View the session here: https://youtu.be/yORnHjHIh00
MOLAA Zoom Project: Carlos Martiel
Martiel is an activist and artist, who lives and works between New York and Havana. He graduated in 2009 from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro,” in Havana. Between the years 2008-2010, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by the artist Tania Bruguera. His work focuses on themes surrounding racial violence, implications of colonialism, the global diaspora of blackness, and the visual consumption of blackness.
View this session here: https://youtu.be/o6Ezqsh3Jo0
Capoeira Demonstration
Featured Performers: ABADÁ Capoeria – San Francisco
ABADÁ Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) presents a demonstration of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form known for its integration of acrobatics, dance, and songs. Developed as an expression of resistance by enslaved African people in Brazil, today Capoeria is a celebration of the diverse cultural heritage of Brazil and an art form popular throughout the globe.
Website: https://www.abada.org/
View this presentation here: https://youtu.be/gh6TkSafE6A
Hosted by Tasha W. Hunter from African American Cultural Center of Long Beach (AACCLB) and Griselda Suarez, Executive Director of the Arts council for Long Beach (ACLB)
This conversation aims to break down some of the divides in the Black & Brown community through storytelling. Come to listen, come to share.
Local cultural leaders Tasha Hunter of the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach and the Arts Council of Long Beach’s Griselda Suárez host a dialogue with local artists and poets of Afro-Latinx descent. Presentations will be followed by a session where the audiences will have the opportunity to share stories on their own cultural experiences in Long Beach.
View this panel here: https://youtu.be/xokyhSapDZo
Podcast en vivo: Apropiación cultural con Afro Chingonas / Live Podcast: Cultural Appropriation with Afro Chingonas
Este programa se presentará en español / This program will be presented in Spanish.
Featured Participants: Afro Chingonas (Valeria Angola, Mar Bella Figueroa, Scarlet Estrada)
Afrochingonas es un podcast entre amigas dedicado a temas random, desde la experiencia de 3 mujeres Negras en Ciudad de México. / Afrochingonas is a podcast hosted by friends and dedicated to random topics as experienced by three Black women in Mexico City.
Watch this panel here: https://youtu.be/cg_zwF6wc_8
Featured artist: Robert Liu Trujillo
Author and illustrator Robert Liu Trujillo conducts a live book reading of his book, Furqan’s First Haircut, a story about an Afro-Latino boy’s imagination, his first haircut, and the relationship between him and his father. A live Q & A will follow the reading.
View this session here: https://youtu.be/6LPHMVrzbHM
