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#sunday throwback of Grand Park's NYELA Countdown to 2019!! Grand Park + @musiccenterla ’s NYELA vault of years past. Tune in 12/31 Grand Park NYELA Countdown to 2021 national broadcast debut on @fusetv! ... #NYELA #NYELA2020 #GrandParkLA

#FBF taking it back to 2017!!! Grand Park + @musiccenterla ’s NYELA vault of years past. Tune in 12/31 Grand Park NYELA Countdown to 2021 national broadcast debut on @fusetv ! ... #NYELA #NYELA2020 #GrandParkLA

Lunch a la Park yoga 11.06.2020

Lunch a la Park yoga 11.04.2020

Lunch a la Park yoga 12.11.2020

This week -Grand Park Downtown Dia de los Muertos in partnership with Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ) comes to a close on Wednesday NOV 4th. You still have time to plan a visit to Grand Park to see this yrs. Community Altar by Maestra Altarista Ofelia Esparza (@ofrenda1 )& the Esparza family, as well as the rest of the impactful altars located throughout the park + Art installations at Jerry Moss Plaza at the @musiccenterla. Please remember to practice all safety prot...ocols. -Virtual Lunch à la Park Yoga with Grand Park yoga instructor @courtneyseiberling (WED + FRI) NOV 4 & 6 from 12:15pm-1pm tune into YouTube or Facebook! #yoga -Lunch a la Park Food Trucks from 11am-2pm Tue: @pacificocf1 Wed: @surfertaco Thur: @smhokinpot #grandparkla #downtowndia #NochedeOfrenda #diadelosmuertos #parklife #publicspace #foodtrucks #yoga

Ground Our Present, Dot Our Future is a public art installation featuring reflections about 2020 from cultural organizations and community members of ages 8 to 88 years old. Although it was a challenging year, Angelenos strengthened and sharpened their values; a year we allowed vulnerability to be defined as strength; the year of traumatic but collective change. How can we look at our strengths as indicators for our resiliency and community building? How can we celebrate w...hat and how we have endured? Grand Park would like to thank all of our amazing DOT project partners: Chinese American Museum - @camlaorg Lancaster Museum of Art & History - @cityoflancasterca Solidarity For Sanctuary - @forsanctuary dA Center for The Arts - @da.center.for.the.arts Kayamanan Ng Lahi - @knlfolkarts Dublab - @dablab Headwraps In The Park - @headwrapsinthepark | @runwayboutiquela #grandparkdotprojecft #grandparkla

#TBT Grand Park + @musiccenterla ’s NYELA vault of years past. Throwing it back to 2016!! Tune in 12/31 Grand Park NYELA Countdown to 2021 national broadcast debut on @fusetv! #NYELA #NYELA2020 #GrandParkLA

Self Help Graphics 47th Annual Día de los Muertos Virtual Celebration, Featuring Noche de Ofrenda. November 1, 2020 4:00pm PST... Online: YouTube (Self Help Graphics/ @SHGTV) For the first time, the traditional Noche de Ofrenda ceremony honoring the dead will be a virtual program of reflection and remembrance. As part of SHG's virtual program, Grand Park's segment will include testimonials about Noche de Ofrenda at Grand Park from Ofelia Esparza (@ofrenda1 ) and Rosanna Esparza (@tonallistudio ); SHG's Board President Endy Bernal; Director of Grand Park Julia Diamond; and poet Gloria Alvarez (@gloriaenedinalvarez ) & Greg "Goyo" Hernandez (@greg1hernandez ), among other speakers; the segment was filmed on location in the park, following all Los Angeles County health protocols applicable to film production #grandparkla #downtowndia #NochedeOfrenda #diadelosmuertos #selfhelpgraphics #SHG1970

Gloria Enedina Alvarez (@gloriaenedinalvarez ) Chicana poet/intermedia artist, playwright, librettist, literary translator and curator, presently teaches creative writing and works as a consultant in public schools, universities, libraries, museums, and art centers. Her literary/artistic efforts have been recognized by the CAC, National Endowment for the Arts, Cultural Affairs Department, City of L.A., COLA Award, Poets & Writers, Inc., National Latino Arts Network, MAEST...RO Award, among others. She has published and read widely in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Her plays and librettos for opera, Los Biombos, Cuento de un Soldado/Story of a Soldier, El Niño, have been produced locally and internationally. Her books of poetry in English and Spanish include La Excusa/The Excuse and Emerging en un Mar De Olanes and spoken word/music c.d.s , Centerground and Between Epiphanies. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and numerous periodicals internationally. Sunday NOV 1 4pm PST Self Help Graphics 47th Annual Día de los Muertos Virtual Celebration, featuring Noche de Ofrenda. Online: YouTube (Self Help Graphics/ @SHGTV) #poetry #poetrycommunity #grandparkla #downtowndia #NochedeOfrenda #diadelosmuertos #selfhelpgraphics

Greg Goyo Hernandez (@greg1hernandez ) - Starting at a young age, and for the past 35 years, he has performed in various and diverse bands, ranging from North American Western influenced to Blues, Rock and Roll, Punk Rock, Jazz, and everything in between. His multi-genre musical fluidity has allowed for expansion and experimentation with diverse sounds and tones, leading him to exploratory projects, that merged the different cultural music genres of World music. Living i...n the 90’s During the late 90’s, along with Angel Garcia, Hernandez co-founded the much-heralded and pioneering music project Mezklah. Mezklah embodied and marked the evolution of the new burgeoning sound of L.A., with their unique hybrid electronica tunes, set to local cultural sounds and rich tribal overtones, resulting in a distinctive and completely new sound. They have been described as a very intelligent mixture of traditional Latin music, alternative rock, jungle, reggae, dub, and drum-andbass. With an innovative presence that included, among other things, performance art, Mezklah had a sound and stage presence that was truly unparalleled and artistic, gaining the reputation as one of L.A.’s most powerful and promising alt-Latino bands. (Los Angeles Times). Mezklah took their sound internationally, touring in Latin America, Europe and Japan. Most notably, Mezklah played to a crowd of 20,000 at Mexico City’s La Feria del Libro festival. They also went on to open for notable acts such as Ozomatli, Kinky, Maldita Vencidad , Antibalas and has worked with Ry Cooder during time of his conceptual album Chavez Ravine. Sunday NOV 1 4pm PST Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ) 47th Annual Día de los Muertos Virtual Celebration, featuring Noche de Ofrenda. Online: YouTube (Self Help Graphics/ @SHGTV) #grandparkla #downtowndia #NochedeOfrenda #diadelosmuertos #selfhelpgraphics

Lunch a la Park yoga 10.30.2020

Mi Estori: Artist Collective - (@mi.estori )Mi Estori was founded in 2017 by Erick Villegas-Nuñez and Charlie Ruiz Vazquez. Mi Estori was created in order to take space in predominantly white, cisgender, heterosexual, and able-bodied creative spaces and create spaces for creatives that are queer, trans, people of color, and people with disabilities. @mi.estori - It is reported that nearly 1 in 5 hate crimes stem from homophobic and transphobic sentiments. The hatred fel...t for the LGBTQ+ community can be deadly and often leads to the highest murder rates in the country. However, hate crimes are not the only thing that LGBTQ+ people are dying from. LGBTQ+ people of color are twice as likely to avoid going to the doctor, 20-40% folks experiencing homelessness are LGBTQ+, 27% of LGBTQ+ people experience food insecurity, and it is reported that transgender individuals have twice the unemployment rate. The intersections of undocumented LGBTQ+ people further complicates these statistics as they may not have the same access to resources and experience a higher rate of sexual assault and murder. The intersections of gender also contribute to discrimination as 21.2% of LGBTQ+ individuals also experience higher negative treatment when accessing reproductive health services. The statistics presented show that the communities’ suffering is rooted in hatred for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2020, we lost many people to the deadly COVID-19 and we have many LGBTQ+ people who were not counted because their sexual orientation and gender identity was not accepted and respected. We ask that heterosexual and cisgender allies use their privilege to help LGBTQ+ people in all issues that impact us and stand with us when trying to better our community. #grandparkla #diadelosmuertos #downtowndia #LGBTQ #altar

South Central Farm - (@southcentralfarm )The South Central Farm aims to promote the establishment and preservation of green and open space in South Central Los Angeles, a community where green and open space is rare, as well as promote urban farming, public health, and effective participation in the planning of developments that intimately affect every one of the residents that reside nearby. @southcentralfarm altar honors plant resilience. Food justice and the ...role of land use in our food systems. South Central Farm is part off the 11 altars located throughout Grand Park Downtown Dia de los Muertos in partnership with Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ). Altars will be on display until Nov 4th. #grandparkla #downtowndia #urbanfarming #publichealth #community #preservation #diadelosmuertos #altar

Endy trece is an intermedia community artist. Her performance and visual work is rooted in her indigenous cultural traditions, and branches out through her intercultural ceremonials, exchanges, study and travel. Butoh is a strong influence in her work, as she has studied with Semimaru of Sankai Juku, as well as Yoshito Ohno among other butoh masters in Japan. Her art practice includes creating an installation about an ecological or social issue in public space and performi...ng a dance sequence in it for 4-6 hours. The intention of her practice is to provide inspiration to look within, contemplate and discuss important issues. As an arts and culture leader, she is one of the co-founders of TONALLI STUDIO in East Los Angeles and has been a part of the Board of Directors at Pacto Latino and the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. She is currently the president of the Board of Directors at Self Help Graphics and Art in Tongva Territory (aka Los Angeles). Tune in Sunday NOV 1 4pm PST Online: YouTube (Self Help Graphics/ @SHGTV)for Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ) 47th Annual Día de los Muertos Virtual Celebration, featuring Noche de Ofrenda. Learn more about Endy Bernal and her work in the community. #grandparkla #SHG1970 #NochedeOfrenda #selfhelpgraphics #diadelosmuertos #virtual #celebration #downtowndia

@healthhappenswithprevention - Building Healthy Communities Boyle Heights: Health Happens with Prevention Group altar. Health Happens with Prevention is a coalition of organizations and community members dedicated to advocating for preventative health services in Boyle Heights, with a focus on mental health. @healthhappenswithprevention - We are honoring the community members we have lost due to the pandemic, and the folks still living that need mental health support. w...e will be directing people to learn more about mental health issues and services. Grand Park Downtown Dia de los Muertos in partnership with Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ) Learn more about @healthhappenswithprevention and all of this yrs. featured artists. Link in bio. #grandparkla #downtowndia #mentalhealth #community #altar #diadelosmuertos

Eastside LEADS (@eastsideleads ) - Eastside LEADS is a coalition of tenants, youth,and community based organizations who are fighting displacement in the Eastside of Los Angeles through policy and organizing. We are fighting for development and investment that benefits existing residents, not development that displaces us. Our roots are deep and proud and we will preserve our communities through our collective work. @eastsideleads - This altar is dedicated to Eastsid...e communities who despite the adverse history of segregation, inequitable planning, and disinvestment from the public and private sectors that have plagued their communities; they have grown strong roots of resilience and community activism which continues to this day. This Altar is in honor of all who have transitioned due to COVID-19 and our ancestors whose healing practices continue to bring comfort to us today. #grandparkla #downtowndia #eastsideleads #altar #diadelosmuertos #housing #community

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles (@blmlosangeles ) - Grand Park Downtown Dia de los Muertos in partnershipwith Self Help Graphics (@shg1970 ) is honored to have an incrediblyimportant memorial piece such as the@blmlosangeles altar, providing an opportunity for those who visit the altar to take a moment to reflect and honor the 625 lives that have been unjustly taken through the cultural tradition of Dia de los Muertos. Grand Park is honored to have the opportunity to be... stewards of such an important mission driven altar for the Los Angeles community during such significant times thank you! @blmlosangeles @blmla - This altar honors the victims listed onprosecutkillercops.org. The site is inspired by Ida B Wells’s Red Record, and is aimed to expose those who murder our people. The data on the site spans from 2013 to the present. We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others. We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location. We see ourselves as part of the global Black family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black people who live in different parts of the world. We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities. We work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people. We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting. We make space for transgender siblings to participate and lead. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence. #blmla #altar #memorial #grandparkla #dtla #downtowndia #diadelosmuertos