Creative Corps
Once the Men Find Out We Can Shapeshift
A Workshop for Women and Survivors Navigating Internet-Based Sexual Harm Once the Men Find Out We Can Shapeshift is a creative writing workshop that focuses on joy and delight, helping participants reconnect with their bodies and celebrate resilience. Through...
Reflections: How Does It Feel? (Long Beach)
Join us for Reflections: How Does it Feel?, an intimate afternoon of poetry, storytelling, music and dance performances at the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach, where we will explore our emotional connection to the River, nature and each other. Reflections...
Reflections: How Does It Feel? (Studio City)
In celebration of the summer solstice, join us for our next River Session on June 22nd! This mini arts festival will take place along the LA River, on the greenway by the Richard Lillard Outdoor Classroom- an amphitheater surrounded by rewilded native landscaping. It...
Otro Mundo
Otro Mundo is an otherworldly experience celebrating Community Care, Harm Reduction, Mental Health awareness, and LEA’s QT Connect Ambassadors past and present! This event is a collaboration between QT Connect and SELA artist, NEYVA through the Creative Corps...
Who Hurt You: A Workshop for Women and Survivors Navigating Internet-Based Sexual Harm
Who Hurt You offers a brave and supportive space for survivors to explore and express their emotional truths. Participants will learn to use poetic techniques like erasure and found text to transform their pain into powerful art, fostering healing and resilience. This...
Writing Without Fear: A Workshop for Women and Survivors Navigating Internet-Based Sexual Harm
Writing Without Fear is designed for women, girls, and nonbinary folks who are survivors of online-based NCP, harassment, and bullying. NCP, or nonconsensual pornography, involves the distribution of explicit images or videos without your consent, often with the...
Orale Community Art Exhibition
The Orale Community Art Project highlights the traditions, stories, and practices passed on from one immigrant generation to another. The project explores the collective and essential contributions immigrant communities of color have in our lives while expanding on...
Hyppereal
Join us for a night of multi-sensory dance performance, heart opening singer-songwriter music, an earth-loving fashion + runway show, hyper real comedy, mind-altering circus arts w/ Henry “the weasel”, and non-stop bass beats + soul dance music w/ DJ farley. earth +...
Hyppereal
Join us for a night of multi-sensory dance performance, heart opening singer-songwriter music, an earth-loving fashion + runway show, hyper real comedy, mind-altering circus arts w/ Henry “the weasel”, and non-stop bass beats + soul dance music w/ DJ farley. earth +...
Mothers Day Mural Workshop
Join us at our Mural Workshop Wednesday May 8th from 1-5pm and paint a Mother’s Day gift for or with your mom. All paint and supplies will be provided so that you can come enjoy a day and get creative with us at Pacific Electric Park.
Positive Shifts
You’re invited to a Day of Building Resiliency, Expanding Community, and Embracing Art! FEATURING: 🎭 Interactive Performances 🎨 Art Installations 🎧 Audio Walking Tours 🏬 Showcasing Local Small Businesses 📜 Poetry 🎶 Live Music 🤝 Community Engagement 🌌 Augmented...
Social Pivot Exhibit
The Social Pivot Exhibit explores the challenges caused by COVID-19, climate change, civic engagement, and social justice. It takes you on a creative journey, showcasing the human impact and environmental issues. Through an interactive presentation, attendees become...
Trashion Show Long Beach
Artist Amy Bauer and Jewel Box Children’s Theater Present Trashion Show Long Beach: a Free All Ages Trash to Fashion Runway Show The runway show is a culmination of their year long series of free local workshops for transforming discarded materials into wearable art....
Perfectly Queer – an LGBTQ short film
Perfectly Queer – an LGBTQ short film Film screenings 7pm & 8pm The Expo Arts Center 4321 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach, CA 90807
LA Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF)
The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) is a premier international event dedicated to showcasing the entirety of human experience from the Latino perspective, whether through film, television, digital, music, art, or any other vehicle, regardless...
“Creative Corps” Short Film, “Mad Girls Love Song” by McCall Cadenas
> What: A Sneak Preview screening of the “California Creative Corps” short film “Mad Girls Love Song” by writer/director McCall Cadenas > When: 11a on Saturday, June 1st > Where: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd, Gardena 90249 >...
¡Seamos Seguros!–a “LA Transit” workshop
¡Seamos Seguros! (una clase de poesía de “LA Transit”) *note: this session will be conducted exclusively in Spanish DSTL Arts los invita a unirse a esta clase que se dará a cabo exclusivamente en español. Se puede cultivar una sensación de bienestar y...
The Un-Invisible Project
Creative Corps fellowship recipient and teaching artist Cory Bilicko is mentoring members of the Long Beach Cambodian community in creating visual and written pieces that share personal stories. The project includes four generations of Cambodians whose work will be...
The Long Beach Black Dance Festival
Celebrating our 4th Long Beach Black Dance Festival and International Dance Day, come and dance all day with us! Come and take classes with Creative Corps recipient, Chatiera “Cookie” Ray and other local dance artists on a day filled with dance styles such...
What Can You Make With This? ~ Adults Only Version
Trash + Fashion = Trashion! Come to the Wicked Wolf Cocktail Lounge for a cocktail or mocktail and turn some trash into wearable art! Learn about the upcoming Trashion Show Long Beach. How to be a designer and/or attend. CLEAN rubbish welcomed but not required. Hosted...
“Mementos: The Things We Carried” – VietRISE x Tiffany Le Art Workshop
‘Mementos: The Things We Carried,’ is an 8-week art workshop series collaboration between VietRISE and renowned Vietnamese-American artist, Tiffany Le, also known as Le Tea Leaf. Led by Tiffany Le in six workshops, participants will learn various...
Trashion Designers
Are you a designer? Do you want to be a designer? Do you care about recycling? Where does our trash go? How can we contribute to ending climate change? Free to participate and open to all ages! Trashion Show Application Participation form for Trashion Show on Sunday,...
Open Gallery Benefit Concert
The Greater Long Beach Art Community is organizing a fundraiser for the folks at the Open Gallery! All proceeds will go directly to Open Gallery via the Arts Council for Long Beach. April 27th, 4-9PM April 28th, 2-6PM The Artist Coop 1330 Gladys Ave, Long Beach, CA...