Creative Corps


The Un-Invisible Project

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

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

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...
Trashion Designers

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

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...
ArmChair ArtWalk Conversation with Cornerstone Theater

ArmChair ArtWalk Conversation with Cornerstone Theater

Cornerstone Co-Artistic Directors Charlotte Brathwaite and Sunder Ganglani Discuss ‘Pedro Play’ In an on-line conversation lead by the newly appointed Co-Artistic Directors, Cornerstone will revisit elements of their very successful Pedro Play, an original...
Madison Park Mural Project

Madison Park Mural Project

Next week we are painting a mural on two other residential walls that are the entrance to the south part of Madison Park Neighborhood off Edinger and Kilson in Santa Ana. This is the third mural in Madison Park. This is a call out for volunteers to come and help us...
Premiere – Marketplace Mambo: Stepping Up Food Access

Premiere – Marketplace Mambo: Stepping Up Food Access

Join us for the premiere of a groundbreaking music video that brings the critical issue of food access in Long Beach to life, happening at the Bixby Knolls First Fridays in the EXPO Arts Building. This captivating video stars neurodiverse youth from the Sowing Seeds...
Camerata Sings for a Cause

Camerata Sings for a Cause

A benefit concert for Open Gallery.  All proceeds to help rebuild the Gallery. APRIL 12, 2024 at 8pm Grace First Presbyterian Church | 3955 N. Studebaker Road, Long Beach, CA 90808
River Session #3 | MILE 0: San Pedro

River Session #3 | MILE 0: San Pedro

Join us for River Session #3, Mile 0: San Pedro/Angels Gate, as we explore San Pedro alongside poet and Creative Corps collaborator Nancy Lynée Woo and Long Beach Community Theater Artistic Director Ann Wellman. Our meeting point is the iconic Korean Friendship Bell,...
Madison Park Mural Project

Madison Park Mural Project

Join us in painting a mural on the north entrance to the Madison Park off Edinger Ave and Kilson Drive in Santa Ana. This stencil based mural project is design to foster relationships between residence and add beauty that uplifts the community on a whole. Anyone who...
Community Art Workshop

Community Art Workshop

Join Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHALA) and Artist Rhonda Love for a fun-filled day of arts and creativity! Join us for a mixer with food & music, community conversations on Covid, climate change, and social justice, followed by a healing journey through...
Creative Force Workshops

Creative Force Workshops

Professional art training program for 24 Creatives – Ages 13 to 17. Participants will gain skills in fashion design, sculpture, photography, creative writing, graphic design, and art directing. These workshops aim to empower artists to drive innovation, advocate...
We Are Not Our Cruxes: Session Five

We Are Not Our Cruxes: Session Five

Join us Saturday, March 16, 2024, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Los Angeles at Club Creative or online for We Are Not Our Cruxes, a project that centers the voices and mental health of adult adoptees and those who have gone through the foster care system. The project seeks...
What Can You Make with This?

What Can You Make with This?

Trash + Fashion = Trashion Do you want to be a designer? Are you a designer? Do you care about recycling? Where does our trash go? How can we contribute to ending climate change? Meet others with your same creative expressions in What Can You Make with This? Workshops...
In celebration of Black History Month 	African American Cultural Centre of Long Beach Presents 	  	California Creative Corps  	Alexey Steele: Love My Neighbor Project 	Inspiring Neighbors – Remarkable Stories 	Special Event 	 	State Assemblyember District 65 	Chair of the Arts, Entertainment, Sports,  	and Tourism Committee 	Mike A. Gipson remarks

In celebration of Black History Month African American Cultural Centre of Long Beach Presents California Creative Corps Alexey Steele: Love My Neighbor Project Inspiring Neighbors – Remarkable Stories Special Event State Assemblyember District 65 Chair of the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Mike A. Gipson remarks

Assemblymemebrer Gipson will visit the show and deliver his remarks. The award-winning Love My Neighbor Project by Alexey Steele was created in the City of Carson and delivered grass roots impact in it’s most difficult neighbourhood, the infamous...
El Futuro: Songwriting, Artistry, and Synthesis hosted by Neyva

El Futuro: Songwriting, Artistry, and Synthesis hosted by Neyva

This workshop will empower youth to write and compose their own music while exploring their artistic identity. Through hands-on exercises and guidance from Neyva, each participant will tap into the power of their unique voice and the impact it can have on the world...
What Can You Make With This?

What Can You Make With This?

“What Can You Make With This?” Saturday, March 23rd 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm On the Barns Lawn A “Trashion” Sustainability Program at RLA with artist, Amy Bauer We’re taking trash and making art with artist, Amy Bauer! We encourage you to bring CLEAN rubbish....
Color Your Emotions

Color Your Emotions

Designed to deepen your connection to self. Find alternative ways of self-expression through basic color and shape, while building familiarity with autonomy and self-directed choice. Participants of all ages and abilities are welcome! Saturday, March 2 from 1 –...
Reading of The People with the Trees in Their Chest

Reading of The People with the Trees in Their Chest

A Staged Reading of an original play The People with The Trees in Their Chest by Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors. Produced by Grand Vision Foundation. The audience will be invited to give constructive feedback after the performance. This activity is funded in part by...
The People with the Trees in Their Chest

The People with the Trees in Their Chest

A Workshop Performance of a new, original play by award-winning playwright, Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors. A modern-day play following an African American family from Brooklyn, NY who struggle to break the curse of poor health that has marked their family for...
The People with the Trees in Their Chest

The People with the Trees in Their Chest

A Workshop Performance of a new, original play by award-winning playwright, Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors. A modern-day play following an African American family from Brooklyn, NY who struggle to break the curse of poor health that has marked their family for...