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39th Annual Belmont Shore Christmas Parade

39th Annual Belmont Shore Christmas Parade

One of the biggest parades of the year in Long Beach takes place on Saturday, December 2nd. Families line up along 2nd Street for a seat or best viewing of the night-time event that includes Santa Claus, plenty of elves, colorful bands, costumes, floats, and...
We Are Not Our Cruxes: Session One

We Are Not Our Cruxes: Session One

Join us Saturday, November 18, 2023, from 12 – 3 p.m. at the Baldwin Hills Branch Library 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...
Dreamkreator Arts Annex – Exhibit, Arts, and Cinema!

Dreamkreator Arts Annex – Exhibit, Arts, and Cinema!

Join us for a series of exciting community gatherings at the Dreamkreator ArtSpace Annex! PUT THA NEEDLE ON THA RECORD EXHIBIT – Get ready to immerse yourself in community, creativity and inspiration. Our featured experience, Put THA Needle On THA Record is a...
Creator Program Info Meeting

Creator Program Info Meeting

The Watts Empowerment Center and David George (Marketing Pro & Author of Black Boy, Create!) are teaming up to launch a new creator program and identify young men who want to turn these possibilities into a reality. Together, we will focus on designing a...
How Does a Community Move With Music? A Diaspora Dance Party

How Does a Community Move With Music? A Diaspora Dance Party

With generous support from Atom Tickets In Los Angeles, communities mix and mingle, collide and compoundโ€”and songs hold the DNA of their cultural traditions. Earmarked (so to say) for weddings, birthdays, and holiday celebrations, recycled and remixed for newer...
Hmong New Year Festival

Hmong New Year Festival

The Hmong New Year Festival is a two day celebration of Hmong culture including passing through the gate into the new Year, opening parade, dignitary greetings, master and student artists performances in dance, song chanting, drumming, qeej, and more. The festival...
Intro to LEGO Great Ball Contraptions!

Intro to LEGO Great Ball Contraptions!

Join us as we make a Great Ball Contraption. Learn about the standard, big celebrations of gbcs and the GBC culture. This event is sponsored in part by the Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach.
Activity Book Making – The Pike Stories

Activity Book Making – The Pike Stories

Join us for a collaboration in making activity books, specifically, one themed around the historic Pike. Each collaborator will make one or more pages, and we will share what we do to create word searches, mazes, spot the differences. Do you already have knowledge of...
Open House

Open House

Open Houses are interactive opportunities for the whole family to experience Waldorf education through interactive workshops and activities led by our faculty. Families will meet teachers, parents, and students, visit classrooms and playgrounds, view student work, and...
Poetry in the Park – Willow Springs Experience

Poetry in the Park – Willow Springs Experience

Please join us for an immersive eco-poetry activity led by published poet and California Creative Corps grant recipient Nancy Lynรฉe Woo and Urban Nature Field Specialist Blanca Diaz. We will enjoy an educational nature walk around the Willow Springs grounds, and then...
The Art of Making Comics with Mike Wellman

The Art of Making Comics with Mike Wellman

From Sci-Fi Time Travellinโ€™ Westerns, superhero splatter punk, political fantasy-horror, rock nโ€™ roll bio books, childrenโ€™s books, manga adaptations, 70โ€™s Afro-Funk, Southern Baked Vampire tales to Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and World of Warcraft, there arenโ€™t...
Sementerio: MUXXXE

Sementerio: MUXXXE

October 12 – Nov 18, 2023 In conjunction with the 2023 SURBiennial, Tijuana born, Mexico City-based performance artist and rapper MUXXXE presents SEMENTERIO. SEMENTERIO โ€“a play on words between semen and cemeteryโ€“ the artist aims to lay, conceptually and...
โ€œEscape to Butterfly Aveโ€ Novel Anniversary Art Bash

โ€œEscape to Butterfly Aveโ€ Novel Anniversary Art Bash

๐Ÿฆ‹ Celebrate One Year of Book Magic! ๐Ÿฆ‹ Join us as we commemorate the First Anniversary of the best LBC novel this decade: “Escape to Butterfly Ave” by Max Evans. โœจ Painting Exhibition: Witness curated paintings by artist Katie Dezembrer (IG: kdezember22) of...
PINS: Royal Renaissance Dance Auditions

PINS: Royal Renaissance Dance Auditions

Calling all fierce dancers! Join the Royal Renaissance for an electrifying urban burlesque dance experience! Auditions are your golden ticket to a night of regal moves and majestic performances. Are you ready to dance your way into the grandeur of this royal affair?...
Westside Gemz

Westside Gemz

The Neighbors of District 7 Long Beach bring you Westside Gemz, a hip hop block party featuring a youth under 18 breaking battle, DJ’s, artists, MC’s, and vendors to be able to drop gemz on the next generation! Come experience some real hip hop community...
Memento Mori and the Macabre: Tarot Card Reading

Memento Mori and the Macabre: Tarot Card Reading

๐Ÿƒ Embrace the Veil of the Macabre: The Long Beach Creative Group and Bunny King Productions extend a chilling invitation to delve into the depths of the unknown at “Memento Mori and the Macabre: Tarot Card Readings.” Within the cryptic ambiance of the Rod...
The Mantel Gallery presents: Luis Zavala

The Mantel Gallery presents: Luis Zavala

The Mantel Gallery is excited to announce our sixth show in our ongoing project “Even Six” six calls for art. Our sixth show will feature new work by Luis Zavala. Luis Zavala Tapia is a Mexican-born artist based in Long Beach, CA. He holds an MFA from...
Memento Mori and the Macabre: Family Day Readings for Children

Memento Mori and the Macabre: Family Day Readings for Children

๐ŸŒ™ Eerie Enchantment for All Ages: The Long Beach Creative Group and Bunny King Productions extend an eerie and enchanting invitation to “Family Day Readings for Children” at the enigmatic Rod Briggs Gallery. Step into the twilight world of “Memento...
Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony & Reception

Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony & Reception

๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Unveil the Shadows: The Grand Awakening ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ The Long Beach Creative Group and Bunny King Productions extend an enigmatic invitation to immerse yourself in the chilling embrace of “Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony.” As twilight descends upon...
Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony & Reception

Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony & Reception

๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Unveil the Shadows: The Grand Awakening ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ The Long Beach Creative Group and Bunny King Productions extend an enigmatic invitation to immerse yourself in the chilling embrace of “Memento Mori and the Macabre: Opening Ceremony.” As twilight descends upon...