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13th Annual Lummis Days Festival
Showcases Northeast L.A. Arts With
Three-day Event at Five Locations, June 1, 2 & 3
The 13th annual Lummis Days Festival, June 1, 2 and 3, will showcase the variety and diversity of the Northeast L.A. arts community with events at five locations presenting music, dance, poetry, film and puppets. Admission to all Lummis Days Festival events is free.
The community-organized event will build on the Festival’s multi-cultural tradition with musical performances ranging from the Cuban dance band Orquesta Charangoa to the Louisiana-rooted High Life Cajun Band, the Latino rock of Alarma and the klezmer music of Mostly Kosher. Diversity and eclecticism are guiding principles: The Festival’s four music stages will include power punk from Superbean, son jarocho from Los Jarochicos, country music from Ted Russell Kamp, mariachi from Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas and a kaleidoscopic assortment of other musical styles and idioms.
The 2018 festival will also feature an array of diverse dance performances, poetry readings, puppet shows, activities for kids, the Arroyo Arts Collective's “Critters Gotta Crawl” puppet parade and a free screening of the award-winning film “Dolores” at Occidental College.
Hundreds of artists and a legion of community volunteers take part in the three-day Festival. Events are scheduled at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, on Avenue 50 at York Boulevard in Highland Park, Lummis Home in Montecito Heights, Sycamore Grove Park and Mount Washington’s Southwest Museum.
The following are the Festival’s locations, dates and activities:
-Friday, June 1, Thorne Hall, Occidental College (1600 Campus Road) 7:00pm-9:30pm, “Dolores,” screening followed by a discussion.
-Saturday, June 2, Avenue 50 at York Boulevard, Highland Park, 5:00pm-9:00pm. Music on “The Boulevard Stage, featuring the best of Northeast L.A. indie music and entertainment by cirque-style performers.
-Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3, Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive10am-4:00pm. The Autry Museum of the American West presents “Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis” and artist Miller Robinson’s multi-media installation, “Of This Body, Of This Earth.”
-Sunday, June 3, Lummis Home in Montecito Heights, 10:30 am-noon, poetry curated by Suzanne Lummis and featuring poets Olga García Echeverría, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, Steve Abee and Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald. The reading will be followed by a poetry workshop led by Lory Bedikian.
-Sunday, June 3, Sycamore Grove Park, 4702 North Figueroa Street, Sycamore Grove/Highland Park, 12 noon-7:00 pm. Music, dance, theatre, puppets and many family activities, including robot demonstrations, crafts tables and soccer games organized by the Anahuak Youth Soccer Association.
A shuttle bus, provided by Council District 1, will ferry guests between Festival locations and parking sites on Sunday, June 3. A complete schedule of events for all sites, parking information, and the location of shuttle bus stops will be found at www.LummisDay.org.
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as the newspaper's first city editor in 1884. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Participating arts groups for this year’s Festival include the Arroyo Arts Collective, the Highland Park Independent Film Festival, Teatro Arroyo and the Rock Rose Gallery.
The Lummis Days Festival is sponsored by Hon. Gilbert Cedillo - L.A. Council District 1, Hon. Jose Huizar - L.A. Council District 14, Occidental College and the school’s Institute for the Study of Los Angeles, the Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the Infinity Group,
and Poets & Writers Inc.
Other supporters include Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council, Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council, Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, LA 32 Neighborhood Council, Highland Park Heritage Trust, Home Depot, Anahuak Youth Soccer Association and Las Cazuelas Pupuseria and Señor Fish Restaurants.
Media sponsors are the Eastsider, KPFK public radio 90.7, LAArtNews, Brooklyn & Boyle and Happening in Highland Park.
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