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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Weekender: Indie Video Games, East L.A. Surrealism and Monster Masks
Post date:From East Los Angeles surrealism and indie video games, to monster masks and collective typing, here's our list of art events taking place this weekend in Los Angeles.
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Music
Artbound
Chicano Batman: Not Another Band from East L.A.
Post date:As the cultural map of music making continues shifting in East L.A., Chicano Batman has become the sound of local Latino music in the 21st century. The band performs in the KCET Studios.
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Music
Artbound
KCET Sessions: Chicano/Son
Post date:Polyglot rockers Chicano/Son visited the KCET Studios for a lively session of their son jarocho flavored songs from East L.A.
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Music
Artbound
KCET Sessions: Chicano/Son
Post date:Polyglot rockers Chicano/Son visited the KCET Studios for a lively session of their son jarocho flavored songs from East L.A.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Siempre es Hoy: Capturing the Latin Alternative Moment
Post date:Twenty years ago, musician Emilio Morales started La Banda Elástica as a fanzine. It featured huge Latin alternative acts at a time when no other American publication did.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
'Ban This!' and AK Toney's Elegy for Dee Black
Post date:Arizona's attempt to ban books on Chicano/a Studies has inspired legions of young activist writers and thinkers to take action, empowered and bent on social justice.
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Music
Artbound
Hear and Now: Quetzal
Post date:In this installment, multicultural band Quetzal performs in a downtown bus station where migrant workers and international travelers first experience the sprawling city.
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Music
Artbound
Hear and Now: Quetzal
Post date:In this installment, multicultural band Quetzal performs in a downtown bus station where migrant workers and international travelers first experience the sprawling city.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Cheech and Chong: Alice Bowie and the First Chicano Punk Song
Post date:As Chicano Art moves forward in its documentation, some artistic consideration may have to be made for "Earache My Eye Featuring Alice Bowie," a 1974 Cheech and Chong sketch poking at the commercial record industry. "It wasn't just a parody," says Chee...
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Cheech Marin on 'What is a Chicano Artist?'
Post date:The comedy actor and Chicano Art collector learns what it means to be a "Chicano Artist" with the help of John Valadez.
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History & Society
Conversation with Taco Shop Poets Co-Founder Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Post date:In anticipation of their upcoming performance at Avenue 50 Studios for the La Palabra Series, we got a chance to talk to Taco Shop Poets founder Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.
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riverside county
Artbound
The Date Farmers
Post date:The Date Farmers make Chicano pop art; they are desert Rauschenbergs, infusing abstract expressionism with a politically charged, pop culture update.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Date Farmers: Desert Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art
Post date:The Date Farmers make Chicano pop art; they are desert Rauschenbergs, infusing abstract expressionism with a politically charged, pop culture update.
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students
Departures
East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms
Post date:The 1968 East Los Angeles walkouts displayed the largest mobilization of Chicano youth leaders in Los Angeles history.
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History & Society
Today in History: How the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Defined our Neighborhood Boundaries
Post date:Today marks the end of the Mexican-American War which not only secured the Southwest region for the U.S., but created a foundation of neighborhoods in L.A. still visible today.
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art
SoCal Focus
Latin America Begins Here: Echo Park Anarchists Inspire Long Beach Art Show
Post date:This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
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Highland Park
History & Society
Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park
Post date:Resurrected Histories explores the Chicano/a art movement through art collectives such as Centro de Arte Publico and Mechicano Art Center in Highland Park during the 1970s. It culminates as an exhibition opening this Saturday at Avenue 50 Studio.
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History & Society
What Made Us Stop and Think about L.A.
Post date:As Departures wraps up the end of the year, we reflect and challenge the notions, ideas, and convictions we confronted through this year's projects, and look forward to what next year will bring.
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Murals
History & Society
The Mural is the New Chicano
Post date:Before Facebook and Tweets rallied protesters to public space, murals occupied the walls.
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Highland Park
Departures
Arroyo Books
Post date:Arroyo Books, considered to have one the largest collection of bilingual titles in the city and boasted some of the best Chicano Literature line-ups, provided Highland Park with a much needed bookstore and a community center.