Watts Renaissance –
Speaker Series and Exhibitions
Join us for this special series of events and festivities
to mark a new movement toward the advancement
of Watts and the surrounding communities.
WHEN: Through March, date and time TBA
SITE: Watts Labor Community Action
Committee, 10950 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles
COST: Call for information
SPONSOR: Watts Labor Community Action
Committee (WLCAC)
INFO: 323-563-5639

Fowler OutSpoken Film Screening: An Evening with Les Blank
Join us for a special screening of the extraordinary
documentary, Always for Pleasure, an intense insider's
portrait of New Orleans’ street celebrations and unique
cultural gumbo, featuring the music of Professor
Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers,
and more. UCLA Film Professor Marina Goldovskaya
leads the discussion with director Les Blank about the
evolution of New Orleans and Mardi Gras in the nearly
30 years since the film was made. Seating is on a firstcome,
first-served basis.
WHEN: March 2, 6:00 p.m.
SITE: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Goldenberg Gallery,W. Sunset Blvd.
and Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
INFO: 310-825-4361, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Jean Burden Poetry Reading
Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first
African American poet laureate of the United States,
is the guest reader at the 2006 Jean Burden Poetry Reading.
WHEN: March 2, 7:00 p.m. –10:00 p.m.
SITE: Golden Eagle Ballroom, Cal State Los
Angeles, 5151 State University Dr.,
Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: CSULA English Department
INFO: 323-343-4140
Art For Kids 3
Fine artist Landy Shorer teaches this art workshop for
kids ages 8 to 14. Children will create drawings in
watercolor, charcoal, and oils.
WHEN: March 4, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
SITE: First A.M.E. Zion Church, 1449 W.
Adams Blvd., Los Angeles
COST: $5 Supplies
SPONSOR: Landy Shorer
INFO: 323-734-5370

Bright Lights Adult Book Club #2
Bright Lights Adult Book Club presents its first
meeting/discussion about literary themes with an
emphasis on African American culture.
WHEN: March 4, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
SITE: Bright Lights Multicultural Children’s
Bookstore, 8461 S. Van Ness Ave., Inglewood
COST: Free
SPONSOR: Bright Lights Multicultural
Children’s Bookstore
INFO: 323-971-1296

Annual Winter Blues at the Luckman:
Ruth Brown, Otis Clay
Ruth Brown performs with the electrifying energy
that lit a fire under Atlantic Records and the world of
R&B back in the 1950s, when she recorded a string of
million-seller hits like “Mama, He Treats Your
Daughter Mean.” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
inductee, and Grammy, Tony, and W.C. Handy-winner
Ruth Brown is one of the undisputed architects of
Rhythm & Blues. Also on the bill is soul and blues
artist Otis Clay, performing songs from his recent
album, This Time Around (Bullseye Blues).
WHEN: March 4, 8:00 p.m.
SITE: Luckman Theatre, Cal State L.A.,
5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles
COST: $50, $45, $40
SPONSOR: Luckman Fine Arts Complex
INFO: 323-343-6600,
www.luckmanfineartscomplex.org

CAP/Plaza de la Raza Puppetry Performance
Community Arts Partnership Youth participants will
perform an original piece of puppet theater, written
by the students in collaboration with CalArts faculty
Susan Simpson and CalArts teaching assistants.
WHEN: March 10, 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 N. Mission Rd.,
Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: CalArts Community Arts
Partnership & Plaza de la Raza
INFO: 661-222-2710

Senior Movie Club
Seniors, it’s your day! Join us for a good movie, good
company, and good snacks.
WHEN: March 11, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
SITE: First A.M.E. Zion Church,
1449 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: Artists for Christ
INFO: 323-734-5370

Storytelling for Children
Bright Lights Multicultural Children’s Bookstore
specializes in all multicultural children’s books with
an emphasis on African American culture. Bright
Lights Adult Book Club presents storytelling for
children from ages 3 to 10.
WHEN: March 11, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
SITE: Bright Lights Multicultural Children’s
Bookstore, 8461 S. Van Ness Ave., Inglewood
COST: Free
SPONSOR: Bright Lights Multicultural
Children’s Bookstore
INFO: 323-971-1296

A World of Art Family Workshop: Brazilian Music and Dance
In this two-part workshop, participants will make
several types of percussion instruments and then
learn how to shake their bodies to the beat, lead by
student educators from UCLA’s Departments of World
Arts and Culture and Ethnomusicology. Choose
between two morning or two afternoon sessions.
Reservations required.
WHEN: March 11 & 18, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
or 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
SITE: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Goldenberg Gallery,W. Sunset Blvd.
and Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
COST: $15 fee for members; $20 fee for nonmembers
SPONSOR: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
INFO: 310-825-7325, www.fowler.ucla.edu

From Africa to America – Tales of Black People
This children’s program includes a variety of stories,
folktales, historical, and personal stories drawn from
the rich legacy of people of African descent and
presented by storyteller Michael McCarty.
WHEN: March 14, 3:30 p.m.
SITE: Los Angeles Public Library Junipero
Serra Branch, 4607 S. Main St., Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: Los Angeles Public Library
INFO: 323-234-1685, www.lapl.org

Marcus Miller’s African Drum Circle
This is a children’s drum program. Kids get a rhythmic
and historical glance from past to present of various
cultures’ drums, and they get to play them, too.
WHEN: March 15, 3:30 p.m.
SITE: Los Angeles Public Library Benjamin
Franklin Branch, 2200 E. First St., Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: Los Angeles Public Library
INFO: 323-263-6901, www.lapl.org

Taking It to the Streets: Spectacle & Satire in the Arts and Antics of Carnival
Leading scholars of Carnival explore how individuals
and communities have “taken it to the streets” to
satirize their world in an expressive fusion of revelry
and rebellion. With a keynote by professor Samuel
Kinser, director of the Center for Research in Festive
Culture, Newberry Library and professor of history at
Northern Illinois University, scholars and artists look
at the world-turned-upside-down mode, extravagant
spectacle, and cutting parodies that distinguish
Carnival worldwide.
WHEN: March 18, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
SITE: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Goldenberg Gallery,W. Sunset Blvd.
and Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
INFO: 310-825-4361, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Césaria Evora
After numerous sold-out UCLA Live engagements,
the legendary barefoot diva returns to Royce Hall to
perform the wistful, minor key ballads of her native
Cape Verde. Singing in Portuguese-Creole, her rich,
smoky-soft alto voice, quivering with emotion, has
been compared to Billie Holliday, Celia Cruz, Edith
Piaf, and Bessie Smith.
WHEN: March 17, 8:00 p.m.
SITE: UCLA, Royce Hall,West Los Angeles
COST: $45, $35, $25, $15 UCLA students
SPONSOR: UCLA, Ginny Mancini Endowment
for Vocal Performance, KKJZ 88.1 FM
INFO: 310-825-2101, www.uclalive.org

Les Ballets Africains and Gamelan Burat Wangi
The exceptional Guinean ensemble Les Ballets
Africains brings dance and acrobatics filled with
dazzling, high-speed footwork, electrifying
drumming, and boundless energy. The acclaimed Los
Angeles-based Gamelan Burat Wangi, with their
beautifully ethereal Indonesian music and dance,
makes a perfect foil.
WHEN: March 22, 8:00 p.m.
SITE: Walt Disney Concert Hall,
111 S. Grand Ave., Downtown Los Angeles
COST: $67 - $28
SPONSOR:Walt Disney Concert Hall
INFO: 323-850-2000, www.musiccenter.org

Family Values/Book Signing: The New Basic Black
Join Karen Hudson and Karen Grigsby Bates for a
lively discussion of manners and mores at a book
signing for the new and revised version of their
groundbreaking book, The New Basic Black: Home
Training for Modern Times.
WHEN: March 25, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
SITE: The Wilfandel Club, 2435 Adams Blvd.,
Los Angeles
COST: $1.00
SPONSORS: City of Los Angeles Department
of Cultural Affairs, Broadway Federal Bank and
the Wilfandel Club
INFO: 323 43-2126 or haizlip@earthlink.net

Kids in the Courtyard Series: Leading the Way to Carnival
Many Carnival celebrations feature processions of
groups in which leaders carry ornamental objects to
identify themselves. Decorate a banner or farola—a
special umbrella from Brazil—to carry in the UCLA
Carnaval on April 8th.
WHEN: March 26, 1:00 p.m.
SITE: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, Goldenberg Gallery,W. Sunset Blvd.
and Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
COST: Free
SPONSOR: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
INFO: 310-825-4361, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Gospel Hummingbirds with The Persuasions
Sweet harmonies and powerful, spirit-filled rhythm
will fill the air as two legendary vocal groups deliver
four decades of pure soul in one afternoon. The
Persuasions have been called “the Godfathers of a
cappella.”They have released 18 albums and been the
subject of a documentary film that appears regularly
on PBS. The Gospel Hummingbirds have created their
own music category, which they call “Rhythm and
Gospel.”Their music is rooted in the church and spiced
with an irresistible blend of Blues and R&B. They leave
audiences dancing with joy and filled with inspiration.
WHEN: March 26, 3:00 p.m.
SITE: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts,
12700 Center Court Dr., Cerritos
COST: $42, $32, $27
SPONSOR: Cerritos Center for the
Performing Arts
INFO: 562-916-8501, 1-800-300-4345,
www.cerritoscenter.com

Bones and Blues
Bones and Blues is a monthly concert series featuring
live blues and jazz music, domino tournaments, and
a hearty barbecue dinner.
WHEN: March 31, 8:00 p.m.
SITE: The Center, 10950 S. Central Ave.,
Los Angeles
COST: $15 presale, $25 at the door
SPONSOR: Watts Labor Community Action
Committee (WLCAC)
INFO: 323-563-5639, www.wlcac.org