Good morning L.A. ☀️ Here's some of the best things you could do this week! 👁 Bad Bunny plays three nights in L.A. ElUltimoTourDelMundo 🤣 Laugh along to the comedy of Atsuko Okatsuka 🎞 Catch Nic Cage in Mandy at the drive-in
film series presents work by award-winning and emerging Latin American and BIPOC filmmakers who “approach their subjects through the eye of the ‘other’ with curiosity, empathy, and respect.” This week, watch, a portrait of three generations of a family with Mexican roots. The film by director Trisha Ziff revisits the Mejía family 25 years after they were first filmed making a journey to Mexico. The screening is followed by a conservation with Ziff and Veronica Mejía.Crypto.
The Evoke LA series, a collaboration between ALOUD and KPCC/LAist that’s inspired by the Los Angeles Public Library archives, continues with a program centered on the sheet music for “Lord, Don’t Move That Mountain.” Singer Maiya Sykes reinterprets the composition, written by pioneering L.A.-based African American gospel music composer and publisher Doris Akers with gospel legend Mahalia Jackson, through a performance.