Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.
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Nereya Otieno
Nereya Otieno is a writer focused on intercultural spaces and the ways in which music, food, and the arts are forms of storytelling. She was a 2021 AF WKLY writing fellow. She is a cofounder of the Rising Artist Foundation and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Tarot-Inspired Paintings Encapsulate the Latinx Pulse of LA
Moncho 1929’s latest exhibition questions what we mean when we say “history” or “beliefs” or even that something is “ours.”
A Sci-Fi Opera’s Cosmic Quest for Belonging
STAR CHOIR presents opera singers, an orchestra, and a story set in a galactic tomorrow that hold various skin tones and earthly ethnicities.
Chloë Bass Disarms With Beauty
The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.
Finding Medea in LA’s Chinatown
MILK is an immersive, multisensory collaborative performance exploring a somber Greek tale of revenge.
What Does It Mean for Heaven to Be a Muddy Riverbed?
Diedrick Brackens deftly combines his weavings with his original poetry to create an atmosphere of reverence for the people, animals and ideas that society demeans.