Festival Guide
Civic Virtue: Watts Towers Here and Now
- Saturday, January 28, 2012, 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
- Admission: Free; no reservations required.
- Location: Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 East 107th St., Los Angeles, CA 90002 Map
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Reception, concert, and exhibition of O' Speak, Speak 2
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - Admission: Free; no reservations required.
- Location: Watts Labor Community Action Committee, 10950 South Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90059 Map
Organized by:
Watts Towers Arts Center and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles
10:00 a.m.
Reception for O’ Speak, Speak 2, curated by Willie Middlebrook
Studio Garden
This public art expression is influenced by an original work by John Outterbridge, Dale Davis, Nate Ferance, Tom Little, Charles Dickson, and Elliot Pinkney, created in 1971. It will acknowledge the lack of representation of women artists, as did the 30th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival and 35th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival, which presented mostly women musicians and band leaders. These five women will be Afrishe Asungi, Margaret Garcia, Noni Olabisi, Toni Love, and Dominique Moody.
11:00 a.m.
Short Stories honoring the Watts Writers Workshop, by Sally Shore’s The New Short Fiction Series with excerpts from From the Ashes: Voices of Watts by Budd Schulberg
11:30 a.m.
The Poet Laureate Program presents The Early Days In Watts, Reflections and Remembrances with Kamau Daaood and Erin Aubrey Kaplan.
2:00 p.m.
Reception, concert, and exhibition of O’ Speak, Speak 2 artists in Cecil Fergerson Gallery at sister campus Watts Labor Community Action Committee.