While some may scoff at the idea of Grand Avenue becoming L.A.’s Champs-Élysées, we’re too busy making the most of the Downtown street’s cultural treasures to even engage in that argument.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, Grand Ave Arts: All Access finds more than a dozen institutions celebrating their Bunker Hill home with free performances, exhibitions and tours. Most of the action takes place on Grand Avenue between Temple and Sixth Streets.
Highlights of this year’s event on October 24 include graffiti artmaking workshops and a pop-up market at the Broad; a chance to try instruments at the Colburn School; a sugar skull workshop and the world’s biggest pop-up book at the Los Angeles Central Library; a monster-making puppetry workshop at MOCA; and the annual Day of the Dead celebration at Gloria Molina Grand Park.
Officially joining the roster this time around is the world’s first museum of AI arts, DATALAND, the brainchild of media artist Refik Anadol, which opened in June. You can get a preview of the museum’s upcoming cultural salon, Latent Space.
Other participating institutions include REDCAT, the Music Center, Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grand Performances and Metro, which has a station just off of Grand Avenue atop Bunker Hill.