Lummis Day Program May 8, 2014 9:25 PM VERSION
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take metro to Lummis Day! OUT WEST: LUmmiS Day PrOgram version: 6 May 8, 2014 9:25 PM Festival schedule Who’s On and When LUMMis hOMe aNd GaRdeN STagE Two famiLy acTiviTiES SPacE 200 East avenue 43 1:30 PM Arya Movement Project: Various Times gates open at 10:00am Sambasalsa! Urban Science Corps “EcoVoices” 10:30 AM Musical interlude by 2:45 PM Lineage Dance Company Navjot Sandhu 4:00 PM Danza Teocalt and Neel agrawal STagE fOUr 5:30 PM Chester Whitmore 11:00 AM Introduction and poem by 1:30 PM Michelle Rodriguez Suzanne Lummis STagE THrEE 2:15 PM Dead End Poets: Christopher Buckley, 1:00 PM Sweet DizPosition 3:00 PM BMC liz gonzaléz, and Mary Fitzpatrick 2:00 PM Banna Baeg Mall 4:00 PM The Slightlys Noon-5:00 PM Crafts and art exhibits 3:15 PM Smithfield Bargain 5:00 PM The Dead Sea Crows 4:30 PM Alarma heRITAGe sQUARe MuseuM 5:30 PM Somos Mysteriosos OtheR FaMily activities 3800 Homer Street (various locations at Heritage Square) gates open at noon OtheR PeRFORMaNce aReas Tongva Clapper Sticks staGe ONe LincOLn avEnUE cHUrcH 12:45 PM Ted Garcia, PErfOrmancE SPacE Home Depot/Color Spot Native america Blessing Transplanting Booth 2:40 PM, 4:00 PM Teatro arroyo’s 1:00 PM Timur and The Dime Museum “Dr. Madcap’s Theatricum” audubon Display and activity (plus 2:00 PM Blue Rhythm Jazz Orchestra andasol Elementary School Display) 3:20 PM Little Faith Puppets & PLayErS STagE Highland Park Heritage Trust 4:30 PM Orquesta Mar De ashe 1:20 PM, 3:00: PM, 4:30PM with La Sirena Puppets & Players: Living Museum Tour 6:00 PM La Chamba Scooter’s Circus adventure Franklin High School aP Spanish Display Charles Fletcher Inside Lummis, 1859-1928 Lummis Day Sponsors and Volunteers ...................page 7 Northeast L.A.’s “Icons and Hidden Gems” ..........page 11 ummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Lummis Day School Project ..........................................page 15 Los Angeles, takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined Poetry at Lummis Home .................................................page 17 L Stage 1, Heritage Square ................................................page 19 the L.A. Times as the newspaper’s first city editor upon his arrival in this city in 1876. Stage 2, Heritage Square ...............................................page 23 A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis Stage 3, Heritage Square ..............................................page 27 was also one of the city’s first librarians, Stage 4, Heritage Square ...............................................page 31 founded the Southwest Museum—the first museum in the Coty of Los Angeles—and Art Exhibits, Heritage Square ......................................page 32 helped introduce the concept of multi- Occidental College History ...........................................page 34 culturalism to Southern California. Until his Craft Exhibits at Lummis Home ..................................page 37 death in 1928, Lummis remained active as Theater, Puppets & Other Performance .................page 39 a photographer, editor, poet, raconteur and as an extraordinary champion of Native Lummis Home History .....................................................page 40 American and early California culture. He Food Choices ........................................................................page 43 built his home—El Alisal, aka Lummis Lummis Day Educational Workshop ........................page 44 Home—with his hands and it remains one of Lummis Day Film Night ...................................................page 45 Northeast L.A.’s most cherished cultural monuments. 1st Annual “Noisemaker Award” ................................page 46 “Out West,” the title of this publication is homage to the magazine of the same title that was founded and edited by Charles Library Series, aka “Viva Poetry”...............................page 48 Lummis. Event Map ...............................................................................page 58 2 www.lummisday.org www.lummisday.org 3 OUT WEST: LUmmiS Day PrOgram version: 6 May 8, 2014 9:25 PM Visit the Autry’s Mt. Washington campus and experience the historic site of Los Angeles’s first museum, established by Charles Lummis. Open Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. June 1, 2014 Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery Dear Friends, Ongoing On behalf of the City of Los Angeles, I welcome you to the 2014 Lummis Day Featuring more than 100 celebration, hosted by the Lummis Day Community Foundation. pieces of rare ceramics, this exhibition traces the Since its inception, Lummis Day has provided a tremendous stage for the best of music, dance, food, and art that Los Angeles has to offer. I hope you enjoy this unique dramatic changes that celebration of history and artistic traditions with your friends, family, and neighbors at transformed the Pueblo Heritage Square Museum. pottery tradition in the era I send my best wishes for a memorable event and continued success. following sixteenth-century Spanish colonization to the Polychrome bowl, Candelaria Gachupin (Zia Pueblo), circa Sincerely, 1941. Gift of Fred K. Hinchman. Southwest Museum of the present. American Indian Collection, Autry National Center; 535.G.98 Reimagining the Future of the Southwest Museum Campus ERIC GARCETTI Mayor Through August 30, 2014 Led by L.A.——based architect Mark Stankard, fifth-year architecture students from Woodbury University reimagine a future for the historic Southwest Museum campus in this installation featuring models, diagrams, and elevations from their culminating thesis projects. Our Mission Community Garden Ongoing Lummis Day celebrates the arts, history and ethnic On Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., join UCLA students and SCIC/American Indian Family Partnership staff diversity of Northeast Los Angeles through educational to learn about gardening and healthy living. and cultural events and an annual festival that draws the community together for a shared experience while providing a platform for cooperation among people of all ages and backgrounds. The Autry Is Honored to Support the luMMis day CommuNity the 9th Annual Lummis Day Festival FOuNdatiON BOaRd Margaret Barto, President D.W. Jacobs Charles F. Lummis as a Harvard freshman, Boston, 1878. Sepia-toned gelatin Jain Sekuler, Vice President Robert Kieft silver print. Braun Research Library, Autry National Center; P.32522B Heinrich Keiffer, Treasurer Rosamaria Marquez Carmela Gomes, Secretary Denis Quinonéz Bert Atkinson Ed P. Reyes Historic Southwest Museum Michele Clark Yvonne Sarceda Mt. Washington Campus Xavier Estrada Eliot Sekuler TheAutry.org 234 Museum Drive . Los Angeles, CA 90065 Mary Fitzpatrick Brian Sheridan Ted Garcia Free Admission 4 www.lummisday.org www.lummisday.org 5 OUT WEST: LUmmiS Day PrOgram version: 6 May 8, 2014 9:25 PM yOuR hOsts YOUR COMMUNITY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNIL acknowledgements No one understands a neighborhood better Sponsored by Educational Program Commander Rudy Schwartz and the Highland Park than the people who live, work and play there. CD1, Councilmember Gil Cedillo Carmela Gomes american Legion Post #206 CD14, Councilmember Jose Huizar Thanks to our artists: Pacific Opera Project singers Tim Your voice is a necessary component to the Highland Park Heritage Trust marketing / communications chair Campbell and Katy Tang and pianist Zach Neufeld arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council Brian Sheridan Special thanks to Heather McLarty for creating the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Noisemaker award overall health and well being of our Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council Parking and Transportation Thanks to committee members and volunteers: Laura Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council Paul Bonsell acosta, Marilyn anjuo, Jeremy alvarado, Maggie Barto, community. JOIN US! Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Jenelle Bracamontes, Randy Carrillo, Toni Castillo, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Sound adam Castro, Halli Christensen, Dessie Coale, Linda County of Los angeles arts Commission Passage Entertainment Crockett, anthony Cruz, Jessica Dodon, Julie Dodon, Fresco Community Market Mary Fitzpatrick, Carmela Gomes, Roger Guzman, azriel ENGAGE YOUR COMMUNITY Home Depot and Color Spot Stage management Hall, Genessee Hall, Olga Hall, Daniel Hernandez, Ricardo Metro Rosamaria Marquez, Charles Sarceda, Carlo Gomes, Hernandez, Juan Jureno, Heinrich Keifer, Roger Mammana, PEN Center USa Olga Hall Rosamaria Marquez, Sofia Niz, Jennifer Palafox, Greg THE 1ST & 3RD Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant they have received Reeves, Chase Rojas, Charles Sarceda, yvonne Sarceda, from the James Irvine Foundation mc’s Eliot Sekuler, James Spicer, al Strange, David Van Pelt, THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH This concert is sponsored in part by Los angeles County Stage 1: Patrick Perez, Lizzie Redner, Kat Palardy anne Marie Wozniak, Connie Zhao Supervisor Gloria Molina Stage 3: Bill Murray, Ralph Waxman Thanks to Elsa’s Bakery, Fresco Community Market, Garden of Beaden, Organix, Rock Rose Gallery, Skin Care 7 PM- 9 PM media Sponsors festival volunteers by Emily, Trader Joe’s (Eagle Rock), , and all of the artists, KPFK Public Radio 90.7 Luis aguilar, Gloria alvarez, Juana Bautista, Laura Bonsell, restaurants and donors for their generous contributions. Highland Park Senior Center The Voice Community News Michael Bonsell, Veronica Bonsell, Sean Bumcroft, Genesis Nelaarts News Cabral, Greg Campeau, angela Carrillo, Kaitlin Castillo, Publicity Brooklyn & Boyle Toni Castillo, Jennifer Copley, Linda Copley, aracely Denis Quiñonéz and Eliot Sekuler 6152 N. Figueroa St.,