OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM

April 24, 2018

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the City of Los Angeles, I write in support of the 13th Annual Lummis Day celebration, hosted by the Lummis Day Community Foundation.

For the past 13 years, Lummis Day has highlighted the diverse and vibrant community of Highland Park through art and history, bringing the community together for a shared experience, and providing a platform for cooperation among people of all ages and backgrounds.

I commend the Lummis Day Community Foundation for its commitment to education, advocacy and preservation projects for the benefit of present and future generations.

Thank you for bringing this exciting event to Highland Park. Best wishes for a memorable event and continued success.

Sincerely,

ERIC GARCETTI Mayor Charles Fletcher Inside

200 N. SPRING STREET, ROOM 303 LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 (213) 978-0600 Lummis, 1859-1928MAYOR.LACITY.ORG Schedule of Events...... 5, 7 From the Editor / Lummis Day Mission...... 9 Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles, takes its “Neighborhood Safety Net” by Eddie Rivera...... 13 name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as “Lummis and Los Cautivos” by Bert Atkinson...... 17 the newspaper’s first city editor upon his arrival in this city in 1885. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city’s first “On Our Way Home” by Fredy Ceja...... 21 librarians, founded the Southwest Museum—the first museum in the City Film Screening: “Dolores”...... 25 of Los Angeles—and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism At the Southwest Museum...... 29 to Southern California. Until his death in 1928, Lummis remained The Boulevard Stage – Avenue 50 at York...... 31 active as a photographer, editor, poet, raconteur and as an extraordinary Poetry at Lummis Home...... 35 champion of Native American and early California culture. He built his home—El Alisal, aka Lummis Home—with his hands and it remains one “Critters Gotta Crawl” – Puppets on Parade...... 39 of Northeast L.A.’s most cherished cultural monuments. Sycamore Grove Park – The Bandshell – Music...... 40 “Out West,” the title of this publication, is an homage to the magazine Lummis Day MCs …………………………………………………………...... 43 of the same title that was founded and edited by Charles Lummis. UGLA Celebrates 35th Anniversary ……………………………...... 44 Uptown Danza Stage – Dance...... 45 The Alisal Stage – More Music...... 48 The Angel Stage – Youth Performers...... 50 Teatro Arroyo / Bugs & Puppets Stage...... 54 On The Cover Family Fun...... 56 The cover art features a 19th century guitar inlaid with mother of Library Poetry Series aka Viva Poetry!...... 59 pearl, associated with Ms. Lala Serrano Glassell (1880-1970), daughter- Lummis Day’s Professional Workshop for Teachers...... 61 in-law of Andrew Glassell, for whom Glassell Park is named. The guitar 2018 Noisemaker Award Dinner...... 62 was donated to the Southwest Museum in 1971 and is held in The “History of the Highland Park Ebell Club” by Carol Colin...... 65 Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, which is now Sponsors, Supporters and Volunteers ...... 71 part of the Autry Museum. Cover designed by Pete Metzger. Concept and photo by Eliot Sekuler. Sunday Shuttle Map...... 74

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM 13TH ANNUAL LUMMIS DAY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Who’s On, When and Where SATURDAY JUNE 2

Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive 10:00am – 4:00pm Exhibition: Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis Presented by the Autry Museum of the American West Dolores Huerta, groundbreaking labor organizer, 1966. Lower Level

Exhibition: Of this body; of this earth FRIDAY, JUNE 1 Continues on View Saturdays Through June 16 Tunnel Entrance Occidental College Thorne Hall, 1600 Campus Road Avenue 50 at York Boulevard 7:00pm – 10:00pm Boulevard Stage Free screening: “Dolores,” award-winning 5:00pm – 9:00pm documentary film directed by Peter Bratt. 5:00 Bird Concerns A panel discussion follows the screening, 6:00 The Smokey Lonesome moderated by Chicano arts advocate 7:00 Umm Tomás Benitez. 8:00 Eric Kufs Band This Event Sponsored By

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The Bandshell SUNDAY, JUNE 3 1:00 Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas 2:20 Mostly Kosher Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43 3:35 Superbean 4:50 Ted Russell Kamp 10:30am – 12:00pm 6:10 Orquesta Charangoa Poetry Reading, Reception and Workshop 10:30 Musical Interlude – Karen Elaine The Alisal Stage 1:15 MAWD 10:55 Native Blessing by Ted Garcia - 2:20 Trapdoor Social Tatavia Song Keeper 3:25 High Life Cajun Band 11:00 Readings by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, 4:30 Scarlett and the Fever Steve Abee, Olga Garcia Echeverría and 5:35 Alarma Jamie Asaye FitzGerald 12:00 Reception Teatro Arroyo / Bugs And Puppets Stage 1:10 Poetry Workshop with Lory Bedekian 1:30 Puppet Show: “The Little Possum” and “Juan y Los Frijoles Magicos” 2:15 Danza Azteca Xipe Totec: Traditional Aztec Southwest Museum, Drumming and Dancing 3:00 Ms. Serena’s Singing Circle 234 Museum Drive 3:40 Puppet Show: “The Hollah-Bollah Pot” and “The Noise at El Alisal” 12:00 pm – 4pm 4:25 Ms. Serena’s Singing Circle Exhibition: Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis The Angel Stage Presented by the Autry Museum of the American 1:30 Eastside Arts West 2:00 Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center Presents: Los Jarochicos and the Latin Ensemble of Lincoln Heights 2:45 Arte Flamenco Dance Theatre & Center for Worldance Sycamore Grove Park, 3:30 Raul Martinez Presents: Ramona Hall Student Band and Clementine Bullen 4702 N. Figueroa Street 4:15 Ballet Bravo 5:00 “Let the River Run,” A theatrical performance by the 10:45am – 7pm 3rd Graders of the Los Feliz Charter School of the Arts 10:45 anahuak sponsored Run / Walk Check In 11:30 anahuak Run / Walk begins 13TH ANNUAL LUMMIS DAY Anahuak Sports Area (Located Between Family 12:15 “Critters Gotta Crawl” Parade from Southwest JUNE 1-3, 2018 Activities and Angel Stage) Museum across Figueroa, into Sycamore 12:20 - 4:20 (hourly 20-minute soccer matches) Grove Park to the Bandshell. Musical accompaniment by Cuñao Family Fun Area Presented by The Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council Uptown Danza Stage 1:00pm – 5:00pm 12:45 Native American Blessing by Julia Bogany, • The Franklin School RoboNerds Cultural Affairs chair for the Gabrieleno/ • Tongva crafts with Julia Bogany, Tribal Elder, Tongva Tribe of San Gabriel San Gabrielino Band of Mission Indians 1:55 Luxora • Home Depot / Color Spot Planting Booth 3:10 Makin’ Moves • Eco Voices with the Urban Science Corps • “Critters Gotta Crawl” -- Puppet making workshop 4:25 Louise Reichlin & Dancers / sponsored by the Arroyo Arts Collective and Teatro Arroyo Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers • audubon Center at Debs Park activity 5:45 Ballet Coco • anahuak Youth Soccer Association

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM FROM THE EDITOR Searching for Community in a Time of Change

By Eliot Sekuler

n old bodega morphed into Community Market a chic vintage clothing store and soon, the nearby panaderia became a French restaurant. A taco Ashop reopened as a trendy Fusion Burger is a proud supporter of and the discount variety store on North Figueroa transformed into a sleek cafe featuring pricey vegan pastries. Lummis Day Signs of change can be seen everywhere in Northeast L.A: in the boutique windows facing York Boulevard, by the profusion of condo construction sites sprouting on Eagle Rock Boulevard, 5914 Monterey Road and on the changing faces to be seen LA , CA 90042 | T 323-274-1040 on Colorado Street, on Broadway, on Huntington Drive and every other major frescomarkets.com Northeast L.A. thoroughfare. You get the message loud and clear on the realtor’s Photo by Eliot Sekuler sign in front of a wood frame cottage that seemed hopelessly dilapidated just a few months ago; hastily is becoming safer and more prosperous. remodeled, it’s now being offered for almost a million dollars. But for others, the quality of rootedness has begun to The signs may be clear but we read them differently. erode. Some of our neighbors, long-time Northeast L.A. Do we read the signs as evidence of re-generation, the residents, now feel a sense of unease in their daily lives. Some natural re-development of an aging urban center? Or do we have experienced gentrification’s negative impacts, including see them as evidence of a hostile takeover, the dilution and dramatic rent increases, the perception that they’re unwelcome desecration of an area that, for the past couple of generations, in their own communities and degrees of displacement ranging our family has called home? from the dispersion of extended families to homelessness. The Surely, some of our neighbors perceive that the community [CONTINUED ON PAGE 11]

THE LUMMIS DAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOARD Margaret Barto, Bert Atkinson President Dr. Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod Heinrich Keifer, Carmela Gomes Vice President, Operations D. W. Jacobs Eliot Sekuler, Rosamaria Marquez Our Mission Vice President, Tac Phung Lummis Day celebrates the arts, history and Community Relations Denis Quinoñez ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles through Laura Longoria, educational and cultural events and an annual festival Secretary Eddie Rivera that draws the community together for a shared Jain Sekuler, Brenda Valiente experience while providing a platform for cooperation Treasurer Sylvia Robledo among people of all ages and backgrounds.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Photo by Eliot Sekuler between us can pose a real dilemma: we’ve seen the disrespectful A Time of Change treatment of longtime residents, the demonization of newcomers, name-calling and an atmosphere where words like “hipster” and [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15] “homie” are used to dehumanize our neighbors. proliferation of old RV’s and tent encampments that line some Here in Northeast L.A., as in many urban centers around of our streets are jabs to our conscience. Some of those RV’s the world, the phrase “the right to the city” has become both a house families who have been displaced by rising rents, families rallying cry and a touchstone for conflict. The question is, who that simply cannot find any shelter in an environment of soaring owns that right? housing costs, families that have become casualties of the Can we agree that the “right to the city” belongs to growing chasm between our city’s haves and have-nots. homeowners and to the homeless, too? That it belongs to business Familiar retailers are being pushed out. Recently, the L.A. owners and renters and, yes, to landlords, to all of us who live Taco news website reported a 250 percent hike in rents charged and work and make Los Angeles the vibrant, creative center of to some longtime enterprises on Figueroa Street, including the ideas and innovation that attracts people from everywhere in the typewriter repair shop, the adjoining barbershop and the furniture world? store that occupies the old Sunbeam Theatre, which, ironically, Lummis Days was organized 13 years ago by a group of once housed a seminal radical collective where musical volunteers dedicated to celebrating the diversity, creativity and revolutionaries Rage Against The Machine first came together. history of the Northeast L.A. neighborhoods. Diversity, we The differing ways in which we read the signs of change believed, was among our greatest assets, a defining characteristic have resulted in the emergence of separate communities sharing of our neighborhoods, a quality we continue to treasure as a core the same space, walled off from each other by perceptions, both value. With diversity came a sense of authenticity, a quality of real and imagined, of insults and injustices. Line are drawn rootedness that was uncommon in our notoriously transient city. around economic inequalities, differing aesthetic sensibilities Many of the values and the assumptions we made 13 years and cultural traditions. ago are now being challenged as the fabric of our community is While many long-time residents feel bitter, ignored, and ripped and re-made by the same forces of change that are tearing excluded from their own communities, new residents are at most American and European cities. confused by accusations that their arrival is somehow invasive The Lummis Day Community Foundation is an arts and and racist. Here and there, the fault lines that divide us have education-based group, and we don’t have answers to these erupted into open hostility, sometimes justified, sometimes not. problems. But as people who care deeply about our community, The need to identify with our own group is a common human we can ask questions. Here are just a few: trait and in building community, we recognize and celebrate our What can be done to mitigate some of the pain and the deep ethnic, racial and cultural differences. Yet the lines we draw [CONTINUED ON PAGE 68]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM It is time to share “My people are everywhere, preparing for the New World. Their task is great, their burden heavy, their opportunity unknowable. Many there are now who see the way forward, hold before men the Light of Truth, teaching men to share and love, to cherish and trust. Many now are awake to these divine aspects, and call for the restructuring of your world. My Force is behind them. My Love inspires them. My Will guides them. In this way, I lead you into the Ne w.” - World Teacher Maitreya 10-11-77

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Photo by Monica Alcaraz Volunteers serving a meal at Highland Park’s Recycled Resources. BATTLE AGAINST HOMELESSNESS A Neighborhood Safety Net Recycled Resources for the Homeless Holds up the Roofs as L.A. Struggles for a Permanent Housing Solution

By Eddie Rivera for the Homeless (RRH). The group, according to its website, is a small nonprofit organization that began in 2008 in Northeast s Northeast L.A.’S economic landscape continues Los Angeles. The majority of the work is made possible by to ride the economy’s upward slope back to volunteers and the group operates on a zero percent profit recovery through the last decade, realtors and new margin. small business owners have seen opportunity in “Recycled Resources was founded in order to provide L.A.’s once-downtrodden “first” neighborhood. a safety net and basic necessities to all people experiencing ASwap meets gave way to designer restaurants and empty homelessness in the Northeast Los Angeles community,” says storefronts became record shops and cell phone stores. And the site. rents began to rise. Appalled at what she saw all around her and throughout The City’s homeless population has continued to grow Northeast L.A., Prine became inspired to do something in her exponentially, while entrepreneurs and opportunists have seized own neighborhood after battling the Homeless problem on Skid on the opportunities to acquire properties, remove tenants and Row. business, and push rents up to once-unimaginable heights. “I met Rebecca Prine while on the HHPNC, and started Enter Rebecca Prine, and her group, Recycled Resources [CONTINUED ON PAGE 15]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Photo by Monica Alcaraz The improvised Recycled Resources dining room at All Saints Episcopal Church’s shelter.

the last five or so years. Safety Net “The goal is to outreach and engage people experiencing [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15] homelessness and to create trusting and supportive relationships through our outreaches,” the group says. looking at what was happening in my community,” said former The organization also provides basic necessities. In addition Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council president to providing food, clothing, and hygiene items, Recycled and current Northeast Regional CES Coordinator for SPA 4, Resources also offers case management services to link people Monica Alcaraz. “I noticed more and more people experiencing to services and work with them as they navigate the sometimes homelessness and I found it necessary to get involved,” she difficult, though improving bureaucracy. continued. “I didn’t see anyone helping people other than ​As stated in the website, “The mission of Recycled Rebecca and her volunteers. I started volunteering, and at first, Resources for the Homeless is to reduce harm to our neighbors I was scared, but knew that I had to get involved, so I started experiencing homelessness. outreaching.” We call our organization Recycled Resources,” the site Walking along the Arroyo, Alcaraz met a family—three continues, “because we firmly believe that if everyone recycled sisters and a brother, all living on the river’s banks. Suddenly it resources they have but may not be using or they may not need, occurred to her. She knew them. “They lived next door to us,” there would be enough for everyone to safely co-exist. said Alcaraz, “until their mother died, and they lost their home. As part of its operating mantra, the group believes, “that I didn’t remember them that well, since I was little when they housing and access to basic needs is a right and that all people were teens, but they knew me. It was so sad that they and the have worth and value.” (RRH) operates with a “harm reduction others I came across had no recourse but to live in the arroyo. and ‘housing first’ philosophy, advocating for the rights of I met people of all ages,” Alcaraz continued. “I met people that people experiencing homelessness through education.” could have been my kids, brothers and mother. I can’t stand by “Housing First” is a political philosophy now adopted by and do nothing. Nobody should live on the street. I am inspired several cities, including Los Angeles, which puts the need by the people that I meet each day, and by the struggles they for housing as first priority, before jobs, addictions, and other overcome, and the fact that nobody wants to live on the street problems which may hamper the homeless from actually getting but they find it so hard to trust people.” in off the street. Recycled Resources has concentrated its efforts on Highland “Our goal is to create programs that reduce harm to all Park, Eagle Rock, Cypress Park, Glassell Park, Montecito people living in the community and support other communities Heights, as well as the areas along the Arroyo Seco River, where homeless encampments began to spring up and multiply over [CONTINUED ON PAGE 69]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM GREATER CYPRESS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL cypressparknc.com

During the 2017-2018 council year, we: • General Board Meeting • Hosted a library beautification event 2nd Tuesday, 7:30PM where we planted native plants and a Cypress Park Recreation Center movie night at Rio de Los Angeles State 2630 Pepper Ave Park Dinner and • Helped to fund Shakespeare at the Lummis House, LA River Boat Race, Spanish Translation Provided Lummis Day, My SAFE LA, and Friends of Cypress Park events Junta de la Mesa Directiva General • Co-sponsored events: National Night Out, Segundo Martes de cada mesa, Halloween, Winter, and Spring Festivals 7:30PM at Cypress Park Rec Center, Spring Cypress Park Recreation Center Extravaganza at Rio de Los Angeles 2630 Pepper Ave Photo courtesy of Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections Carlisle Indian School. Park, Community Gentrification Panel cena y traducción al español with HPNC • Conducted and funded outreach to our THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS neighbors currently experiencing home- lessness and helped support Recycled Committee Meetings Resources Lummis and Los Cautivos If you’d like to know what’s going FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR on with local development and river Indian Boarding Schools Sought to UPDATES AND NEWS: restoration: facebook.com/CypressParkNC Planning, Land Use, Eradicate Native American Culture and Environment Committee 1st Tuesday, 7:30PM By Bert Atkinson and the Indian Wars, established the Carlisle Indian Boarding Rio de Los Angeles Park School. Carlisle was a military boarding school whose focus “In the history of the three Americas, there has never been was the destruction of Native culture through the re-education Community Room another Indian policy so cruel and so stupid as our present of Indian children. 1900 N. San Fernando Road educational system.” Charles Lummis, 1890 This was gentrification on steroids; the goal was the complete eradication of Native culture in one generation. sleta Indian Pueblo, New Mexico Territory, 1889, Carlisle took children as young as five, sheared their hair, Valentine’s Day: At about 2 o’clock in the morning, burned their clothes, gave them Anglo names and physically If you’d like to help work on issues affecting Charles Lummis took a break from a late night of writing punished them for practicing their religion or speaking their our neighbors experiencing homelessness: and stepped outside for some fresh air. As he raised language. By 1890, the Carlisle Model gained so much Homeless Committee his one good arm over his head, he was peppered with popularity that it was accepted as the standard for both buckshot from an assassin’s rifle. The attack was in response government and church-run Indian boarding schools. 4th Thursday, 7pm I to an article linking a powerful and respected family to a series Lummis first developed a friendship with the people of Cypress Park Library of politically motivated murders. Lummis was an outspoken Isleta Pueblo in 1884 on his “Tramp Across the Continent,” journalist, unafraid in his pursuit of the truth. That made a 3,507-mile walk designed as a newspaper stunt to promote him the perfect man to challenge the Federal government’s the Los Angeles Times. When a stroke paralyzed his left side mandatory and abusive Indian Boarding School policy. in 1888, Lummis moved to Isleta Pueblo to recuperate. His In 1879, there were 4,600 Indian children attending 52 friends, Juan Rey and Pita Abeita, welcomed him to their Indian Boarding Schools mostly run by religious organizations. adobe compound. Two of their three boys lived at the nearby That year, Richard Henry Pratt, a veteran of both the Civil War [CONTINUED ON PAGE 19]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Los Cautivos [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17] Albuquerque Indian Boarding School (AIS). The Abeitas had thought that a Yankee education at the boarding school was the best way to prepare their children for the new American culture that was sweeping over the region with the expansion of the railroad. Originally, the Presbyterian- run AIS had a liberal visitation and vacation policy, allowing children to come and go at the parents’ request. All that changed in 1889 when the Mt. Washington • Montecito Heights government took over the supervision of the school and Monterey Hills • Sycamore Grove w w w . a n t i g u a b r e a d . c o m William Creager was made headmaster. Creager not only Proud to be the first Neighborhood adopted the Carlisle military Council Supporter of Lummis Day! model, but he also decided to keep the children at the school ASNC furnished refreshments without parental contact until for Lummis Day early bird volunteers they graduated. Join us 4th Mondays to address community “The Indian must conform concerns at Ramona Hall, 4580 N. Figueroa to the ‘White Man’s Ways,’ peacefully if they will, forcibly if they must.” Thomas J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1891.

Friends of the Southwest Museum Juan Rey and Pita were devastated, as were the families of 12 additional youngsters Fighting for the Brighter Future of from Isleta. They called their children “Los Cautivos,” the The SOUTHWEST MUSEUM Captives. The 20 other Pueblos that dotted the Rio Grande were The CASA DE ADOBE also affected and most decided to stop sending their children to the boarding schools. In And the COLLECTIONS Courtesy Braun Research Library, Autry Museum, Los Angeles. P.33473B. addition, the Catholic Pueblos Lummis Family with Luis Abeita. appealed to their Church, which publicly condemned the policy, protesting that the boarding education policy of the government. He condemned the schools were forcefully converting Indian children. Carlisle method and Pratt in particular. The popular articles Collaborating with the Indigenous For more information about The government responded to the Pueblo’s withholding he wrote for east coast magazines directly challenged the anti- People of the Greater Los Angeles Area Southwest Museum & the children by simply kidnapping more children. The official Indian prejudice of his readers. At the request of the Pueblo SWM 4 KIDS Program position was that as “wards of the State,” Indians had no of Isleta, Lummis personally intervened on their behalf many rights. Headmaster Creager kidnapped three-year-old Tuyo times, both in person and through letters with Commissioner Visit: Abeita, Juan Rey and Pita’s youngest son. When Juan Rey of Affairs Thomas Morgan, and other high-level government @friendsofthesouthwestmuseum went to Albuquerque to retrieve his children, he was beaten by officials, all to no avail. school guards and told that he could see his boys in nine years. After three years of exhausting all traditional channels, the Recuperemos nuestra historia del pasado y Isletans could take no more. They convened a council and Reclaim our Heritage “Why is it that the most difficult education seems to Lummis was called to participate. Lummis recommended that Handpainted del futuro para la area de Los Angeles be the ridding ourselves of silly inborn race prejudice?” wall artwork www.savethesouthwestmuseum.com he file a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the Pueblo, which from Casa de Adobe Charles Lummis, 1890. would challenge the government’s position that the Indian children were “wards of the State.” The government could not Charles Lummis was determined to combat the forced [CONTINUED ON PAGE 68]

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Mission To preserve and improve the quality of life by creating a safe, healthy, orderly and clean environment that promotes the community spirit of inclusion, cooperation, participation and collaboration in accordance with the wishes of the community through outstanding service.

The LA-32 Neighborhood Council serves all the communities within zip code 90032

General Board meeting are the first Wednesday of every month, at the El Sereno Senior center 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm 4818 Klamath Pl., Los Angeles, California Photo collage by Eliot Sekuler As a Stakeholder, you are part of a community THE HOUSING CRISIS that values the diversity of your community and the neighborhood we live in. People choose to live or work here for many reasons, but the common thread is that we all love our community. On Our Way Home The LA-32 Neighborhood Council serves communities within zip code 90032, including: Councilmember Cedillo Takes On Housing Crisis: El Sereno, Emery Park, University Hills, Sierra Park, Rose Hills and Hillside Village, all of which have Strengthens Renter Rights, Adds New Housing their unique characteristics and personalities. By Fredy Ceja Ordinance (RSO), strengthening tenant protections and making Executive Officers email: [email protected] certain evictions illegal. LA32NC Board email: [email protected] he City of Los Angeles is experiencing a housing He embarked on an ambitious, but necessary, housing crisis. For years, the city neglected to build new rights workshop series to educate constituents about their rights

homes, which has led to a severe housing shortage. and to arm them with the necessary tools and resources to fight Between 1980 and 2010, California’s major metros displacement. Partnering with the Housing and Community added about 120,000 new housing units each year. Investment Department (HCID), the Coalition for Economic TOur analysis suggests that between 190,000 units per year Survival (CES), and Ferias Legales, he has moved beyond and 230,000 units per year were needed to keep California’s information sessions to legal clinics, where constituents housing cost growth in line with cost escalations elsewhere in have one-on-one consultations with pro bono attorneys and the U.S. Added to this is an aggressive housing market that has tenant advocates. Mindful of the high percentage of renters Bringing Communities Together! increased demand in some of the most rent-burden communities in the district - approximately 80% - the Councilmember is in the region, where tenants use more than 30% of their earnings committed to doing more to educate residents about their rights for rent. As the Chair of the Housing Committee for the city, and legal options and is prepared to assist anyone who feels Councilmember Cedillo has expanded the Rent Stabilization [CONTINUED ON PAGE 23]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM The fifty-six-unit affordable housing apartment complex for veterans, developmentally disabled and senior citizens is located on Eagle Rock Boulevard. Centered within an open courtyard with interlinked multi-level common spaces, Teague Terrace incorporates “edible” landscaping, outdoor recreation and various other amenities.

This effort will ensure equity across the city as we house some On Our Way Home of our most vulnerable populations. Lately, there has been a lot of attention focused on the law [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21] known as Costa Hawkins, a state law that sets requirements their rights are being infringed upon, who live in uninhabitable for the 15 cities in California with rent control, Los Angeles living conditions, or are facing an eviction. included. Two key provisions of the law protect a landlord’s It is estimated that approximately 34,000 people are right to raise the rent to market rate on a unit once a tenant living without shelter in Los Angeles on any given night. moves out and prevents cities from establishing rent control— This poses tremendous challenges for shelters, permanent or capping rent—on units constructed after February 1995. housing and service coordination. Tremendous strides have Los Angeles’ primary rent control law is the Rent Stabilization been made in housing those experiencing homelessness. In Ordinance (RSO), which restricts rent control to units built prior 2016, Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly voted for a $0.348 to October 1978, even earlier than the 1995 cutoff imposed by per square foot property tax which will fund a $1.2 billion Costa Hawkins. measure, Proposition HHH—Permanent Supportive Housing Tenant rights advocates recently announced their intent Loan Program—which was designed to develop permanent to overturn the law though a ballot measure on the November supportive housing for homeless individuals and those at risk ballot with a press conference led by Los Angeles Mayor of homelessness throughout the city. The program emphasizes Eric Garcetti. Councilmember Cedillo will be introducing a reducing homelessness by creating safe and affordable housing formal resolution in support of the ballot initiative enabling units and increasing accessibility to a variety of necessary Los Angeles to add official support to expanded rent control services and treatment programs. provisions. The city is already earmarking and putting funds to good Since taking office in 2013, Councilmember Cedillo has use. Each of the 15 council districts recently stepped up to do pushed for affordable housing projects district-wide, building their part, taking the “222 Pledge” to build at least 222 new over 2,000 affordable housing units. Some of these projects supportive housing units for those experiencing homelessness. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 70]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM FRIDAY, JUNE 1 AT OCCIDENTAL’S THORNE HALL Award-winning “Dolores” To Screen At Occidental

ummis Days, the Highland Park Independent Film Festival, the Occidental College LInstitute for the Study of Los Angeles, Occidental College Media Arts and Culture Department and KPFK Public Radio 90.7 present a free screening of the award- winning, critically acclaimed film, “Dolores,” as the opening night event of the 13th annual Lummis Days Festival. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Latino/ Chicano arts advocate, Tomás Benitez. History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. But missing from this story is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of our time. Like so many powerful female advocates, Dolores and her sweeping reforms were – and still are – largely overlooked. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her own relentless work ethic was constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior from a woman who married three times and raised 11 children, didn’t dampen her passion or deter her from her personal mission. Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary challenges this incomplete, [CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 ]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM South Africa, as well as numerous cultural “Dolores” centers, major institutions and universities throughout the United States. Tomás is [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25] the former executive director of Self Help one-sided history and reveals the raw, Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles. He personal stakes involved in committing is a former County of Los Angeles arts one’s life to the fight for justice. commissioner and is a founding member, “Dolores” was first shown at last of LAN (The Latino Arts Network of year’s Sundance Film Festival and California), currently serving as the has won awards at the San Francisco, chairman of the board of directors. Tomás Seattle and Montclair festivals. It was is also a board member of Californians shown theatrically last fall and received for the Arts and the California Arts unanimously positive reviews, resulting Associates. His film “Salsa” was produced in a 100% score on the “tomatometer” in 1988 and he has also written for Fred of the popular site, Rotten Tomatoes. Roos, Starz Encore Films, CBS, and other Washington Post reviewer Lora Grady producers. In recent years he has written wrote: “‘Dolores’ is a fascinating extensively about Latino Baseball and corrective to 50-plus years of American East Los Angeles including an ongoing, history. It’s educational, to be sure, but online saga titled, “The Gully.” Tomás Benitez also exhilarating, inspiring and deeply emotional.” The Lummis Days film night will also include a first-ever look at an important new documentary, “Los Cautivos: The First Battle Over Native American Education,” the story of Charles Lummis’ Lincoln Heights Certified struggle against the racist “Indian Schools” of the late 19th and early 20th Farmers Market centuries that sought to strip young native Americans of their culture. An excerpt Wednesday’s 3-8 pm from the film will be introduced by N. Broadway & Sichel filmmaker Bert Atkinson. Panel moderator Tomás Benitez has We Accept Buy fruits & vegetables with your EBT card been an advocate of Chicano/Latino arts COMPRE FRUTAS Y VEGETALES CON SU TARJETA EBT and culture for over 40 years and has START HERE! EMPIECE AQUI! served as a consultant to the Smithsonian EBT VOUCHER/VALE $1 ONE DOLLAR Institute, the President’s Council for the Farmers’ Arts, the National Endowment for the Markets Arts, the University of Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, the Mexican Fine Art Center Offering Museum in Chicago, and the California Arts Council. He has lectured on Chicano art and culture in Berlin, Mexico City, London, Glasgow, Tel Aviv, and Pretoria

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM AT THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM Two Exhibits at Southwest Museum On View During Lummis Days Weekend

he Autry Museum of the American West is featuring two exhibits in conjunction with Lummis Days at their Southwest Museum campus. Admission is free, hours are noon-5:00pm and on Sunday, June 3, the Southwest Museum will be serviced by the free CD T1-sponsored shuttle that will connect all Lummis Days sites.

“Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis” Opens Saturday, June 2 (on Lower Level) A California icon and founder of the historic Southwest Museum, Charles Lummis was more than a collector: He participated in creating a national narrative of discovery and exploration. Through archaeological objects and associated photographs, maps, and archival materials, Making a Big Noise reveals stories about Lummis and his journeys, including his “Tramp Across the Continent”—a cross-country trek from Ohio to L.A.—and his archaeological expeditions in New Mexico, Peru, and Mesoamerica.

“Of this body; of this earth” Opens Sunday, May 20, Noon–5:00 p.m. (at Tunnel Entrance) NEW INSTALLATIONS Continues on View Saturdays Through June 16 Of this body; of this earth is an investigation of the AT THE AUTRY’S HISTORIC SOUTHWEST MUSEUM historical and mythological overlaps of earth, body, and tool MT. WASHINGTON CAMPUS through the lens of the body’s elemental composition. By exhibiting raw materials, handmade tools, diagrammatic Of this body; of this earth drawings, and a recorded monologue, artist Miller Saturdays Through June 16 | Tunnel Entrance Robinson aims to understand and connect the dots between matter, time, and body. By exhibiting raw materials, handmade tools, diagrammatic Gift of Charles F. Lummis Organized by Holiday, a non-location-based, drawings, and a recorded monologue, artist Miller Robinson aims Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum. interdisciplinary curatorial project founded by Luke to understand and connect the dots between matter, time, and Portrait of Charles F. Lummis. Oversized, gelatin silver Forsyth and Pejman Shojaei.2013, which lifted the 2002 mural body. Organized by Holiday, an interdisciplinary curatorial project process. founded by Luke Forsyth and Pejman Shojaei. moratorium in Los Angeles.

Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis On View Saturdays, Beginning June 2 | Lower Level A California icon and founder of the Southwest Museum, Charles Lummis was more than a collector; he participated in creating a national narrative of discovery and exploration. Through archaeological objects, photographs, and archival materials, Making a Big Noise reveals stories about Lummis and his journeys.

Historic Southwest Museum Mt. Washington Campus 234 Museum Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065 TheAutry.org

Unidentified photographer, Portrait of Charles F. Lummis (detail), circa 1890. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Charles F. Lummis, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum; P.32537

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Visit us at BoulevardSentinel.com Bird Concerns Bird Concerns is a garage rock Find us at over 300 locations band based in the Highland Park throughout NELA neighborhood of Los Angeles, California where they got their start playing house concerts and local venues such as the HiHat. The musical collective began as a collaboration between fellow CalArts students, Marcus Buser (bass, vocals) and Travis Meador (guitar, vocals). Built upon lush vocal harmonies, interweaving guitars and infectious rhythms, Bird Concerns are delivering a fresh approach to rock’n’roll.

The Smokey Lonesome The Smokey Lonesome is Carl, Natalie, Simon and Dave, a group of friends who love and play bar room music for their own enjoyment and to share with like- minded fans. Their collective taste runs from rock n’ roll to classic country stylings, including points in-between and out on the margins. The Smokey Lonesome play music with the passions of both the true believer and the kid preaching about their new favorite band. Along with their original material, some of their favorite bands to cover are Prince, Amy Winehouse, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline.

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Ummm Stefanie Drootin and Chris Senseney are Umm, an indie rock duo based in Los Angeles. Drootin cut her teeth playing bass and keyboards with Bright Eyes, She & Him, and the Good Life in the 2000s, before meeting up with Senseney and starting the band Big Harp. They Join Us! released the album, “Waveless,” in 2015 for Majestic Litter, and then headed off on a long tour. After taking a break, the duo re-emerged in 2017 working under the name Umm. Their first single, “I’m In Love,” was released by Majestic Litter www.NELAdemocrats.org in June of 2017, and a nine-song LP followed the next month. Titled “Double Worshipper,” the album featured the pair sharing lead vocal duties and a stripped- down sound that had elements of classic ‘90s indie baked into its DNA. NELAdems

Eric Kufs Band Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Eric Kufs is one part crooner, one part protest singer and every part artist. Belonging to a generation of self-produced independent recording musicians, Kufs’s music largely utilizes the dynamic energy of his live performances, a style he has honed through seven years of supporting himself as a busker on the streets of LA and paying his dues in local Southern California venues. With the lyrical poignancy of a Will Oldham, the dynamic voice of a Van Morrison, and the passion of a Bruce Springsteen, his prowess has led him to perform for audiences around the world. In 2005, he released an album of original songs recorded on the streets of Santa Monica. As the main songwriter for indie folk band Common Rotation, Kufs has also released six full-length records and written nearly a thousand songs. With Common Rotation, he has recorded with the likes of They Might be Giants and Indigo Girls as well as his own songwriting hero and mentor, renowned singer/songwriter Dan Bern. With the success of his previous solo EP (The Long EP, 2014), which traded in the ironic folk element of past work for a more sincere, retro 70s soul sound, Kufs found himself in the company of many great musicians who filled out his songs and stage show. Some of them will be joining him at Lummis Day this year. www.erickufs.com

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Poetry at the Lummis Home SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Steve Abee Gallery‐ Boutique ‐Production Studio Steve Abee was born in Santa Monica, California and The Annual Lummis began writing when he held a job as an orderly at St. John’s Hospital. His mind started to unfold itself and he thought if he Day Poetry Gala At Multi-Cultural Arts Incubator were going to save it he’d For the Visual & Performing Arts better start writing things Lummis Home hosted featuring down: “I saw the fragility EXHIBITIONS and CLASSES IN ART ▪ and blessedness of lives by Suzanne Lummis PHOTOGRAPHY ▪ MUSIC ▪ THEATER ▪ FILM and started to come apart in the wonderment of it Introducing Suzanne Lummis was all.” the Andrew W. Melon “Summer Youth Mentor He is a post-beat, Los Foundation Institute for & Arts Program” Angeles American writer the Study of Los Angeles Native American Blessing whose work illuminates visiting scholar for for the mystic every Spring 2017. Her most Now featuring Folk Art Ted Garcia day. Many years ago, recent collection, “Open Arte Popular de Mexico Beck called him “The 24 Hours,” won the Blue Lummis Days proudly begins each annual festival and Latin America! Love Powered Bullhorn Lynx Poetry Prize and with a Native American blessing. On Sunday at blasting down from the was published by Lynx Lummis Home, Ted Garcia, a Chumash Tatavian Rock Rose Gallery, Boutique and Studio altitudes.” He is the House Press. She edited stone carver, spiritual advisor, storyteller, song carrier 4108 N. Figueroa St., Historic Highland Park CA 90065 author of four books: the anthology “Wide and hereditary chief of his family, will offer a blessing (323) 635-9125 www.rockrosegallery.com “Johnny Future,” “Great Awake: Poets of Los prior to the annual poetry reading. FB rockrosegallerynews Balls of Flowers,” “The Angeles and Beyond.” Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in poetry.la is producing Alexis Rhone Fancher Transit” and “King Suzanne’s new series on Planet,” and a number of film noir, the poem noir, and noir topics, “They Write self-published chapbooks. by Night,” now accessible at poetry.la and YouTube. He lives with his family in El Sereno and teaches in Congratulations on Another downtown Los Angeles.

Great Lummis Day Festival! Jamie Asaye FitzGerald Jamie Asaye FitzGerald is a Los The Night Nurse Angeles-based poet from Hawaii. Her poems have appeared in The American Tenderness burns like an injection “Let the Poetry Sing & Breathe!” Poetry Review, Works & Days, Mom as milk comes down from under arms Egg Review, and elsewhere. Her into my breasts. Pearly droplets work has also been anthologized leap out like tears, a small river flows in “Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from over my chest into the bed, the sheets the Cultural Quakes & Shifts in Los gathered around her for comfort. Angeles” (Tia Chucha Press, 2016) and “Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles The arrowhead of this love cuts. & Beyond” (Beyond Baroque/Pacific When I wake to its exquisite pressure, Coast Poetry Series, 2015). She earned she is there for me, her hand fluttering an MFA in poetry from San Diego about my bosom in the dark, her mouth State University and a BA in English/ a salve, ready to take. creative writing from the University of -Jamie Asaye FitzGerald Southern California where she received an Academy of American Poets College Prize and the Edward Moses Poetry Senator Anthony J. Portantino Prize. She recently completed “Dear Ones,” a full-length poetry collection, and is at work on “Peninsula,” a hybrid 25th Senate District project. For over a decade, she has worked for Poets & Writers in its Los Angeles office.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Poetry at the Lummis Home SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Jessica Ceballos y Campbell Jessica Ceballos y Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist, Lummis Home Poetry poet, designer, publisher, and activist. She uses her disciplines to map out and Workshop explore the Following the poetry reading and reception, Lory liminal spaces in Bedikian will present a poetry workshop suitable for personal narrative, poets of all experience levels and all ages. and how those become affected Lory Bedikian’s “The by, inform, and Book of Lamenting” was meld into the awarded the 2010 Philip spaces we occupy Levine Prize for Poetry. and exist in. Her She earned her MFA in written work has poetry from the University been published in of Oregon, where she was various journals awarded the Dan Kimble and anthologies First Year Teaching Award such as “Only for Poetry. Her work has Light Can Do been selected several That” (PEN Center times as a finalist in the Crab Orchard Series in USA), “Coiled Poetry Open Competition and in the Crab Orchard Serpent” Series in Poetry First Book Award Competition and (Tia Chucha has received grants from the Money for Women/ Press), “Attn: Barbara Deming Memorial fund and AFFMA. Poets July 31, & Writers chose her work as a finalist for the 2010 2015” (Further Other Book Works), Entropy, LA Magazine, California Writers Exchange Award. Her work was Cultural Weekly, and La Bloga, to name a few. She’s published included in the anthology “Wide Awake: Poets of Los three chapbooks; “Gent Re PlaceIng” (2016), “End of the Angeles and Beyond,” and chosen as a finalist in the Road” (2017), and “Facilitating Spaces” (2018). She is 2015 AROHO Orlando Competition. Her newer work currently working on a collection of poetry, “Happiest Place on has been published in Miramar and she has poems Earth,” inspired by a 1984 visit to Disneyland with her mother forthcoming in Tin House. while living under foster care. www.jessicaceballos.com

Karen Elaine Olga García (Musical Prelude) Echeverría Musician Karen Elaine is a part of the Olga García Echeverría is the commercial music tapestry of Hollywood, author of “Falling Angels: Cuentos scuba instructor, y Poemas.” Her work appears in Reiki Master, and magazines and anthologies such a very physical as “Lavandería: A Mixed Load of performance Women, Wash, and Words,” “U.S. artist combining Latino Literature Today, Telling music and Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology movement in her on Language,” “Bird Float / partner dance Tree Song,” The Sun Magazine, piece AY-M and Imaniman: “Poets Writing from (Acrobatic Yoga the Anzalduan Borderlands.” She and Music). was selected by A Room of Her Own Info on live as the 2013 Touching Lives Fellow, performances of and in the spring of 2015, she was a AY-M, her beginners’ acroyoga sessions, finalist for that organization’s Orlando Acro Yoga Retreats, and Reiki is found on Literary Prize in the genre of creative non-fiction. She writes, teaches, and her webpage YogaMusic.Me shape-shifts in Los Angeles.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM SUNDAY, JUNE 3 PUPPETS ON PARADE Critters gotta crawl Arroyo Arts Collective Returns With Creative Puppet Procession

ere come the critters! Continuing the tradition of opening the Sunday Lummis Day festivities with a cavalcade of Hpuppets, the Arroyo Arts Collective presents “Critters Gotta Crawl”. The event is a gleefully unstructured procession which starts at the base of the Southwest Museum. Once lined up and packed with joy, our “Critters” take to the streets with music from Latino folk band “Cuñao,” a Lummis Days favorite. The spirited marching will start at high noon and continue to Sycamore Grove Park, Maggie Barto where the puppets and puppeteers take Phone: 323 428-0979 part in the traditional Tongva blessing to [email protected] open the Lummis Days Festival. All that is required to march, dance, Photo by D.W. Jacobs ride, skip or hop along in the procession A jumbo creation from 2017’s Birds Gotta Fly parade. is a critter-themed costume, puppet, doll, hat, mask, scarf or any other accessory. Wild flights of imagination are heartily encouraged. For this event, nothing is too subtle or too baroque. Individuals, families, and teams; all are welcome! The “Critters Gotta Crawl” procession celebrates the dazzling creativity of Northeast L.A. and honors the Arroyo Seco, a tributary of the Los Angeles River. Marchers will pay tribute to the species of animals which roam and reside in the lands adjacent to the Arroyo Seco. Native to this region and leading the procession in majestic fashion will be the Blue Belly Fence Lizard, a giant puppet created by Master Puppeteer Beth Peterson. Peterson will also outfit the musical band as a pack of Coyotes, Photo by Walleska Barreto also common to the Arroyo Seco region. Latin folk band Cuñao—a Lummis Days favorite—will accompany the puppet parade. Artists from the community will feature other species such as the black bear, “Critters Gotta Crawl,” AAC will An Opening Reception with bobcat, raccoon and mule deer. AAC be hosting critter, puppet-making refreshments and live music will be held invites you to join in, have fun, meet your workshops. Please check our website for on June 9, 2018. neighbors and make a puppet to march details, www.arroyoartscollective.org. With so many activities, the Arroyo with us! Inspiration for participation To round out the activities and for a Arts Collective would like to engage can be drawn from anything animal. We grand finale, the AAC is sponsoring a a the entire Northeast Los Angeles are looking for artists, designers, and site-specific Art Exhibit at Tierra de la community! “Critters Gotta Crawl” is puppeteers to present and parade original Culebra Art Park. Artists will exhibit funded in part through the generous work! original work related to our “Critters” support of the Department of Cultural As part of the preparation for theme. Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM The Bandshell SUNDAY, JUNE 3 The Bandshell SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas Founded in 2007 by Maricela Martinez, in Boyle Heights, California, Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas was created to bring professional, traditional Mariachi music - performed by women - to the people in her community. Since then, she has built an extensive repertory performing at a wide range of events. “A passion for the music and the Mariachi tradition are the motor for these Mariachi moms.” – Maricela Martinez

Mostly Kosher Mostly Kosher, the acclaimed indie klezmer band, radically reconstructs Judaic and American cultural music through rousing klezmer beats and arresting Yiddish refrains. Mostly Kosher Superbean is a musical feast that explodes into a This power trio from the Highland Park area of Los Angeles, Youth, is a semi-satirical look at punk rockers growing old. It global food-fight of Jazz, Latin, Rock, consists of Steve Moramarco on guitar, Fred Oliva on bass, and received over half a million views on Facebook in less than 3 Funk, and Folk. Led by Leeav Sofer, one Rick Woodard on drums. Since their first appearance at Lummis weeks. Their sound is a mix of old school punk, new wave, rock, of Jewish Journal’s “30 under 30” most Day in 2015, the band shot to international fame when their and soul with loud guitars, sweet harmonies, and a backbeat you accomplished professionals in the Los music video went viral. The song, abbreviated here as F**k can dance to. Check out more at www.superbean.com Angeles Jewish diaspora, Mostly Kosher is comprised of some of the highest regarded Los Angeles musicians: violinist Janice Mautner Markham, drummer Eric Ted Russell Kamp has become familiar Hagstrom, bassist Adam Levy, accordion/ with and the cities he calls trumpet Mike Bolger, trombonist Mike Kamp his homes away from home. The Big Takeover wrote, King and guitarist Will Brahm. Ted Russell Kamp is a Mostly Kosher is a fixture at “Kamp simply knocks one musicians’ musician based in ball after another out of the renowned Southern California Highland Park, CA. He has stages such as the John Anson Ford park…Saturated in talent and toured the world as a singer- sincerity.” Amphitheatre, Skirball Cultural Center songwriter, playing both solo and The Torrance Center for Performing Ted is also a producer and and with his band, and he has one of the most in-demand Arts. In 2015 and 2017, they performed released eight solo albums. at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for live bass players in Los Angeles. He has been called “a striking As a bassist, Ted has been television broadcasts to over half a singer-songwriter ... absolutely million viewers. Mostly Kosher was the playing with Shooter Jennings hypnotizing” (Music Row, since 2004. He has also played first Jewish music ensemble to perform Jewish cultural music performed on both Dikh Tsufil Lib (I Love You Much Too USA) and “terrific ... a star at the Disney parks with a two-month coasts. Much),” was recognized as one of World with Wilson Phillips, Jessi on the rise in the tradition of Euroamericana Chart and his combination of classic Colter, Wanda Jackson, Rosie residency at Disney California Adventure The band’s self-titled debut album Music Network’s Top 6 Songs of 2014. great troubadours like Guy last four records have made California singer-songwriter Park. For the 2017-2018 holiday season, won international acclaim by World They are looking forward to going back Flores, Billy Ray Cyrus and Clark” (No Depression, USA). the U.S. Americana Chart’s music with hints of country countless other great artists the group added Epcot Center in Florida Music Network, Songlines Magazine, into the studio to record a second album His record, “Get Back to the Top 100 Records of the Year. and soul. It reflects the sound to their list, becoming Disney’s first and BBC radio. The first track, “Ikh Hob in the summer of 2018. both on the road and in the Land,” debuted at #1 on the The music is a of the many cities and cultures studio.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM The Bandshell SUNDAY, JUNE 3 MCs SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Leslie Mylius Leslie Mylius, Alisal Stage MC, is a native Southern Californian and longtime Northeast LA resident. Heavily involved with environmental and urban concerns, she has worked and volunteered with TreePeople, Metrolink, United Way, The Arroyo Seco Foundation, and Plaza de la Raza, among other groups. Mylius loves living along, and hiking in, the Arroyo, and is a huge fan of—in no particular order—the Hollywood Bowl, the Dodgers, and Momo Rodriguez Los Angeles history, to name just a few faves; Momo Rodriguez is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer who has and for the record, has seen the Dodgers play at criss-crossed the country on tour with Carlos Mencia, written for such top home “hundreds of times,” including at least one comedians as George Lopez and has made regular appearances in all the game of nearly every playoff series since 1988. Los Angeles comedy clubs. This is her second stint hosting a Lummis Momo began his career as a sketch comedy writer for “the Homies’ Day stage. Hip Hop Show” on LATV and was soon in front of the LATV camera, “It’s always so much fun being a part of bringing unscripted and comedically random interviews live from red this wonderful community event, and I love carpets and movie premieres. Between assignments, he worked the “open watching it grow every year,” says the former mic” slots at comedy clubs. TV work soon followed: Momo became percussionist for the Hugo Reid Elementary a two-season regular on the show “Latino 101” on SiTv and NuVO, a School Orchestra. writer for Latino programing at Maker Studios and writer/actor for the Maker Studios original series, “La Chamba.” He continues to be in great demand as a writer and comedy performer. Native American top venues. Audiences and critics alike raved after their Blessing Orquesta Charangoa performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Palladium, Orquesta Charangoa’s story began when founder and the Palace & the Conga Room. They have opened for Cuba’s Eddie Rivera Julia Bogany professional flutist, Fay Roberts travelled to Cuba to study most famous band, Los Van Van and have shared the stage with Eddie Rivera is a longtime In recognition of Northeast L.A.’s flute with the legendary Richard Egues of Orquesta Aragon such luminaries as Israel Lopez Cachao and Nestor Torres. Tongva heritage, Lummis Days proudly fame. Egues, an innovative virtuoso of the Cuban flute style, Orquesta Charangoa’s performance is sponsored by the Los local journalist, holding down the editorial directorship of the Arroyo begins each was also the composer of Cuba’s most popular cha cha cha, El Angeles County Arts Commission and Los Angeles County annual festival Bodeguero. Supervisor Hilda Solis. Seco Journal since 2001, and as community editor at Pasadena with a Native After a period of intense study, Fay returned home American brimming with inspiration and with a suitcase full of music. Now, and news editor at The Foothill Record. He is also a blessing. This The two continued to correspond on a regular basis and Egues The Lummis Day Festival year, Julia encouraged Fay to share the music and extend the legacy. The former director/producer at both is supported in part by the KABC’s “Eye on LA,” and KCBS- Bogany, cultural end result: the creation of L.A.’s authentic Cuban music group, Los Angeles County Board affairs chair for Orquesta Charangoa. TV’s “2 on the Town.” of Supervisors through Born and raised in Northeast the Gabrieleno/ For over 15 years, Orquesta Charangoa has been a thriving Tongva Tribe force in Los Angeles’ vibrant Latin Music scene. What sets the Los Angeles County L.A., Eddie is a founding member of the Lummis Day Community of San Gabriel, them apart from the rest? Authentic Cuban music in the Arts Commission and Los will give a Foundation and serves on its and most recently with Barry Charanga style. Charangoa stays true to the tradition featuring blessing acknowledging the first Tongva Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis. board. His band, Ann Likes Red Chadwick’s band, The Andersons, flute, violins, piano, double bass, timbales, congas and güiro. people of Highland park. Since 1997, Orquesta Charangoa has performed in L.A.’s performed at Lummis Days in at this year’s Noisemaker Award 2008, opening for Jackson Browne, Dinner.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM UPTOWN GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE 2018 marks UGLA’s 35th Anniversary Uptown Danza Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Sponsored by The Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance he City of Los Angeles and Councilmember Gil Cedillo, Council District 1 commemorated the 35th Anniversary of the Uptown Gay and Lesbian TAlliance, with the dedication of the “Bobby Brown Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance Square” at the corner of Avenue 41 and North Figueroa Street in Highland Park. UGLA was Established in 1983 after a gay man was shot and killed outside a gay bar located on this site. Realtor Gus DiClairo, owner of Uptown Properties, called his friends together for a meeting to protest what was perceived as the relative inaction of the Los Angeles Police Department in solving the murder. From that meeting, Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance was born. UGLA, which encompasses Northeast Los Angeles and adjoining areas, is building From left, front row: Joan Potter, Debra Waz, Paul McDermott, Marci Rose, community, increasing the visibility of lesbians, Carlos Avalos, Carl Johnson gay men, bisexuals and transgender while From left, back row: Ken Salzman, Ruth Riley, Carl Matthes establishing a support network for LGBT folk. This is done by holding monthly mixers, supporting many local community groups and producing the LGBT News. UGLA sponsors a NELA Pride Event and is a Community Partner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall and concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, providing free tickets to its members for these programs. UGLA also participates in the CALTRANS Adopt-a- Highway by maintaining a two mile stretch of Interstate 5 north from Lincoln Heights into Glassell Park. UGLA’s active charitable work is done through its Community Grant and Matching Fund programs. UGLA is self-supporting through its own efforts, its investments and the generosity of members and others. Visit: www.UGLA.org for membership information. Louise Reichlin & Dancers / Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers Choreographer Louise Reichlin and and live multimedia work from “The “Call From the Afterlife,” and “A Jewish her company have performed throughout Baggage Project.” Louise Reichlin & Child’s Story.” the USA and internationally for four Dancers presents dance that is soulful Louise has been a National decades. Since 1972 she has worked and imaginative with a repertoire that is Performance Network artist, also from her L.A. base, founding Louise extensive and diverse. receiving the Bruce Geller Memorial Reichlin & Dancers / Los Angeles Her works garner rave reviews, Prize toward the creation of “A Jewish Choreographers & Dancers, the non- drawing such comments as “wildly Child’s Story,” an ARC grant from profit base of Louise Reichlin & theatrical & fun” and “wonderfully the Center for Cultural Innovation, a Dancers in 1979. In later years she spirited with a zest for life.” Her Pennington Dance SPACE award, an added multimedia elements to many performances have been enthusiastically EZ/TV media award for “The Email of her concert works. Some of her received at previous Lummis Days Dances,” and a FRIF Grant from critically acclaimed works include “The festivals. Acclaimed for both family and USC for “Celtic Suite.” Her company Tennis Dances,” “Urban and Tribal pure dance/theatre programming, her receives multiple grants from the CA Dances,” “The Patchwork Girl of Oz,” more recent works featured are “The Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts “Dream Scapes,” and more recently, Better To Bite You With,” and new in Commission, Department of Cultural “Tap Dance Widows Club,” a 50’ video 2016 & 2017, “Invasion,” a sci-fi work, Affairs L.A., and the LAUSD.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Uptown Danza Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Uptown Danza Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Sponsored by The Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance Sponsored by The Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance Makin’ Moves Ballet Coco De Esteban Makin’ Moves is a collaboration Coronado among artists outside and inside of UCLA. The modular performance For more than four decades, Ballet Coco de Esteban Coronado, consists of duets, solos and large group has performed in and has been a part of the diverse and ever works influenced by the versatility within growing cultural events within the many communities of Los the dance department at UCLA as well Angeles and all of Southern California. Ballet Coco’s instructor as the community within Los Angeles. and artistic director, Esteban Coronado’s studies included ballet, Each portion has been conceived and modern, and jazz with Joe Tremaine and the Debbie Reynolds choreographed uniquely and separately studios. He studied folklorico at the Ballet Nacional de Silvia from the others. In order to deliver a Lozano and the Ballet Folklorico de Amalia Hernandez. He versatile piece, choreographers Delilah received his B.A. in Theater Arts and Dance at CSULA. He has also been a part of the LAUSD as a professional instructor for over Gamson Levy and Sadie Wilking created Delilah Gamson Levy Sadie Wilking a collaborative product, allowing each 35 years, helping to instill pride, culture, and values to students of dancer the artistic opportunity to add their silence, music, and relationship to large Young Arts. She is currently a junior at all grades and ages. Ballet Coco and Esteban Coronado have had own personal insight and input. Delilah shapes and spaces. UCLA in the Dance department with an the honor of participating in the Rose Parade twelve times and they and Sadie have worked together on Delilah Gamson Levy is an Angeleno urban planning minor. are part of the many year-round cultural events at Olvera Street many site-specific works that interact native who grew up in Echo Park and Sadie Wilking, also a LACHSA alum, and legendary theaters of Southern California. Ballet Coco de with architecture and have attempted to attended LACHSA (Los Angeles County is from Highland Park. She studies with Esteban Coronado prides itself in sharing its presentations on both create this specific work in relation to the High School for the Arts) where she Delilah at UCLA in the dance department. community and professional stages. Currently, dance instruction is historic houses surrounding the festival studied dance and won several awards In her spare time she teaches dance to kids being offered to students of all ages in folklorico, Spanish, Latin today. This piece will research variation, including a semifinalist recognition for at the YMCA. dance, stage dance, ballet, Hawaiian and arte flamenco at Ramona Hall Community Center.

Luxora Luxora Dance Company is dedicated to creating unique world-class dance entertainment for a global audience. Directed by Baheyya El-Ghazal, an international bellydancer who has worked throughout the Middle East, Europe and Africa, Luxora thrives at the intersection of tradition and innovation. From Middle Eastern and Latin to vintage cabaret dance, Luxora brings dazzling high-end costumes, PANADERIA inspired productions, beautiful dancers, superlative standards – and a lot of fun! Luxora appeared in the original “Odalisque” DELICIA show at El Cid, on national television, and regularly performs at a variety of events and Open 6 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. venues throughout Los Angeles. Tel: (323) 259-9306

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Alisal Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Alisal Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3

MAWD The High Life MAWD is the moniker of California Cajun Band musician Madeleine Mathews. Citing contemporary acts such as The Head The sounds and rhythms of a Friday and the Heart, The Staves, First Aid Kit, night dance in southwest Louisiana are and the Alabama Shakes as influences, alive and kicking when The High Life MAWD’s sound gravitates towards Cajun Band begins to play its straight- an eclectic mix of genres including out dance music. With the accordion, indie folk, folk rock, retro rock, the fiddle and the haunting vocals cosmic Americana, with a touch of forging the melody, and the guitar and pure rock n’ roll. The soulful, textured drums holding the beat, the melodies of timbre of MAWD is diverse and ranges Acadiana pulse and push dancers across anywhere from a breathy and sultry folk/ the floor. This Cypress Park based band dancing) direct from the source. If you drums, Doug Tiano. blues vibe to a powerful Janis Joplin- plays Pig Roasts, BBQ’s, club dates, can’t make it to the prairies of Louisiana, The band has performed extensively esque/Karen O. belt. dances, and festivals all over Southern catch the High Life and they’ll be sure to in California, notably at Gator By the Born and bred in Northern California, California. In the autumn of the past take you there (at least for the night)! Bay, Los Angeles Old Time Social, Madeleine made her mark around her two years, the band has travelled back to The players include: on accordion, Central Coast Folk Festival, Make Music hometown of Placerville by playing her Louisiana for the annual Blackpot Camp Jacob Pennison; Ben Guzman on fiddle; Pasadena, and the Topanga Banjo and original songs at weekly local open mic & Festival, where they soak in more and more of the music (and food and guitar and vocals, Angela Wood; and on Fiddle Contest. nights. Recently graduated with a BA in Springboard Festival with many more Music, Madeleine found a community in shows booked in LA and Northern her college’s (California State University, California this summer. She recently Chico) music department and blossoming returned from SXSW. MAWD has been local scene while fronting and writing Alarma interviewed by newspapers, blogs, and The Lummis Day for numerous bands and winning local radio stations, been featured on KCSN Danceable, melodic and sending out a positive message, the songwriter competitions. 88.5 LA Buzzbands Hour, KCSC, and Festival is made possible world music indie band, Alarma, from Lincoln Heights, California With less than a year performing as KZFR Radio. BuzzbandsLA recently in part by a grant from is known for its unique sound and high-energy live performances. MAWD, Madeleine has already toured named her one of the artists to look out the City of Los Angeles, Featuring English lyrics and Latin and ethnic rhythms, Alarma is a reflection of the cultural diversity of a city notable for its many Sweden, played shows across California for in 2018. She recently moved to Los Department of Cultural including a sold out show at The Hotel ethnicities. Angeles and is making a name for herself Affairs. Cafe, The Hi Hat, Sofar Sounds, Gibson with established songwriters, bookers, Alarma has been interviewed on LA’s KPFK 90.7 and has Center, Youbloom Festival and and producers. performed live on a number of radio stations across the country as well as on Fox 11’s “Good Day LA.” Favorites with local music sites and magazines, the band has played in many battle of the bands finals as well as festivals all over California and is growing Trapdoor Social in popularity on the college circuit. With the recent release of full-length album, “World Ignition,” Trapdoor Social is a Los Angeles Alarma is preparing to take its sound to the world. based independent alternative rock band with a mission. The band toured the U.S. for Scarlett and The Fever the first half of 2017 in their solar Influenced by the timeless swing and swag of retro trailer, organizing Sunstock Solar Festival music eras, Scarlett and The Fever blends soul, reggae, and other solar-powered concerts at jazz, and ska music styles to create their own original universities and outdoor venues wherever sound. possible across the country. In September The Fever has been making their mark on the 2017 the second annual Sunstock Solar L.A. music scene since January, 2014. The band has Festival was held in Los Angeles, a 100% performed in many popular music venues and festivals solar-powered arts and music festival, across southern California and has been featured on founded by Trapdoor Social. national television, radio, and international radio and The band’s music consists of raucous, country. next Sunstock (later this year), to more podcasts. The Fever excels in showmanship and anthemic sounds punctuated by blues rock Since starting Sunstock Solar Festival solar-powered events and to continue musicality. Front woman, Scarlett Brais, performs with and bass synth riffs and lyrics bearing in 2016 and touring nationally with combining their music with activism as an irresistible charm and soothing vocal styling. social critique. Several of the band’s their solar-powered sound system, the they’ve done through past fundraising Presently, the band is working on their second full- songs— “Fone on My Own,” “Sunshine,” band has been working on an LP that projects with Homeboy Industries, Mesa length album, expected to be released in Summer 2018. “Wining as Truth” and “Away” - have will be their fourth release. They look Ridge High School, and Kids Cancer Their first album, “Soul Ready,” can be downloaded received significant airplay around the forward to sharing that music, to the Connection. and streamed from all major music platforms.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Angel Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Angel Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Sponsored by The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Sponsored by The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Arte Eastside Arts Flamenco Located at 5917 N. Figueroa Street, Eastside Arts offers a variety of performing arts classes, including acting, improvisation, musical theatre, filmmaking and animation, Dance for kids ages 3-18. Eastside Arts believes that performing arts classes are a great way for kids to learn important life skills though creative play. Our motto is creativity, Theatre confidence, compassion and our classes emphasize creative expression, imagination, The non-profit Arte listening and teamwork. Flamenco Dance Theatre Inc, whose mission is to enrich people’s lives through dance, will present a program representing Flamenco, Folklorico, and Raul Martinez Polynesian art forms. The Arte Flamenco Dance Presents: The School focuses on providing cultural dance classes for Ramona Hall all ages and levels, in ballet, Student Band and tap, flamenco / Spanish classical dance, folklorico, Clementine Bullen hip hop, middle eastern belly dance and Polynesian dance. Ramona Hall Student Band For years, Raul Martinez has brought joy and music to the children and teenagers of Northeast Los Angeles who come The Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center Presents each week to Highland Park’s Ramona Hall Community Center to learn the The Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center (LHYAC) is a Neighborhood Arts and Cultural Center of the City of Los Angeles basics of chords, melody and chord/tab Department of Cultural Affairs. The LHYAC got its start as a community partner site of the citywide Music LA Program and its reading, skills they take with them into focus remains centered on providing quality music instruction for youth of various genres, beginning with early childhood through their classrooms and into the world. His advanced levels of classes. student band members, Antonio Provencia, Juan Gonzalez, Vincent Arida, Andrew Villagomez and Joshua Franco are excited to be playing at this year’s Lummis Days Festival. Clementine Bullen Singer Clementine Bullen is half Vietnamese, a quarter British and a quarter Hispanic. Her love of music began when she was six months old. She took her first guitar lesson with Mr. Martinez at Ramona Los Jarochicos Latin Ensemble hall when she was only four and she has been playing ever since. Her musical Los Jarochicos of Lincoln Heights is a youth performance The Latin Ensemble is composed of intermediate and tastes vary widely: jazz, heavy metal, group led under the direction of instructor, musician, and advanced instrumental students who have demonstrated a rock, punk, soul, folk, classical. Now eight activist, Angela Flores. Los Jarochicos is made up of children commitment to their primary instrument and are ready for the years old, she cares about local and global and teenagers ages 8 -17 who sing, play, and dance the music of rewards and challenges of playing in a band. This developing issues and hopes she can use music to Son Jarocho from Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Their instruction group explores a wide range of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, speak up, not only for herself, but also for focuses on the “fandango,” which is a community jam session styles, and repertoire, including rumba, batá, cumbia, salsa, every little girl like her. She thinks music authentic to this regional cultural tradition. The students’ course Puerto Rican bomba, and Brazilian music. For their Lummis is a way to connect people together and of study is also woven with current day events and themes that Days presentation, they have prepared a short selection of Afro hopes to use music to make the community effect their lives and the world around them. Today they will Caribbean rhythms. a better place. perform “sones” or songs, from the Son Jarocho repertoire, For more information, contact the Lincoln Heights Youth “con zapateado,” the form of dance that also doubles as an Arts Center at (323) 224-0928 or [email protected] or visit element of percussion in the music. DCA’s website at culturela.org. Photo by Nga T. Bullen

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Sponsored by The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council

Ballet Bravo For nearly half a decade, Ballet Bravo has been dedicated to instilling cultural values and self pride in children and teens from all cultural backgrounds. Young people are encouraged to express their artistry and creativity through the medium of dance. Ballet Bravo has had the privilege to participate in many community, cultural and professional events: the Lummis Days Festival, the Lotus Festival and UNICEF’s Children’s Programs. Most recently they appeared in the short film documentary, “Sin Cielo.” ballet and jazz techniques, Jorge Rivas says, “It has to witness their commitment Their training program folklorico and other forms always been a pleasure and dedication to the consists of dance history, of folk dance. Instructor working with young people, community.”

“Let The River Run” Los Feliz Charter School of the Arts presents an original play created and performed by LFCSA third graders. After a school assembly goes awry, a third grade class is tasked with a weekend river cleanup. The kids end up with a huge lesson on environmental stewardship from the most unlikely source. In this original play, the third grade students of Los Feliz Charter School of the Arts celebrate the history of our great city, its cultural diversity, and its precious ecosystems.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Teatro Arroyo / Bugs and Puppets Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Teatro Arroyo / Bugs and Puppets Stage SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Teatro Arroyo Teatro Arroyo was founded in 2013 by Highland Park residents Raul Cardona, D.W. Jacobs and Ralph Waxman. The three theater veterans coalesced around the vision of creating a Figueroa Arts Corridor and establishing a Center for Arts and Culture at the city- owned former bank building at Avenue 56 and N. Figueroa Street. In 2014, Teatro Arroyo began a partnership with the Arroyo Arts Collective, established in 1989 as a Ms. Serena community organization of artists, An accomplished singer/songwriter writers and performers who live with a Master’s degree in Music Therapy, and work in Northeast Los Angeles. Ms. Serena is well- known throughout Historically rich in tradition, the area Northeast Los Angeles for her spirited bordering the Arroyo Seco was Los musical gatherings for children of all Angeles’ first cultural center at the ages. She is a celebrated local mom with a beginning of the 20th century and the deep connection to music and community. site of the city’s first museum, the Engaging young people’s creative minds Southwest Museum. with interactive songs in a supportive and A large concentration of artists soulful way, Ms. Serena’s singing circles continues to reside in Northeast L.A. provide the perfect place to find your in some of the city’s most thoroughly voice and access your joy. multicultural and richly diverse Come and get free! neighborhoods. In 2015, Teatro Arroyo officially became the theater division of the Arroyo Arts Collective, and in 2017 the La Culebra Action League entered the fold and, together, they have been producing a wide range of original performances, including theater, dance, music, burlesque, comedy, poetry, spoken word and puppetry. y Los Frijoles Magicos” (bilingual), and with Teatro Arroyo this year to teach have also performed at the Southwest Museum and Knotts Berry Farm. This year, the Teatro Arroyo / “The Hollah-Bollah Pot”. In addition, elements of Aztec traditional dance and Furthering the immersive experience, audiences will enjoy a magical crafts Puppets and Bugs Stage will feature they will premiere the puppet show “The drum. Danza Azteca Xipe Totec is an and play area curated by member Kristen Johannesen with stand-up photo the interactive, message-driven, puppet Noise at El Alisal” - with bilingual songs Aztecan music and dance group, led by props of Teatro Arroyo characters and a face - painting station by artist Virginia stylings of members Alexandra Busby and an original story based on historical Cypress Park resident Lazaro Arvizu. Escamilla. Completing their Teatro Arroyo/Bugs Stage experience, all audience and Marita De La Torre who bring three references from the famous “Noises” of They perform the traditional music members will receive a commemorative bookmark of the 2018 Arroyo Arts beautiful stories told in the Waldorf style Charles Lummis. and dance of the Mexica people. They Collective Parade “Critters Gotta Crawl” with fun facts of our featured critter, of puppetry: “The Little Possum,” “Juan Danza Azteca Xipe Totec will partner regularly perform at Olvera Street, and the Blue-Belly Lizard native to our Arroyo Seco Region.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Family Fun SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Family Fun SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Eco Voices Expedition Anahuak Youth Soccer Association EcoVoices is an interactive, hands on science experience Anahuak Youth Soccer Association (AYSA) is a non-profit sports engaging young people in ecological awareness and organization that provides group team soccer opportunities affordable to environmental stewardship. EcoVoices evokes the voices of all. AYSA also provides a social network for youth, their families and these young researchers as they explore the regional impact community leaders, and is avidly involved in providing environmental of global ecosystem change – possibly the most significant educational opportunities for the youth they serve. challenge of our times. Back for Lummis Days 2018, Anahuak Soccer is again sponsoring a The EcoVoices Mime Troupe brings its theatrical energy to run/walk at 11:30 am in the south end of the park. Gather by the footpath enhance learning and invites participants to act out the science near the public restrooms at 10:45 am. story. In the afternoon, five junior soccer matches will alternate between The program, directed by Dr. Richard Shope, President of the performances on the Angel Stage, which features emerging talent. Anahuak founder Raul Macias World Space Foundation (worldspacefoundation.org), is making its 5th appearance at the Lummis Days Festival. Audubon Center at Critters Debs Park Gotta The Audubon Center at Debs Park is an environmental community hub in the heart Crawl of Northeast Los Angeles. Nestled within the 282-acre Ernest R. Debs Regional Park, this Puppet welcoming center has inspired a love of nature Making in over a quarter of a million residents of America’s second-largest metropolis. Through Workshop our work conserving birds and open space and Following up on revitalizing habitat in Debs Park, the Audubon the success of the past Center has empowered a new generation of two years’ workshops, environmental stewards. Meet Audubon Center Fish Gotta Swim and staff and learn about our local wildlife, the Birds Gotta Fly, the amazing properties of native plants, and how Arroyo Arts Collective you can protect urban nature in Los Angeles. will again provide materials for children to create bird, fish and critter puppets inspired by the Critters Gotta Crawl parade which kicks off the 2108 Festival. Franklin High School Robo-Nerds Under the leadership of Franklin High physics teacher Mr. Cruz, Franklin Robotics, FRC Team 5089 -- The Robo-Nerds -- have made a huge impact in their community. Although they’ve only been around for a short period of time, they have spread the word of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) through presentations, events and the creation of new robotics Tongva Animal Names Home Depot and Color Spot teams within the community. The Robo-Nerds have helped mentor teams in Nurseries’ Transplanting Seedling both the high school and middle school/elementary school divisions. Currently Make a necklace with your favorite animal the Nerds have helped Eagle Rock HS/MS, Garfield STEM Academy, Torres emblem and learn its name in the Tongva Experience HS, Burbank MS, Monte Vista ES and Buchanan ES and Franklin Dual language with Julia Bogany, Tribal Elder, San Language Academy. The Robo Nerds’s aim is to create new teams every year. Gabrielino Band of Mission Indians. Home Depot is returning to brighten everyone’s day with plants for This year the Franklin Robo-Nerds competed in one regional event, the your garden or windowsill. Families and children can transplant a flowering Los Angeles Regional, in Pomona where they came in 38th out of 54 teams. seedling into a pot to take home for free. It’s a great opportunity to start Although they encountered many difficulties during the competition, they a garden or enhance your plot of flowers. Always a Lummis Day Festival overcame their challenges and maximized their resources. favorite.

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM POETRY WORKSHOPS Lummis Day “Viva! Poetry” Library Series

he Lummis Day The Poets: program includes free poetry Dear Snow workshops held Jessica Goodheart in Northeast L.A. Los Angeles poet Jessica Goodheart Fall hard. Blizzard. Blanket libraries in the weeks leading believes there are the tracks of the fugitive. T up to the June festival, offering myriad ways to the community guidance and access our personal Confuse the dogs. feedback from experienced and muses and a free Let the man run until he cannot. acclaimed poets. This year, the poetry workshop Lummis Day “Viva! Poetry” at the Lummis Day He has no words for his hurt heart Library Series is scheduled Festival is definitely just hunger and a will of ice. for two weekend dates in one. When the May at two Northeast L.A. stars align, she has Let him flee and no one find him. Los Angeles Public Library been able to place her work in journals In summer, he will become branches. (A third workshop, and anthologies, including The Antioch led by Lory Bedikian, will Review, “Wide Awake: Poets of Los some other thing. Smoke. follow the June 3 poetry Angeles and Beyond,” “Blue Arc West: Melody of white ash. reading at Lummis Home.) An Anthology of California Poets,” “The Workshops are open Best American Poetry 2005,” and “1001 Angers that wake us to poets of all levels of Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo when we come to know experience, from absolute Poets at Coffee Cartel.” Her poetry beginners to published writers. collection, “Earthquake Season,” was we won’t get more. As a general rule, participants published by Word Press. She works as This is all there is. arrive with their notebooks and a reporter for Capital & Main, an online leave with finished poems. news magazine. She has led workshops - Jessica Goodheart Two prominent poets will at Beyond Baroque and volunteers at lead the May workshops. Writegirl, a teen mentoring program. On Saturday, May 12, Jessica Goodheart will lead a workshop at the Arroyo Seco public library branch, 6145 North Figueroa Street in Erika Ayón Deep End Highland Park. The workshop When she was five years old, will run from 3:00pm - Erika Ayón Amá and Apá take me to the deep end, 5:00pm. emigrated from so deep I have to squint my eyes On Saturday, May 26, a Mexico and grew to see the shore. I walk beside Amá, workshop at the Eagle Rock up in South Central until the water submerges me, public library branch, 5027 Los Angeles. After she lifts me up. I swing under Caspar Avenue, will be led by graduating from her arms. My feet never touch Erika Ayón. The session will UCLA with a B.A. the bottom after that. The ocean run from 3:15- 5:15pm. in English, she was is still and peaceful. The waves form The Lummis Days selected as a 2009 tiny ripples. None of the waves force workshops receive funding PEN Emerging their way, topple over me, or push me from the Occidental College Voices Fellow. She has taught in with their white foamy arms. Institute for the Study of Los poetry to middle and high school As Amá holds me, I lay back, Angeles, Poets & Writers students across Los Angeles. Her open my arms and legs like a starfish. Inc. and the sponsors and work has appeared in The Acentos The sun bathes me. I dive in to see supporters of the Lummis Days Review, Chiricúo Journal and in the the darkness below. Apá stares out, Festival. anthologis, “Orangelandia,” “Wide his sea-green eyes drown in memory Awake Poets of Los Angeles as he tries to piece together two oceans. and Beyond,” “Coiled Serpent,” After a while we make our way back, and others. Her debut poetry fight with the waves to reach the shore. collection, “Orange Lady,” was

published by World Stage Press. - Erika Ayón

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Move To Amend If you think money is not speech Teacher Program Expands and that humans beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights, LAUSD Professional Development Workshop: “The River Runs sign the Move To Amend petition and find out how to get involved. Through It - Charles Lummis And The Culture Of The Arroyo Seco” MoveToAmend.org ince 2006, the professional development workshop “The River Runs Through It: Charles Lummis and the Culture of the Arroyo SSeco” has been taken by 240 teachers, grades kindergarten through 12, Do you fi sh? in an educational experience that encourages the use of experiential Protect the health learning to help foster community of you and your through a sense of place. Conducted by retired LAUSD children teacher, Carmela Gomes, the workshop has expanded the professional staff to include retired Visit www.PVSFish.org Mercyhurst University professor, to learn more about contaminated fi sh Keiko Miller and master Franklin High School social studies teacher, off of the Los Angeles County coast Yim Tam. The place-based education workshop involves the participation of Wilderness Way Magazine, the Arroyo Seco Foundation, the Audubon Center at Debs Park, Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Friends of the Los Angeles River, Highland Park Heritage Trust, The Autry Museum of the American Celebrating West and the Tongva/Gabrielino and the Chumash/Tatavia Tribes. 35 years of The two-day workshops are preservation and given in October and February of each year. During the course of the advocacy weekend, participants walk in the wilds of the Arroyo Seco River, tour the Lummis Home and Garden with a docent, experience the Los Angeles Walking Tours River in new ways with Friends of the Los Angeles River, take part in a Workshops walking tour of historic houses in the Community Events Sycamore Grove community, learn about the Ethno Botanic Gardens at the Southwest Museum and sit with holders of Chumash and Tongva www.hpht.org traditions for a hands-on workshop. To receive one point credit for the workshop, teachers are required to use the information they acquire to create lessons for their classrooms that reflect Charles Lummis’ view of the Southwest to support the common Photo by Angela Cortes Mora core. The garden through the Lummis Home window

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Carmela Gomes

New York Life volunteers Michelle Board member Denis Kagan and Kate Sancer Quiñonez

Photo by D.W. Jacobs Photo by Eliot Sekuler Photo by D.W. Jacobs ConnieTang and Lummis Day Troy Evans, Heather McLarty, Stuart Rapeport and Amy Inouye pose with the Noisemaker Award Comedian and MC Momo Rodriguez performing. board member Tac Phung sculpture created by Heather McClarty. NOISEMAKER AWARD DINNER A Community Celebration Lummis Days “Noisemaker Award” Dinner Honors Amy Inouye

early 120 supporters and neighbors attended Antigua Bread and Antigua Coffee. Photo by D.W. Jacobs Lummis Day veterans, The Andersons, performing. this year’s award dinner to help Lummis Day Amy Inouye is a book designer (over 200 books designed, Gil Cedillo and Lummis Day Vice President Eliot Sekuler honor Amy Inouye, designer, artist, community several award-winning local best sellers), gallerist (organizer activist and godmother of Highland Park’s iconic of over 60 art exhibits), community activist (board member of Chicken Boy rooftop statue as the 2018 Lummis two nonprofits, an organizer of “Relighting the Historic Signs DayN “Noisemaker Award” honoree. of Figueroa Street” which repaired, restored, and relit the The April 7 event was held at the Highland Park Ebell Club. Highland Theatre and the Mannings Coffee Store signs), Los Councilmember Gil Cedillo presented the award, comedian Angeles history aficionado (president of Photo Friends of Los Momo Rodriguez served as MC and the Andersons band Angeles Public Library, the support group of the LAPL photo provided entertainment. collection), and occasional artist (yarn bomber and public art A sumptuous buffet dinner was provided by many of installation creator, such as Book Booth Highland Park and Northeast L.A.’s favorite restaurants, including Las Cazuelas, Big Stick for Peace on Figueroa). She’s also well-known for Photo by D.W. Jacobs James Spicer and Rosamaria Marquez Patricia Parra and Michele Rick The Capri, Señor Fish, Folliero’s, My Taco, Fiesta Fast Foods, [CONTINUED ON PAGE 64] Heinrich Keifer and Rogelio Mammana

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM Noisemaker Award [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 62] bringing the 22-foot tall Chicken Boy (aka the Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles) to North Figueroa Street, where he has become a beloved Historic Route 66 roadside icon. Amy’s efforts in preserving Chicken Boy earned a State of California Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in 2010. She designed the original visual materials for the Lummis Days festival and has been a frequent and valued creative resource for Lummis Days and many other community events. The “Noisemaker Award,” named for the famous Lisa Connelly, Momo Rodriguez and Noisemaker dinner entertainments hosted by Charles Lummis for writers, artists producer Jain Sekuler and dignitaries at his Northeast L.A. home, is presented annually to a person whose work and contributions to the community are consistent with the mission of the Lummis Day Community Foundation, ‘to celebrate the arts, history and ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles through educational and cultural events and to promote cooperation among people of all ages and backgrounds.’ Previous honorees were author, journalist and professor Hector Tobar, former councilmember Ed Reyes, playwright, filmmaker and actor Richard Montoya and longtime neighborhood activist Ann Walnum. Sculptor and blacksmith Heather McClarty created the award, as she has for the past five years. The fundraiser was sponsored by Council District 1 and Photo by D.W. Jacobs Gil Cedillo. Juan Ureno, Lummis Day Community Foundation president Maggie Barto and board member Laura Longoria.

NELA THEN, NELA NOW A Neighborhood Treasure The History of the Highland Park Ebell Club Mirrors a Century of Women’s Activism Volunteer bartenders Natalie Fratino and Denise Ovaldson By Carol Colin At the time of the Ebell Club’s founding, Los Angeles had a population of just over 100,000 people. The city was exiting a ormed in 1903 by a group of about 40 improvement- recession and entering a period of tremendous growth. Highland minded women, the history of the Highland Park Park, annexed to Los Angeles just a few years earlier, was Ebell Club during its first half-century mirrors the still rural. The Arroyo Seco was wild and wooded, with just a issues facing our city and our country through those handful of houses scattered among open fields. North Figueroa, turbulent years and provides an interesting insight then known as Pasadena Avenue, was mainly residential with Finto the early Arroyo Seco community and the influence of commercial activity limited to a blacksmith, a couple of real activist women in those times. estate offices and a few stores. Electric streetcars had begun In its first five decades, the Club, named for 19th century serving the area in 1901, but streets were still unpaved and women’s education pioneer Adrian Ebell, embraced a program automobiles were a rarity; horses and buggies were the primary of community involvement and progressive ideals, participating means of transportation. Everything that constituted a modern in causes that ranged from sheltering homeless families to city was being built: schools, parks, city utilities, libraries, improving the city’s libraries, supporting war efforts during two theaters and museums. Leslie Mylius, Gwen Freeman, Andy Jardini and Heather world wars, supporting a women’s Equal Rights Amendment The club’s formation coincided with the period known as McClarty. and urging the legalization of birth control. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 66]

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM in Europe. The petition was Ebell circulated by the Organization of American Women for Strict [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65] Neutrality, and they presented the Progressive era. Educated over a million signatures to reformers took on corruption congress. in government and business, When the U.S. entered the improvement of working the War in 1917, the Club’s conditions, health care, purity membership focused on the of food and medicine, and sale of Liberty bonds and other conservation issues. In this means of assisting in the war atmosphere, the women’s club effort. Members held a first movement flourished. (Other aid class and organized benefit Ebell Clubs formed in Santa concerts, teas, dances and other Ana, in Long Beach and in fundraisers. A library fund the Wilshire section of Los was created for soldiers and Angeles.) Meetings were held magazines were collected to be at various locations in Highland sent overseas. Park and membership grew In 1923, Louise Crow, a quickly as Northeast L.A. noted artist and fellow of the Photo by Stuart Rapeport population swelled. In 1906, School of American Research Contemporary Ebell Club members. the membership began raising addressed the club and asked funds for the construction of that they demand the appointment of a woman deputy in the city When Ebell Club members had their meeting in 1943, the a new clubhouse. A lot was prosecutor’ s office to speak for the plight of women in topic of the Equal Rights Amendment, as re-written by feminist purchased on South Avenue 57 jails and of unprotected girls. pioneer Alice Paul, was a prime topic. The proposed amendment: for $1500 and a cornerstone The club frequently engaged with other notable Arroyo Seco “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged was laid in 1912. In 1913, institutions and personalities. Painter William Lees Judson, by the United States or by any state on account of sex” was the Highland Park Ebell Club former dean of the USC School of Fine Arts and a leading opposed by many in the labor movement who were committed building was completed just ten light of the Arroyo Guild of Craftsmen, addressed the club on to protective workplace laws, and by social conservatives who years after the Club’s formation the topic of Modern Art (for a time, his wife was chair of the considered equal rights for women a threat to the existing and its dedication ceremony Ebell’s art committee). In 1925 Mrs. Judson installed an exhibit power structure. The ERA finally passed Congress in 1972, but was reportedly attended by a of seven well-known local artists. Members visited Charles when an extended deadline for ratification ran out in 1982 the crowd of 20,000. Lummis at his home on Avenue 43 and amendment failed lacking only three of The minutes of the Club’s Artists Rendering joined his Archeological Society. Dr. the necessary 38 states. Passage of the meetings, meticulously recorded Ebell Club opening ceremony, 1913. Sources at the time estimated the crowd at 20,000. Hector Alliot, curator of the Southwest Passage of the Equal ERA is still the goal of a vast network of over the decades, document the Parking spaces were reportedly scarce, a condition exacerbated by the presence of many Museum, visited to update the Club on women and organizations, including the membership’s concerns with aging and rusting buggies and carriages that somebody had left along South Avenue 57. the museum’s work. Rights Amendment is still General Federation of Women’s Clubs, to social issues and the pressing With the onset of the Great the goal of a vast network of which the Ebell Club belongs. topics of the day. The club’s records are voluminous. Some The Ebell Club joined with other women’s clubs in playing Depression, hard times and government women and organizations, Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, highlights stand out: a major role in the formation of The California Audubon Society programs became frequent topics for support for the war effort again became In 1907, the club established its first scholarship program, which was founded in 1906. Among the Society’s early leaders Ebell Club meetings. Topics included including the General an Ebell Club priority. There was a nurse pledging $156 per year in support to enable three children was Harriet Williams Myers, a charter member of the Ebell, an overview of the Dust Bowl and Federation of Women’s Clubs, recruitment effort and in April 1943, 90 to attend public school rather than working to support their who served as the Audubon’s president for 18 years. Myers many of Franklin Roosevelt’s New to which the Ebell Club members were present to listen to the families. The cost of that support was calculated at $3.00 per urged Ebell members to contact their congressmen in support Deal measures. On October 3,1933, one experiences of a local boy, Capt. Eugene child per week. (It should be noted that a scholarship program of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, which was passed hundred fifty-nine members and guests belongs. Wallace of the Army Air Corps. Capt. is still at the heart of the contemporary Ebell Club’s activities. ) and remains to this day one of the strongest laws protecting attended the first meeting of the season, Wallace made an appeal for women to wild North American birds. Without the grassroots organizing with table decorations featuring the blue join the Army Air Corps WACs. The of local Audubon societies and women’s clubs, it is unlikely that eagle of the National Recovery Administration and a song, “The Women’s Army Corps had been created not quite a year before, such protective legislation would ever have been adopted. Man at the Helm of the USA,” dedicated to FDR. and recruitment was lagging because of intense opposition in Highland Park Ebell Club Prohibition was a hot topic in Los Angeles, where On May 7,1935, Ebell Club members passed a resolution many quarters to women in service. 131 S. Ave. 57, Los Angeles 90042 Midwesterners –the bedrock of Prohibition support— were calling for doctors to be given the right to receive and send Today, the Highland Park Ebell Club building stands as a The Ebell is an educational and heavily represented in the city’s population. The club discussed philanthropic organization. contraceptives and birth control information through the mail great jewel of Northeast L.A. history and architecture and is the The HP club meets monthly for lunch and pros and cons of banning alcohol at a meeting in 1914 and sent and allowing physicians to supervise birth control. In 1 8 7 3 , site of many community and cultural events. The Pacific Opera a speaker from Oct.–May. a letter to President Wilson and Congress supporting national Congress had passed an anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Law Project frequently uses the Club to stage their productions and For information on joining, contact: [email protected] prohibition, which was finally instituted nationwide in 1920 and that called birth control information obscene, and outlawed its the Lummis Day “Noisemaker Award” dinner has been held at Highland Park Ebell lastedClub until repeal in 1933. During the 1920’s, Ebell members dissemination. The National Committee on Federal Legislation the club for the past three years. E Founded 1903 made donations to the new Women’s Christian Temperance on Birth Control led by Margaret Sanger fought to amend the The club’s membership remains active and reflects the Available for event rentals, Union home in Eagle Rock, which replaced an earlier facility law. Sanger eventually won her case when a U.S. court lifted changes that have taken place within Highland Park and film, and photo locations in Highland Park. the obscenity ban in 1936. In 1937, the American Medical surrounding neighborhoods. The Club sponsors a scholarship Contact Facilities Manager: When the first World War broke out in 1914, the women Association approved birth control as an essential part of program for local students and mounts monthly programs of Mike Staedler, 323-836-1318 of the Ebell Club took a stand against American involvement. medical practice and education. It was not until 1965 that the interest to the community at large. After 115 years, the Highland ebell-hp.org Members were invited to sign a Neutrality Petition calling for U.S. Supreme Court finally struck down all state laws prohibiting Park Ebell Club remains a vital part of the Northeast L.A. the prohibition of the sale and shipment of arms to the Allies contraception for married couples. community

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OUT WEST: LUMMIS DAY PROGRAM VERSION: 4 May 3, 2018 9:12 AM A Time of Change Los Cautivos [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11] [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19] division that accompanies neighborhood transition? allow the lawsuit to go forward. Could neighborhood councils or other groups be re- The night before the court date, guards from the tooled to give communities more than a “thank you for Albuquerque Indian School entered Isleta and lay in wait sharing” voice in community development and could we do for Juan Rey Abeita. Recalling the time he was ambushed, so without empowering neighborhood Nimby-ism? Lummis was not about to let his friend suffer the same fate. Could tax incentives for developers be re-directed to Grabbing his revolver Lummis chased the guards from the builders of affordable housing? village. Could we take a cue from San Francisco, which created a The next morning while Lummis and Abeita met with their Legacy Business Registry and Preservation Fund to recognize lawyer, William Creager interrupted them. He offered to settle that small businesses, not just buildings, are historic assets? out of court with Juan Rey and return his three boys. Lummis At the state level, could current law be amended to allow made it clear -- this was a test case for Isleta, and they wanted for special zoning for commercial rent control? (Businesses all the children. Creager acquiesced. That very day Lummis currently have no rent protection, as per state law). rented a wagon and transported the children back to Isleta. We appreciate that Mayor Garcetti, Councilmember 1,100 people showed up in the Pueblo’s Church Plaza to Cedillo and Councilmember Huizar are focused on these welcome Los Cautivos home. issues. Such measures as Councilmember Huizar’s Shelter The Abeita’s were Crisis Ordinance, which will facilitate new emergency shelters, overjoyed to see their boys, The Permanent Supportive Housing and Motel Conversion but there was a problem. This was Ordinances, to speed After so many years away, gentrification on approval of permanent Luis, the middle boy, homeless housing and could no longer talk to his steroids; the goal the establishment of a The differing mother. He had forgotten was the complete new Housing Department ways in which we his language. Eve, Lummis’ eradication of Office in Boyle Heights are wife, had to act as interpreter. great steps forward. read the signs of “And Pita – as fine and Native culture in And there’s been change have resulted motherly a woman as I ever one generation. good progress on the knew – cried; and Luis cried; state level: a proposed in the emergence of and so, I think, did we all,” ballot initiative that would separate communities wrote Lummis. repeal the Costa-Hawkins sharing the same Unwilling to accept defeat, Morgan, and Creager fought Rental Housing Act, which back. They mounted their own internal investigation and prevents local governments space, walled off exonerated themselves. They accused Lummis of falsifying from establishing rent from each other by testimony, exaggerating claims against them and most control for new apartments perceptions, both outrageously accused Lummis of forgery. The latter charge is a good start, as is Senator turned out to be a laughable misrepresentation of Lummis’ Photo by Monica Alcaraz Kevin DeLeon’s plan for real and imagined, of photography. Their efforts proved futile. Donated clothing items are much needed by the center’s clients. re-directing $2 billion of insults and injustices. The Lummis articles had swayed public opinion and within state funds toward the the year there was a shake-up at the Washington Indian Office. Prine founded Recycled Resources for the Homeless in building of new housing Creager, Commissioner Morgan, and other department heads Safety Net 2008, and currently serves as the volunteer executive director for homeless residents. were all replaced. for the agency. She has been working with people experiencing We need local and state officials to continue to search Had it been possible to go further, a judicial determination [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15] chronic homelessness since 2003, with an emphasis on adults for creative solutions, to weigh the needs of developers and based on the Isleta Pueblo issue would have been a major when they attempt to implement these programs. We provide who are diagnosed with a mental illness, substance use, or both. constituents and balance the benefits of an increased tax base victory for all Native American families. Unfortunately, it was education training and exposure to people who engage their Prine, who holds both a Bachelor and Master of Arts Degree in with the moral and practical imperative of making decent a missed opportunity. In 1893, religious organizations and the neighbors without shelter in order to produce strong results. social work from California State University Los Angeles and is housing available to all our city’s people. And we need government were still running 156 Carlisle-model schools We are outside the box thinkers and a licensed clinical social worker with the community leadership to create forums in which all of our with an enrollment of 13,600 children across the country. believe traditional homeless services and California Board of Behavioral Sciences, neighbors can come together cooperatively to address these For the Abeita family and the tribal elders, however, approaches need to be diversified,” the The work with the also worked with the Department of difficult and complex issues on a personal level. returning the boys to their parents was a victory for Isleta group states. Mental Health in Los Angeles’ skid row In our small way, Lummis Day seeks to find ways of Pueblo, and for all of the Pueblos in New Mexico. From that ​A number of local organizations have homeless can be aggravating, for nearly a decade. mitigating those conflicts through a program we undertake in date forward, the Pueblos effectively negotiated favorable also rallied to the cause over the years, draining and frustrating, but The work with the homeless can be a neighborly spirit of cooperation and creative engagement. terms with the boarding schools for their children. and Recycled Resources can count … far more rewarding than so aggravating, draining and frustrating, We come together with the recognition of the simple fact that Lummis would return to Los Angeles, build El Alisal, among its supporters, County Supervisor but at the same time, far more rewarding we all share and treasure this space, this city, that we all have publish an important magazine, Out West, and become an Hilda Solis, City Councilmembers Jose many other endeavors. than so many other endeavors. a stake here. As individuals, we can take only small steps. advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt. He would also found Huizar and Gil Cedillo, the neighborhood Alcaraz knows this from personal The broader task, and it’s an enormous one, is to sustain an the first museum in Los Angeles, the Southwest Museum of Councils of Historic Highland Park, experience. The family that she once inclusive community that meets the needs of all its people. the American Indian. Lummis remained a leading advocate Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, and Glassell Park, along with knew who found themselves living along the banks of the L.A. There will be no easy answers, no easy solutions. As we for the rights of Native Americans until his death in 1928. the NELA Homeless Coalition, Smart and Final, The Greyhound River, now have a roof over their heads. “We couldn’t get them explore these questions, we ask our friends and neighbors to 1n 2015, Isleta opened its first Native-run school featuring Bar and Grill, Food 4 Less, and many other neighborhood back into Highland Park,” said Alcaraz. “But they are home bring open minds, and open hearts. instruction in their Tigua language. businesses, churches and organizations. now.”

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PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE SPONSORED BY: Graphic Designer: Pete Metzger CD1, Councilmember Gil Cedillo Webmaster: Juli Crockett CD14, Councilmember Jose Huizar Legal Consultant: Gwen Freeman Los Angeles County Supervisor District 1, Hilda Videography: Bert Atkinson, Lucas Benitez, Solis Maeve Atkinson Occidental College Institute for the Study of Photography: Martha Benedict, D. W. Jacobs, Los Angeles Eliot Sekuler, Peggy Soto, Al C. Strange, Stella Occidental College Media Arts and Culture Archer Department Spanish-language Publicity Consultant: Raul The Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance Becerra, B’Llamas PR Infinity Group This festival is made possible in part by a grant ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Bert Atkinson, Maggie Barto, Carmela Gomes, Cultural Affairs. Olga Hall, Heinrich Keifer, Melissa Lewis, Laura This festival is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through Longoria, Tom Louie, Denise Ovaldson Louie, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Suzanne Lummis, Raul Macias, Rosamaria County Supervisor Hilda Solis Marquez, Leslie Mylius, Yolanda Noguiera, Tac Home Depot and Color Spot Phung, Eddie Rivera, Chase Rojas, Eliot Sekuler, Jain Sekuler SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS: Photo by Kevin Harbach Anahuak Youth Soccer Association COMMITTEES: Community Tables Management: Teri Bonsell Aerial view of Lummis Home in foreground. Named “El Alisal” (“The Sycamore”) by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council Educational Program: Carmela Gomes, Yim Tam the building was constructed over a 13-year period from 1897 to 1910 and was a hub of Los Angeles cultural Atwater Village Neighborhood Council Lummis Days Screening: Eliot Sekuler, activity during Lummis’ lifetime. In the distance is the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles’ first museum, founded by Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council Alessandro Gentile, Tomás Benitez, Allegra Charles Lummis. Designed by Sumner Hunt and Silas Burns in the mission revival style, the Southwest Museum Highland Park Heritage Trust Padilla, Dr. Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, Broderick building opened in 1914. Both buildings are designated Historic-Cultural Monuments. Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Fox, Maggie Barto, Laura Longoria Kiwanis Club of Greater Highland Park Permits, Logistics and Risk Management: LA32 Neighborhood Council Heinrich Keifer, Roy Payan, Chase Rojas, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Carmela Gomes, Patrick Botz-Forbes two-bedroom manager’s unit, with 39 units awarded project- New York Life Insurance Lummis Home Poetry: Suzanne Lummis, On Our Way Home based Section 8 vouchers. This development is home to persons Michele Clark, Laura Longoria, and for ISLA, with developmental disabilities, and formerly homeless special ARTS ORGANIZATION PARTNERS: Dr. Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, Allegra Padilla, [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23] needs populations including veterans, other individuals, small The Arroyo Arts Collective Christian Rodriguez include Marmion Way Apartments, Teague Terrace and The families and seniors whose incomes are at or below 40% of area Highland Park Independent Film Festival Marketing and Communications: Eliot Sekuler, Paseo at the Californian. median Income. Poets & Writers, Inc. Eddie Rivera, Tac Phung Marmion Way Apartments addresses the North East Los Elsewhere in the council district, The Paseo at the Rock Rose Gallery – courtesy of a Cultural Angeles community’s need for family housing and housing Noisemaker Award Dinner: Jain Sekuler, Tac Californian is a large family property consisting of 53 Pathways Grant, California Arts Council for veterans by providing intensive supportive services that affordable apartments, replacing an underutilized and blighted Phung, Laura Longoria, James Spicer, Rosamaria Teatro Arroyo // Theater Stream are specifically designed to support stable, independent living lot. The building represents a seven-year-long effort of its Marquez, Maggie Barto, Carmela Gomes, Eliot La Culebra Action League among individuals who are transitioning out of long-term developers, banks, funding partners and city and state agencies Sekuler homelessness. Marmion Way Apartments is a mixed population each of which are committed to providing Los Angeles with Parking and Transportation: Heinrich Keifer, Ben project that combines chronically homeless veterans, families, MEDIA SPONSORS: high quality, sustainable, affordable housing. The site of this Park, Chase Rojas, Jain Sekuler and affordable units for individuals and families and gives newly constructed development used to house the former Hotel Boulevard Sentinel Talent: Jain Sekuler, Maggie Barto, Rosamaria preference to formerly homeless veterans. There are permanent Californian, which endured arson fires in 1960 and was finally Brooklyn & Boyle supportive housing units for 48 households and one manager’s destroyed in a 1994 fire and demolished in 1995. The Eastsider LA Marquez, Olga Hall, Tom Louie, Eddie Rivera unit. There are several more affordable housing projects in the Happening in Highland Park Library Poetry Series aka Viva! Poetry: Suzanne Teague Terrace is a relatively new affordable housing pipeline. Councilmember Cedillo is committed to leading the KPFK Public Radio 90.7 Lummis, Laura Longoria, Jessica Ceballos community in Glassell Park that consists of 56 apartment effort to build housing sufficient to relieving the housing crisis LA Art News Volunteer Coordinators: Chase Rojas, Rogelio homes, including seven efficiencies, 48 one-bedrooms and 1 in the communities that comprise Council District 1. Mammana

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THE FESTIVAL THE BANDSHELL AND UPTOWN DANZA STAGES Uptown Danza Stage sponsored by the Uptown “DOLORES” – THE LUMMIS DAYS SCREENING Gay and Lesbian Alliance Presented by Lummis Days, the Highland Park Producers: Rosamaria Marquez, Jain Sekuler Independent Film Festival, the Institute for the Stage Manager: Charles Sarceda Study of Los Angeles and the Media Arts and Sound: Passage Entertainment Culture Department of Occidental College, KPFK Public Radio 90.7 THE ALISAL STAGE Producers: Alessandro Gentile, Eliot Sekuler Producer: Rosamaria Marquez, Jain Sekuler Volunteers: Hathaway-Sycamores Youth Stage Manager: Betty Hsi Leadership, 8th grade-12th grade Sound: Passage Entertainment

BOULEVARD STAGE THE ANGEL STAGE Kate Sancer, Michelle Kagan Sponsored by Historic Highland Park Producers: Chase Rojas, Eddie Rivera, Yolanda Beverage Management: Natalie Fratino, Denise Neighborhood Council Noguiera, Maggie Barto, Jain Sekuler Ovaldson Louie, assisted by Steve Rick OUT WEST: Producer: Olga Hall, Maggie Barto Stage Manager: Kevin Kielty Noisemaker Award Honoree: Amy Inouye THE LUMMIS DAY MAGAZINE Stage Manager: Tom Louie Sound: Passage Entertainment Award Presented by: Councilmember CD1, Gil Sound: Passage Entertainment Cover design: Eliot Sekuler and Pete Metzger Green Room: Yolanda Noguiera, Jain Sekuler, Cedillo Leslie Mylius, James Spicer TEATRO ARROYO / BUGS & PUPPETS STAGE Award Creator: Heather McLarty Layout and Production: Pete Metzger, Art Exhibit and Community Tables: Chase Rojas Producer: Ralph Waxman, Marita De La Torre, MC: Momo Rodriguez Jain Sekuler, Eliot Sekuler Logistics, Risk Management and Permits: Chase Alexandra Busby, Jain Sekuler Entertainment: The Andersons Editors: Eliot Sekuler, Jain Sekuler, Eddie Rojas, Eddie Rivera Sound: Passage Entertainment Lighting design: Dessie Coale assisted by Tac Rivera Technical Advisor: Heinrich Keifer Phung FAMILY FUN Sound: Alan Dyer Advertising Director: Jain Sekuler POETRY RECEPTION AND WORKSHOP Producer: Carmela Gomes, Melissa Lewis Photography: D. W. Jacobs, Eliot Sekuler This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers. Food provided by: The Capri, Fiesta Fast Foods, Advertising Associates: Carmela Gomes, Sponsored by Occidental College Institute for the VOLUNTEERS: Folliero’s Italian Restaurant, Las Cazuelas, My Taco, Tac Phung, Eliot Sekuler, Isaiah Andalon, Kaitlynn Castillo, Maeve Atkinson, Molly Atkinson, Titina Folliero Study of Los Angeles Señor Fish, Antigua Bread, Antigua Coffee, Maggie Francesca Weber, Kate Sancer and the volunteers Barto and Jain Sekuler Producers: Michele Clark, Laura Longoria Contributors: Bert Atkinson, Fredy Ceja, from New York Life Volunteers: Rogelio Mammana, Bert Atkinson, Poetry Producer: Suzanne Lummis Carol Colin, Eddie Rivera, Eliot Sekuler Eagle Rock High School International Molly Atkinson, Alexis Chavez, Annie Krappman, For ISLA: Dr. Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, Christian Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Heinrich Keifer, D. W. Jacobs, Johan Moreno, Eliot Rodriguez, Allegra Padilla The student volunteers from Franklin High School Sekuler, Juan Ureno, Ralph Waxman

A very special thank you to the Ebell Club and its …and all the volunteers from the communities of Thank You! SYCAMORE GROVE PARK members, to President Misty Iwatsu and especially Permits, Logistics and Risk Management: Heinrich Northeast Los Angeles. to Michael Staedler The Festival organizers gratefully acknowledge the Keifer Thanks to all of the artists, restaurants and donors Producers: Maggie Barto, Carmela Gomes, NOISEMAKER AWARD DINNER support of Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil for their generous contributions Cedillo, CD 1 and Los Angeles City Councilmember Olga Hall, Melissa Lewis, Tom Louie, Rosamaria Producer: Jain Sekuler Jose Huizar, CD 14 and the advertisers, in-kind Marquez, Tac Phung, Eddie Rivera, Chase Rojas, Auction Curator: Laura Longoria assisted by Lisa Connelly, Tom Louie, Venita Edwards Strange POETRY LIBRARY SERIES AKA “VIVA! POETRY” sponsors, restaurants, donors and volunteers who Eliot Sekuler, Jain Sekuler Raffle: Ann Marie Wozniak Produced by Suzanne Lummis have made this year’s festival possible. Green Room: James Spicer, Natalie Fratino Committee: Maggie Barto, Carmela Gomes, Assisted by: Laura Longoria This festival is made possible in part by a grant Talent Transportation: Graham Clark, Greger Rosamaria Marquez, Tac Phung, Heinrich Keifer, from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Walnum Laura Longoria SPECIAL THANKS TO: Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to Rick Swanson, Sycamore Tickets: Carmela Gomes, Stephanie Mancillas, CD 1’s Sylvia Robledo and Bill Cody; CD 14’s Zenay This festival is supported in part by the Los Angeles Grove Park administrator for the Los Angeles Francesca Weber Loera and Lucy Aparicio County Board of Supervisors through the Los Department of Rec and Parks Food Management: James Spicer assisted by Marlena Bond at KPFK’s Poets’ Café Angeles County Arts Commission and Los Angeles MCs: Momo Rodriguez, Eddie Rivera, Leslie Mylius Michele Rick, Patricia Parra, Rosamaria Marquez, KPFK’s Maggie Lepique and Jasmine Royce County Supervisor Hilda Solis

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