Family celebration
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center (1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton) will celebrate Día de los Muertos with a festival of music, culture and family activities. There will be a table to make sugar skulls, papel picado and paper cempazúchil flowers. There will also be a market with vendors and a community offering where attendees can place something in memory of loved ones who have passed away. The Bella Group will play on the amphitheater stage. Today Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Free entrance. themuck.org reports.
Siqueiros at the Getty
KCET’s new documentary, Artbound, América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros, addresses from the beginning the history of América Tropical, a large mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros in Plaza Olvera at the beginning of the last century. After being censored, it remained forgotten for decades, until the Getty Conservation Institute began to give it treatment to preserve it. It will be on display at the Getty Museum (1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles) on Saturday at 3 pm. Free entrance. getty.edu reports.
Day of the Dead in the cemetery
The 24th edition of the Day of the Dead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles) will have two editions, one in the morning, from 9 am to 3 pm, and another in the evening, from 5 pm to 12 A.M. In the morning, visitors can participate in rituals, watch performances by artists such as DannyLux, Irene Díaz and the Cielito Lindo folkloric ballet. There will also be a children’s area, food for sale, music from DJs and Aztec dances. At night, in addition to more than one hundred altars, music from DJs and an exhibition of masks, the singers Bomba Estéreo, Bratty, Camila Fernández and the Banda Las Angelinas participate. Tickets from $35. ladayofthedead.com reports.
Hauntings in Whittier Narrows
There are just a few days left to visit The Magic of the Jack O’ Lanterns, an interactive attraction that covers a good portion of the Whittier Narrows Park Recreation Area (750 S. Santa Anita Ave., South El Monte). On a half-mile route, visitors can see a light show that illuminates hundreds of carved pumpkins as well as large creations also alluding to this Halloween season, including skulls, pirate ships, dinosaurs and dragons. Tickets from $20. Ends October 31. magicofthejackolanterns.com reports.
Chicano art
For the first time in her career, Judy Baca transforms a museum into a studio. She and artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center will extend The Great Wall of Los Angeles to the 21st century; They will paint two sections of the mural at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles). The exhibition Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall features murals from the 1960s and archival materials never before shown. Starting today and until June 2. Tickets from $10; free for children under 17 years of age residents of Los Angeles County. lacma.org reports.
new movie
The California Science Center (700 Exposition Park Dr., Los Angeles) teamed up with IMAX to show the film Deep Sky in its magnificent theater. The film shows from the beginning of time in space to the impressive images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It’s a 13 billion year journey told through NASA’s powerful telescope. Tickets from $7. californiasciencecenter.org reports.
family opera
In the Los Angeles Opera’s Saturday program, families can enjoy a program adapted to younger audiences. On this Saturday Mornings at the Opera, Figaro Opera Tales will be presented and there will be craft activities, music and dance in a show written especially for the whole family. Saturday 10 am. Tickets $18. laopera.org reports.
Festival in Pacoima
The seventh edition of the Día de los Muertos festival will take place at Pacoima City Hall (13520 Van Nuys Blvd., Los Angeles) this weekend. With 20 altars, local vendors, a children’s zoo, face painting, an interactive play space for children, food sales, live mariachi music, DJs and folk dance; the main number is performed by the Kumbia All Stars. Saturday from 12 to 8 pm. Free. Reports monicarodriguez.org.
Party in Santa Monica
Third Street Promenade will celebrate Día de los Muertos with cultural activities and live entertainment, including Neiya Arts, Ballet Flor de Mayo, Grupo La Rosa, Folklor América, Poco Pocho local student groups and DJs. Altars, sculptures of catrinas will be placed and there will be a market with a selection of crafts. For children there will be artistic crafts and artists who will paint the faces of Catrinas. Saturday 2 to 9 pm. The shows will be on the Promenade stage (1300 Block, Santa Monica). downtownsm.com reports.
opera season
The opera The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini, is part of LA Opera’s 2023/24 season series of works, presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N. Grand Ave ., Los Angeles) on select days through November 12. The story is a comedy in which the Count of Almaviva is ready to make Rosina fall in love with him and make her his countess, but her doctor and guardian Bartolo has something to say. Tickets from $24. laopera.org reports.
Day of the Dead in DTLA
Gloria Molina Grand Park (200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles) will once again host Downtown Día de los Muertos, a public installation that honors the traditions of this holiday that remembers the memory of loved ones who have passed away. There are 19 altars and on altar 20 visitors can participate with offerings. On this occasion, the holiday is dedicated to the victims of the Monterey Park massacre and those who died in the Maui fires. Ends November 2nd. Free entrance. grandpark.org reports.