Summer Solstice Celebration at Getty

Just south of Manchester and off of Crenshaw stands a former dairy mart, home to an artist collective and art gallery dedicated to shifting the trauma-induced conditions of poverty and economic injustice, bridging cultural work and advocacy, and investigating ancestries through the lens of Inglewood and its community. What these Black and transnational identities seek is an imagination of new collective memory through programming, events, and arts installations which cultivate and nurture communal arts and education. The Crenshaw Dairy Mart emerges from an investment in abolition, modes of accessibility in art practice, and weaving community solidarity through new memories.

David Horvitz is an artist living in Los Angeles. He runs a garden on 7th Avenue in Arlington Heights that he has built with Terremoto.

The Don Brown Collective is a jazz group founded by professional drummer Don Brown. The Collective was formed with the intention to highlight local musicians, expose younger demographics to jazz music, and celebrate the chemistry that exists between them as friends.

Becky Stark is a Los Angeles-based singer, composer, choir director, educator, and multidisciplinary artist best known as the voice of Lavender Diamond. She creates participatory vocal experiences that bring people together through collective singing, healing, and community care, including projects such as the Community Peace Choir, Lavender Diamond Chorale, LA River Choir, LA Ladies Choir, and the Healing Force Kids Choir. Her work bridges music, environmental justice, and public art through collaborations with artists, children, and communities across Los Angeles and beyond.

The mission of G.Y.O.P.O. is to promote the rich diversity of Korean American contemporary arts, cultures, and immigrant histories in the US as well as to highlight cross-cultural, transnational diversity among Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) diasporas. G.Y.O.P.O. is a volunteer-powered arts nonprofit that generates progressive, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses and community alliances through free public programs and projects in Los Angeles and beyond. G.Y.O.P.O. embodies a connective, generative spirit through its work of uplifting the work of diasporic and immigrant creatives; we seek to de-essentialize notions of identity and culture by refracting them through the lens of migration, diaspora, and history.

Vivi Henriette is an LA-based astrologer and tarot reader whose practice centers on storytelling, mythology, and collaborative divination. She creates a space for clients to reclaim their personal narratives through the lens of ancient archetypes. Her approach has been shaped by studying with astrologers Adam Elenbaas, Adam Sommer, Austin Coppock, and Larry Arrington—teachers whose work deepened her commitment to astrology as a living, narrative art. She is the producer of LA Astro Fest, host of the Los Angeles Astro Salon, and is the creator of the podcast TALK TALK TALK.

Meztli Projects is an Indigenous-based arts and culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for, and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted youth. Meztli Projects operates out of Apachianga (East Los Angeles) in Tovaangar (Los Angeles County), lands stewarded since time immemorial by families and villages now known as the Acjachemen, Chumash, Tataviam, and Tongva Tribal Nations.