PULSATIONS LA

As a leading, progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’s vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, literary, performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers and theatrical venues; preserving historic sites; creating public art; and funding services provided by arts organizations and individual artists. DCA’s Performing Arts Division (PERF) champions Los Angeles artists through advocacy on a local, national, and international level through dance, music, theater and media. Specifically, PERF’s Leimert Park Cultural Hub (LPCH) implements project and festival initiatives for South Los Angeles artists to create and present site-specific programming celebrating art, community and culture.

LA Commons engages communities in artistic and cultural expression that tells their unique stories and serves as a basis for dialogue, interaction and a shared understanding of Los Angeles. Through community-based arts programs, centered on youth leadership development, we help diverse, generally low-income neighborhoods create dynamic works of public art that build community connection and empowerment. We uplift local narratives, enhancing the sense of belonging felt by a broad range of stakeholders.

Founded by Dorsay Dujon in 2012, Make Music LA is not just another music festival, MMLA is about neighborhoods and people coming together in their communities to put together their own do-it-yourself musical events. The whole city of Los Angeles is the stage from sidewalks to community gardens, schools, libraries, plazas, courtyards and parks. MMLA is a day of service and celebration when people from all walks of life, and musicians of all kinds – Professionals, amateurs and students, come together to make and celebrate the power of music. Make Music LA: performed by anyone, free for everyone.

Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, Make Music is celebrated on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in dozens of countries around the world.

Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. Learn more at makemusicday.org