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CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LA COMMONS AND MAKE MUSIC LOS ANGELES CELEBRATE MAKE MUSIC DAY WITH A CONCERT AND GLOBAL LIVESTREAM IN LEIMERT PARK AS PART OF THE PARIS 2024 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD
Pulsations LA Kicks Off a day of Music Programming at Select DCA Theaters and by Community Members throughout Los Angeles
On Friday, June 21, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), in partnership with LA Commons and Make Music LA will celebrate Make Music Day (Fête de la Musique) with Pulsations LA, a free, outdoor concert event featuring artists identified as Cultural Treasures by the Cultural Treasures of South LA, a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative, a collaboration between DCA, LA Commons, South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z), Community Coalition (CoCo) and USC’s Neighborhood Data for Social Change initiative. This Make Music Day Celebration will be livestreamed globally as part of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad.
The Make Music Day Concert will be held on People Street in Leimert Park Village in front of the historic Vision Theater, featuring musical performances from Kinnara Taiko, Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center Jazz Ensemble featuring vocalist Dwight Trible, tap dance by the Nicholas Dance Studio, poetry by artivist S. Pearl Sharp, with a family-friendly drum workshop by Project Knucklehead.
This concert event will be part of a global “rhythmic relay” called Pulsations as part of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad. Under the creative direction of French/Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, Pulsations will unite artists in 24 countries with a shared heartbeat rhythm that will travel around the world from New Zealand to Paris.
Participating countries include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States on the following schedule:
At 8:50 a.m. on Friday, June 21, 2024 Los Angeles will pick up the rhythm from Mexico and pass it to Canada as it makes its way around the globe to Paris via livestream.
