Community Pop-Ups take place across all Los Angeles County neighborhoods, in partnership with over 50 community groups, artists, grassroots leaders, healers and other LA County Departments. WE RISE highlights and supports the vital community-centered and civic work taking place in these neighborhoods. These projects and collaborations include mural making, ancestral healing workshops, a Countywide public literary art project and more to celebrate the remarkable resources and communities in LA County and use arts-based strategies for healing and wellbeing.
High-quality arts program for kids, led by world class chalk artists, that invites kids to create colorful designs at 55 local parks around Los Angeles County. In partnership with the LA County Parks program “Every Body Plays”, artists will be creating amazing images, sharing chalk supplies and guiding kids, ages 6-12, through various chalk art experiences to raise awareness for mental health, art, connection, community engagement and creative expression.
Click here for a list of dates and locations.
WE RISE honors the profound contribution of Tongva Elder and WE RISE artist Julia Bogany who passed away March 28, 2021 in Los Angeles. We uplift her voice as an incredible leader who used arts and culture to educate, elevate and build community.
“We, the Indigenous People, the Traditional Caretakers of this landscape are the direct descendants of the First People who formed our lands, our worlds during creation time. We have always been here. Our Ancestors prepared and became the landscapes and worlds for the coming of humans with order, knowledge and gifts embedded in the landscape. Our Ancestors imbued us, who now live here, with the responsibility and obligations of our original instructions as told to us in our creation stories. We are guided by protocol and etiquette to be part of, take care of, and ensure the welfare of the NATURE, the extended family and community defined in its most inclusive expression. We pass those teachings and responsibilities onto our children, grandchildren and many generations to come.”
- Julia Bogany. October, 2020.
https://ifrglobal.org/land-acknowledgment/
