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1.24.20
LA Opera is currently accepting submissions for its fourth annual GRoW @ Annenberg Poster Contest, through which currently enrolled Southern Cali...
1.15.20
As the start of 2020 brings a devastating wildfire season for Australia, GRoW @ Annenberg has joined fellow Annenberg Foundation trustees in the ...
1.9.20
On February 9, East Side Riders Bike Club (ESRBC) will host its first group bicycle ride of the year. During these rides, which take place severa...
1.8.20
From February 28 through July 5, 2020, Musée des Arts Décoratifs will exhibit Harper's Bazaar, First in Fashion ("Harper's Bazaar, premier magazi...
12.3.19
This December, GRoW underwrote the cost of new iPads and keyboards for the teaching staff of Telfair Elementary School.
11.25.19
This season, several Watts-based GRoW grantee-partners will celebrate the holidays with toy and food drives to benefit children and families in t...
11.22.19
On Saturday, November 23rd, East Side Riders Bike Club (ESRBC) will host a free Thanksgiving meal for homeless or food-insecure residents of the ...
11.6.19
Executive Staff and board members from the LA Opera are traveling to Paris where they will attend the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro...
10.31.19
On October 29 at the Annenberg Community Beach House, the Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) announced its honorees for the 47th Annual Whitney M. Y...
10.31.19
From December 7, 2019 through May 9, 2020, the Metropolitan Opera will operate its 89th season of Saturday matinee broadcasts. As a longtime supp...
10.31.19
As 2019 brings yet another unforgiving wildfire season to California, GRoW @ Annenberg joins fellow Annenberg Foundation trustees to support the ...
10.31.19
The National Gallery, London will showcase Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece from November 9, 2019 through January 26, 2020. The exhibition expl...
10.24.19
This November, Loving Hands Community Care will host its first community engagement and capacity- building meeting. The event will be hosted at t...
9.5.19
The Skirball Cultural Center presents the exhibition El Sueño Americano/The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer, from October 17, ...
9.3.19
On Tuesday, October 1, the New York Philharmonic hosted the first of three concerts of this year's GRoW @ Annenberg Sound ON Series. Sound ON con...
9.3.19
On Sunday, September 29, the Watts community celebrated the 43rd Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival. This year, the Festival honored t...
8.13.19
The 5th Annual Gilda Gala will be held on Saturday, October 19, honoring notable cancer advocates and inspiring individuals that have forged new ...
8.12.19
On August 15, 2019, the Santa Monica (SAMO) Mountains Fund and National Park Foundation will host its annual graduation ceremony. The ceremony wi...
8.9.19
On Saturday, September 14, LA Opera will celebrate the start of its 34th season with a performance of Puccini's La Bohème. The production, new to...
7.23.19
This July, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, also known as ImmDef, celebrates four years of important legal work in Southern California.
7.23.19
With a new school year right around the corner, We Care Outreach Ministries is preparing its back-to-school programming including Safe Passages, ...
6.7.19
The University of Oxford recently announced the 2019-2020 Weidenfeld-Hoffmann GRoW @ Annenberg Scholars. GRoW has underwitten scholarships for s...
5.31.19
On Saturday, June 1, Les Talens Lyrique conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset will conduct Handel & Rameau in a concert at The Art of L...
5.22.19
Over the course of ten days in the Spring of 2019, two historic black churches – Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist ...
4.26.19
On May 11, 2019, Loving Hands Community Care hosted its 12th Annual Mother's Day Luncheon in Los Angeles for mothers who have lost a child. The L...
5.17.19
On May 16, the Statue of Liberty Museum opened to the public. The 26,000 square-foot addition to Liberty Island contains three galleries celebrat...
4.1.19
From April 6, 2019 through February 16, 2020, the V&A will showcase Mary Quant. The exhibition features iconic designer Mary Quant's rev...
3.20.19
The interfaith support between two communities separated by thousands of miles of land and ocean is a testament to the bonds that bring us togeth...
3.13.19
"Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite" will showcase at the Skirball Cultural Center from April 11 to September 1, 2019. Brath...
2.27.19
This spring, Elder Michael Cummings led 70 fifth graders from an elementary school in Watts through a full-day program called Keeper of the D...
2.27.19
Each Saturday between December and May, the Met broadcasts live performances from the stage of the opera house, with commentary before the perfor...
2.13.19
LA Opera's production of The Clemency of Titus runs from March 2nd through March 24th. The drama was Mozart's final composition, and LA Opera's p...
1.28.19
In January, 2019, GRoW began supporting the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) at Yale Law School.
1.7.19
GRoW @ Annenberg is proud to support the Royal Opera House's upcoming Welcome Performance, matinee performances for families who have never visit...
1.7.19
In December 2018, East Side Riders Bike Club released Bikes Need Love Too, a collection of short essays written by six young authors fro...
12.14.18
Sunday, January 27 marks the second of the three-part GRoW @ Annenberg Sound ON series at the New York Philharmonic to be performed by musicians ...
11.28.18
In November 2018, Southern California again faced one of the worst wildfires when the Woolsey Fire tore through the region. A combined estimated ...
10.29.18
GRoW is proud to support the work of leaders in the Watts community who are organizing toy and food drives over the holidays.
10.27.18
On November 29, American Cinematheque will host its 32nd annual awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This year, the American Cinematheque...
10.26.18
LA Opera showcases the beloved fairy tale production of Hansel and Gretel, running November 17 through December 15.
10.19.18
From October 19, 2018 through March 10, 2019, the exhibition Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be open to the public ...
10.10.18
(Press Release | Whitney Museum of American Art)
Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and vi...
10.10.18
On November 16th, 2018, Covenant House will host its annual Sleep Out America program in support of homeless youth. Each year, thousands of part...
9.5.18
October 7th marks the beginning of the three-part GRoW @ Annenberg Sound ON series at the New York Philharmonic to be performed by musicians from...
9.5.18
On October 11, 2018, LA Opera Off Grand will perform an intimate concert by the renowned French Baroque ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, led by its ...
8.24.18
From October 19, 2018 through March 10, 2019, the exhibition Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be open to the public ...
8.2.18
In 2018, GRoW commissioned the creation of a sculpture of Simon Rodia by Watts Towers Arts Center artist-in-residence Charles Dickson. Simon Rod...
7.29.18
GRoW will sponsor a day of educational programming and celebration, in honor of the UCLA Watts Leadership Institute (WLI). On August 11, 2018, 15...
7.20.18
On August 9, 2018, the National Park Foundation will team up with the Santa Monica Mountains (SAMO) Fund to host a graduation ceremony for partic...
7.19.18
GRoW @ Annenberg partnered with the Quincy Jones Foundation to arrange for a UCLA Herb Albert School of Music student to perform at the Montreux ...
7.5.18
On June 16, 2018, Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up, opened at the V&A. This exhibit is aimed at illuminating the fascinating life of one of the wor...
6.29.18
The Watts Towers Arts Center exhibit Creative Souls: African American Artists in Greater Los Angeles was curated by UCLA Senior Lecturer Paul Von...
5.29.18
On April 26, 2018, Equal Justice Initiative opened both the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Ma...
5.16.18
On May 15, 2018, the Paris National Opera conducted the final concert of a three-part series featuring Tchaikovsky's Symphonies for the 2017-2018...
5.1.18
On May 12, 2018, Loving Hands will host their annual Mother's Day Healing Luncheon. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the event. E...
4.18.18
LA Opera held their 2nd annual art poster contest for college arts and design students in Southern California. Students were invited to submit o...
4.12.18
LA Opera's Rigoletto runs, May 12 – June 3, 2018. The production includes staging by Tony Award-winning artistic director Mark Lamos and features...
3.29.18
Artadia is pleased to announce the Awardees for the 2018 Los Angeles Artadia Awards: EJ Hill and Clarissa Tossin. As the 2018 Los Angeles Artadia...
2.22.18
The National Museum of Women in the Arts's latest exhibit, Women House, opens to the public on March 9 and runs through May 28, 2018.
2.16.18
Michael Cummings, founder of We Care Outreach Ministries, recently hosted a group of fifth graders from Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary Schoo...
2.10.18
Derived from the ancient Greek myth, this opera depicts the story of Eurydice's death and Orpheus' heroic and tragic attempt to rescue her from t...
2.1.18
A global beacon for radical and ambitious projects, the Getty Foundation spearheaded the innovative artistic collaboration entitled Pacific Stand...
1.1.18
In December 2017, Southern California faced one of this country's worst wildfires in recent history. Wildfires scorched hundreds of thousands of ...
12.1.17
The School of American Ballet announced that Mira Nadon (pictured above), SAB's GRoW Fellow in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, was selected as an appren...