Vida Latina - Explore and Connect

VIDA LATINA

LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by exploring and connecting with these organizations and events across Long Beach, Los Angeles County, and beyond.

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A Long Beach non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement and advancement of Latino/Hispanic communities.

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lbIRC

LATINOS IN ACTION CA

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PLAZA DE LA RAZA

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"Sacred as the Sun" by mural artist Jose Loza

Located at 200 Santa Fe, Long Beach, CA, 90810

Organized through a collaboration between Centro CHA, Long Beach Economic Partnership, and local business leaders.

Chosen by the community's Latino and Filipino residents, the mural presents the Virgin Mary flanked by two people wearing a cap and gown—alluding to not just graduating from school, but also opportunity and aspirations for the future. The mural pays homage to the residents of West Long Beach, who are largely from immigrant communities. Artist Jose Loza said the title came from a line of a poem titled "Vatos" by Luis Alberto.

LBIRC is building and sustaining a thriving immigrant-led movement to end the criminalization of immigrants and secure bold protections and opportunities that allow immigrant communities to thrive.

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LATINOS IN ACTION CA

PLAZA DE LA RAZA

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Latinos in Action California is a grassroots organization providing programs that educate, empower, and encourage community members to excel and become leaders. They believe everyone has a right to succeed and be recognized as a valuable member of society, and that marginalized communities in California, including the Latino community, should prosper.

LATINOS IN ACTION CALIFORNIA

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LATINOS IN ACTION CA

PLAZA DE LA RAZA

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PLAZA DE LA RAZA

Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts and Education is the only multidisciplinary community arts venue dedicated to serving the Eastside neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

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PLAZA DE LA RAZA

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.

Photo attributed to Kent Kanouse. Image source: Kent Kanouse on Flickr.

Plaza de la Raza (Place of the People), has been a cultural oasis for the Eastside neighborhoods of Los Angeles, providing year-round programs in arts education and a space for cultural enrichment.

Founded in 1970 by prominent labor, business and civic leaders as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, it offers affordable after-school, intergenerational arts education programs to nearly 5,100 children, teens and adults each year. Its mission is to foster enrichment of all cultures bridging the geographic, social, artistic, and cultural boundaries of Los Angeles, and beyond.

Throughout the year, Plaza presents more than 450+ classes (beginning to advanced) that are taught quarterly by local artists and performers in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. In addition, the center attracts more than 25,000 visitors each year with its free cultural programs, and manages almost 300 community volunteers.

CASA 0101 Theater is dedicated to providing vital arts, cultural, and educational programs, thereby nurturing the future storytellers of Los Angeles who will someday transform the world.

CASA 0101

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THE CHEECH MARIN CENTER FOR CHICANO ART AND CULTURE

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A Worldwide Home for Chicano Art

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture is a public-private partnership between RAM, the City of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art. The Cheech's mission is to be the “center of Chicano art, not only for painting, but for sculpture, photography, and video arts.”

The 61,420-square-foot center houses hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures by artists including Patssi Valdez, Sandy Rodriguez, Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, Judithe Hernández, and Gilbert “Magú” Luján.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.

Photo is attributed to Gage Skidmore. Image source: Gage Skidmore on Flickr.

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Museum and renowned cultural center located in El Pueblo, Los Angeles—the historical birthplace of the city.

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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes honors the past, inspires the future, and recognizes the enduring cultural influence of Mexicans, Mexican Americans and all Latinas/Latinos in Los Angeles through transformative exhibitions, programming, and educational experiences.

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Photo is attributed to Ken Lund. Image source: Ken Lund on Flickr.

MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART

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The Museum of Latin American Art expands knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art through its collection, ground-breaking exhibitions, stimulating educational programs, and engaging cultural events.

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Copyright © 2007 by Mark Mauno. All rights reserved by the creator. Image source: Mark Mauno on Flickr.

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This curated collection of exhibitions on Hispanic Americans was created as part of the California Cultures project.

Calisphere

Zócalo

The items in these exhibitions trace the history of Hispanic Americans in California from the Mission system and Californios into the 20th century: Mexican immigration into California, the farmworkers' labor struggles, and the Chicano Civil Rights movement and La Raza, which also resulted in an explosion of cultural art.

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Founded in Los Angeles in 2003, Zócalo Public Square is a media enterprise from ASU that focuses on publishing, events, and connecting people to ideas and each other.

ZÓCALO PUBLIC SQUARE

Zócalo

This Long Beach tiendita is filled to the brim with Chicana-inspired clothing, jewelry, candles, bottle openers, matchboxes, cultural shadow boxes for ofrenda displays, sarapes for dogs, and more. Owned by a Latina, LGBTQ couple, the shop is home to exclusive works from artists, many of whom are also queer-identifying Chicanas.

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casita del pueblo

GUSTO BREAD

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ADELITAS REVENGE

Adelitas Revenge

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GUSTO BREAD

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Adelitas Revenge

CASITA DEL PUEBLO

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A cultural boutique, located in Uptown Whittier, committed to bringing art, culture, and education to its surrounding communities by making local and international folk art—in its many forms—more accessible.

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GUSTO BREAD

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Adelitas Revenge

GUSTO BREAD

GUSTO BREAD

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A modern panadería on Retro Row in Long Beach combining socially responsible, indigenous ingredients and baking mastery. They offer loaves, conchas, long breads, nixtamal, polvorones, horchata, café de olla, yerba mate, sardinas, beans, and more.

A modern panadería on Retro Row in Long Beach combining socially responsible, indigenous ingredients and baking mastery. They offer loaves, conchas, long breads, nixtamal, polvorones, horchata, café de olla, yerba mate, sardinas, beans, and more.

casita del pueblo

GUSTO BREAD

PLANTIITAS

Adelitas Revenge

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This queer, Latinx-owned plant shop is located in the Belmont Heights area of Long Beach. Boasting a wide variety of plants, planters, and unique accessories, they now are a center to many plant enthusiasts and hobbyists from throughout Southern CA.

This queer, Latinx-owned plant shop is located in the Belmont Heights area of Long Beach. Boasting a wide variety of plants, planters, and unique accessories, they now are a center to many plant enthusiasts and hobbyists from throughout Southern CA.