Oxy Arts on York (4757 York Boulevard)

Drop by to share tea and sweets from a different culture each week and chat about any and everything. Tea is the medium for a ritual that is practiced daily around the world. Though the ritual may vary, tea carves out time and space for hospitality, tradition and mediation. Come share with us. 

This week's theme will be small bites from Yemen, hosted by Sumaya and Shada abubaker. Sumaya and Shade grew up with their older sister in California's Central Valley. They lived and learned the tradition of tea from their mother and family visits to Yemen. 

Drop by to share tea and sweets from a different culture each week and chat about any and everything. Tea is the medium for a ritual that is practiced daily around the world. Though the ritual may vary, tea carves out time and space for hospitality, tradition and mediation. Come share with us. 

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The ghost pop band Bitter Party performs, reads, and discusses Ghost Pop, a book of stories that honors the unheard sounds that inspire the bands songs and pays tribute to spirits from distant times and places related to their personal and family history. The event will feature a sonic-gastronomical collaboration with food-based artist Genevieve Erin O’Brien. 

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As a space of belonging for geographically, culturally and socially diverse constituencies, we explore the inclusive culture of food and how it transcends conventional systems of power. Breaking Bread is an opportunity to consider our coexistence through food, find shared connections and practices and hold spaces within them to thrive. 

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Please join us to celebrate the closing of the inaugural exhibition at Oxy Arts on York! The closing reception provides a final opportunity to engage with the Compass Rose collaborators and exhibition. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

Join us for a walk based on locations and sites mentioned in NELA Stories participant interviews featuring project participants and additional guests, organized by Maryam Hosseinzadeh for the NELA Stories exhibition.

Join us for a screening  of Resurrected Histories to appreciate the rich history of Chicanx art and culture in Highland Park, followed by a discussion and Q&A with key players in the documentary.

Join panelists community storyteller Soraya Medina, artist Debra Scacco, former Oxy Arts Coordinator of Community Programs Allegra Padilla and community storyteller Isabel Rojas-Williams to discuss the process and fruition of NELA Stories and the role of an art space in community.

The link to additional information on the Scalar page presented on the iPads in the gallery can be found here.