Community Sound Bath: A Space for Healing and Renewal After the LA Fires

Oxy Arts, 4757 York Blvd. 

Community Hall events are independently initiated by artists, organizers, and community members, with OXY ARTS providing space and support to amplify their work. Learn more here. 

Join Lisa Gonsalves for an intimate sound bath, dedicated to the wellness of our Highland Park community - especially those impacted by the January wildfires. This offering is a gentle invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with your inner healer.

23rd Animation Show of Shows

This year’s show features a selection of the best of the best from the first 16 years of the festival, including a brand new 4K digital restoration (from the original film negatives) of Hasta Los Huesos by Rene Castillo, Michaël Dudok de Wit’s poignant Oscar-winning Father and Daughter, Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis’s Cannes Palme d’Or winning film, When the Day Breaks, and Steven Woloshen’s direct-painting-on film, among others.

Poetry As Ritual: A Reading With Jamila Woods

Jamila Woods is an award-winning poet, musician, and interdisciplinary artist from Chicago. Her writing has been published in POETRY, Poets.org, The Offing, and several anthologies. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, The Poetry Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri. Her three solo albums, HEAVN (2017), LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019), and Water Made Us (2023) were released by JagJaguwar Records to critical acclaim.

Media Arts & Culture Senior Comprehensives Night #1

MAC seniors in Critical Media and Media Production will present their senior comprehensive projects.  The presentations will begin at 7pm.  There will be a cocktail party on the Thorne Patio prior to the presentations  beginning at 6pm.  The presentations will take place over 3 nights, April 7, 8 and 9

Presenting night #1: Madelyn Hesse, Lila Dworsky-Hickey, Emma Tiedemann,  Gabriela Pinto, Lily Jones, Anamaria Tafur, Lillian Calvert, Mia Miller, Oliver Jackson, Reese Cuevas and Alexnder Treskin 

Media Arts & Culture Senior Comprehensives Night #3

MAC seniors in Critical Media and Media Production will present their senior comprehensive projects.  The presentations will begin at 7pm.  There will be a cocktail party on the Thorne Patio prior to the presentations  beginning at 6pm.  The presentations will take place over 3 nights, April 7, 8 and 9  

Presenting Night #3: James Grayson, Kasio Dalton, Julia Carrigan, Truman Urness, Zane Ndonye, Ella Espiritu, Abigail Sajdak, Sean Kiely, Zelie Goldberg Little and Tate Miller

Media Arts & Culture Senior Comprehensives Night #2

MAC seniors in Critical Media and Media Production will present their senior comprehensive projects.  The presentations will begin at 7pm.  There will be a cocktail party on the Thorne Patio prior to the presentations  beginning at 6pm.  The presentations will take place over 3 nights, April 7, 8 and 9  

Presenting Night #2: Joseph Dayton, Bryanna Hernandez, Hayden Jennings, Sophie Weil, Brooke Andrews, Ray Cha, Sadie Ballot, Lizzie Friedrich, Lena Schindler and Maxwell Brown