Echoes of the City: Disability Arts Exchange: In-Person Registration
About this Event
Echoes of the City: Disability Arts Exchange is a workshop series curated by Vanessa Hernández Cruz in partnership with The Music Center in Los Angeles, CA & Los Angeles Spoonie Collective. The series offers a space for Disabled artists, creators and dreamers of all experience levels to connect, imagine and create. Throughout our journey from Spring 2026-Fall 2027, we will explore powerful themes that shape our lives through the intricate tapestry of time and memory. Featuring guided monthly workshops led by QTBIPOC Disabled facilitators across the arts, we will channel these ideas into a collective body of work in connection with Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s new multimedia dance work “Echoing Memories in a Distant Future,” set to premiere in Fall 2027.
ANNOUNCING OUR FALL 2026 LINEUP:
🍁판소리/pansori: Creating a Collective Memory Map
September 25, 2026 from 11am-1pm PST
Facilitated by haejin bang (any/all/haej)
What does it means to build home, to re/connect to body, to reclaim voice and story?
This workshop will be an exercise in creating a collective memory map! Using 판소리/pansori, a folk corean storytelling and singing/drumming practice, as the grounding framework for this workshop, participants will explore their own relationships to home and body/voice/sound as a way to create a collective body-map in connection to what/where/who home is and what it brings up for them. This workshop centers the somatic versus the verbalized/written word, making space for what cannot and refuses to be verbalized, translated, and/or legible. Going through the core sounds and embodied practices that are foundational to pansori, participants will then explore their own bodies and soundings, ultimately drawing and/or sharing them on a collective body map. participants will walk away with a deepened connection to body/voice/sound, as well as a relational exercise and practice around co-creating home alongside other disabled, QTBIPOC folks. Central to this workshop is the question – how can ancestral, indigenous practices like pansori re-connect us to home, land, and bodies that we’ve been forcibly estranged from?
Materials Provided:
Big butcher paper, art supples.
Encourage to Bring:
Your own cultural/ancestral instruments and/or object related to their own “home"
🍁Liberation Spells: Black & Indigenous, Queer and Trans Folk
October 4, 2026 from 10am-noon PST
Virtually Facilitated by Rise (they/them)
"Spelling is Spelling" Spelling is Healing. Spelling. Or spells, are also OURS. At no point in history were there not Black/African/Indigenous folks using what they had to create whole worlds. To protect. To sustain. To get free. What are the spells we need today? How can we use spelling as archive? What are the truths only we can tell and how? What must we cast out? And how can we be as specific as possible about it?
Materials Provided:
Journal and writing materials
🍁Days of Future Present
November 13, 2026 from 10am-noon PST
Virtually Facilitated by Dominic Bradley (they/them)
This will be an art workshop on self and community archiving. Participants will collaborate in a digital platform like Weje to create a collective near-term vision board that will motivate them to create the kind of world they would like to see (this will be made permanently available for reference). Then, participants, guided by the facilitator, will use objects they can find around them to create a time capsule that includes information on skills, practices, and cultural knowledge they can bring to bear on manifesting that collective near-term vision. That time capsule will serve as a compass that they can revisit any time.
Materials Provided
Journal and/or paper, writing materials, and art materials
Access Information:
- Masking required for all participants (K95 masks + rapid tests will be available onsite)
*If unable to mask due to access needs, we do ask participants to COVID test 24 hours before a workshop. - Scent-free environment
- ASL interpreters are available upon a request (a week notice is required)
- Transport chairs & Wheelchairs are available upon request (a week notice is required)
- Access Doula onsite
- Ushers will be available for wayfinding and with wheelchair support
- High quality air filtration system running throughout the building
- Serenity Space available (Quiet Room)
- Sensory kits available (ear plugs and sensory toys)
- Sanitizers
Stay Tuned for our Winter 2027 Lineup!
Important Note:
When using Access Paratransit, Butterfli Access For All, Uber ask driver to drop off/pick-up on Grand Ave when booking your trip. Entrance will be closest to the cross street W 1st St.
Announcing our new partnership with Butterfli "Access For All" Transportation Service through the Los Angeles Urban League!
Butterfli’s LA Access For All (AFA) program makes it easier than ever for individuals who use a wheelchair or mobility device to attend inspiring community events like Echoes of the City: Disability Arts Exchange.
What this means is that you can use their same-day service transportation for $2 each way, if you are a wheelchair user or mobility device user!
We invite you to book a ride to our workshops and to check you eligibility by visiting their website:
📱 Call them starting at 7:00 AM to book your trip or use, visiting their website or using our app Butterfli Passenger available for both IOS & Google Play.
Parking & Rideshare Information
Accessible parking is available in both The Music Center Main Garage and the Walt Disney Concert Hall Garage for vehicles displaying valid, state-issued disability parking placards. If you would like to self-park in these spaces, you will find them on levels two and four in The Music Center Main Garage and on levels three and four in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Garage.
Parking is $10 on weekdays starting at 4:30 p.m. and on weekends all day. At all other times, you will pay the non-event rate of $3.50 for every 15 minutes, with a $20 maximum.The valet rate for vehicles displaying valid, state-issued disability parking placards is $10 for The Music Center Main Campus Valet and $23 in the Founders Circle Parking Garage.
Please be prepared to pay cash; credit card transactions are available at certain garage entry points or in the parking office, but cash transactions still remain optimal and will help enable a more efficient parking experience.
Rideshare is also available. The Music Center has rideshare drop-off and pick-up points:
- 135 N Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012 drop off/pick up on Grand Ave closest to cross street W 1st street for accessible rideshare vans
- 218 N. Hope St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 (adjacent to Jerry Moss Plaza)
- 111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (in front of Walt Disney Concert Hall)
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