LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is pleased to continue our tradition of presenting the best of Los Angeles Latinx history, art and culture with En Casa con LA Plaza. Register on Zoom using the links below. Guests can also view live-streamed Sessions on our Facebook page.

View past sessions: 2022 | 2021 | 2020

Dan Guerrero Holiday Happy Hour with guest Leticia Rhi Buckley, LA Plaza CEO
Thursday, December 15 | 7pm PT
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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes CEO Leticia Rhi Buckley joins Dan Guerrero on our special Holiday Happy Hour of live streamed conversations. The daughter of Mexican immigrants is described by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis as “steeped in community, equity and arts.” Indeed, the East LA native has more than 30 years’ experience with local cultural, arts, communications and entertainment organizations. Buckley will be joined by La Plaza staff members for a behind-the-scenes look at the museum and cultural center that may surprise you. And all will be done up in a bright red ribbon of holiday cheer and merriment.

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with guest Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx,
Artistic Director, Los Angeles LGBT Center
Thursday, January 19 | 7pm PT
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The new Artistic Director of the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center in Hollywood joins Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of live-streamed conversations. Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx was most recently Director of Cultural Programming at A Noise Within Theatre in Pasadena and is also a highly acclaimed stage director. The millennial arts leader has served on the Latinx Theatre Commons National Advisory Committee and on grant panels for the California Arts Council and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with Father Gregory Boyle,
Jesuit priest and founder, Homeboy Industries
Thursday, February 9 | 7pm PT
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Father Gregory Boyle guests with Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of live streamed conversations. The Jesuit priest is much admired for the work he has done for homeboys and homegirls since arriving at the Dolores Mission in the late 80s. A native Angeleno, he witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his Boyle Heights community and eventually founded Homeboy Industries. It has grown to employ and train former gang members in a vast range of social enterprises providing critical services to thousands of men and women seeking a better life. He wraps it up simply, “We’re in the business of second chances.”

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with Susie Garcia, Women-in-Mariachi Pioneer
Thursday, February 23 | 7pm
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Mariachi Mistress Susie Garcia joins Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of streamed conversations. An early pioneer of the modern all-female mariachi movement in the 90s, Garcia eventually founded Las Colibrí in 2009. The all-string female ensemble continues its mission to preserve the cultural values, heritage and traditions of the Mexican and Mexican-American/Chicano people. When not performing at the Hollywood Bowl or the Anson Ford Theater, the mother of two small children uses her maternal skills working with the next generation of mariachi women through an education program she founded.

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with Anthony Crespo, Youth Orchestra
of Los Angeles at Torres Program Manager
Thursday, March 9 | 7pm
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Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles at Torres Program Manager Anthony Crespo joins Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of live-streamed conversations. The Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles is the music education program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, serving 1,700 young musicians across five sites in the city. YOLA was inspired by LA Phil’s Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel’s experience with Venezuela’s El Sistema, a youth orchestra movement founded in 1975. YOLA at Torres is nestled on the campus of Esteban E. Torres High School, a performing arts magnet school in East LA. Crespo. Though young in years, he already has an impressive background as an arts administrator having earned an MA in Music Industry Administration from Cal State Northridge in 2018.

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with Luis C. Garza,
Photojournalist and Curator
Thursday, March 23 | 7pm
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Renown photojournalist and curator Luis C. Garza joins Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of streamed conversations. Garza has a distinguished career dating back to the early days of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles documenting that tumultuous time for “La Raza” magazine. He later captured Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros in an iconic photograph during an historic meeting in Budapest during a World Peace Conference, a meeting that proved transformational for the Bronx-born Chicano. This platica is not to be missed.

Dan Guerrero Happy Hour
with guest Roberta H. Martinez,
Educator, Historian and Artivist
Thursday, April 6 | 7pm
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Educator, historian and artivist Roberta H. Martinez joins Dan Guerrero on the next Happy Hour of streamed conversations. Martinez is an expert on the history of the Latino community in Pasadena and serves as Executive Director of Latino Heritage and Chair of the Arts Commission for the City of Pasadena, her long-time home. The Los Angeles native is also a published author, educator and performing artist.

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