Feed Your Mexican Food Skills at LA Plaza Cocina’s Teaching Kitchen

LA Plaza Cocina, the nation’s first museum/teaching kitchen dedicated to Mexican cuisine offers an enticing slate of food talks and tastings that will take participants on a culinary journey of México’s finest food and drinks.  This series of cooking classes and talks and tastings brings the art, food, and history

Continue reading

Grand Opening of “Abuelita’s Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories” on May 22

LA Plaza Cocina, the nation’s first museum and teaching kitchen dedicated to Mexican food, will open its downtown Los Angeles doors on Sunday, May 22 from 12pm to 4pm for the grand opening of its second exhibition, Abuelita’s Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories.   This multimedia exhibition, led by USC professor Sarah

Continue reading

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Kicks off Summer of Salsa Series on May 13

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (LA Plaza) presents its seventh annual free Summer of Salsa concert series beginning Friday, May 13. Dance to the sounds of some of LA’s best salsa bands hosted every second Friday of the month from May through September in Downtown Los Angeles. This year’s

Continue reading

Cinco de Mayo Family Day Features Theatre, Music, Dance and More, May 1, 2022

Families with strong Mexican-American and Latino roots, as well as anyone eager to learn about Mexican-American culture and history, are welcome to attend the next Family Day organized by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, dedicated to the true origin the celebration of Cinco de Mayo festivities in California.   “Cinco

Continue reading

L.A. Memo, Highlighting the Contribution of Chicano/a Artists to American Art, Opens March 18

  In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles-based Chicanas/os strove to scrutinize aspects of popular culture and advanced alternative narratives concerning race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship that were not represented within mainstream art practice at the time. These efforts are investigated in the new exhibition, L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from

Continue reading