FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK

Art Galleries Open Studios Late Dining Live Music

Come visit our frame shop and get your project started. Your art deserves the best. 1,000 frame samples to choose from or custom build your own. Check out some local art and understand the important details behind framing and your investment.

Details: 310-600-8881

Venue: Epiphany Framing, 343 W. 7th St. San Pedro

Emanating from artists’ studios in Southern California, Connective Threads offers unique perspectives on the complicated identities of fiber art as a genre. Fiber artists can formally exploit the medium’s connections to pattern, color, shape, and texture. Multilayered content can also be woven into its structure through abstract, representational, or narrative strategies. The works on view by 25 artists encompass a rich diversity of influences and inspirations, independent from conventional expectations. Collectively they offer a penetrating examination of fiber’s possibilities. The exhibition is curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria. The exhibition runs through April 15.

Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Love Is Blind, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48”

Enjoy a celebration of love at Michael Stearns Studio @The Loft on San Pedro’s First Thursday ArtWalk from 6 to 9 p.m. Through March 25.

Details: 562-400-0544; www.michaelstearnsstudio.com

Time: 1 to 5 p.m., Saturdays or by appointment

Venue: Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro.

Music

Feb. 17

Cali Vibes Reggaeton Festival

See performances from headlining artists Rebelution, Snoop Dogg, and Jack Johnson across three days. There will also be performances by Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley as well as Stephen Marley.

Time: 12 p.m. doors open, Feb. 17 to 19

Cost: Tickets start at $330 for 3-day passes

Details: https://www.jambase. com/festival/cali-vibes-2023

Venue: Marina Green Park, 386

E. Shoreline Drive Long Beach

Feb. 18

José Antonio Rodríguez

Enjoy a solo performance with José Antonio Rodríguez, one of Spain’s leading guitarists-composers of this generation. He is a guitarist acclaimed for his renditions of contemporary flamenco.

Time: 8 p.m., Feb. 18

Cost: $30

Details: https://tinyurl.com/joseantonio-rodriguez

Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Lizzie No

Lizzie No is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, harpist and guitarist and co-host of the Basic Folk podcast. She has showcased at Newport Folk Fest, Americanafest, South by Southwest and the Mile of Music Festival.

Time: 7 p.m., Feb. 18

Cost: $20 to $30

Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/lizzie-no/

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Friendship Festival

Celebrating 50 years of friendship with Torrance’s sister city, Kashiwa Japan, this evening will highlight talented past delegates who have gone on to professional careers in the performing arts.

Time: 7 p.m., Feb. 18

Cost: $25 to $35

Details: https://torrancearts.org/ show/friendship/ Venue: TOCA, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

Feb.

The Jacksons

Feb. 26

The Latsos Piano Duo

Award-winning international concert pianists Anna and Giorgi Latsos have been dazzling audiences throughout the world with their performances of works for duo piano and piano four-hands.

Time: 7 p.m., Feb. 26

Cost: $30 to $40

Details: https://torrancearts.org/ show/latsos

Venue: TOCA, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

March 3

Sweet Seasons

Sweet Seasons is a tribute to the legendary Carole King. There have been few singer / songwriters that have been as prolific and impactful.

Time: 8 p.m., March 3

Cost: $20

Details: https://tinyurl.com/sweetseasons-carol-King

Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Entertainment

Feb. 17

Night Dive

Kick the holiday weekend off with your finned friends at the first night dive of the year. This adults-only event features food trucks, cash bars, DJs throughout the aquarium galleries, art and a live band performing on the stage in front of the Honda Blue Cavern.

Time: 7:30 to 11 p.m., Feb. 17

Cost: $29

Details: https://tinyurl.com/LBAquarium-Night-Dive and https:// tinyurl.com/LB-Aquarium-NightDive-Members

Venue: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach

Feb. 18

The Romance of The Rose

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It’s time to Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) when The Jacksons play the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. See the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees deliver their hits and famous dance moves.

Time: 8 p.m., Feb. 24

Cost: $65 and up

Details: 562-916-8500; www.cerritoscenter.com

Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos

Feb. 25

The Music of ABBA Long Beach Symphony will once again deliver a highenergy party evening with indoor picnicking and superb music when ARRIVAL from Sweden’s 10-member band joins Long Beach Symphony. ARRIVAL from Sweden will deliver the iconic classics like Money, Money, Money; Take a Chance on Me; and Mamma Mia!, connecting with audiences of all ages.

Time: 8 p.m., Feb. 25

Cost: $30 to $180

Details: 562-436-3203; www.LongBeachSymphony. org

Venue: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Ave., Long Beach

Connective Threads Fiber Art from Southern California

Connective Threads, a survey of contemporary fiber art in Southern California, provides a window into what is currently engaging fiber artists, even as this discipline continues to evolve and change. The exhibition offers unique perspectives on the complicated identities of fiber art as a genre.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jan. 28 to April 15

Cost: Free

Details: https://pvartcenter.org/ connective-threads

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Lee Krasner: A Through Line

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum presents Lee Krasner: A Through Line. The exhibition provides a context to explore important abstract paintings and collages from the 1940s to the early 1960s.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, through May 19

Cost: Free

Details: www.csulb.edu/carolyncampagna-kleefeld-contemporary-art-museum

The world premiere of this opus examines one dreamer’s quest for a literal rose. The God of Love, Shame, Lady Reason and their followers lull the audience into a dreamlike world that highlights the profound juxtaposition of beauty and absurdity in our own human folly.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Feb. 18, 25 and 2:30 p.m., Feb. 19

Cost: $55 to $165

Details: www.grandvision.org

Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Feb. 16

Uplifting Tales and Eroded

Histories

Angels Gate Cultural Center presents a new contemporary art exhibition, Uplifting Tales and Eroded Histories, on view through March 25. An installation by local artists Richard Turner, Michael Davis and Paul Harris, this exhibition presents a speculative geohistory of the Palos Verdes Peninsula..

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,Thursdays through Saturdays

Cost: Free

Details: https://angelsgateart.org

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Trade Fare Social Artists kelli rae adams, Melissa Bouwman, Mark Rumsey, and the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms engage the audience as participants — not mere viewers — in art as social practice. The exhibition runs to March 25.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays

Cost: Free

Details: https://angelsgateart.org

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Marsian De Lellis, Joseph Hardesty, Michele Jaquis, Lauren Kasmer & Joyce Dallal, Thomas Kidd, Karen Medley, Rosalyn Myles, Mei Xian Qiu, Craig Torres, the Wednesday Gang Quilting Group and the El Camino College Anthropology Student Association use painting, puppetry, recipe sharing, quilt making, culinary performance and photography. The exhibition runs through March 9.

Time: 2 to 5 p.m., Feb. 18, public reception

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/tellingstories-El-Camino

Venue: El Camino College Art Gallery, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Feb. 19

Yolanda Gonzalez

The Museum of Latin American Art will be hosting the “first indepth” exhibition of the Chicana artist Yolanda Gonzalez. She has art dating back to the 1980s, including a variety of sculptures, paintings, prints and more in an exhibition called The Evolution of Visions and Dreams.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Feb. 19 to July 30 eign?” Engage with this timely and important question through an award-winning documentary film, taiko performance, hands-on workshop and panel discussion.

Time: 2 p.m., Feb. 26

Cost: $20 to $25

Details: https://tinyurl.com/blurring-the-color-line-film

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Film

March 2

20th Annual LA Harbor International Film Festival

The LA Harbor International Film Festival or LAHIFF showcases film and video that reflects the harbor and all that it embraces — shipping and commerce, fishing, sailing, water sports, sea life and the area’s rich ethnic and cultural influences. The festival kicks off with the Read the Book, See the Movie culmination program a free education outreach program, featuring the classic novel The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Time: Various, March 2 to 5,

Cost: $8 to $10,

Details: www.laharborfilmfest. com

FILM Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Literature

Feb. 16

LBPL Author Talks

The online talks will include a live Q&A with each author and registration is required for the livestreamed talks. National Book Award winner Grace M. Cho will discuss her book Tastes Like War Sadeqa Johnson, author of NPR’s 2021 Book of the Year, Yellow Wife, will discuss her new book, The House of Eve

Time: 10 a.m., Feb. 16, Grace M. Cho; 1 p.m., Feb. 28, Sadeqa

Cost: Free

Details: https://pvplc.volunteerhub.com/.

Venue: Abalone Cove Reserve, 5970 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes

Docent Guided Nature Walk at Vicente Bluff Reserve

Join a tour of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center native plant garden and walk along the spectacular bluff top at the Vicente Bluff Reserve. Enjoy an easy stroll led by a docent through the garden to learn about natural and cultural history of the area. All ages are welcome. Meet at the front patio of Point Vicente Interpretive Center.

Time: 10 a.m., Feb. 18

Cost: Free Details: 310-544-5260; www.losserenos.org/

Venue: PVIC, 31501 Palos Verdes Drive West, Rancho Palos Verdes,

Guided Nature Walk at White Point Nature Preserve Naturalists will guide you along a trail to discover a unique variety of wildlife in its coastal sage scrub habitat with amazing views of the ocean. Meet in front of the nature center and come inside to explore after the hike. Preserve parking is available at the end of the street in a gravel lot.

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Feb. 18

Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.org/

Venue: White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro

Feb. 19

2023 Los Angeles Black History Month Festival

Venue: Carolyn Campagna

Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

Yesterday and Beyond Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum presents LA-based photographer Clifford Prince King in his first Los Angeles solo-exhibition. King’s large photographs printed digitally from scanned 35mm film negatives embrace the grainy artifacts of the scanning process. His goldenhued compositions of friends and acquaintances in mostly domestic spaces connect with the history of figurative photography and classical painting.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, through May 19

Cost: Free

Details: https://www.csulb.edu/ carolyn-campagna-kleefeld-contemporary-art-museum

Venue: Carolyn Campagna

Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, 1250 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

Frieze Art Exhibition

The Santa Monica Airport will be hosting the Frieze Los Angeles art exhibit this year, a collection of international work. Celebrate the richly creative culture of Los Angeles by attending.

Time: 1 p.m., Feb. 16, 17 and 11 a.m., Feb. 18, 19

Cost: $102

Details: https://www.frieze.com/ fairs/frieze-los-angeles

Venue: Santa Monica Airport, 3233 Donald Douglas Loop St., Santa Monica Feb. 18

Telling Stories

Artists Jane Chafin, Joyce Dallal,

Cost: Free on Sunday, $15 general admission, $10 for students and seniors

Details: https://molaa.org/2023yolanda-gonzalez

Venue: The Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

Feb. 21

Studio Soup

Studio Soup is a quarterly series of candid conversations about process, featuring guest artists who share their experience and practice. Join the conversation with artists Narsiso Martinez and Dominique Moody. Learn about each artist’s work and practice, and ask questions of your own.

Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Feb. 21

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/February-Studio-Soup

Venue: Online

Feb. 25

Culture TALKS!

In partnership with the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District’s Culture TALKS! series, Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya will talk with KPCC Retake host John Horn about how the Chavez Ravine: In 9 Innings’ filming came to be and why this story continues to resonate almost 20 years after its stage premiere.

Time: 7 p.m., Feb. 25

Cost: 0 to $15

Details: https://laist.com/events/ retake-live-culture-clash

Venue: Crawford Family Forum, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena

Feb. 26

Blurring the Color Line with Taiko

“Why are Asian communities and cultures seen as perpetually for-

Johnson Cost: Free Details: www.longbeach.gov/library/news/feb.-author-talks

Venue: Online

Community

Feb. 16

Educational Opportunity Program Exhibition

The Historical Society of Long Beach and the Black Student Union Elders Association collaborate to share the story of the origin of the Educational Opportunity Program and minority recruitment at CSULB, 1966-1971. The exhibition will run until April 29.

Time: 1 to 5 p.m., Monday to Wednesday, 1 to 7 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m., to 5 p.m., Saturday

Cost: Free

Details: 562-424-2220; www.hslb.org

Venue: Historical Society of Long Beach, 4260 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach

Feb. 18

Nothin’ But Sand Beach Cleanup Reserve a spot for a beach cleanup event set to take place on Feb. 18. All that is required is attendance and that the participant is 18 or older so they can sign a waiver, all supplies will be provided.

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Feb. 18

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/nothing-but-sand-beach-cleanup

Venue: Cabrillo Beach, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

Outdoor Volunteer Day at Abalone Cove Reserve

Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to volunteer on a coastal reserve helping restore wildlife habitat. Students can receive community service hours.

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Feb. 18

Open Arms Food Pantry and Resource Center announces its 6th annual Black History month festiva. This year’s event highlights health and wellness and a focus on literature.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Feb 19

Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/LAblack-history-month-fest

Venue: Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex, 5001 Obama Blvd., Los Angeles

Feb. 25

Food Giveaway Justice For Murdered Children holds a free food giveaway on the second and fourth Saturday of every month. “Everyone is welcome, we have plenty” is their open invite. Also consider volunteering.

Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 25

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/foodgivaway

Venue: 1039 W. Elberon Ave., San Pedro

AltaSea Open House Featuring California Fish & Wildlife Guest speakers include Rep. Nannette Barragán, Michelle Horeczko and Linda Chilton.

Time: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Feb. 25

Cost: Free

Details: https://altasea.org/event/ altasea-open-house-featuringcalifornia-fish-wildlife/

Venue: AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, 2451 Signal St., San Pedro

Great Los Angeles Air Raid

On the morning of Feb. 25, 1942, a false alarm was raised in relation to an alleged attack on the City of Los Angeles during the second World War. Visit Fort MacArthur museum on the event’s 81st anniversary to watch a reenactment.

Time: 3 to 8 p.m., Feb. 25

Cost: $40

Details: http://www.theairraid. com/

Venue: Fort MacArthur Museum, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro