Brentwood, CA. The Getty Center in Brentwood reopened to the public in May after a 14-month closure due to COVID-19. “We are delighted to welcome visitors back to the iconic Getty Center, one of Los Angeles’ most visited cultural destinations,” said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Admission is free, but visitors need to register for a date and time.
Visitors and staff will be required to wear face coverings and maintain social distance, and all visitors will have their temperatures checked upon arrival. Anyone displaying symptoms such as coughing, sneezing or fever will be denied admittance.
According to Getty officials, in addition to “Lucretia,” other new exhibitions on display include “Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA”; “Power, Justice and Tyranny in the Middle Ages”; “Artist as Collectors”; and “Silk & Swan Feathers: A Luxurious 18th-Century Armchair.”
The museum, perched high above the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles, has been closed for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Admission to the Getty Center is free, but a limited number of reservations will be available for each day and must be made in advance. Much of the museum, grounds, store and some food service options will be open, but the Getty Library will remain closed, along with the Family Room and galleries that are too small to accommodate social distancing.
From Getty Center:
There are some new rules for visitors:
Keeping Everyone Safe
We are following LA County Department of Public Health orders as they are updated. Currently, we are maintaining the safety measures described below.
Face Masks Required Indoors
All visitors over the age of two must wear a face mask over nose and mouth when inside buildings, including parking structures, and when boarding and riding the Getty Center tram.
Visitors may remove their masks when outdoors.
Please note that the following are not permitted to be worn instead of a face mask: gaiters, bandanas, scarves, ski masks, balaclavas, or masks with an exhalation valve. Face shields are also not allowed instead of a mask, but may be worn over one.
Cleaning
High-touch surfaces such as door handles and handrails are being cleaned regularly. So are tables, counters, and chairs in the cafes. Restrooms are being cleaned four times a day. The Center Tram is being cleaned before opening, hourly during operating hours, and after closing.
Hand Sanitizer
Find hand sanitizer near doors and other high-touch areas.
Admission and Parking
Admission and Reservations
Admission is free, and requires a timed-entry reservation. Each person in your party over the age of 2 needs a reservation.
New entry times are released daily.
If you can’t visit at the time you reserved, please cancel your reservation so we can release the time for others. To cancel, email [email protected] or call (310) 440-7300.
Hollywood, CA. Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky were brought to life on July 22nd by the exuberant Enluis Montes Olivar and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Billed as “Swooning Russian Romanticism,” the concert included Tchaikovsky’s tribute to Ukraine and Rachmaninoff’s rapturous Second Concerto with pianist Lukáš Vondráček. The evening was part of the Thursday Classical Music series which, as with all of the concerts, has resumed after a year off due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The outdoor Hollywood Bowl has safety measures but doesn’t require masks for vaccinated individuals, so the concert feels just as it used to.
From world premieres and orchestral favorites with Gustavo and the LA Phil to epic movie nights, pop, jazz, Bowl traditions, and a lineup of top international acts, there is a special night out for all tastes,” a news release said.
The lineup of artists scheduled to perform at the venue this summer includes Christina Aguilera, Ziggy Marley, H.E.R., James Blake and more. Check out the full season calendar online.
The venue served as a food distribution site during the height of the pandemic last year.
“After the many challenges of this past year, we all feel a profound sense of joy and gratitude to be able to once again share music with you, and especially to be able to offer these opening concerts to our heroes on the front lines, who have given their all to keep us safe this past year,” Dudamel said in a statement.
Audience members can still bring their picnic baskets and bottles of wine.
We’ll see about 50 different musical artists or groups back in the Hollywood Bowl half-shell this summer.
From Hollywood Bowl:
The health and safety of our audiences, artists, and staff is our top priority. We are committed to ensuring that you have an exceptional Bowl experience, with confidence in the policies and procedures designed for a safe environment for all. Our policies and procedures are created to align with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s protocols.
Increased Capacity
Based on new guidance, from Los Angeles County and the State of California, the Hollywood Bowl concerts will increase to 100% available capacity for concerts starting in July.
We encourage all attendees who can to get vaccinated, and according to a survey conducted in May 2021, 94% of Bowl audiences were already partially or fully vaccinated and 98% plan on being fully vaccinated.
Account Credits/Refunds
With these significant changes to our concert procedures, we are allowing anyone who has already made a purchase for the 2021 season the opportunity to receive a credit on their account or full refund of their purchase.
Guest Requirements
In addition to House Rules, the following protocols are required for all visitors:
Masks are required indoors and recommended at all times when not in your seat. Please bring a mask to the concert.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health strongly recommends that all guests wear a mask at all times when not in their ticketed seat. It also requires that all guests two years and older, and regardless of vaccination status, wear masks in indoor public settings unless they are actively eating and drinking or are otherwise exempt from wearing a mask due to a disability, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.).
Wear a mask with two or more layers. Wear the mask over your nose and mouth and under your chin. The following are prohibited: Masks with exhalation valves; masks made of loosely woven fabrics; scarves, buffs, bandanas, gaiters, and face shields alone (inadequate protection). Masks will be available upon request.
Stay at home if you are ill.
Stay home if you are sick or have COVID-19 symptoms, have been in contact with someone known to be or suspected to have been infected with COVID-19 within the last 10 days, or if you are subject to a quarantine or isolation order. For ticket return options, please contact Audience Services.
Sanitize your hands frequently.
Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Enhanced Health and Safety Measures
In alignment with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s guidelines, the Hollywood Bowl has implemented the following policies and procedures to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, and staff:
Hourly cleaning
Across high-touch locations and surfaces
Hand sanitization stations
Positioned throughout the Bowl
Reduced contact ticketing
Digital tickets are able to be scanned directly from your mobile device. Learn more here.
Mobile ordering
Download our app and order food or merchandise for pick-up without missing a beat. Learn more here.
Los Angeles, CA. Previously known as the Los Angeles Drama Club, the Shakespeare Youth Festival is a community of young people from various backgrounds across LA who come together to tell stories, perform plays, and express themselves. SYF focuses on building communication and literacy skills and improving the self-esteem of these children. This summer, the organization planned various events that helped grow these skills further.
From June 21 to June 25, SYF held the Young Playwrights’ Festival through Zoom. The program involved daily sessions where students of Grade 7 and up were given playwriting and storytelling lessons. Students were encouraged to write plays based on prompts, events from their own lives, and stories they made up together, and at the end of the program the plays were performed by professional actors and Los Angeles Drama Club actors.
SYF students in the Shakespeare in Nature program.
The Shakespeare in Nature program was held from from July 12 to July 16 at the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. Participating students were from Grades 2 through 8 and learned about plays that had heavy nature themes, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear. The program explored three different concepts: how Shakespeare uses plants as plot devices in his plays, the concern surrounding climate change and environmentalism during Shakespeare’s time, and the various allusions Shakespeare makes to birds in his poems and plays.
The organization’s Summer with SYF 2021 program is currently ongoing, with registration still open for interested students. The program holds sessions every Monday through Friday and serves as an introduction in the world of Shakespeare and his plays for the youth. Additional information on registration and financial aid for those who are keen can be found here: https://shakespeareyouthfestival.com/summer-2021/
More about the Shakespeare Youth Festival:
“We are Shakespeare Youth Festival, the country’s youngest Shakespeare Troupe. In the spirit of cultural generosity and with the goal of creative excellence, we create diverse communities of belonging and self-empowerment with children and youth locally and across the globe through the magic of theater … and we do it all in Iambic Pentameter.” SYF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Los Angeles, CA. Project Ropa continues to address the growing number of homeless people. Its mission is to restore dignity to those experiencing homelessness and empower them through providing clean clothes, hygiene kits, and employment opportunities. The non-profit offers a mobile hygiene service, a closet on wheels, clean clothes to avoid the spread of disease, and help people get jobs. Project Ropa hires individuals transitioning out of homelessness to help break the cycle of homelessness. The organization also helps reduce textile waste through its clothing recycling program and environmentally conscious management.
People line up for Project Ropa’s mobile hygiene service at St. Francis Center.
A report by the Economic Roundtable estimates that the number of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles will increase by 86% over the next two years.To combat this, Project Ropa hopes to create new site locations in low-income areas where most people are in danger of becoming homeless. However, as places reopen and more people return to work, Project Ropa has experienced a decline in volunteers and donations.
When COVID-19 first hit, Project Ropa was forced to shut down for six weeks. During this time administrators reassessed how to do business and best serve people with the new safety restrictions put in place. As public facilities shut down, many homeless individuals lost access to showers, meal stations, and clean drinking water. Hygiene, especially given the pandemic, is very important to avoid the spread of disease. To address these health issues, Project Ropa upgraded its hygiene kits to include sanitizer and masks, and they partnered with other nonprofits to offer showers and meal services.
Project Ropa continues its services under COVID restrictions, making sure everyone stays 6 feet apart.
As safety restrictions limit the amount of people Project Ropa can service at once, it has allowed them to offer an even more personalized experience to people. Before the pandemic, Project Ropa emphasized spending time with each person and getting to know them, but the restrictions have allowed staff and volunteers to really interact and bond with those they are helping.
Volunteers distribute clothes and shoes on Veterans Row.
Project Ropa was founded in 2016 to address the challenges that homeless people face in obtaining and keeping clean clothes.
Project Ropa is made possible through volunteers and generous donations. Visit their website to find out how to help Project Ropa in their mission to help the homeless get back on their feet!
From Project Ropa:
Project Ropa is the only nonprofit organization of its kind in Los Angeles: our mission is to restore dignity and empower the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles by providing clean clothes, hygiene essentials, and employment opportunities while reducing textile waste and minimizing our carbon footprint. Our retrofitted van, functioning as a mobile walk-in closet, carries hope as well as a full selection of clothes, shoes, accessories and hygiene products. To further our mission and help break the cycle of homelessness, we provide transitional job opportunities to people with barriers to employment, including homeless and previously incarcerated individuals.
Los Angeles, CA. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is up and running after a year of being shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The museum also has a new partnership with the popular social media platform Snapchat called Monumental Perspectives. Via Snapchat, people can experience augmented reality monuments at site-specific locations including LACMA’s Wilshire Boulevard campus, MacArthur Park, Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Below is a look at how it works:
This new initiative uses augmented reality to explore monuments and murals, representation, and history. Monumental Perspectives brings together artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region. In consultation with community leaders and historians, the first cohort of artists, Mercedes Dorame, I.R. Bach, Glenn Kaino, Ruben Ochoa, and Ada Pinkston, examine key moments, figures, and monumentality in the region’s past and present through augmented reality experiences.
“Monumental Perspectives” is an ongoing virtual experience throughout Los Angeles.
These virtual monuments can also be accessed around the world; visitors do not necessarily need to be in Los Angeles. By downloading Snapchat, visitors can scan Snapchat codes on LACMA’s website, which automatically uploads the digital artwork to the individual’s account.
To learn more about LACMA’s Monumental Perspectives exhibition, find information here.
From LACMA:
Advance Tickets Required for All Visitors, Including Members
All visitors, including LACMA members, must purchase or reserve an advance timed-entry ticket online or by calling the LACMA Ticket Office at 323 857-6010, 10 am–5 pm daily.
Onsite ticket purchase is not available.
Tickets are released monthly on the last Wednesday of the month for LACMA members and the last Thursday of the month for the public. Sign up to receive alerts.
Mandatory Health Screening
All visitors must pass a health screening and temperature check prior to entry.
Face Masks Required Indoors
Visitors are required to wear face masks in all indoor spaces including galleries, restrooms, and the LACMA Store.
Face Masks Not Required Outdoors
Visitors are not required to wear face masks outdoors. Unvaccinated visitors are encouraged to wear face masks outdoors.
Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of nearly 142,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences
Los Angeles, CA. The Ian Somerhalder Foundation is giving a $1 million donation to the Jane Goodall Institute. Dr. Jane Goodall has been one of the world’s foremost advocates in ape conservation and species conservation at large for the last 6 decades, traveling the world to educate people on the importance of conservation and taking positive action. Ian Somerhalder is an actor known for playing is work in the TV dramas Lost and The Vampire Diaries. He’s also a United Nations Global Goodwill Ambassador who founded the ISF for helping the environment and its living things for the better. This donation, announced in May, is a symbol of both organizations’ shared goal of improving the wellbeing of Earth’s ecosystems.
Here’s a video about the big donation:
The donation will provide the Jane Goodall Institute with resources to expand their Roots and Shoots program, which teaches conservation skills to around 700,000 people across more than 50 countries, and their programs to rehabilitate orphaned chimpanzees and protect chimpanzee environments across the world. JGI will also be able to work on more grassroots projects with local communities interested in conservation. Such projects will focus on sustainable living, agro-forestry, environmental education, and will therefore be able to simultaneously improve their lives and the world around them.
More about the Ian Somerhalder Foundation:
The purpose of the Foundation is to advance science; promote the conservation of natural resources, such as forests, lands, and wildlife, for the benefit of the entire community; provide relief to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged; and support other organizations conducting activities under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a global community conservation organization founded by Dr. Goodall in 1977. By protecting chimpanzees and inspiring action to conserve the natural world we all share, we improve the lives of people, animals, and the environment.
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