Los Angeles, CA Partners

Amal walks to school with LA kids and families. They are surrounded by beautiful poppy flowers made by the students as a symbol of peace and resilience.

In partnership with UCLA Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) and UCLA Community School.

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Amal is welcomed to El Pueblo, the historic birthplace of LA. She is surrounded by the vivid colors and sounds of Dia de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.

In partnership with Community Arts Resources (CARS), About Productions and Theresa Chavez, City of Los Angeles, El Pueblo Historic Monument and Olvera Street Merchant Association.

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Walking through Pasadena Amal meets a group of deaf children. Through this encounter, we understand that words aren’t everything and a lot can be said within the silence.  Sometimes the loudest truths have no sound.

In partnership with Deaf West Theatre, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Playhouse and the City of Pasadena.

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As Amal walks through the urban core of Los Angeles she witnesses how the arts can help us build a human connection with compassion in the face of societal struggles and challenges.

In partnership with: Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), Dorian Wood, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD); Automata, Inner City Arts and Students Rebuild.

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Amal is dazzled by the lights of the Santa Monica pier. As the sun sets in the horizon, she is blessed by the music and dance of Hālau Hula Keali`i O Nālani as the sun sets in the horizon.

In partnership with CARS, City of Santa Monica, Kumu Hula Keali`i Ceballos and Hālau Hula Keali`i O Nālani.

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Amal joins in a moment of reflection and celebration for those who have made crossings. In a land of dreamers, she creates a new wish for herself and her family.

In partnership with Center Theatre Group and The Music Center.

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Visionary director and choreographer Debbie Allen creates a kaleidoscope of swirling monarch butterflies, echoing Amal’s migration journey.

In partnership with Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Jeff Tang.

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Creating Compassionate Community through the Celebration of Empathy and Enlightenment with each Edutainment Endeavor.

Center Theatre Group, one of the nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ leading not-for-profit theatre company, which under the leadership of Artistic Director Snehal Desai, Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman, and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker programs seasons at the 736-seat Mark Taper Forum and 1,600 to 2,100-seat Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the 317-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

In addition to presenting and producing the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country, Center Theatre Group is one of the country’s leading producers of ambitious new works through commissions and world premiere productions and a leader in interactive community engagement and education programs that reach across generations, demographics, and circumstances to serve Los Angeles.

Founded in 1967, Center Theatre Group was led by Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson until 2005 when Michael Ritchie was the artistic director until his retirement in 2021; Snehal Desai was appointed the organization’s next artistic director in 2023.

Center Theatre Group has produced more than 700 productions across its three stages, including such iconic shows as Zoot Suit, Angels in America, The Kentucky Cycle, Biloxi Blues, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Children of a Lesser God, Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, 9 to 5: The Musical and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.  CenterTheatreGroup.org

Community Arts Resources designs public spaces to create unique experiences where performing and visual arts, cultures, communities, and civic life collide. We take inspiration from Los Angeles where we produce most of our work as free public events and festivals, working with local performers and organizations.

CARS is engaged in the changing dynamics of culture and cities. Based in Los Angeles since 1989, our work is centered on event planning and production, urban planning, public engagement, and marketing. Through partnerships with neighborhoods, nonprofits, foundations, cities, cultural institutions, developers and designers, our work highlights and transforms the unique character and untapped potential of a particular place.

Committed to innovation, collaboration, training and social change, Deaf West serves as the artistic bridge between the Deaf and hearing worlds. Founded in Los Angeles in 1991, Deaf West engages artists and audiences in unparalleled theater and media experiences inspired by Deaf culture and the expressive power of sign language and spoken English.

Faith Fellowships of Hearing & being Heard for Healing and Helping Altruistic Artist, Benevolent Business, and Caring Coalitions.

UCLA Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary performing arts in all disciplines — dance, music,spoken word and theater, as well as multidisciplinary collaborations. We support artists from around the globe by providing cultural, experiential programs that provoke inquiry and facilitate connection and creativity. Our mission aligns with UCLA’s commitment to education, research and civic engagement. CAP UCLA is one of three public arts institutions — along with the Fowler and Hammer Museums — housed in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Design for Sharing (DFS), our K-12 arts education program, brings thousands of students from Los Angeles-area public schools to CAP UCLA venues for free performances and art-making activities. Students encounter extraordinary professional artists from around the world as well as brilliant creators and educators working in our local communities. For the past fifteen years, Design for Sharing has been in partnership with UCLA Community School, providing in-school arts residencies for hundreds of third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade students. Residencies are developed in collaboration with classroom teachers and allow students to expand their own creativity by exploring curriculum through the lens of the performing, literary and visual arts.

UCLA Community School is a TK-12 public school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Located on the former site of the Ambassador Hotel in one of the state’s most densely populated immigrant neighborhoods, the school has a rich cultural legacy and represents a dynamic community of learners. We expect all our students to be self-directed passionate learners, masters of academic content, bilingual and biliterate and active participants in our community. We accomplish this goal by creating teaching and learning spaces that ask students to think critically about what they are learning, and the ways in which their learning will contribute to their community and society at large. Our unique partnership with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) means we are at the forefront of educational practices that seek to redefine public education.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, located in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA, is a dynamic cultural hub and community resource where local, national, and international artists share their artistry with ever-expanding audiences. Distinguished by its eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles and its location in the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis has produced and presented more than 400 theater, dance, music, film, cabaret, comedy, performance arts, and family entertainment programs, boasting nominations for 79 Ovation Awards and nine L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Awards as well as six architectural awards.

Since its doors opened in October 2013, The Wallis has been committed to robust and distinctive presentations and education programs curated with both creativity and social impact in mind. Hailed as “au courant” (LaLa Magazine), The Wallis was lauded by Culture Vulture, which proclaimed, “If you love expecting the unexpected in the performing arts, you have to love The Wallis.” Broadway legend Patti LuPone, who was The Wallis’ 2015/2016 Season Artistic Advisor, described the venue as “one of the best in the country, allowing for an unparalleled intimacy between [the artist] and the audience.” A recent patron survey produced audience comments about The Wallis ranging from “amazing, engaging, inspiring!” to “fun. entertaining. educational.”

The breathtaking 70,000-square-foot facility, celebrating the classic and the modern, was named after philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, whose original $25-million dollar donation was instrumental in transforming the former Beverly Hills post office building into an arts complex. Designed by acclaimed architect Zoltan E. Pali (SPF:architects), the restored building features the original 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office (on the National Register of Historic Places), whose eight towering fresco murals are one of two sets of WPA frescos remaining in the entire California Federal Building system. The Wallis’ lobby, now known as Jim and Eleanor Randall Grand Hall, serves as the theater’s dramatic yet welcoming entryway to the contemporary 500-seat, state-of-the-art Bram Goldsmith Theater; the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater; an inviting open-air plaza for family, community and other performances; and GRoW @ The Wallis: A Space for Arts Education, where learning opportunities for all ages and backgrounds abound.

Together, these elements embrace the city’s history and its future, creating a performing arts destination for L.A.-area visitors and residents alike. Michael Nemeroff is Chairman of The Wallis’ Board of Directors and Robert van Leer is Executive Director and CEO.

Working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems.