Big Read LA 2021
Meztli Projects is partnering with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts | NEA Big Read to bring you three different events.
This year the selected book The Round House By Louise Erdrich will serve as inspiration to these three events.
Award-winning author and Minnesota bookstore owner Louise Erdrich hails from North Dakota and is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. "While Erdrich is known as a brilliant chronicler of the American Indian experience," writes Reader's Digest, "her insights into our family, community, and spiritual lives transcend any category." Erdrich's 14th novel, The Round House (Harper, 2012), tells the suspenseful tale of a 13-year-old boy's investigation and desire for revenge following a brutal attack on his mother that leaves his father, a tribal judge, helpless in his pursuit to bring the perpetrator to justice. "Erdrich threads a gripping mystery and multilayered portrait of a community through a deeply affecting coming-of-age novel" (O, The Oprah Magazine). "A preeminent tale in an essential American saga" (Booklist, starred review). "This novel will have you reading at warp speed to see what happens next" (Star Tribune).
CREATION STORIES of the Los Angeles Basin with Alan Salazar
April 15 at 6pm PST
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Through storytelling and a land acknowledgement exercise, viewers will learn some of the original names of the cities and communities in Los Angeles. The creation stories of the Los Angeles Basin will be led by Meztli Projects guest Elder Alan Salazar (Tataviam/Chumash) who will share from his new book Tata, the Tataviam Towhee, a nature story illustrated by Mona Lewis using pigments made from rocks and soil collected in Tataviam territory. Viewers can enter a special drawing to receive a gift basket with a copy of Salazar's book as well as Tongva Elder Cindi Alvitre's book Waa’aka’: The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun and also Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, which is this year’s L.A. title selection for the NEA Big Read Program.
To enter the free drawing, send an email to: elizabeth.morin@lacity.org by April 23, 2021, with subject matter “Native Voices.” Winner will be announced at the end of Our L.A. Voices on April 29, 2021.
Native American Beading
Friday, April 30 at 1 PM PST
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Take part in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read by enjoying this year’s selection, The Round House, by Louise Erdrich. LAMAG will host a virtual workshop with Kimberly Robertson of Meztli Projects. Robertson brings her experience as an anti-violence advocate to facilitate a beading circle for women and femme identified folks to learn beading techniques, talk about kinship and the relationship between land and the violence that women and femme identified folks experience because of cis heteropatriarchy. Through the threading of beading, community is built among folks.
Registered participants will receive a copy of the book and an art making kit. Kits will be available for pick up from the Los Feliz Library (1874 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027) on Thursday, April 29th from 6:30-7:30pm.
This workshop is designed for women and femme identified people. Age suggested is teens or older. Capacity limited. Advance registration required. Register here by April 27th.
As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services may be provided upon request. To ensure availability, you are advised to make your request at least 72 hours prior to the meeting you wish you attend. Due to the difficulties in securing Sign Language Interpreters, five (5) or more business days notice is strongly recommended. For additional information, please contact the Gallery at lamag@lacity.org.
Printmaking
Friday, May 14 at 1 PM PST
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Take part in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read by enjoying this year’s selection, The Round House, by Louise Erdrich. LAMAG will host a virtual workshop with Joel Garcia, printmaker and facilitator of Men’s Circles. Garcia will guide a printmaking session to reflect on pre-colonial and Indigenous perspectives on masculinity to develop prints that can help imagine ways of repairing harm committed within a community and against one another. This workshop is designed to be intergenerational and is open to all members of the general public.
Registered participants will receive a copy of the book and an art making kit. Kits will be available for pick up from the Los Feliz Library (1874 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027) on Thursday, May 13th from 6:30-7:30pm.
This workshop is designed to be intergenerational and is open to all members of the general public. Capacity limited. Advance registration required. Register here by May 11th.
As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services may be provided upon request. To ensure availability, you are advised to make your request at least 72 hours prior to the meeting you wish you attend. Due to the difficulties in securing Sign Language Interpreters, five (5) or more business days notice is strongly recommended. For additional information, please contact the Gallery at lamag@lacity.org.