Community Story Summit  Building Healthy Communities – South LA Saturday, April 27, 2013 LA Commons, artists Heriberto Luna, Noni Olabisi, Carol Zou and youth from the YMCA, Academy for Multilingual Arts & Sciences and Augustus Hawkins High School hosted a community picnic at 5300 Vermont on Saturday, April 27th. Youth interviewed community partners and neighbors [...]

Youth Artist Recognition and Mural Dedication Leimert Park Art Walk Sunday, November 25, 2012 Artists Roberto Del Hoyo and David Russell, also known as the Mobile Mural Lab, with their team of local youth artists at the unveiling of the new mural “Unite” during the Leimert Park Art Walk. Lead Artists: Mobile Mural Lab, Roberto [...]

Community Engagement and Story Gathering Workshop Monday, November 26th @ 6pm Junior Blind of America 5300 Angeles Vista Blvd, LA 90043   The Office of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas is spearheading the Slauson Corridor Revitalization Project and has invited LA Commons to help make a new vision for the neighborhood a reality. Building on a weekend [...]

There was traffic Sunday in and around downtown Los Angeles, but it was anything but normal. Instead of bumper to bumper, it was rim-to-rim or spoke-to-spoke traffic as thousands of bicyclists from across the region participated in Los Angeles’ fifth CicLAvia. For five hours, about 10 miles of city roadway – from Boyle Heights to [...]

Registration is now open for Found LA: Festival Of Neighborhoods taking place Sunday,October 21, 2012. Check back often for more tours  being posted soon. Click here:  http://www.eventbrite.com/org/1484982620?s=10324654 to register now!    Sign up for our Mailing list or like us on Facebook for up to date information.

On August 8, 2012 we celebrated the opening of the Palms Utility Box Mural Beautification Project. Representatives from the Palms Neighborhood Council, through whose generous funding this project was made possible, the City Council and the State Assembly, along with members of the Palms came together at the Museum of Jurassic Technology to congratulate students [...]

On June 24th, we celebrated the second annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks here in Leimert Park. The day was filled with mask-making, drumming, and celebrations of ancestral heritage. Lead by Najite Agindotan, the procession lit up the park as people recognized and celebrated their ancestors.  We’d like to thank Sempra Energy, Comerica [...]

Over here at LA Commons, we have been working hard since December on a collaborative project to complete the beautification of utility boxes in the Palms neighborhood of LA. We have teamed up with high-schoolers from Hamilton High School and local artists Diana-Sophia Estrada and John Trevino to bring the utility boxes of Palms to [...]

Trekking LA could not be possible without our host of incredible docents who lead tours around the areas of the city they know best. We’d like to introduce some of the amazing people that make the program possible. Malissa Strong, docent for Boyle Heights Malissa is originally from a small suburb of Chicago, but for [...]

One of 30 tours led by trained neighborhood docents throughout the summer On Saturday, June 9, 2012, the non-profit L.A. Commons (www.lacommons.org)—with the mission to connect people across Los Angeles’ vast metropolis through the artistic, social and cultural projects that celebrate the unique stories of L.A.’s neighborhoods—will continue with its sixth series of Trekking LA [...]