DATE: Friday, November 1, 2019 – 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
WHERE: Grand Park Performance Lawn (Near Hill Street) 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free Concert Culminates Week-Long Día de Los Muertos Celebration and Features Performances by L.A.-Based Artists: Empress Of, San Cha, Ceci Bastida, Maya Murillo, August Eve, Loyal Lobos, Selenamos and DJ Zuri Adia
Selena for Sanctuary is a free concert that is part of Grand Park’s Downtown Día de los Muertos, a week-long community-wide event that upholds the annual tradition. Featuring an all-female line-up of L.A.-based Latinx artists and designed to bring immigrants and allies together in a social justice movement, the concert is organized by the L.A.-based, non-profit Solidarity for Sanctuary; it was hosted previously in Central Park and at Lincoln Center. Grand Park’s Downtown Día de los Muertos Selena for Sanctuary concert is a homecoming for Solidarity for Sanctuary’s mission to raise awareness about issues concerning immigrant communities and offer resources to help them through the immigration process. The concert’s celebration of Angeleno voices and perspectives furthers Grand Park’s vital role as L.A.’s “Park for Everyone.”
Anahuacalmecac Danza Azteca Círculo, a student-led group from Los Angeles-based Anahuacalmecac International University of North America, will perform, honoring ancestors, during the opening ceremony for Selena for Sanctuary, and Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet Yesika Salgado will host the concert. Additionally, volunteers from numerous immigrant advocacy groups will participate: Las Fotos Project, an organization that inspires teenage girls of color through photography, will host a photo booth for event goers; while Kids of Immigrants, an L.A. street wear label utilizing fashion to express its roots and environment, and Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), a Central American immigrant rights organization, will host information booths.
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