The 13th Annual Lummis Days Festival Takes Place this weekend June 1, 2 & 3, 2018.
Lummis Day is an annual festival that celebrates the arts, history and ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles through educational and cultural activity including Concerts with live bands, mariachi, flamenco dancers, poetry reading and workshops, puppet shows and puppet making workshops, planting, soccer, crafting, science, parades, ballet, Aztec dancing, Native American blessings, sing a longs, running, walking, theatrical performances, and much more! Look below for the full schedule!
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
10:00am — 4:00pm
Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive, Lower Level
Exhibition: Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis
Presented by the Autry Museum of the American West
10:00am – 5:00pm
Avenue 50 at York Boulevard
Boulevard Stage
5:00 Bird Concerns
6:00 The Smokey Lonesome
7:00 Umm
8:00 Eric Kufs Band
SUNDAY, JUNE 3 
10:30am – 12:00pm
Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43
Poetry Reading, Reception and Workshop.
10:30 Musical Interlude – Karen Elaine
10:55 Native Blessing by Ted Garcia – Tatavia Song Keeper
11: 00 Welcome and readings by host Suzanne Lummis and California State Senator Anthony Portantino
Readings by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, Steve Abee, Olga Garcia Echeverría and Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
12:00 Reception
1:10 Poetry Workshop with Lory Bedekian
Noon – 5pm
Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive, Lower Level
Exhibition: Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis
Presented by the Autry Museum of the American West
10:00am – 5:00pm
Sycamore Grove Park, 4702 N. Figueroa Street
10:45 Anahuak sponsored Run / Walk Check In
11:30 Anahuak Run / Walk begins
12:15 “Critters Gotta Crawl” Parade from Southwest Museum across Figueroa, into Sycamore Grove Park to the Bandshell. Musical accompaniment by Cuñao
Uptown Danza Stage
12:45 Native American Blessing — Julia Bogany
1:55 Luxora
3:10 Makin’ Moves
4:25 Louise Reichlin & Dancers / Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers
5:45 Ballet Coco
The Bandshell
1:00 Mariachi Voz de America
2:20 Mostly Kosher
3:35 Superbean
4:50 Ted Russell Kamp
6:10 Orquesta Charangoa
The Alisal Stage
1:15 MAWD
2:20 Trapdoor Social
3:25 High Life Cajun Band
4:30 Scarlett and the Fever
5:35 Alarma
Teatro Arroyo / Bugs and Puppets Stage
1:30 Puppet Show: “The Little Possum” and “Juan y Los Frijoles Magicos”
2:15 Danza Azteca Xipe Totec: Traditional Aztec Drumming and Dancing
3:00 Ms. Serena Sing Along
3:40 Puppet Show: “The Hollah-Bollah Pot” and “The Noise at El Alisal”
4:25 Ms. Serena Sing Along
The Angel Stage
1:30 Eastside Arts
2:00 Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center Presents: Los Jarochicos and the Latin Ensemble of Lincoln Heights
2:45 Arte Flamenco Dance Theatre & Center for Worldance
3:30 Raul Martinez Presents: Ramona Hall Student Band and Clementine Bullen
4:15 Ballet Bravo
5:00 “Let the River Run,” A theatrical performance by the 3rd Graders of the Los Feliz Charter School of the Arts
Anahuak Sports Area (Located Between Family Activities and Angel Stage)
12:20 – 4:20 (hourly 20-minute soccer matches)
Family Fun Area
1:00 – 500
• The Franklin School RoboNerds
• Tongva crafts with Julia Bogany, Tribal Elder, San Gabrielino Band of Mission Indians
• Home Depot / Color Spot Planting Booth
• Eco Voices with the Urban Science Corps
• “Critters Gotta Crawl” — Puppet making workshop sponsored by the Arroyo Arts Collective and Teatro Arroyo
• Audubon Center at Debs Park activity
• Anahuak Youth Soccer Associationist
If you cant make it to the festival, make sure to check out the Lummis House another time. Their hours of operation are Sat/Sun 10am-3pm
Lummis House gets its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who hand built El Alisal, aka Lummis Home. He was a journalist and advocate for multi-culturalism and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. He also became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet and librarian. He was the first City Editor of the Los Angeles Times. When offered the position he walked 3,500 miles from Ohio to Los Angeles, taking 143 days. He founded the first museum in Los Angeles, the Southwest Museum. He preserved the Old Spanish Missions of Southern California, and was an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt. Lummis was knighted by the King of Spain for his efforts to promote Spanish speaking peoples and cultures.
Lummis Days celebration wants to honor and encourage the multi-cultural and artistic sensibilities of Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Before heading out please check their website to confirm hours of operation and further details.
http://www.lummisday.org/