Featuring choregraphy by WACD's Cheng-Chieh Yu. Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, possible Black Dahlia murder site, becomes a performance stage. This unusual gathering isn’t a dream, but a rehearsal for the immersive installation “Passages at the Sowden House,” organized by homeLA, which is a project that creates site-specific performances in private homes around Los Angeles. Led by artist and dancer Rebecca Bruno, the project will stage two public events at the 1920s Sowden House over the weekend, featuring a mix of dance, live music, performance art, sculpture and film. photo by Carolyn Cole

Spectrum News 1 anchor Giselle Fernandez's prime-time series LA Stories catches up with a UCLA professor on the forefront of arts activism and justice reform. Bryonn Bain takes the LA Stories cameras inside his innovative classroom and on-stage for his critically acclaimed one-man show at the prestigious Kennedy Center. Bain reveals to Giselle about how as a Harvard student, an unwarranted arrest set him on an unplanned path to use spoken word, theater, and hip-hop to found a ground-breaking prison education program. Giselle discovers that Bain is not only transforming the lives of UCLA students, but that he is also helping many incarcerated people in Southern California find redemption with newly discovered creative expression.

Dan Froot recently completed an 18-month assignment as a Group Leader for 25 mid-career arts leaders in the Association of Performing Arts Professionals’ (APAP) Leadership Fellows Program, headed up by Ken Foster. Dan, his fellow group leaders and the 25 fellows presented their findings at a plenary session of the 2019 APAP conference in New York. Here they are looking relieved after the plenary was finished!