While some may scoff at the idea of Grand Avenue becoming L.A.’s Champs-Élysées, we’re too busy making the most of the Downtown street’s cultural treasures to even engage in that argument.
For one afternoon, more than a dozen institutions will celebrate their Bunker Hill home with free performances, exhibitions and tours. Most of the action takes place on Grand Avenue between Temple and Sixth Streets.
Highlights of this year’s event include the chance to conduct a small chamber orchestra and try instruments at the Colburn School; a DIY violin-building workshop at the Walt Disney Concert Hall; a sugar skull workshop and building tours at the Los Angeles Central Library; LA Opera recitals at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and a Day of the Dead celebration at Grand Park.
Other participating institutions include the Broad, MOCA, REDCAT, the Music Center, Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grand Performances and Metro, which now has a station just off of Grand Avenue atop Bunker Hill. In addition, the Downtown Center Business Improvement District will be hosting an augmented reality art experience at the Omni Hotel.
