June 2020 events calendar for Los Angeles
Plan your month with our June 2020 events calendar of the best activities, including free things to do, festivals and our favorite concerts
Looking for things to do in L.A.? Fill up your social life with festivals and activities from our June events calendar for Los Angeles. If you’re an Angeleno, you like to have fun in the sun at the beach, hiking or even lounging rooftop. As the weather warms up, head outdoors for this month’s big events and festivals.
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Smorgasburg LA
Indulge your inner foodie and shopaholic at this weekly food-focused market. The Brooklyn export has landed in the Arts District and become a hotbed of fantastic food and retail vendors, with some that are testing out their dishes before launching a full-blown brick-and-mortar in the city. Bonus: there is plentiful (and free, for two hours!) parking in the nearby parking garage.
Rom Com Fest
There’s no need to hide your tears during this film fest for fellow romantic comedy lovers, an age-old genre of flicks that find us laughing for the first hour and a half and then inevitably weeping at a happy ending. Rom Com Fest will assemble a lineup of classics and premieres, all accompanied with some assortment of sips and sweets. Last year’s inaugural fest pair screenings of films such as 10 Things I Hate About You, Never Been Kissed and How Stella Got Her Groove Back with appearances from the likes of June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Rachel Bloom and more.
Alanis Morissette
I’m broke but I’m happy because Alanis Morissette is playing the Hollywood Bowl (and, let’s face it, we’ll be even more broke once we shell out for tickets). The singer-songwriter who we’ve all attempted to emulate during drunken karaoke is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, and she’ll be playing all the hits (we saw her back at Arroyo Seco Weekend and she has even more classic songs than you remember) on June 9 at the Bowl. Upping the nostalgia overload: Garbage and Liz Phair will open the show. And I’m here to remind you that tickets go on sale Friday, December 13 at 11am, with presales starting as early Tuesday, December 10.
Mar Vista Art Walk
This fun neighborhood stroll highlights the numerous artists, musicians, shops and galleries of Mar Vista, where huge vivid murals brighten exterior walls everywhere you look. Since launching in 2015, the quarterly event has dramatically expanded, now featuring several clusters of activity along Venice Boulevard. Catch local musicians and performers throughout the evening, artists selling their works as well as creating new ones on the spot, grab food from trucks, and browse galleries and shops that stay open late. The walk takes place the first Thursday of March, June, September and November, each time featuring a different theme and the artists are curated by Monique Boileau and Mitchelito Orquiola.
Cub Scout
Given that Silver Lake is where the bears like to play, is it any wonder that the cubs have taken such a shine to the neighborhood as well? Cub Scout, presented by popular nightlife personalities DJ Chris Bowen and DJ Victor Rodriguez, is a monthly den of sexy fun with cheap drinks and a furry crowd on the first Friday of every month. But don’t be misled: This cruisy, no-frills party attracts boys from all parts of town and every stripe of the rainbow. Bears, cubs, otters, wolves and pups are all welcome and sure to find something—or someone—to cozy up to at this all out man-fest.
Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling
Just in time for Oscar weekend, the Annenberg is looking back at four decades of Vanity Fair’s celebrity portraits, including shots from every edition of the Hollywood issue as well as the annual Oscar night party.
Made in L.A.
The Hammer Museum’s excellent, ongoing series of biennial exhibitions ups the ante each year with its spotlight on emerging and under-recognized L.A. artists, and we expect the upcoming fifth edition to be no exception. The list of 30 artists includes practitioners across all sorts of mediums, including paintings, sculptures, room-sized installations, ephemeral creations, dance performances, a one-man show and more. And for those Eastsiders scared of venturing too close to the 405, this year the Hammer is partnering with the Huntington Library to present works from all of the artists at the San Marino institution, as well. We’d suggest swinging by the Hammer first; members and visitors to the Hammer will receive free passes to the Huntington to see the rest of the exhibition.
Virgin Fest
Virgin Fest is coming to L.A. on June 6 and 7, 2020 and it’ll feature multiple stages spread across the Banc of California Stadium and most of Exposition Park. It’s being billed as a huge party to kick off summer each year—yes, there are already plans to make it an annual event. We won’t know the lineup until early next year, when tickets go on sale, but it’ll lean Top 40. If you’re wondering about all of those quality-of-life details that make or break a festival experience, Virgin Fest is still being a little fuzzy on the specifics, but it’s promising a few major ideals: Music, of course, is at the center of it all, but so are sustainability, technology and hospitality.
South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room
Come on down to the Glendale Galleria and try to escape the foul-mouthed fourth graders’ least favorite spot—the classroom—in this official South Park-inspired escape room.
Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Pearl-inlaid breastplates, meticulously-crafted spears, turtle-shaped bowls and a 26-foot sailing canoe all factor into this beautiful assembly of over 280 artworks from Fiji, the first such substantial project to be mounted in the U.S.
Alanis Morissette
I’m broke but I’m happy because Alanis Morissette is playing the Hollywood Bowl (and, let’s face it, we’ll be even more broke once we shell out for tickets). The singer-songwriter who we’ve all attempted to emulate during drunken karaoke is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, and she’ll be playing all the hits (we saw her back at Arroyo Seco Weekend and she has even more classic songs than you remember) on June 9 at the Bowl. Upping the nostalgia overload: Garbage and Liz Phair will open the show. And I’m here to remind you that tickets go on sale Friday, December 13 at 11am, with presales starting as early Tuesday, December 10.
South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room
Come on down to the Glendale Galleria and try to escape the foul-mouthed fourth graders’ least favorite spot—the classroom—in this official South Park-inspired escape room.
Hamilton
L.A. once again gets its shot at Broadway’s hottest ticket, Hamilton. The hip-hop historical hootenanny by Lin-Manuel Miranda (everything winner for In the Heights) uses several musical genres to craft a totally unexpected look at the Founding Fathers and the creation of America… though Miranda has said, “We take it as a given that hip hop is the music of the Revolution.” There’s British pop (for King George), soul, modern girl-group groove and a full-on rap smackdown about the role of the federal government between the first secretary of the treasury (Alexander Hamilton) and Thomas Jefferson himself.
Smorgasburg LA
Indulge your inner foodie and shopaholic at this weekly food-focused market. The Brooklyn export has landed in the Arts District and become a hotbed of fantastic food and retail vendors, with some that are testing out their dishes before launching a full-blown brick-and-mortar in the city. Bonus: there is plentiful (and free, for two hours!) parking in the nearby parking garage.
Mar Vista Art Walk
This fun neighborhood stroll highlights the numerous artists, musicians, shops and galleries of Mar Vista, where huge vivid murals brighten exterior walls everywhere you look. Since launching in 2015, the quarterly event has dramatically expanded, now featuring several clusters of activity along Venice Boulevard. Catch local musicians and performers throughout the evening, artists selling their works as well as creating new ones on the spot, grab food from trucks, and browse galleries and shops that stay open late. The walk takes place the first Thursday of March, June, September and November, each time featuring a different theme and the artists are curated by Monique Boileau and Mitchelito Orquiola.
Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling
Just in time for Oscar weekend, the Annenberg is looking back at four decades of Vanity Fair’s celebrity portraits, including shots from every edition of the Hollywood issue as well as the annual Oscar night party.
Made in L.A.
The Hammer Museum’s excellent, ongoing series of biennial exhibitions ups the ante each year with its spotlight on emerging and under-recognized L.A. artists, and we expect the upcoming fifth edition to be no exception. The list of 30 artists includes practitioners across all sorts of mediums, including paintings, sculptures, room-sized installations, ephemeral creations, dance performances, a one-man show and more. And for those Eastsiders scared of venturing too close to the 405, this year the Hammer is partnering with the Huntington Library to present works from all of the artists at the San Marino institution, as well. We’d suggest swinging by the Hammer first; members and visitors to the Hammer will receive free passes to the Huntington to see the rest of the exhibition.
Rom Com Fest
There’s no need to hide your tears during this film fest for fellow romantic comedy lovers, an age-old genre of flicks that find us laughing for the first hour and a half and then inevitably weeping at a happy ending. Rom Com Fest will assemble a lineup of classics and premieres, all accompanied with some assortment of sips and sweets. Last year’s inaugural fest pair screenings of films such as 10 Things I Hate About You, Never Been Kissed and How Stella Got Her Groove Back with appearances from the likes of June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Rachel Bloom and more.