February 2017
GLOBAL CURRENTS Celebrating World Cultures & Earth’s Shared Resources
Water is life. It sustains us, and everything around us. It’s the original “highway,” linking us together. And it inspires us—the subject of poems, songs and dances. VPAC celebrates water on February 25. A daytime performance festival in the VPAC Courtyard features six Los Angeles ensembles with origins in six regions of the world. These traditional artists have one thing in common — music and dance that honors and evokes water. VPAC honors arts and culture from around the globe,…
Find out more »The Nile Project
Straight from the heart of Africa, 12 artists and 7 nations come together for a night of infectious rhythms and joyous melodies that have brought audiences to their feet worldwide. These artists share the Nile River, and they share a message of culture unity and global sustainability.
Find out more »November 2017
iLe & Gaby Moreno – Music Knows No Borders at VPAC (The Soraya)
iLe (Ileana Cabra Joglar) is a Puerto Rican singer, composer and vocalist who spent a decade touring Latin America with her brothers in the popular band Calle 13. Now, as successful solo artist she comes to Los Angeles performing music from her recent album that combines alt-rock with traditional boleros. Gaby Moreno, who sings the theme song for the series opening intro of Disney’s first Latina princess Elena of Avalor, moved to the US from Guatemala after high school and now…
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