Below, you will find listings of current Arts Announcements for the local community and around the greater Los Angeles area.

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The Port of Long Beach Recordings

In the spirit of soundpedro, artist Phil Peters is showing The Port of Long Beach Recordings at Canary Test in LA. Peters went to the nation’s second busiest port to capture the soundscape, and now bottles those noises inside of a gallery. The exhibit runs to May 11.

“The Port of Long Beach Recordings is a soundtrack to the globe’s hunger for commodities, the ever-expanding growth of imported products, and the enormous system of infrastructure still insufficient to process it all.” — Renée Reizman for Hyperallergic, April 4. 

Read more at Phil Peters Bottles the Soundscape of the Global Supply Chain

Details: 617- 997-6152; www.thecanarytest.com

Venue: Canary Test,  526 E 12th St C, Los Angeles

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Summer Internships Available at Arts Council Long Beach

The Arts Council has four internship opportunities available: an arts learning internship, marketing internship and development internship sponsored by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and a public art internship made possible by the Getty Foundation’s Marrow Undergraduate Internship program.

Applications are due April 20, 2022.

Arts Learning Internship Job Description — https://tinyurl.com/artys-learning 

Marketing and Grants Internship Job Description — https://tinyurl.com/marketing-grants 

Development Internship Job Description — https://tinyurl.com/development 

Public Art Internship Job Description — https://tinyurl.com/public-art

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Jazz Informance Live Stream, featuring Herbie Hancock, Sean Jones, U.S. Education Secretary

The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education will present a peer-to-peer jazz informance on April 19, featuring the Peer-to-Peer Jazz Quintet. Hosted by U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona, the “informance” — a combination of performance and educational information — will be presented by five of the Baltimore/Washington, DC area’s most gifted high school music students along with 14-time Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Herbie Hancock, internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet recording artist Sean Jones, and renowned jazz educator Dr. JB Dyas. It will not only focus on what jazz is and why it’s important to America, but also on leadership in the time of a crisis such as a pandemic and how the principles of jazz — collaborating, improvising, not seeking perfection, playing off each other’s strengths, perseverance and the vital importance of really listening to one another — can enlighten leaders as they navigate through a crisis, uncertainty and challenging times.

The informance will be live streamed from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) headquarters building in Washington, D.C., beginning at 1 p.m. EDT, at https://tinyurl.com/mediasite.ed.gov/webcast, to hundreds of school districts in the United States and around the world, and streamed on ED’s YouTube, www.youtube.com/c/usdepartmentofeducation; Facebook, www.facebook.com/ED.gov and Twitter, www.twitter.com/usedgovaccounts, as well as the institute’s website, hancockinstitute.org.

Time: 1 p.m., April 19

Details: https://hancockinstitute.org/2022/03/used-informance-apr-19

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Aquarium of the Pacific Earth Day Celebration

The festival will happen April 23 and 24 and the public is invited to send in their submissions for the Trashin’ Fashion, art, and poetry contests. See below for a list of other festival events.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 23, 24 

Cost: $26.95 to $36.95 

Details: 562-590-3100; aquariumofpacific.org/events/info/earth_day_celebration/

Venue: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach

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Clean-up To Help Local Wildlife

In partnership with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums 

Time: 9 to 10 a.m. (registration opens at 8:30 a.m.), April 23

Cost: Free

Venue: Located at wildlife habitats, walking distance from the Aquarium. 

 

CONTESTS:

Trashin’ Fashion Design Contest:

The aquarium will host its Trashin’ Fashion design contest during its annual Earth Day Celebration on April 23 and 24. The public is invited to enter for a chance at cash prizes that will be awarded to the top three designers with the most creative eco-friendly designs. Top designs will be showcased at the aquarium throughout the Earth Day Celebration. The goal of the contest is to draw awareness to issues of pollution and create a sustainable relationship with our ocean. 

Details: www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia/trashinfashion 

 Earth Day Poetry Contest:

The aquarium will host its annual Earth Day poetry contest, where poets of all ages submit their poems celebrating the theme, “saving local species.” The top three entrees  will be eligible for cash prizes and will be presented during the aquarium’s Earth Day celebration April 23. 

Details: www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia/earthdaypoetry  

 Art Contest:

The aquarium’s Earth Day art contest, managed in partnership with the Arts Council for Long Beach, will celebrate our ocean planet. The aquarium seeks entries from artists working in drawing, painting, collage/mixed media, sculpture, digital art and photography. Three winners will be selected to display their artwork at the festival on April 23 and 24. Winners will receive cash prizes and will have the opportunity to participate in short artist talks during the festival. For rules and submission guidelines, please visit aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia/art-contest.

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6th Annual Alpay Scholarship Exhibition

Art and media students from Southern California colleges and universities are invited to submit engaging new work to be showcased in Palos Verdes Art Center’s Alpay Scholarship Exhibition, Now Trending. One $5,000 cash prize will be awarded. Additionally, the scholarship winner will be considered for inclusion in future PVAC exhibitions. This call is open only to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students in Southern California. 

All media will be considered, including but not limited to: painting, drawing, printing, sculpture, glass, ceramics, fiber art, photography, video, film, VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), installation art, performance art, sound art, and mixed media. Juror: Ben Jackel.

Apply through May 6 at: www.artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info 

Time: June 6 to  July 9

Cost: Free to enter    

Details: 310.541.2479; www.pvartcenter.org  

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center/Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education

5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes