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River Solstice Festival Presented by LA River Arts June 21, 2026 2–7 PM Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park Frogtown, Los Angeles FREE A celebration of music, art, performance, and community along the LA River in honor of the summer solstice, curated by Ryan Noon. 🟡 Live performances by @maryoverthere • @__san_cha__ • @bobbakermarionettes • @calycosa.music 🔴 Featuring visual artwork by: @adeeroberson • @alanpulnerapulner • @ali_prosch • @clownache • @kerrkerrkerrkerr • @alexlukas • @alondralozano2306 • @anjasalonen • @pinteretnip • @caraaachan • @christianmakesthings • Chloe Isiah • @danieljacklyons • @mastersway • @grahamlp_ • @herttakiiski • @jemimawyman • @jimisermann • @julie_spielman • @luke_forsyth • Manuel Guerrero • @paulboothnyc • @sethbogartofficial • @studio.studio 🔵 Special presentations by: @a.history.of.frogs • @bedandbreakfast_la • @cohoststudios • @thefulcrumpress • @herbclub_la • @orcugh @sensescoffeeproject • @tierradelsolgallery and more to be announced… 🟣 Musical support and partnership by Living Earth @livingearth.la Festival Identity by @clairetypaldos Images by Glen Han and Stephenie Pashkowsky River Solstice is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. RSVP via link in bio. See you on the solstice 🌞 by @lariverarts
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Yesterday, four of our region’s leading public arts funders came together for a rare joint convening: the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, LA County Department of Arts and Culture, and City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. We’re especially grateful to have received support from all four this year—investments that have helped make LARA’s work along the Los Angeles River possible. The energy in the room was a reminder of what makes Los Angeles such a vibrant center of creativity: an extraordinary community of artists, cultural organizations, public agencies, and advocates working every day to shape the cultural life of our region. As Los Angeles looks toward an important few years ahead, we’re excited to be part of this community and grateful to everyone doing the work to strengthen, expand, and reimagine what arts and culture can look like across our city. @neaarts @calartscouncil @lacountyarts @culture_la taken in The Vision Theater at Leimert Park Village by @lariverarts
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Twenty-two artist-designed flags came together to form our River Assembly, moving with the breeze along the Los Angeles River (Paayme Paxaayt) Much love to all the artists who made it possible 💙 @adeeroberson • @alanpulnerapulner • @ali_prosch • @clownache • @kerrkerrkerrkerr • @alexlukas • @alondralozano2306 • @anjasalonen • @pinteretnip • @christianmakesthings • Chloe Isiah • @danieljacklyons • @xomasterswayxo • @grahamlp_ • @jemimawyman • @jimisermann • @julie_spielman • @luke_forsyth • Manuel Guerrero • @paulboothnyc • @sethbogartofficial • @tierradelsolgallery #RiverSolsticeFestival #LARiverArts #LARiver #PublicArt #LosAngelesArts by @lariverarts
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On the longest day of the year, more than 1,000 community members gathered along the Los Angeles River (Paayme Paxaayt) to celebrate art, nature, music, and community. Together, we experienced: 🎶 Live performances by Mary Lattimore, San Cha, and CALYCOSA 🎭 Bob Baker Marionette Theater 🎨 The Artist Pavilion Exhibition 🚩 River Assembly, featuring 22 artist-designed flags 🦅 Guided walks with the LA Birding Club and Herb Club 🎨 Kids’ Art Activity 🌮 Delicious offerings from our local food and beverage vendors 🎤 Sound by Living Earth To our artists, performers, curators, volunteers, park staff, local vendors, community partners, sponsors, and the entire LA River Arts team—thank you for helping bring this vision to life. We are especially grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for supporting free, accessible arts programming along the river. This was only the beginning. Thank you for helping us launch River Solstice—we can’t wait to welcome you back next year. 📸 Swipe through a few of our favorite moments, and tag yourself, your friends, and your favorite memories from the day! Festival photography by Sam Lee and Josh Schaedel taken in Los Angeles River by @lariverarts
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Every city has places that shape how people experience it. We believe the Los Angeles River deserves to be one of those places. A place where artists create. A place where communities gather. A place where nature and culture meet. Today's Los Angeles Times article explores the growing movement to reimagine the river through arts and culture, and we're honored that the inaugural River Solstice Festival is part of that story. The article is a reminder that this work is bigger than any one event or organization. It reflects a growing community of artists, cultural organizations, environmental advocates, public agencies, and neighbors who are helping more Angelenos discover, experience, and care for the Los Angeles River. Thank you to everyone who is helping shape this shared vision. 📰 Read the story at the link in our bio. 📸 Stay tuned later this week for our full River Solstice recap and more photos from an unforgettable day along the river. Photos in this post by Ariana Drehsler for the LA Times by @lariverarts
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Last Sunday, I led production for @lariverarts’ inaugural River Solstice Festival, a free festival celebrating the longest day of the year along the LA River. After 3 months of artist & vendor coordination, programming, permit logistics (chile 😅), site visits, and more spreadsheets than I can count, we finally got to see it all come to life. I love festival production because it’s equal parts logistics, problem-solving, and care. Bringing those skills to a festival here in LA—and alongside so much of my own community—made this one especially meaningful. Proud to continue building this work through @noirstudios.xyz 🤎 Thank you to @noonprojects for being my partner in ideation, to @livingearth.la for saying my name in the room before I even entered it, and to @neaarts and @culture_la for helping make this work possible. Endless gratitude to our artists, performers, volunteers, day-of staff, vendors, community partners, and everyone who came out to celebrate the river with us. Here’s to year 1. See y’all next year 🫂🌿 #festival #losangeles #riversolsticefestival #recap taken in Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park by @lariverarts
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LA River Solstice Festival hosted by @lariverarts . #beasunrulyasthesoftbottonportionofthelariver #solstice #festival #losangeles #lariver taken in LA River by @lariverarts
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Thanks @noonprojects for including my work ‘Future Touching’ as apart of the River Solstice Festival with @lariverarts 💙💙💙 📸 @jamesnaish by @lariverarts
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The River Solstice Festival is TOMORROW 🌞 Join us for an afternoon of art, music, performance, guided walks, food, and community along the Los Angeles River. Swipe for the full schedule and “Know Before You Go” details 📍 Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park 🗓 June 21 ⏰ 2–7 PM 🎟 Free and open to all Featuring performances by @maryoverthere / @__san_cha__ / @bobbakermarionettes / @calycosa.music alongside the River Assembly installation, pavilion exhibitions, food and beverage vendors, guided nature walks, and community activations. See you at the river! by @lariverarts
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Come hungry. We’re excited to welcome a lineup of local food and beverage partners to Festival Eats, our gathering space for food, drinks, and community along the river. 🌿 Solarc Brewing (@solarcbrewing) will be serving house-made Fuzzy Tea, Sage Tea, and Kombucha, highlighting their creative local approach to fermentation, herbs, and community gathering. 🥪 ORCA POP UP (@orcugh) is a Los Angeles-based food pop-up known for bold, flavor-forward sandwiches inspired by Caribbean, Southeast Asian, and Southern cuisines. At River Solstice, ORCA will be serving their signature Big Fish Sandwich. 🍌 The Plantain Shop (@cohoststudios), curated by Chef Jennie Wright (@chefj.wright), reimagines Caribbean cuisine through sandwiches, small bites, plant based alternatives and specialty pantry goods inspired by island flavors and traditions. 🥤 Raw Cane SuperJuice (@rawcanesuperjuice) offers fresh juices and plant-based beverages rooted in nourishment, vitality, and whole ingredients. Join us for an afternoon of art, music, performances, guided walks, food, and community along the Los Angeles River. River Solstice Festival June 21, 2026 Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park, Los Angeles 2–7 PM Free. Open to all. #RiverSolsticeFestival #LARiverArts #LARiver #LAFood #BlackBusiness #FoodEvents #LosAngelesArts by @lariverarts
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Designed by architect and LA River Arts co-founder Elaine René–Weissman, The Pavilion is the Festival’s take on a Roman Piazza — a space for gathering, conversation, coffee, and intentional looking. Screenings, installations, and chance encounters unfold here in real time, without fixed hierarchy or schedule. At its center sits Hertta Kiiski’s film Not Not a Metaphor — filmed across zoos, aquariums, ancient ruins, and distribution centers, moving between symbolic and infrastructural landscapes, tracing a fragile continuity between living systems and their representations. Austin Kahn’s hand-hammered sculptural stumps evoke the aftermath of deforestation while reading as fractured pillars or archaeological remains. In the courtyard, Cara Chan’s carved stone works draw on the sculptural languages of Paleolithic and Neolithic forms, translating them into a contemporary, embodied practice. In the covered hallways, A History of Frogs’ conceptual design objects feel forged from future muck, The Fulcrum Press expands definitions of the publication format, and Tierra Del Sol presents intimate artworks shaped by distinct and expressive forms of making. Alongside, the Senses Coffee Project brings craft coffee and sound into the space for a slower register of multi-sensory attention. River Solstice Festival June 21, 2026 Lewis MacAdams Park, Los Angeles 2–7 PM Free. Open to all. Register via link in bio @pinteretnip • @caraaachan • @herttakiiski • @studio.studio • @a.history.of.frogs • @the_fulcrum_press • @sensescoffeeproject • @tierradelsolgallery #RiverSolsticeFestival #LARiverArts #LARiver #ContemporaryArt #CuratorialPractice #PublicArt #LosAngelesArts by @lariverarts
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River Solstice is more than a day of music and art—it’s an invitation to slow down, observe, and deepen our relationship with the Los Angeles River through hands-on community programming. Throughout the festival, guests can join a series of free, all-ages experiences led by local educators, artists, and environmental stewards: 🎨 Bed & Breakfast (@bedandbreakfast_la) – All-Ages Creative Programming From 2:00–5:00 PM, B&B, the creative practice of curator and educator Jacqueline Falcone and Remainders Creative Reuse (@remainders_creative_reuse), will host a drop-in creative activation centered on making, learning, and collective exploration. Rooted in hospitality and accessible arts education, the program invites participants of all ages to create together using reclaimed materials while imagining new ways of connecting to each other and the river. 🌿 Herb Club LA (@herbclub_la) – Guided Herb Walk Beginning at 5:30 PM, Herb Club LA will lead a walk exploring the native plants that have grown along the river for centuries, sharing their identification, traditional uses, and ecological significance. Participation is first come, first served. 🦅 LA Birding Club (@labirdingclub) – Summer Solstice Bird Walk Also beginning at 5:30 PM, LA Birding Club will guide an intentional walk celebrating the remarkable diversity of birdlife along the LA River. Whether you’re an experienced birder or simply curious, all are welcome. Participation is first come, first served, and a limited number of binoculars will be available for use. At River Solstice, we celebrate the river not only as a landscape, but as a living classroom, gathering place, and source of inspiration. River Solstice Festival June 21, 2026 Lewis MacAdams Park, Los Angeles 2–7 PM Free. Open to all. Register via the link in our bio. #RiverSolsticeFestival #LARiverArts #LARiver #PublicArt #LosAngelesArts by @lariverarts
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