COMMUNITY | $12 PRE // $15 DOS | 18+ | Lets-a go! Join us for a night of mingling and exploring your skate flow May 30th at 7PM hosted by @bornthiswayskateclub and @bilyskatesalot

Music, film photo prints, prizes and more! Limited capacity so get your tickets while they last. All levels welcome! There will be a floating skate coach available. Bring your skates and vibe. See you there!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | FREE | ALL AGES | Come get your hands dirty caring for native plants in the Junior High garden! Our besties Maggie Smart-McCabe and Linnea Torres lead a workshop/volunteer session actively tending to our Native Garden on the last Sunday of every month.

Not ready to wriggle with the worms? Sort seeds for our free seed library and learn about Southern California native plants. Whether you’ve got a green thumb or you’re just looking for tips on caring for your first house plant, Club Gay Gardens is the perfect space for the environmentally conscious and eco curious. 

We highly recommend bringing sun protection (hats, SPF, sunglasses) and your own water bottle + snacks. 

 Want to learn more about Club Gay Gardens? Read the LA Times article here!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors + outdoors.

WORKSHOP | $12 PRE // $15 DOS | ALL AGES | Looking for a welcoming, nonjudgmental queer and trans centered writing community? Ready to write the poems for the lives we want, and for the world we are calling in? In this workshop, we’ll read inspiring queer and trans poets, break old spells, and conjure new ones for the revolution. We’ll explore how words can confront and dissolve both our fears and empire, ground us in resilience, and reimagine a path forward, where we're rooted in our own individual and communal queer and trans wisdom. You will leave with new writing and prompts you can take with you and use again and again. Beginner and all levels friendly.

Anna Goodman Herrick @‌annagoodmanherrick (they/them) is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole, available everywhere books are sold. They have performed and shared their work at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Artists Uprising at the El Paso Border, Bloomsday on Broadway, the Teen Vogue Summit and more. They have work on Netflix and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Anna’s book, A Speaker is a Wilderness, has been featured in magazines like Medical News Today and Lillith for its collective liberation-centered and healing words.
More: annagoodmanherrick.com • Instagram/ Threads:  @‌annagoodmanherrick

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $12 | ALL AGES | Join us for our Intro LED Circuit Workshop ! Learn about the difference between parallel and series connections using LEDs through this hands-on workshop to raise funds for Latingeniera’s scholarship fund. Latingeniera LLC is a brand created in hopes of donating funds raised to support Latinas in engineering. No prior experience/knowledge necessary. All materials will be provided.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $35 | AGES 16+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | $22 PRE // $25 DOS | Ages 20 -35 | Are you starting Pride Season single? This queer Pitch and Pair event welcomes all genders and sexual orientations — as long as you're enthusiastic about dating someone who is bi/pansexual!

How it works: The event will start at 8pm with some mingling. We will provide ice breakers for lightly guided conversation or just an opportunity to scope out the other cuties in attendance.

At 8:30pm our host from Infinite Spectrum will introduce the presentation hour. Here, a few members selected from our communities (in advance!) will pitch their single bestie to the room.

At 9:30pm the event will conclude with some more unguided mingling so you can pass Instagram handles and phone numbers to the new cuties you just met!

How we choose the presenters: If you are interested in being a Potential Presenter, you should include the following information in our Pitch Form below to be considered for selection:

Name of Presenter - First and Last Name, Age - must be over 21+, Social Media Handle - Instagram, Bluesky, Linkedin, Any Proof You Exist in Cyber Space, Name of Person You're Pitching, Age, Social Media Handle, Relationship Between Presenter and Pitcher - Coworkers, Childhood friends, Exes on Good Terms, 2-4 Sentence Explanation - Tell us what makes your friend a perfect candidate for love.

You must buy a pre-sale ticket BEFORE submitting your pitch. Please attach the emailed receipt from Junior High in your pitch submission. Pitches must be submitted by May 29th, if you are chosen to pitch during the event you will receive a confirmation email from info@nomissingpieces.org ahead of the event.

Looking forward to seeing you there!!

Click here to submit a pitch.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $25 | AGES 12+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | $12 PRE // $15 DOS | 18+ | Come join us for an open mic and clothing swap ! Open mic may include acoustic sets, a cappella, comedy, poetry etc. Sign up’s start at 6:30pm.
For the clothing swap feel free to bring a bag of gently used clothes and take the same bag home with new finds!
@‌mothersol will also be doing an herbal workshop exploring the different herbs used for relaxation, focus, and harmony. There is a little something for everyone! Can’t wait to see you bbs there!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $12 PRE // $15 DOS | 18+ | Calling anyone ready to show off their butch side this pride! Come build a cute little birdhouse with us, meet someone new, and stay awhile! :)

BUILD-A-BUTCH is a crafty afternoon for queers + cuties. We'll be decorating mini birdhouses, hanging out, and making conversation while our paint dries. no crafting skills required, just good energy.

Come solo, bring your crush, bring your roommate, bring the person you want to build ikea furniture with.

Expect:

✶ birdhouse decorating
✶ mellow music
✶ a room full of queer people making things together

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | $12PRE // $15DOS| ALL AGES | Another collage nite has arrived and this time we’re parring it with felt pin making!

Join the Art Club in making the perfect affirming pins for your pride activities! This will be a loosely led craft workshop where you can design your own shapes and create a masterpiece with stitching, beading, felt collaging with glue and or sewing and fabric painting! Don’t miss out on this beginner friendly activity where you will be able to take home as many felt pins as you can get done.

As always we will have our collaging stations with provided magazines as well as the felt pin making kits. Craft with a friend or just get into the crafty zone on your own.

Join us anytime between 7pm - 10pm to hang out, make friends and get weird.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | AGES 12+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with Chelsie Rivera (@la_rosebud), for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

This event is mask mandatory.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

GALLERY | $5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION | ALL AGES | “One, Two, Three, Four, Five” is a collection of paintings and drawings spanning the five years Hannah Ford-Monroe (hfm) has lived and worked odd jobs in Los Angeles. Featuring a dozen new paintings alongside a collection of mixed media works from her archive, her goal is to fit as much art into the gallery as possible. From her bedroom studio to you- join us for hfm’s first ever art show celebration!

Hannah Ford-Monroe is a lifelong crafter and illustrator. Originally from the Bay Area, she’s found a home in Los Angeles and built community through music, baseball, and being a chatterbox everywhere she goes. One month after moving to LA, she got sober. Her recovery reconnected her to the simple joys of life, which is the foundation of her current creative practice. She loves to draw every day and is excited to share a piece of it with you! This is her first time sharing her work publicly.

WORKSHOP | $25 | AGES 12+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | $30 | ALL AGES | #LuvLoungeLiveLA brings diverse Luv'rs from around the world to have meaningful discussions, flat footed singing and overall friendly fun.  You will not want to miss this live experience from Raise It Up, Wy! the podcast (@raiseitupwy).

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | $5 | ALL AGES | Join us on June 14th for our second Hermosa y Libros Book Festival! In celebration of Latine and BIPOC authors and the publication of our new MENTIROSA zine (featuring writing and art from local creatives and co-edited by LA-based Latina poets Sofía Aguilar @‌sofiaxaguilar and Celeste Alyssa Gomez @‌celestaalyssagomez), get ready for an unforgettable event packed with panels, vendors, workshops, FREE books, an open mic, and a dance party. You won’t want to miss it!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | THREE WEEK SERIES | $150 | ALL AGES | Weaving is a calming and meditative practice. The loom is a place to unwind your tangles, imagine, and remember. It's fun to play with colors, texture, and shapes. The steady pace allows your mind to slow down to where you can look at your thoughts happening instead of feeling like they are rushing by. If you feel like you are flooded with input and would like a gentle practice to calm your mind and make your hands happy, weaving is for you! Learn the basic principles of weaving, such as warping the loom, stitch techniques, how to change colors and add texture.

All materials for your project will be included, but feel free to bring your own yarn or supplies to play with. At the end of 3 sessions you will be able to take home your woven wall hanging, placemat, or patch.

1st week: Monday, May 4th
introduction, warp the loom, basic stitches, ideas for projects, and plan your design.

2nd week: Monday, May 11th
guided practice.

3rd week: Monday May 18th
continued practice, complete your projects, prepare your piece to be tied off, hung, or stitched.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

GUEST ARTIST WORKSHOP | $65 | ALL AGES | In this workshop we will explore the process of mask making. We will craft pieces that carry cultural and personal significance. Tell your story by learning to create and decorate clay masks. Taught by Ollin Gonzalez.

Great for those who are looking for access to ceramics, clay friends, or sharpening your skill set! No experience necessary.

Price of admission also pays for all firings of class work. Attendees will be notified via email to pick up their fired cups 4-6 weeks after the class. Sculptures will be food safe and ready to use upon pick-up. Pieces may be picked up during Gallery Hours 12-6pm daily or at any Clay Date. Everyone will have up to three months to pick up their pots- after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work.

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $25 | AGES 12+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

SCREENING | $15 | ALL AGES | Join us for the release of independent short film “Sticky”, followed by live music by Julie f the Rulies and more! "Sticky" is a queer coming of age story that follows Emi, our down and out protagonist who decides to steal a memento from her first love on the night of their final goodbye. After the screening, we’ll dance the night away with Julie f the Rulies and friends. See you there!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

Please arrive on time as we will exercise our strict 15 minute grace period.

WORKSHOP | $25 a Pair (Father+ Child or Adult Child) // $10 Additional Family Member | All AGES 6+ | Living Archive: Family, History & Culture is a special Father's Day celebration that creates space for fathers and their children from ages 6+ to slow down, connect, and build lasting memories together. Whether you're a Father with a young child spending the day with dad, or an adult bringing your father for a meaningful bonding experience, this intergenerational gathering centers reflection, creativity, and cultural preservation as we honor fatherhood and the bonds that shape our families.

Event Experience:

Professional Photo Opportunity
A dedicated photo station where fathers and children (of any age) can capture a special moment together. Each family receives both a digital version and a physical print to take home.

Hands-On Photo Album Creation
Families work together to create a personalized photo album, including their Father's Day photo and space for family memories and archives they bring from home.

Guided Reflection & Storytelling
Facilitated activities that encourage sharing stories, traditions, and wisdom across generations, strengthening family bonds.

On-Site Photo Digitization (Optional)
Families can bring physical photographs and family archives to be digitized and preserved, then incorporated into their albums.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | THREE WEEK SERIES | $150 | ALL AGES | Weaving is a calming and meditative practice. The loom is a place to unwind your tangles, imagine, and remember. It's fun to play with colors, texture, and shapes. The steady pace allows your mind to slow down to where you can look at your thoughts happening instead of feeling like they are rushing by. If you feel like you are flooded with input and would like a gentle practice to calm your mind and make your hands happy, weaving is for you! Learn the basic principles of weaving, such as warping the loom, stitch techniques, how to change colors and add texture.

All materials for your project will be included, but feel free to bring your own yarn or supplies to play with. At the end of 3 sessions you will be able to take home your woven wall hanging, placemat, or patch.

1st week: Monday, May 4th
introduction, warp the loom, basic stitches, ideas for projects, and plan your design.

2nd week: Monday, May 11th
guided practice.

3rd week: Monday May 18th
continued practice, complete your projects, prepare your piece to be tied off, hung, or stitched.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $15 | 18+ | Drawn Together LA is a community-centered unguided figure drawing event where people of all skill levels are welcome to draw from a model, be inspired by fellow artists, and enjoy a creative, safe space. Bring your sketchbook, favorite drawing supplies, or borrow from our materials. Let's draw together and make friends!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

Please arrive on time as we will exercise our strict 15 minute grace period.

WORKSHOP | FREE | AGES 8-12 | Kids Clay Play is a monthly free class offered to youth ages 8-12 years old. Students are encouraged to engage with contemporary art, as they create artwork sitting inside Junior High’s gallery. Class is held inside Junior High’s gallery. Create your own unique creatures using handbuilding techniques like pinching, coiling, and slab work. All materials and kiln firings are included in the price of the class. Final ceramic artwork pick- up dates will be shared toward the end of the session.

Teaching artist, Allison Segura, has been teaching kids ceramic classes for 5 years across several different studios around Los Angeles. Allison aims to create a safe space for youth to express themselves through art making. As ceramics is an ancient practice, Allison hopes to provide cultural context to this very approachable medium while challenging student’s creativity.

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | AGES 12+ | MASK MANDATORY | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with Chelsie Rivera (@la_rosebud), for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

This event is mask mandatory.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | SUGGESTED $5-10 DONATION | ALL AGES | Join Jr Hi buds Chelsie and Eden in this monthly fiber arts meet up to practice your textile skills! Whether you prefer crocheting, knitting, sewing, or have never picked up a need (or hook) — all are welcome! The Sew Silly Crafting Circle will be full of puns and decompressing from the work week. This is the place to bring that WIP collecting dust in your craft basket. Bring a project or come empty handed — we will have some yarn and hooks to help inspire you to create something new!

Interested in sewing or quilting? Chelsie is spearheading a new Junior High commemorative project. Participants can memorialize their contribution each month by working on this exciting new community project!

This club is for people of all skill levels. Chelsie and Eden are just as excited to be teaching what they know as well as learning new skills from the talented members of the Junior High community. as there will be space for learning, teaching, and/or just existing. SEW…Don’t be a granny square just make them with us!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $25 | AGES 12+ | Looking for access to ceramics, clay sculpting with friends, or sharpening your skill set? Walk in at your leisure and join us at Clay Date! Here you can have 2hr access to 2 lbs of clay and tools to make your own ceramic sculptures! Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques with one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) for a loosely guided hand building class. No experience is necessary. Tickets for Clay Date will also be available at the door day-of the event.

Option to pay $10 to fire your artwork at the end of the class. If you opt to fire your work, you will receive an email once your pots have been bisque fired and are ready to pick up. You can pick up your pieces on Mondays 12-6pm or at any Clay Date. To glaze your work, purchase another Clay Date ticket to receive access to the glazes and for the last firing. You will have up to three months to pick up/glaze your works – after which we will have to dispose of them to make space for new class work!

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | FREE | ALL AGES | Come get your hands dirty caring for native plants in the Junior High garden! Our besties Maggie Smart-McCabe and Linnea Torres lead a workshop/volunteer session actively tending to our Native Garden on the last Sunday of every month.

Not ready to wriggle with the worms? Sort seeds for our free seed library and learn about Southern California native plants. Whether you’ve got a green thumb or you’re just looking for tips on caring for your first house plant, Club Gay Gardens is the perfect space for the environmentally conscious and eco curious. 

We highly recommend bringing sun protection (hats, SPF, sunglasses) and your own water bottle + snacks. 

 Want to learn more about Club Gay Gardens? Read the LA Times article here!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors + outdoors.

WELLNESS | $25 PRE// $30 DOS | ALL AGES+SKILL LEVELS | Are you interested in somatics, but not sure where to start? BODY PRACTICE is a monthly community space to come together and practice being in a body. Each two hour workshop is led by hannah rubin (they/them) of slow body somatics, and is grounded in body-based learning and guided somatic practices that support nervous system health, relational connection, and feeling our bodies in present time. Together we will practice therapeutic body-centered approaches to healing and body-mind-spirit connection. All bodies, genders, levels, and ages are welcome! Bring friends!

Please wear comfortable clothes and bring any extra layers that might support you in being warm and cozy. Bring your own yoga mat.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

Please arrive on time as we will exercise our strict 15 minute grace period.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | THREE WEEK SERIES | $150 | ALL AGES | Weaving is a calming and meditative practice. The loom is a place to unwind your tangles, imagine, and remember. It's fun to play with colors, texture, and shapes. The steady pace allows your mind to slow down to where you can look at your thoughts happening instead of feeling like they are rushing by. If you feel like you are flooded with input and would like a gentle practice to calm your mind and make your hands happy, weaving is for you! Learn the basic principles of weaving, such as warping the loom, stitch techniques, how to change colors and add texture.

All materials for your project will be included, but feel free to bring your own yarn or supplies to play with. At the end of 3 sessions you will be able to take home your woven wall hanging, placemat, or patch.

1st week: Monday, May 4th
introduction, warp the loom, basic stitches, ideas for projects, and plan your design.

2nd week: Monday, May 11th
guided practice.

3rd week: Monday May 18th
continued practice, complete your projects, prepare your piece to be tied off, hung, or stitched.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

COMMUNITY | FREE | ALL AGES | We're throwing it back to bring us forward. The ancestors gave us invaluable tools for us current organizers, but it's up to us to make sure they're adapted to these times. Similarly, it's our obligation to ensure the seeds we plant come to fruition for future generations, even if we aren't around to watch them bloom. In THE NOSTALGIC FUTURES BOOK CLUB — facilitated by Xueyou Wang (she/they) & Ray Carroll (they/them) — we explore a variety of literature — fiction, poetry, theory, memoir, and more — that asks us what part of our collective histories are worth carrying forward, and what change is required for a liberated future.

Get this month’s reading selection and sign up for Book Club emails here.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

DANCE | $20 PRE // $25 DOS | 21+ | Fantasy Suite Queer & Thick pole is back with an evening of pole performances by first time dancers and returning Fantasy Suite cast. This sexy strip show of queer and thick bodies will make you feel like a million bucks!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | FREE | AGES 8-12 | Kids Clay Play is a monthly free class offered to youth ages 8-12 years old. Students are encouraged to engage with contemporary art, as they create artwork sitting inside Junior High’s gallery. Class is held inside Junior High’s gallery. Create your own unique creatures using handbuilding techniques like pinching, coiling, and slab work. All materials and kiln firings are included in the price of the class. Final ceramic artwork pick- up dates will be shared toward the end of the session.

Teaching artist, Allison Segura, has been teaching kids ceramic classes for 5 years across several different studios around Los Angeles. Allison aims to create a safe space for youth to express themselves through art making. As ceramics is an ancient practice, Allison hopes to provide cultural context to this very approachable medium while challenging student’s creativity.

Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any further questions pertaining to Clay Date!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

WORKSHOP | $15 | 18+ | Drawn Together LA is a community-centered unguided figure drawing event where people of all skill levels are welcome to draw from a model, be inspired by fellow artists, and enjoy a creative, safe space. Bring your sketchbook, favorite drawing supplies, or borrow from our materials. Let's draw together and make friends!

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.

This event will be indoors.

Please arrive on time as we will exercise our strict 15 minute grace period.