Upcoming events
Cousins Fundraiser | Screening Celebrating Film & Community
COMMUNITY | $20 | 18+ | Join the creators of "Cousins" for a night of celebration and community fundraising to help two black women, plus an entirely female production team, bring their film to life! "Cousins" is a coming of age story about a young girl visiting her incarnated father for the first time, and centers around father daughter dynamics, how incarnation effects families, and how families come together in times of turmoil. Come together with us to celebrate a dream made true, dance the night away, and know that with community, there is nothing we cannot create together.
We will have refreshments, merch to purchase for the film, mini-tarot readings, as well as different ways to support the film!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Love Mugs | Clay Date!
GUEST ARTIST WORKSHOP | $60 | ALL AGES | Join us for this specialty Clay Workshop, “Love Mugs!” Come and pour your heart into some clay as you create a set of mugs for you to cheers your with you beloved! Utilize various techniques such as slab, pinch, or coil building to create your one-of-a-kind set. Once your cup is built, you can add texture using hand tools or color using glaze paints. Come with a lover, friend, family member, or just your cute self to celebrate and immortalize what “love” means to you through clay!
Great for those who are looking for access to ceramics, clay friends, or sharpening your skill set! No experience necessary. No reservations necessary to attend Clay Date. You are welcome to purchase your ticket ahead of time or at the door day-of the event.
Price of admission also pays for all firings of class work. Students will be notified via email to pick up their fired cups 4-6 weeks after the class. Cups will be food safe and ready to use upon pick-up. Pieces may be picked up during Gallery Hours 11-5pm on Mondays and Tuesdays 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 pertaining to Cheeky Tiles or Healing With Clay!
**COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. **Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Out On The Ice: A Talk on Queerness in Figure Skating
COMMUNITY |$8 PRE // $12 DOS | ALL AGES | Join us Friday February 20th for a live talk with journalists Ari Saperstein and Chris Schleicher on the hidden history of queerness in figure skating.
From the outside, figure skating looks like a queer refuge. But inside? Skaters have often been expected to fit rigid ideas of gender and performance – on and off the ice. Until surprisingly recently, being fully yourself in the sport felt impossible, especially at the highest levels. Luckily, a few courageous skaters were able to break through and shatter that culture of silence, often in ways that surprised even themselves. Exclusive interviews with Olympic athletes like Adam Rippon and Amber Glenn, Ari and Chris trace the history of skaters who pushed back and the moments that reshaped the visibility of queerness in sport.
(And yes, Heated Rivalry will be discussed.)
Come for the talk, then go home and watch the Olympics a little differently.
Part of ticket proceeds are donated to @CHIRLA, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, supporting their ongoing efforts to stand up to ICE.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Ari Saperstein is a contributor to outlets like The Guardian, Vox and NPR and former producer at LAist and This American Life. Chris Schleicher is a TV writer (The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, Saved by the Bell), a contributor on figure skating for Slate and TIME, and former national-level figure skater.
This talk is based on a three-part series on queerness in figure skating hosted by Ari & Chris for the critically acclaimed documentary podcast Blind Landing.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
1000 Afros Still Loitering For Beauty | Closing Block Party
CLOSING RECEPTION | $5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION | ALL AGES | 1000 Afros Still Loitering For Beauty by Marantz Moon will be celebrating the closing of the exhibition at Junior High LA with an indoor block party with live Djing by Moon himself. Please join us as we enjoy good art, music, community, complimentary snacks and beverages.
Moon’s work centers on Afro silhouettes, emphasizing flow and movement. He uses a variety of mediums, including acrylic, resin, clay, and found materials, layering color, texture, and abstraction to create depth. Inspired by his own identity and culture, his art invites viewers to pause and reflect. Through his practice, he explores the transient nature of life, aiming to freeze moments in time and spark thoughtful engagement.
Marantz Moon is a practicing visual, performance and teaching artist. He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA, where he has lived for the past 5 years since relocated from his hometown of Chicago IL, in early 2020. In that time, Moon co-founded the DMST Atelier, an artist-run gallery space in Mid-City, with fellow artist Frannie Hemmelgarn in 2021. The DMST has since been an incubator for his practice in exploring social practice, community building and other art programing. Moon has a B.A in Art from Grambling State University & M.A in Studio Art from Governors State University. He currently works in fine art installation and as an adjunct art professor teaching art education and social justice courses at Cal State Fullerton.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Club Gay Gardens
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.
Food Drive w/LA Community Fridges!
COMMUNITY | FREE | ALL AGES | Hey you! Are you out of work? Food insecure? Staying home from work to avoid the volatile and dangerous atmosphere on the streets of LA? Come to Junior High to take the supplies that you need! There will be pre-prepared bags available for you to pick up outside if you’re in a hurry, or you can come inside the gallery to “shop” around and enjoy the AC.
We’re partnering with the LA Community Fridge group to collect and freely distribute food and supplies to those who need it. We’re collecting NON-expired shelf stable food and sanitary supplies. Drop off starts at 12:30pm, pick up starts at 1:30pm (or check the Junior High instagram stories day of for details about what’s available and when!)
This is a no-questions asked distribution event. Whether you’re an ally picking up supplies for your neighbors or you fell on hard times before the madness of 2026 started, we’re here to support YOU.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
After Hours at Junior High with Molly Oran, Mister Elle and Amanda on the Moon
MUSIC | $10 | ALL AGES | Join us for After Hours at Junior High with Molly Oran, Mister Elle, and Amanda On The Moon. Enjoy an evening of soothing original music from three local artists.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay (Mask Mandatory)
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Exhibition Opening | Amoebic Muck by Rachel Fazio
GALLERY | $5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION | ALL AGES | Amoebic Muck is both prickly and swirling, and looking up at the sky from underneath the water. Amoebic Muck is the gooey stuff in the center. It is also a debut solo show by Rachel Fazio, featuring mostly abstract surrealist painted works.
Rachel Fazio is a multi-disciplinary artist, graphic designer, and teacher with lots of hobbies. They are based in Los Angeles, where they like to paint, tattoo, and make various fiber artworks. Rachel is currently completing their MFA in Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and works as a freelance graphic designer.
Clay Date! (Mask Mandatory)
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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 one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Airwave! + Friends
MUSIC | $10 | ALL AGES | Join us on February 28th for an early showing of some new music!
Debuting their new music is: Airwave! Airwave is the musical invention of Jesse (@jessegarate), an LA based musician with recording and touring credits to their name. Supporting musical acts include Roger Hallaway (@rogerhallaway) and Pachoink (@pachoink_). Roger Hallaway is a Los Angeles heavy hitter with movie, countless touring, recording, and producing credits. Pachoink is the up and coming art pop group cofounded by Dan and Isaac. Dan, the singing bass-player guides the listener through a myriad of emotions while Isaac - the drummer - ties the whole project together with grounded and interesting beats!
Also featured is art by the extremely talented Raisa Yavneh. Raisa is a multimedia artist & illustrator based Los Angeles. Their illustrations have been featured by Conde Nast’s them., Autostraddle, and more. (www.raisayavneh.com / @dumptruck.jpg)
A portion of proceeds will be donated to the I.C.E. relief efforts of Dare to Struggle for their “Drop the Charges” initiative.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Body Practice Workshop | March
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.
This event will be indoors.
F*ck Ice: Market For Migrant Relief
COMMUNITY | $8-$15 | ALL AGES | Join us for an evening of solidarity with immigrant communities affected by ICE raids through community, art, food, tattoos, ceramics and more.
We believe that art and community are powerful tools against fascism. Join us to exist in community rooted in action, love and resistance.
This will be a ticketed event with a 2-tiered ticket system. Get an $8 ticket to enjoy the market. Get a $15 ticket to enjoy the market and participate in the simultaneous clay workshop. 50% of ticket sales will be donated to The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. Each of our participating vendors and artists will also be donating portions of their sales to a relevant non-profit and/or mutual aid project providing relief to migrant communities from ICE raids.
Clay Date will also be making an appearance! While you’re waiting for food or a tattoo, come play with clay! You will have the chance to reserve 1 hour with a Clay Date instructor sculpt your own ceramic piece throughout the duration of the event. Then you will have the choice to fire your piece (and return to a future clay date to glaze) or recycle your clay for no extra charge.
Raffle including pieces from several different artists, 100% of proceeds going to @chirla.
If you are not able to attend, details of how you can get involved will be shared soon. Please reach out to Shea (@sheasmelser) with any questions.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
An Evening with Anna May, Katie Ferrara, Ricky Berger, and Stella Prince
MUSIC | $15 | ALL AGES | An Evening of four critically acclaimed female artists.
Ricky Berger: Described as “Disney after dark”, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer, Ricky Berger enchants audiences with her eclectic songwriting and haunting voice.
Katie Ferrara: Indie pop and folk singer songwriter Katie Ferrara blends soulful vocals, guitar and live looping into heartfelt performances.
From LA streets to world stages, her songs of heartbreak, perseverance, and hope create an intimate, nostalgic connection that captivates every audience.
Stella Prince: Woodstock-raised, Nashville-honed, & Laurel Canyon inspired, 21 year old Stella Prince creates soul-baring folk representing a new generation.
Anna May: Referred to as "emotive lyricism" by Americana UK and compared to artists like Jeff Buckley and Mazzy Star, Anna creates her own brand of atmospheric folk music.
Her lyrical sensibility is steeped in wisdom, and layered & evocative musicality and metaphysical embroidery while drifting off the mainstream & parting with genre rules. She expertly mingles hope and despair in a blend of genre defying fluidity.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Lighthaus Presents Living Archive: Identity, Art, and Culture
WORKSHOP | $15 | ALL AGES | An immersive gathering to reflect, remember, and reclaim the stories that shape us. Join Lighthaus for an afternoon of creative workshops, archival preservation, and collective storytelling as we explore the power of documenting our heritage and defining culture on our own terms.
What to Expect:
Reflective Writing & Sound Workshop – Engage in contemplative writing in zine format, accompanied by immersive audio from Alfred Nomad's "Until I Get Home" album.
"Letters to Home" Creative Writing Workshop – An intimate exploration of cultural identity, grief, and reclamation. Write letters to places you no longer live, past versions of yourself, and future visions of "home." Share anonymously or keep private.
On-Site Photo Digitization – Bring physical photographs and family archives to be digitized and preserved for future generations.
Physical Archiving – Transform digital images into tangible keepsakes by creating photo albums on-site.
Living Archive is a space for reflection, healing, and reclamation. Whether you're reconnecting with traditions you've lost access to, documenting family histories, or exploring what culture means to you today, this gathering offers tools and community to support your journey.
Come as you are. Bring your stories. Let's remember together.
Presented by Lighthaus – an arts-led community organization using creativity as a tool for equity, education, and connection.
Questions? Contact us at alighthaus@gmail.com
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Counted Cross Stitch
WORKSHOP | $30 | ALL AGES | Join us for an introductory level class on counted cross stitch. Learn how to read a chart to make your own needlepoint masterpiece. Taught by Jessi Skonning @jessca_ann .
Open to all ages and no prior experience required. All materials included in ticket price.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Intro: Handbuilding | A Clay Date Series!
WORKSHOP | FOUR WEEK SERIES |$175 | AGES 16+ | In this 4 week beginner class, you will learn to roll and weave coils together to create a vessel of your choice! Push the limits of handbuilding and coil built vessels by creating a unique vessel that places you in a long lineage of primordial coil built art. Students will have a set of shapes to wrap and weave their coils around or are welcome to bring something from home.
Each class is 2 hrs and you will be provided with all necessary materials, glazes, and firings to create your unique vessel. At the end of the series you’ll be able to take home 2-3 new food safe coil weaved vessels for your enjoyment!
4 Week Breakdown:
1rst week: Concept introduction + basic building practice
2nd week: Start creating your first vessel
3rd week: Final touches and last vessels created
4th week: Glazing of objects
Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any questions pertaining to Clay Date and/or accessible pricing.
Ash Flores is a multi-media teaching artist from and based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches pottery in the Greater Los Angeles area and enjoys working within her local QTBIPOC communities to provide accessible arts programs. Her main goal is to help you feel good when you leave with your artwork and feel encouraged to do more. She is a firm believer that there is no such thing as good or bad art, except AI art - it’s not good and isn’t art.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Jusus Stellar, Caspia, Tarantula Princess & Andrew Wayne
MUSIC | $10 | ALL AGES | Join us March 13th for a night of harsh noises and loud amps! Performances include noise act @tarantula_princess_noise , avant-garde bored theraminist @awbored , the eclectic LA- based @justus.stellar , and San Diego based noise rock/post hardcore band @caspiaband! Bring a friend! Respect the space!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Heart As Landscape: Collage as a Practice of Becoming
WORKSHOP | $15 | ALL AGES | Heart as Landscape is a gentle invitation to slow down this spring, notice what’s shifting, and explore your inner terrain through guided meditation and collage.
Using collage as a process for inner discovery we will explore layering, following intuition, and allowing meaning to emerge over time.
No art experience is necessary. All art materials will be provided and you are invited to bring a yoga mat with you. This will be a soft space with room to participate in whatever way feels right.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Trash Bunniez - Upcycled Mounted Fish Art Workshop
CRAFT | $30 | 18+ | In the spirit of preserving the environment and finding new perspectives - come turn a bunch of trash into a super cute mounted fish! We'll be using old vapes, reclaimed wood, and a mix of discarded materials to make your own fun surreal piece of art. No experience necessary, just come hang out and have fun :) Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own junk items and a hot glue gun (we'll have a bunch to share).
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Collective Grief and Creative Storytelling: Writing Workshop
WORKSHOP | $20 | ALL AGES | Join us for an evening of creative storytelling and community-based writing prompts exploring loss, rage, collective grief, and world-building. This workshop is facilitated by Hailey Reyes, a Houston and LA-based archivist and writer whose work centers immigrant memory, storytelling, and healing through community practice.
This is a loosely guided, beginner-friendly writing workshop—no writing experience necessary. Attendees will be led through prompts, reflection, and optional sharing to help process emotion, imagine safer futures, and connect through collective storytelling. All materials are included.
Being together and creating in community is one of our strongest practices for healing and understanding.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Intro: Handbuilding | A Clay Date Series!
WORKSHOP | FOUR WEEK COURSE | $175 | AGES 16+ | In this 4 week beginner class, you will learn to roll and weave coils together to create a vessel of your choice! Push the limits of handbuilding and coil built vessels by creating a unique vessel that places you in a long lineage of primordial coil built art. Students will have a set of shapes to wrap and weave their coils around or are welcome to bring something from home.
Each class is 2 hrs and you will be provided with all necessary materials, glazes, and firings to create your unique vessel. At the end of the series you’ll be able to take home 2-3 new food safe coil weaved vessels for your enjoyment!
4 Week Breakdown:
1rst week: Concept introduction + basic building practice
2nd week: Start creating your first vessel
3rd week: Final touches and last vessels created
4th week: Glazing of objects
Ash Flores is a multi-media teaching artist from and based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches pottery in the Greater Los Angeles area and enjoys working within her local QTBIPOC communities to provide accessible arts programs. Her main goal is to help you feel good when you leave with your artwork and feel encouraged to do more. She is a firm believer that there is no such thing as good or bad art, except AI art - it’s not good and isn’t art.
Interested in taking this class? Tickets for this series class are available here- purchase the class by the start date (3/9/26) to attend this weekly class.
Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any questions pertaining to Clay Date and/or accessible pricing.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Faye, Ugly Side Up, Desert Mambas & George Children
MUSIC | $10 | ALL AGES | March 17th! Ugly Side Up, Desert Mambas, George Children, and NC fuzzy indie rockers Faye! See u there!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Street Poets Presents: Words as a Witness - A Women’s History Open Mic
COMMUNITY | DONATE WHAT YOU CAN | ALL AGES | SP Presents is a monthly open mic and feature event, centering Los Angeles-based marginalized youth voices. This event is free to the public, including food and drinks. Stay tuned for feature announcement.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Hidden Creatures Improv
COMEDY | $12 | ALL AGES | Hidden Creatures Improv presents a fantastical show where two magical storylines will collide based on audience suggestions. Join us as we encounter hilarious yet heartfelt characters, complex relationships, and imaginative plot twists and turns.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Intro: Handbuilding | A Clay Date Series!
WORKSHOP | FOUR WEEK COURSE | $175 | AGES 16+ | In this 4 week beginner class, you will learn to roll and weave coils together to create a vessel of your choice! Push the limits of handbuilding and coil built vessels by creating a unique vessel that places you in a long lineage of primordial coil built art. Students will have a set of shapes to wrap and weave their coils around or are welcome to bring something from home.
Each class is 2 hrs and you will be provided with all necessary materials, glazes, and firings to create your unique vessel. At the end of the series you’ll be able to take home 2-3 new food safe coil weaved vessels for your enjoyment!
4 Week Breakdown:
1rst week: Concept introduction + basic building practice
2nd week: Start creating your first vessel
3rd week: Final touches and last vessels created
4th week: Glazing of objects
Ash Flores is a multi-media teaching artist from and based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches pottery in the Greater Los Angeles area and enjoys working within her local QTBIPOC communities to provide accessible arts programs. Her main goal is to help you feel good when you leave with your artwork and feel encouraged to do more. She is a firm believer that there is no such thing as good or bad art, except AI art - it’s not good and isn’t art.
Interested in taking this class? Tickets for this series class are available here- purchase the class by the start date (3/9/26) to attend this weekly class.
Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any questions pertaining to Clay Date and/or accessible pricing.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay (Mask Mandatory)
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Clay Date! (Mask Mandatory)
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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 one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Warm Shower and The Towels & K Pasta
MUSIC | $15 | ALL AGES | Come get weird with bands Warm Shower and the Towels and K Pasta. From across the land (or LA) both acts bring you musical humor and honesty and unwasted emotion to help you feel understood in the strange world we live in. Composers/bandleaders Luc Ostroff (Warm Shower and the Towels), and Karl McComas-Reichl (K Pasta) write and record music for the lost souls, the outcasts, the weird kids, and those who just don't fit in. They record their music so that they themselves and those mentioned can have somewhere to go. Let us all come together as weirdos for a night of true understanding, true empathy, and true coolness. Bring your pets!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Club Gay Gardens
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.
The Polish Party: Press-on Nail Art Workshop Series 2
WORKSHOP | $35 per class | 14+ | The Polish Party is back at Junior High LA, this time as a 3-part workshop series!
Join me Jordie C. (they/she), @clacquecloset , each month for a cozy, hands-on workshop where we’ll get creative with 3 different nail art techniques.
Build your skills, connect with new faces, and leave each session with a custom press-on set you made yourself.
Hands-on · beginner-friendly · all genders welcome
Minors must be accompanied by a parent and/or guardian to attend this workshop.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Intro: Handbuilding | A Clay Date Series!
WORKSHOP | FOUR WEEK COURSE | $175 | AGES 16+ | In this 4 week beginner class, you will learn to roll and weave coils together to create a vessel of your choice! Push the limits of handbuilding and coil built vessels by creating a unique vessel that places you in a long lineage of primordial coil built art. Students will have a set of shapes to wrap and weave their coils around or are welcome to bring something from home.
Each class is 2 hrs and you will be provided with all necessary materials, glazes, and firings to create your unique vessel. At the end of the series you’ll be able to take home 2-3 new food safe coil weaved vessels for your enjoyment!
4 Week Breakdown:
1rst week: Concept introduction + basic building practice
2nd week: Start creating your first vessel
3rd week: Final touches and last vessels created
4th week: Glazing of Objects
Ash Flores is a multi-media teaching artist from and based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches pottery in the Greater Los Angeles area and enjoys working within her local QTBIPOC communities to provide accessible arts programs. Her main goal is to help you feel good when you leave with your artwork and feel encouraged to do more. She is a firm believer that there is no such thing as good or bad art, except AI art - it’s not good and isn’t art.
Interested in taking this class? Tickets for this series class are available here- purchase the class by the start date (3/9/26) to attend this weekly class.
Email claydate@juniorhighla.com for any questions pertaining to Clay Date and/or accessible pricing.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Fantasy Suite | April
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.
Body Practice Workshop | April
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.
This event will be indoors.
Nourishing Inner Inspiration: A Grounding Shamanic Kundalini Yoga (SKY) & LAST CUT® Writing Workshop
WORKSHOP | $22 PRE // $27 DOS | ALL AGES | Looking for a moment to slow down, reflect and explore your distinct voice and vision to meet these potent times? Or simply wanting an evening of self-care? Come take a deep breath and relax into a nourishing Shamanic Kundalini Yoga (SKY) practice that will include yoga, breathwork and meditation, followed by reflective writing and community connection. Working with the energy of the Earth (on Earth Day!), you’ll explore how best to stay grounded, centered and inspired with effective tools that welcome a calmer nervous system, deeper presence and greater clarity.
Sam Paige Davis is a queer and trans writer, teacher and artist who combines the SKY modality with over a decade of experience teaching LAST CUT® writing workshops. They love supporting people in regulating their nervous systems, remembering their innate wholeness and unlocking their unique creativity.
All bodies, genders, experience levels and ages are welcome! The invitation is to meet yourself where you are and make the practice your own. Wear comfortable clothing for movement, and bring a journal/paper and pen for writing. Mat and props provided. Class begins promptly at 6:30pm.COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Club Gay Gardens
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.
The Polish Party: Press-on Nail Art Workshop Series 3
WORKSHOP | $35 per class | 14+ | The Polish Party is back at Junior High LA, this time as a 3-part workshop series!
Join me Jordie C. (they/she), @clacquecloset , each month for a cozy, hands-on workshop where we’ll get creative with 3 different nail art techniques.
Build your skills, connect with new faces, and leave each session with a custom press-on set you made yourself.
Hands-on · beginner-friendly · all genders welcome
Minors must be accompanied by a parent and/or guardian to attend this workshop.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Figure Drawing with Drawn Together LA
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 xx
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Body Practice Workshop | May
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.
This event will be indoors.
Fantasy Suite | July
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.
Honoring The Moon: An Online Yoga Nidra Offering
WORKSHOP | $15 | ALL AGES | No traffic! No rush! No stress! No dealing with the incoming rain! A new online Junior High LA at Home offering that is designed with our LA community in mind to minimize time spent in the car while delivering a deeply calming experience for the nervous system in virtual community. Sam will guide you through a 75-minute relaxing and restorative Shamanic Kundalini Yoga (SKY) Nidra journey that will include breathwork, light movement and a calming Nidra meditation to work with the energies of the New Moon. All bodies, genders, experience levels and ages are welcome!
This grounding and peaceful online class is a great way to experience the SKY modality and invite calm and clarity in tune with Nature’s rhythms. Take time outside of the noise after the busyness of your day to go within and get centered from the comfort of your own home. You will experience how everything else flows with more grace and ease when you align with your inner compass and tone the parasympathetic nervous system, which signals to the body that it is welcome to rest, digest and focus in the present.
Sam Paige Davis is a queer and trans writer, teacher and artist who combines the SKY modality with over a decade of experience teaching LAST CUT® writing workshops. They love supporting people in regulating their nervous systems, remembering their innate wholeness and unlocking their unique creativity.
Wear comfortable clothing for movement. In addition to a yoga mat, please have any blankets or pillows nearby for comfort during the Nidra portion of the practice. Please have your camera on for the first part of class, as this supports our creating community online as well as my ability to guide the group as a whole. Also, please mute yourself when you come into class. Thank you!
Zoom details will be provided from Sam (sam@sampaigedavis.com) after registration through Junior High.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Still In Love Sunday
MUSIC | $10 | ALL AGES | On Sunday we’re still in love! Whether single or as a couple, come and rock out with these amazing SoCal bands.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
MAEVE Winter Rummage Sale
COMMUNITY | FREE | ALL AGES | Please join us for MAEVE Mt. Washington Glassell Park’s first Winter Rummage Sale event! We are excited to have multiple families coming together for this garage sale/flea market style event! You’ll be sure to find awesome deals on toys, kids and adult clothes, housewares, sports gear and more! In honor of Black History Month some of the proceeds from the event will be donated to Kindred Space LA.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be outdoors.
Feminist Love Letters
COMMUNITY | $8 | ALL AGES | We invite participants of all ages to join us anytime between 5-7pm to create a love letter to their favorite feminist. We will provide papers, pens, and stickers to accommodate your epistolary declarations.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of FLL, a project founded by Sara Ellen Fowler @saraellenfowler and Cindy Rehm @cindyrehm. We will document your letter and add it to our archive of letters at http://feministloveletters.tumblr.com and @femnistloveletters.
In 1971 artist Nancy Spero sent critic Lucy Lippard a letter with the simple but impassioned message: “The enemies of women’s liberation in the arts will be crushed. Love Nancy.” This note serves as the inspiration for Feminist Love Letters, a project that invites participants to profess their love, send words of support and encouragement, or unleash their feminist fury in a letter to a contemporary or historic feminist.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Heart Shaped Trays | A Valentine's Clay Date
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | Join us for this heart warming Clay Date! Learn how to make heart shaped objects such as catch all trays, plates, bowls, or cups! Perfect for those looking for access to ceramics, to make art 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 our resident clay artist 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 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 two 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.
Clowns of Anarchy an East LA Comedy Collective
COMEDY | $10 | 18+ | Clowns of Anarchy is an East Los Angeles comedy collective showcasing comedians from everywhere. Get ready to share a fun night of “Inside Jokes” at Junior High!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
The Polish Party: Press-on Nail Art Workshop Series 1
WORKSHOP | $35 per class // $95 for all 3 classes | 14+ | The Polish Party is back at Junior High LA, this time as a 3-part workshop series!
Join me Jordie C. (they/she), @clacquecloset , each month for a cozy, hands-on workshop where we’ll get creative with 3 different nail art techniques.
Build your skills, connect with new faces, and leave each session with a custom press-on set you made yourself.
Hands-on · beginner-friendly · all genders welcome
Minors must be accompanied by a parent and/or guardian to attend this workshop.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
CANCELLED | Intro: Boxes | A Clay Date Series!
WORKSHOP | FOUR WEEK SERIES | $175 | AGES 16+ | In this 4 week beginner class, you will learn to work withclay, creating and joining slabs together to create a box of your choice! Push the limits of handbuilding and slab built vessels by creating a unique box that can be decorative and functional. Whether you’re interested in making a match box, sugar jar, or butter dish- we will bring your ideas to life! Taught by Chelsie Rivera.
Each class is 2 hrs and you will be provided with all necessary materials, glazes, and firings to create your unique vessel. At the end of the series you’ll be able to take home 1-2 new food safe objects for your enjoyment!
4 Week Breakdown:
1rst week: Concept introduction + basic slab building practice
2nd week: Start creating your box(es)
3rd week: Final touches
4th week: Glazing
**Email **claydate@juniorhighla.com** for any questions pertaining to Clay Date and/or accessible pricing. Sliding scale pricing is available upon request.**
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Crafting the Lesbian Agenda with Chapstick Magazine
WORKSHOP | $12 | ALL AGES | Chapstick Magazine presents… Crafting the Lesbian Agenda! Butches, femmes, studs, and mascs: Make 2026 the gayest year yet with these goal-oriented crafts!
Picture your biggest dreams and try your hand at vision-boarding. Make your own punch cards and treat yourself with a prize at the end! Call out “BINGO!” when you achieve all your goals on your DIY 2026 Bingo board. Come ready to talk & craft with other lesbians! Chapstick is spreading the hottest, gayest lesbian agenda this year and we need YOU to join us!
All materials included in ticket purchase! 50% of ticket proceeds will be donated to Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) fighting for immigrant rights.
Follow Chapstick Magazine on Instagram @chapstickmagazine
Chapstick Magazine is a print & digital independent magazine FOR LESBIANS, BY LESBIANS Building community with lesbians EVERYWHERE!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Craft Lovers | A Scrapbooking + Tote Bag Painting Get Together
COMMUNITY | $30 | 21+ | Craft lovers assemble!! Express your love for crafting & scrapbooking by getting together with fellow crafters & sharing fun memories. All supplies will be included, just bring your printed photos & good vibes.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Fantasy Suite Presents: Heartbreakers
DANCE | $20 PRE // $25 DOS | 21+ | Fantasy Suite Queer & Thick pole show is serving up a sweet and sexy Valentine's party that will get you ready 4 love! We're stealing hearts and dollars while dancing to songs of love, lust, and heartbreak. Get your tix for a celebration of curves and queer love! New and returning sweethearts will take the stage, tip the dancers!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Tea Haus
COMMUNITY | $20 PRE // $25 DOS | 18+ | Tea Haus returns, this time with a Valentine’s Day twist.
Tea Haus is our choose-your-own-adventure tea lounge, created for our queer, trans, and BIPOC community to slow down, reflect, and connect: whether that’s with a sweetheart, a friend, or yourself.
Expect floor mats, cozy lighting, unlimited tea (plus an iced tea mocktail), and mellow house music setting the tone. For this edition, we’ll have Valentine cookies, collage supplies to make your own valentines for you or anyone in your life, and space for grounding, self-love, and honest conversation.
Come solo or bring your sweetheart. Make something by hand. Sip tea. Take your time.
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
CANCELED: Cheeky Tiles | Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $40 | 18+ | Get crafty (and a little saucy) with us for this one-night ceramic adventure! Create your own set of three decorative tiles celebrating the beauty of vintage queer pinups, self-love, and sex-positive art. Join local artist Camila in this fun surface design workshop! Once fired, students can choose to use these tiles as magnets or coasters!
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Just bring your creative energy and maybe that cutie you've been wanting to craft with. Wear clothes you don't mind getting messy!
What We're Making:
Design your own set of three tiles using various image transfer techniques. Whether you're into vintage queer ads, classic pinups with a twist, or creating your own celebratory self-loving imagery, we'll help you bring your vision to clay! Perfect for hanging on your fridge, decorating around your home, or gifting to someone special.
Tiles will take 4-6 weeks to be fired and ready for pick up. Everyone will have up to two 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 pertaining to Cheeky Tiles or Healing With Clay!
**COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. **Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Art Club Collage Nite | Lovers & Friends
COMMUNITY | $12 PRE // $15 DOS | ALL AGES | Art Club is back! We’re starting the year off with a sweet LOVE themed version of our collage night. The best way to show someone you love and appreciate them, is by gifting them your art of course!
Decorate matte board frames and other thrifted frames. All materials will be provided and you can take your creations home with you to fill with photos of the people you love.
We will also be having a clothing swap!! Participate by bringing clothing donations and leaving with some new items for your closet!
Craft with a friend or a lover or just zone out and listen to some chill music on your own. Art supplies and snacks provided.
Join us at anytime between 7pm-10pm to hang out, make friends, and get weird!!!
Join the club @varsity.fartclub on Instagram!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! (Mask Mandatory)
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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 one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Candle Conversations
WORKSHOP | $30 | 18+ | Burn Bar LA Presents: Soft Life Sundays - Slow pour. Warm wax. Chill music. This is your Sunday reset, elevated. Walk in stressed, walk out with a candle that smells like peace made by you. Book your next reset. 🕯️
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Club Gay Gardens
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.
Chamorrita Song - Book Release Event
READING | $15 | ALL AGES | Her debut poetry collection, Chamorrita Song, honors the oral traditions that have carried Black and Chamorro communities through generations of resilience. Blending spoken-word, gospel, and Indigenous storytelling, Danielle weaves together the intertwined histories of queer, Black, and Chamorro existence—creating a powerful space for memory, healing, and voice. ✨
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
Molly's House | A Variety Comedy Show!
PERFORMANCE | $10 | ALL AGES | Molly’s House is LA’s living room for local talent—showcasing comics, musicians, DJs, and more in intimate, community-driven performances.
Molly’s House started exactly where you’d think—Molly’s actual parents’ living room. What began as a cozy night of comedy among friends has grown into a full-blown intimate showcase for the city’s best up-and-coming comedians. Come hang out, get out of your house, make a new friend, and laugh the night away.
Ollas | Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $35 | ALL AGES | Learn to make your own Olla pot, which (after firing) can be submerged in the ground to slowly irrigate nearby plants. Students will practice building vessels with coils, slabs, and pinch pots. Once the Olla is formed, students will be encouraged to add unique designs to the pot’s surface to add special intention while nourishing the soil. Each attendee will also be gifted with a brand new pair of garden gloves.
Great for those who are looking for access to ceramics, clay friends, or sharpening your skill set! No experience necessary. No reservations necessary to attend Clay Date. You are welcome to purchase your ticket ahead of time or at the door day-of the event.
Price of admission also pays for all firings of class work. Students will be notified via email to pick up their fired works 4-6 weeks after the class. Olla pots will be ready to use upon pick-up. Pieces may be picked up during Gallery Hours 11-5pm or at any Junior High event. 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 pertaining to Clay Date!
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Junior High Presents | Healing With Clay @ Brand Studios
WORKSHOP | FREE | ALL AGES | Junior High is popping up down the street at Brand Studios for a special night of healing through clay making. Join this safe space to gain mindfulness while practicing handbuilding techniques. Students will be given 2lbs of clay and encouraged to make Ollas via the pinch pot method. "Olla" is a traditional word for a clay object that can hold food, liquids, or various items. Loose instruction will be given for surface decoration of each pot. This class is perfect for all levels of experience, including beginners. Four to six weeks after class the ollas will be fired and glazed for students to enjoy, as they will be food safe. Get your feelings out and onto the clay, express yourself, exist with the community, and utilize resources generously provided by the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture!
This event will be indoors at Brand Studios, 1601 W Mountain St., Glendale, CA 91201. Brand Studios is on the lower level, next to the parking lot. No need to take the stairs.
To attend, please register for free here on the Glendale Library Website.
RV TV Telethon
COMMUNITY | $15 | ALL AGES | Join us for an evening of poetry, music, art, food, and community power as we celebrate the new year & January birthdays while raising funds for R.V. T.V.! A harrowing mechanical failure and accident on Christmas has resulted in the loss of Aly the RV— @rvtvshow’s home & studio.
There are two options for how you can attend this event: For $15 you can attend this event Live In Person or for $10 we will send a Twitch Streaming link. Your support will help with the purchase of another rig to get this committed mutual aid organizer back on his wheels to continue community-building in the San Fernando Valley and creating street media.
Clay Date!
WORKSHOP | $25 | ALL AGES | 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 one of our two resident clay artists Shea Smelser (@sheasmelser) or 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
1000 Afros Still Loitering For Beauty | An Exhibition Opening
GALLERY | $5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION | ALL AGES | The 18 pieces by Marantz Moon in “1000 Afros Still Loitering 4 Beauty” represent a body of work at the intersection of function, the utilitarian and an aesthetic informed by the beauty of daily life in a broad spectrum of the black community. The iconic image of the afro, whether replicated throughout the exhibition as a silhouette, by its implied presence (as in the form of an afro pick), or in actual figurative form, serves as a pointer, directing the viewer to experience the afro uniquely in the context of each new setting, within each new work, as a symbol of both black beauty and black power.
The exhibition title is a reference to the increased incidence of racially-motivated policing in gentrifying neighborhoods over “loitering”. While laws governing “loitering” first appeared in Elizabethan England, their current deployment by American police is a means to control conflicted spaces. The artist asks us to question, Whose space is it? With “(this corner is a safe space?),” the artist creates both an exterior where afro cutouts replicate and manifest in unconscious racial stereotypes as an “unruly mob” in the eyes of gentrifiers, but also as interior space that represents a safe haven within which to celebrate black life and culture.
Written by Lenore French, President & Founding Member of Transformation Arts
Moon’s work centers on Afro silhouettes, emphasizing flow and movement. He uses a variety of mediums, including acrylic, resin, clay, and found materials, layering color, texture, and abstraction to create depth. Inspired by his own identity and culture, his art invites viewers to pause and reflect. Through his practice, he explores the transient nature of life, aiming to freeze moments in time and spark thoughtful engagement.
Marantz Moon is a practicing visual, performance and teaching artist. He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA, where he has lived for the past 5 years since relocated from his hometown of Chicago IL, in early 2020. In that time, Moon co-founded the DMST Atelier, an artist-run gallery space in Mid-City, with fellow artist Frannie Hemmelgarn in 2021. The DMST has since been an incubator for his practice in exploring social practice, community building and other art programing. Moon has a B.A in Art from Grambling State University & M.A in Studio Art from Governors State University. He currently works in fine art installation and as an adjunct art professor teaching art education and social justice courses at Cal State Fullerton.
Website: Marantzmoon.com
Instagram: Marantz Moon
Email: marantzmoon@gmail.com
COVID-19 vaccinations are highly recommended to attend events at Junior High. Learn more here.
This event will be indoors.
Clay Date! | Healing With Clay
WORKSHOP | PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN | ALL AGES | 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 Monday/Tuesday 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.
