The RoundUp by BLK Events LA™ | 6/16-6/21 | Juneteenth Week Two

From Freedom Day Celebrations to Improv Concerts, Black Music Month Parties & MORE, here's your one-stop shop for Black events in Los Angeles this JUNETEENTH!

We have 103 amazing events to be excited about!

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All events are organized into categories by date and linked for easy access.

Have Fun, Stay Black! 🔌✨🫶🏾

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Event legend

❤️ BLK Events LA-approved | 🌈 Queer-centered | 🔥 Popular | 🤝🏾 BELA’s going |
🗓 Recurring weekly | 🙏🏾 Mutual Aid, Community Support, or Volunteer Efforts | 🚨 New event | 💎 35+ friendly | 🌹 Date-friendly | 👧🏾 Kid-friendly | 🆓 FREE Event

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Housekeeping

All events celebrating Juneteenth will be marked with a ✊🏾 emoji!

Also, this newsletter even longer than last week! Read me in full online!

Art Exhibitions

1. 6/7-7/26: Live Jazz LA: Moments In Legacy Exhibition at Perri + Ren Gallery in Lincoln Heights 🔥🚨💎🌹

2. 6/19-6/21: Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves Exhibition at Pieter Performance Space in Lincoln Heights 🌈🔥🚨💎🌹

3. 6/20: K3S1: “Homebody” Art Exhibition Opening at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥🚨💎🌹

4. Through 9/5: Kinship & Community: Selections From The Texas African American Photography Archive at Art + Practice in Leimert Park ❤️🔥🗓🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

5. Through 9/5: Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me at Art + Practice in Leimert Park ❤️🔥🗓🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

6. Through 9/13: The Sound of Gordon Parks at California African American Museum in Exposition Park 🔥🗓🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

7. Through 9/13: A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West at California African American Museum in Exposition Park 🔥🗓🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

8. Through 2/28/27: Free and Queer: Black California Roots of Gay Liberation at California African American Museum in Exposition Park 🌈🔥🗓🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

Art + Community

Monday 6/15

1. 6/15-6/18: Daytime Coworking at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾❤️🔥🗓💎

2. Founders Dinner at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥🙏🏾💎

3. The 2nd Annual Afrofuturist Art Fairs: Industry Night Kick-Off at The Colony Theatre Company in Burbank 🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

Tuesday 6/16

1. Erotic Coloring & Sip + Poetry After Dark at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

Wednesday 6/17

1. Love, Peace, & Spades: Spades Academy at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾❤️🔥🙏🏾💎🌹

2. Black Thumb Farm: Juneteenth Block Party at The Honest Company HQ in Playa Vista ✊🏾🔥🙏🏾💎👧🏾🆓

3. Sixth Period: Creative Writing on Queer Desire, Yearning & Pleasure at Perri + Ren Gallery in Lincoln Heights 🌈🔥💎🌹

4. Qin Folk: An Exclusively Black Rope Jam at Devil Mask Studio in DTLA 🌈🔥💎🌹

Thursday 6/18

1. LA Commons: Leimert Park Photography Workshop Opening Exhibition at ORA in Leimert Park 🔥🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

2. Negro Jeoparty: Juneteenth Tournament at Rockwell Lounge in West Adams ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

3. Odo Social: Gay Speed Dating at Kimpton La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood 🌈🔥🚨💎🌹

4. Bound & Lettered: Black Authors Night at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

5. SoCal Club: Juneteenth Celebration at LGBT Center South in Leimert Park ✊🏾🌈🔥💎🌹🆓

6. The Blackout Game Night: Juneteenth Celebration at Sole Folks in Leimert Park ✊🏾❤️🔥💎🌹🆓

7. Thursday Night Card & Bones at Bridgetown Roti in East Hollywood ❤️🔥🗓🚨💎🌹

Friday 6/19

1. 6/19-6/21: The Distress Signals Project: A Night of Theatre + A Bonus Community Dialogue at Art Share LA in Downtown Arts District 💎🌹

2. Leimert Juneteenth: Community Celebration in Leimert Park Village ✊🏾❤️🔥🙏🏾💎🌹👧🏾🆓

   1. Free: Goal Pan-African Cookout + World Cup Watch Party at The Plant Chica in Leimert Park 🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

   2. Jonathan Leonard’s 77th Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Leimert Park Plaza

3. Friday the Juneteenth: Pre-Drawn Flash Tattoos at Flo Tats LA in Leimert Park ✊🏾❤️🔥💎🌹

4. Juneteenth Block Party & World Record Attempt for The World’s Longest Soul Train Line at Sister Dreamer Sculpture Park in Manchester Square ✊🏾❤️🔥🙏🏾💎🌹👧🏾🆓

5. My Tribe Rise: Dena Juneteenth at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Altadena ✊🏾❤️🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

6. Supervsn x The Broad: Yoko Ono Exhibition Access & Collab Merch Drop at The Broad in DTLA ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

7. Caffeinated Fridays x Our House LA: A Juneteenth Day Off at Our House on 48th in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

8. Scavenger Hunt: Juneteenth at California African American Museum in Exposition Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

9. Compton Museum: Kendrick Lamar Juneteenth Paint & Sip at Mr. Wash’s Community Art Center in Compton ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

10. Sunshine State Center: Juneteenth Skate at Hollywood Park in Inglewood ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾

11. Game Night + Community Potluck at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

12. “The Blackening” Screening + Q&A at The Culver Theater in Culver City ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

13. Decadence: A Black Queer Pride Play Party at FWB Clubhouse in DTLA ✊🏾🌈🔥💎🌹

Saturday 6/20

1. 6/20-6/21: The Compton Film Festival at Compton College 🔥💎🌹

2. My Tribe Rise: Dena Juneteenth Day Party at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Altadena ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

3. Juneteenth Celebration and NAACP’s 5th Annual Roller Jam at Pasadena City Hall in Pasadena ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

4. The City of Culver City Juneteenth Celebration at Veterans Memorial Park in Culver City ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾

5. City of West Hollywood Juneteenth Celebration at West Hollywood Park ✊🏾🔥🚨💎🌹👧🏾🆓

6. The World Famous Block Party: Juneteenth Edition at Promenade Square in Long Beach ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

7. 35th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration at Plaza Park in Oxnard ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

8. Black in the San Fernando Valley: Juneteenth Celebration at Pierce College in Woodland Hills ✊🏾🔥🙏🏾💎🌹👧🏾🆓

9. Auntie Jamz: Live Juneteenth Heritage Celebration at Ovation Courtyard in Hollywood ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

10. Black Rocks LA: Annual Juneteenth Celebration & Fundraiser at LA Boulders in Downtown Arts District ✊🏾🔥🙏🏾💎🌹

11. Hiking Homies LA: Hummingbird Trail to Cave Hike in Simi Valley 🌈🔥💎🌹🆓

12. Friendly: A Diaspora Soccer Experience at Skyline Pitch LA in Glendale 🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

13. The Equipped & Resourced Rehearsal at Radical Hood Library in Jefferson Park 🌈🔥🙏🏾💎🆓

14. Black Beach x Active Fathers Club: Active Fathers Walk at Cherry Beach in Long Beach 💎🌹👧🏾🆓

15. Putting Down Roots: 5th Anniversary Celebration & Move-Out Fundraiser at Black Thumb Farm in Panorama City 🔥🙏🏾💎👧🏾

16. Black, Queer & Divine Brunch at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🌈🔥💎🌹

17. Black Girl Rising LA: The Earthseed Zine Workshop at Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City 🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

18. Golden Glow: Juneteenth Body Oil Blending Experience at Bendix Building in DTLA ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

19. Super Fest: Creative Wellness & Short Film Festival at LINT in DTLA 🚨💎

20. KCRW Summer Nights at California African American Museum in Exposition Park ❤️🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

Sunday 6/21

1. Black Market Flea at The Beehive in South Central ✊🏾❤️🔥💎🌹👧🏾

2. Young, Black & Outside: Juneteenth Bike Ride at Ballona Creek Bike Path in Culver City ✊🏾🔥🌹🆓

3. Melanated Hikers Club: Juneteenth Hike at Malibu Lake Trail ✊🏾🚨💎🌹

4. Black Women Who Write Workshop at Radical Hood Library in Jefferson Park 🔥💎🆓

Live Music

Tuesday 6/16

1. Cash Cobain at Blue Note Jazz Club in Hollywood 🔥🌹

Wednesday 6/17

1. Black Art Distrikt: Jazz Night at Aviator Nation Dreamland in Malibu ❤️🔥💎🌹

2. Novulent at The Roxy in WeHo 🔥🌹

Thursday 6/18

1. UMI at Blue Note Jazz Club in Hollywood ❤️🔥🌹

2. Choker at El Rey Theatre in Mid-Wilshire 🔥🌹

Friday 6/19

1. 6/19-6/21: Lalah Hathaway at Blue Note Jazz Club in Hollywood ✊🏾❤️🔥💎🌹

2. Chance the Rapper: A Juneteenth Celebration at The Hollywood Bowl ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾

3. South Side Symphony: Anime Juke Jam at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa ✊🏾🔥💎🌹👧🏾

4. Live Jazz LA: Moments in Legacy Karaoke Session at Perri & Ren Gallery in Lincoln Heights 🔥💎🌹

5. On The Spot: Juneteenth Live Music Show at Angel City Business Lab in Jefferson Park ✊🏾🔥🚨🌹

6. Jazz at LACMA: Marvin “Smitty” Smith Septet at Smidt Welcome Plaza in Mid-Wilshire ❤️🔥🗓💎🌹👧🏾🆓

Saturday 6/20

1. LA Concerts: LA Block Party with Keyshia Cole, Mario, Fabolous, Danity Kane, Twista & More at Pershing Square in DTLA 🔥💎🌹

2. Melta Sun: A Sun Ra Inspired Operatic Experience at Grand Performances in DTLA 🔥💎🌹👧🏾🆓

3. Jazz in the Garden at Carmelitos Community Garden in Long Beach 🔥💎🌹

4. Shordie Shordie at El Rey Theatre in Mid-Wilshire 🔥💎

Sunday 6/21

1. Reggae Night XXIV at The Hollywood Bowl 🔥💎🌹👧🏾

2. Kobie Dozier: N’namdi in Concert at The Miracle Theater in Inglewood

Parties

Friday 6/19

1. The Mix: Black on the Beach (Location on RSVP) ✊🏾🔥🚨🌹🆓

2. Plus One: Juneteenth Day Party at Treehouse Rooftop in Chinatown ✊🏾🔥🌹

3. Nside Voices: Juneteenth Day Party at The Godfrey Hotel Rooftop in Hollywood ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

4. Washed & Reckless x Show Me Love Day Party at Matriarch Rooftop in K Town ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

5. For Gays by Gayz: One Year Anniversary & Juneteenth Celebration at Somewhere Special in DTLA ✊🏾❤️🌈🔥🌹🆓

6. Black Bass Collective x NoPrxssure: Prideteenth in DTLA (location on RSVP) ✊🏾❤️🌈🔥💎🌹

7. A House Called Zanzibar: Honoring Black Music Month (Location on RSVP) ✊🏾❤️🌈🔥💎🌹🆓

8. The Juneteenth Jam at Sofitel Los Angeles in Beverly Hills ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

9. Black House Radio: Juneteenth at Camille’s at The Bellwether in DTLA ✊🏾🌈🔥💎🌹

10. Leisure Lounge: Juneteenth Celebration at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

Saturday 6/20

1. SUM*HER: Juneteenth Weekend Day Party at Mattie’s in West Hollywood ✊🏾🌈🔥💎🌹

2. Junkyard Jouvert: World Cup Dutty 26 in DTLA (Location on RSVP) 🔥💎🌹

3. The Cookout: A Backyard Juneteenth Pool Party (Location on RSVP) ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

4. DJ Maphorisa Live at Vuuka House in DTLA 🔥💎🌹

5. Auntie Jamz After Party at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood 🔥💎🌹🆓

6. Ambiente Central: World of Ballroom at Melrose House in Hollywood 🔥💎🌹

Sunday 6/21

1. The Pour Before: Juneteenth Day Pourty at Lost Rooftop in DTLA ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

2. Please & Thank You: Juneteenth Day Party at Matriarch LA in K-Town ✊🏾🔥🌹

3. Our Quiet House Party at Our House in Hyde Park ✊🏾🔥💎🌹

4. Link Up Worldwide: Los Angeles in Downtown Arts District 🔥💎🌹

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