Featured Events in Los Angeles in May, 2025 (May Updated)

California State University Long Beach's ASCE student chapter is thrilled to host this event on Friday May 2nd where both students and alumni alike can take on the El Dorado golf course. Golfing will take place from 3:00pm until sunset, and you can plan on us having a couple of extra suprises up our sleeve. We cannot wait to see you there! Information Source: CSULB ASCE | eventbrite

Experience an unforgettable evening at "David Archuleta Presents: Afterhours" in Los Angeles. Taking place at The Bellwether on May 3, 2025, this event promises to be a night filled with captivating music and soulful performances by the talented artist, David Archuleta. The venue, located at 333 S. Boylston St., CA, 90017, sets the perfect stage for an intimate and mesmerizing experience. Don't miss this opportunity to witness David Archuleta's exceptional talent live on stage. Mark your calendars and secure your tickets for a night to remember.

HIIT NATION X SOUL LA FIT FEST 2025 Come join us for an epic fitness event at Runyon Canyon! Get ready to sweat it out with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts and soulful fitness classes. All levels. Whether you're a fitness fanatic or just starting your journey, this event is perfect for everyone. Don't miss out on the opportunity to challenge yourself, meet like-minded individuals, and have a blast! Mark your calendars and get ready to experience the ultimate fitness fest! SPONSORED BY: HIIT NATION SOUL LA NOBULL PRIME DON'T QUIT! B FORCE BANDS ATRIUM TRAINING FACILITY Information Source: eventbrite

In his luscious paintings, Ana Segovia (b. 1991, Mexico City, where he lives) twists assumptions of masculinity through a queer lens. Working with an aggressive palette of neon colors, daring compositions, and cinematographic framing and cropping, Segovia undermines the gendered basis of Mexican national identity built around male stereotypes standardized by film. The artist often develops specific display strategies for his paintings, borrowing from the language of installation, theater, dance, and video art to effectively situate them in the exhibition space. MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia will feature a new painting commissioned for the exhibition plus two recent bodies of work, including I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (2023), a suite of eight paintings depicting film stills from a non-existent queer film the artist wished to have seen in his formative years.

The exhibition aims to show the evolution of the Photorealism movement in the 1970s and further explore works related to Photorealism today, presenting works by figurative painters such as Gina Beavers and Serge Gomez.

The exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane (b. 1937, Detroit). The title takes its name from her book Monument Eternal (1977), which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery. The exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive. Featuring a range of mediums including video, installation, performance, and sculpture together with Coltrane’s archival hand-written correspondence, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation, and architectural intimacy to honor Coltrane’s cultural output and practice.

The exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane (b. 1937, Detroit). The title takes its name from her book Monument Eternal (1977), which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery. The exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive. Featuring a range of mediums including video, installation, performance, and sculpture together with Coltrane’s archival hand-written correspondence, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation, and architectural intimacy to honor Coltrane’s cultural output and practice.

The exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane (b. 1937, Detroit). The title takes its name from her book Monument Eternal (1977), which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery. The exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive. Featuring a range of mediums including video, installation, performance, and sculpture together with Coltrane’s archival hand-written correspondence, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation, and architectural intimacy to honor Coltrane’s cultural output and practice.

Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons makes vivid photographs, watercolors, installations, and performances that trace the cultural and personal impacts of migration and memory. Her works reflect global histories of labor as they affected her family through enslavement, indenture, and motherhood, emphasizing resilience and respect for her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors. This survey of 35 years of artmaking and activism highlights the interconnectedness between people and their environments, offering an expansive, incisive, and sensorial experience.

Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons makes vivid photographs, watercolors, installations, and performances that trace the cultural and personal impacts of migration and memory. Her works reflect global histories of labor as they affected her family through enslavement, indenture, and motherhood, emphasizing resilience and respect for her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors. This survey of 35 years of artmaking and activism highlights the interconnectedness between people and their environments, offering an expansive, incisive, and sensorial experience.

Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons makes vivid photographs, watercolors, installations, and performances that trace the cultural and personal impacts of migration and memory. Her works reflect global histories of labor as they affected her family through enslavement, indenture, and motherhood, emphasizing resilience and respect for her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors. This survey of 35 years of artmaking and activism highlights the interconnectedness between people and their environments, offering an expansive, incisive, and sensorial experience.

Louis Stern Fine Arts presents Gabriele Evertz: Colors Make Light, the Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery.Born and raised near Berlin, Germany, Evertz (b. 1945) identifies as a color painter, and wields her extensive historical and theoretical knowledge of the subject in pursuit of sensorially joyous outcomes. Despite a precise and disciplined methodology, which fuses the scientific order of the color wheel with the exacting geometry of angle and line, her paintings are not dispassionate in intent or effect but are instead deeply concerned with emotional response. The relationship between the painter and her canvas, and in turn between the painting and the viewer, is a private exploratory experience focused around the pleasures of being a living, sensing creature.

Sean Kelly presents Trust Me, Be Careful, I Like Your Shoes, Zipora Fried’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Bringing together four bodies of work; large works on paper, new intimately scaled drawings, ceramic sculptures, and a monumental hanging drawing, this exhibition highlights Fried’s mastery of mark-making and her continued exploration of the transformative, manipulative potential of form, color, and gesture. Simultaneously an overview of her oeuvre and a step into a new, dynamic phase of her career, the exhibition captures a shift in Fried’s practice toward heightened energy and a more liberated, expressive engagement with her materials.

Breakfree Intervention skills training equips students to understand intervention history and gain valuable insight through classroom education and case studies, how invitational intervention works in the field. The learning lab experience educates attendees through method review, role-play, and other action practices. Breakfree Intervention is the trauma-informed intervention standard today and is designed to meet multiple skill levels while advancing each participant’s knowledge base. Conducted by noted author, teacher and interventionist Brad Lamm, Certified Intervention Professional (CIP), BreakFree Intervention skills training equips participants to understand the history and methods of various addiction intervention models as compared to Brad Lamm’s proprietary invitation to change process, which pairs a loving family-infused intervention with a long-term family recovery curriculum. This model is set alongside Kathleen Murphy’s action-method approach to trauma-informed treatment. Through education, case studies, and role-play-rich training, participants learn how to intervene using this cutting-edge approach to initiating Family Recovery. Special thanks to this year's presenting sponsor, Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa, and to our event collaborator, Lightning Step. --------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you acknowledge and agree that the event will be recorded and may be used for future online distribution. Your registration grants permission for the use of your likeness, image, and voice in any event-related recordings, broadcasts, and promotional materials. Please contact Italo Amorim at italo@changeinstitute.com for any questions. Information Source: Brad Lamm | eventbrite

We are excited to host contemporary design icon April Greiman in a Fireside Chat where she will share her perspective on work she has created, her process, and the evolution of her design approach alongside the evolution of technology. April’s husband, world-renowned architect Michael Rotondi, will guide a dynamic conversation with April that will explore her projects and ever-changing methodologies. — REGISTRATION SPRING DESIGN SERIES TICKET (2 events for the price of 1): $18 Please note: Purchasing this ticket will give you access to our event with Debbie Millman on April 29. When you purchase this ticket you will need to manually sign up for the Debbie Millman: Love Letter to a Garden Book Release event. Upon purchase, your confirmation email will include a unique promo code to sign up for the Debbie Millman: Love Letter to a Garden Book Release . Link to the April 29th event details here: https://debbiemillman-bookrelease.eventbrite.com GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET (Access to this event only): $18 LOCATION Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) 960 East 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 PARKING & TRANSPORTATION SCI-Arc offers free parking at their downtown campus for all event attendees. Public transit, carpooling and ride sharing are also encouraged. For public transportation, visit metro.net for schedules. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: @AIGALosAngeles Instagram: @AIGALosAngeles LinkedIn: AIGA Los Angeles Twitter: @AIGALosAngeles TikTok: @AIGALosAngeles #aigalosangeles #aigala #lacreativecommunity #ladesigncommunity #firesidechat #nonprofit SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR VENUE SPONSOR Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) HEALTH & SAFETY Health is our top priority. For the wellbeing of our participants and volunteers, we will provide masks for those who wish to wear one during the event duration. TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT By registering and attending/participating at this event, you grant AIGA Los Angeles permission to capture photo/audio/video of the event and the right to use any image, photograph, voice, or likeness, without limitation, in its promotional materials and publicity efforts without compensation. All media from this event will become the property of AIGA Los Angeles. Media may be displayed, distributed, or used by AIGA Los Angeles for any purpose. FAQ Q: Can I get a refund? A: Refunds can be requested through Eventbrite and are available up to 1 day before the event date. In the case that a refund request is not submitted within the allotted time, it will be considered a donation to our organization. AIGA Los Angeles is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that welcomes donations to support its initiatives, operations, programs and scholarships. You can make a donation through your ticket purchase on Eventbrite or by donating directly on our Donorbox page here . All contributions are tax deductible. Information Source: AIGA Los Angeles | eventbrite

Santino Bros. Wrestling presents: Fight Night - Final Shot📅 Thursday May 1st, 2025 🌆 250 E. 1st Street, Azusa, CA. 91702 🚪Doors open: 7:30pm | 🔔Bell Time 8:00pm 🎟 Tickets start at $20 ⬆️⬆️⬆️ | Kids $10 at the door! 5 Matches, Featuring: Juicy Finau, Slice Boogie (C), Krusty Krew (C), Alec Tomas, Chris Nasty (C), D.R.E. & more! *card subject to change Information Source: Santino Bros. Wrestling | eventbrite

Explore accurate Congressional Cup Day 2 sporting information for 1st May, as well as links for Sailing news, tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Congressional Cup is an internationally renowned sailing sporting event held annually in Long Beach, California. This prestigious competition features top-level teams from around the world, including many Olympic medalists and America's Cup participants. The tournament takes place at the Long Beach Yacht Club, which boasts a picturesque location overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The event attracts thousands of spectators each year and offers an up-close and personal viewing experience, as the races take place just off the shore. With a history dating back to 1965, the Congressional Cup is one of the longest-running match racing events in the world and continues to be a highly anticipated event for both competitors and fans alike. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Geordie Greep will be performing at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 1, 2025. The Wiltern is located at 3790 Wilshire Blvd., CA, 90010. Geordie Greep, known for his captivating live performances and unique musical style, is set to deliver an unforgettable show at this iconic venue. Don't miss the opportunity to experience Geordie Greep live on stage in Los Angeles.

Experience the ultimate Rugby 7s after-hours event at VIP UPSCALE HOOKAH in Los Angeles. Taking place on May 1st and 2nd, 2025, this exclusive gathering promises an evening of excitement and entertainment. Located at 1240 Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015, this event is a must-attend for rugby enthusiasts and socialites alike. Tickets are priced at $20, offering great value for an unforgettable night. Don't miss out on this prestigious affair that brings together sports and socializing in a sophisticated setting.