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Skirball Cultural Center

Public Programs

Drawing on Jewish values and tradition, the Skirball presents a wide array of public programs for people of all cultural backgrounds. Explore our upcoming offerings below and join us for experiences that promote hope, discovery, and connection.

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Sunset Concerts

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Upcoming Events

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    Words and Ideas

    The Friedman Prize: "Superman's Jaw" by Andrew Fogel

    Tuesday, July 22, 7:00 pm

    In celebration of the exhibition Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity, join us for a fireside chat with Andrew Fogel, winner of the 2024–25 Howard I. Friedman Memorial Graduate Essay Prize, to explore the relationship between popular culture, Jewish values, and the American Jewish experience.

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    A colorful comic book cover showing Superman flying above a city. A stage is set up with two chairs on a rug with microphones for a discussion with a screen showing Uri Herscher and Howard Friedman.
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    Music

    Sunset Concerts: La Perla / Meridian Brothers

    Thursday, July 24, 2025

    Our popular summertime music series is back for season 28 with more music than ever before!

    La Perla's hypnotic, percussion-forward rhythms are the backdrop for their politically charged lyrics centered on feminism and Indigenous struggles. Meridian Brothers blend traditional cumbia and vallenato with psychedelic rock, jazz, and tropical influences, all while weaving together fantasy and undeniable technical skills.

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    Music

    Sunset Concerts: MULA / Frente Cumbiero

    Thursday, July 31, 2025

    Our popular summertime music series is back for season 28 with more music than ever before!

    MULA is a forward-thinking and boundary pushing Dominican electro-Caribbean band known for their innovative fusion of traditional Caribbean rhythms with electronic music. Frente Cumbiero blends traditional cumbia rhythms with modern production techniques, creating a unique sound that bridges the past and present of Colombian music.

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    Music

    Sunset Concerts: JOJO ABOT / Say She She

    Thursday, August 7, 2025

    Our popular summertime music series is back for season 28 with more music than ever before!

    JOJO ABOT blends elements of Afrobeat, jazz, neo-soul, electronica, and reggae, creating a soundscape that is hypnotic and complex. Say She She is a Brooklyn-based, retro-inspired funk band that draws influence from 1970s disco, soul, and pop music, as well as the powerful female-led groups of that era.

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    Film

    Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024)

    Sunday, September 7, 4:00 pm

    Legendary artist Art Spiegelman rocked the world when he transposed his parents into mice to tell their Holocaust survival story in his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, MausArt Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse chronicles Spiegelman's irreverent life and work including his extraordinary partnership with wife Françoise Mouly and his checkered evolution through the world of underground comics.

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    Art Spiegelman sits at a table in his home holding up a newsprint of illustration titled, Centerfold Manifesto, to the camera.
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    Performance

    The Aunties

    Friday, September 26, 7:30 pm

    Join us for an engaging live storytelling performance celebrating the women that shape, heal, and uphold Indigenous communities—aunties.

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