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Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks
Los Angeles, CA · Arts & Culture
- When
- June 27, 2027
- Where
- Leimert Park Village · Los Angeles · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
LA Commons stages this Leimert Park procession as the centerpiece of the neighborhood's Art Walk, opening with a libation ceremony before dancers and musicians in ancestral masks lead a community parade. It honors South LA's African and diaspora heritage and has run annually for close to two decades. The date follows the Art Walk's late June weekend.
The history within reach
LA Commons stages this Leimert Park procession as the centerpiece of the neighborhood's Art Walk, opening with a libation ceremony before dancers and musicians in ancestral masks lead a community parade.
The cemetery opened in 1905 on old Centinela ranch land and ended up holding a large share of Black American music.
Before 1970 an ambulance crew in Los Angeles County could carry you and little else.
The hillside tracts above Slauson were laid out in the 1920s with covenants barring sale to Black buyers.
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