Human Resources

06/03/2026

Dorian Wood sings Juan Gabriel, this Friday & Saturday.

Doors at 7:30
Performance stars at 8

Canto (Versión Juanga) is an immersive performance that interweaves music from Wood’s newly-released album Canto de Todes (New Amsterdam Records) with iconic songs by the legendary singer/composer Juan Gabriel. Loved by millions around the world, El Divo de Juárez has left an undeniable imprint on our collective consciousness. Says Wood: “Growing up in South L.A. in the 80’s, Juanga’s music was the air we breathed, always on the radio, on TV, drifting in the air at picnics in MacArthur Park, backyard birthday parties, bake sales at Plaza de la Raza, and soothing us to sleep from the living room while our parents stayed up. No other artist has achieved this kind of omnipresence. I want my brief return to L.A. this year to convey these memories, and this honoring of Juanga, de toda corazón.”

Wood’s own composition Canto de Todes–Spanish for “Song of Everyone”–is a mutating project that began as a touring 12-hour work and was released in May 2026 as a 70-minute album that weaves together chamber classical, folk, torch song, and experimental music. Canto de Todes emphasizes the urgency of music as a vessel for social change, and simultaneously honors the ancestral trajectory of Wood’s Costa Rican-Nicaraguan family in the U.S.

Sliding scale tickets. All welcome.
Advanced link in bio, tickets also available at the door.

Video: Dorian Wood - “Yo No Naci Para Amar”Recorded live on 10.27.2016

at HRLA
Dorian Wood – vocals
Danny Graziani – viola / arrangements
Lauren Baba – violin
Madeline Falcone – violin
Isaac Takeuchi – cello
Recorded by Zoe-Ruth Erwin
“Yo No Naci Para Amar” composed by Juan Gabriel

05/31/2026

Today is the final performance of Amelia Charter and Sam Wentz‘a performance “Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a Bridge”

Doors at 3:30
Performance starts promptly at 4

Structures are continuously emerging, disrupted, and reconfigured. How are things built around us, under us, between us, and through us? When it falls away, what are we left with?

Presale tix in bio, or $15 at the door
No one turned away

05/30/2026

Today and tomorrow are the last chances you have to see Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a Bridge by Amelia Charter and Sam Wentz.

Saturday 5/30 at 7
Sunday 4/31 at 4

Doors open 30 minutes before. The performance will start on time, and runs around 55 minutes



$15 suggested donation
Ticket link in bio

05/28/2026

June 10th at HR – a double dose of deep duos 🔊

𝙍𝘼𝙂𝙀 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 — the Berlin-based Weston Olencki and L.A. sounder Mattie Barbier — perform “Breaking Ships” from their release of the same name. They play loud.

𝙏𝙤𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 — the intensely amplified duo of violist Nicki Chen and guitarist Nicholas Deyoe.

Advance tickets now available via our webiste – h-r.la – and via .events


wav deyoe

05/26/2026

This Weekend: Shorter Than a Tunnel, Longer Than a Bridge
Amelia Charter & Sam Wentz

3 performances May 29–31 | Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun 4pm

Amelia Charter and Sam Wentz collaborate for the first time in an evening-length performance at the intersection of movement, object practice, and sound. Gathering a growing body of materials, organic and inorganic, they construct an elemental, sonic system. Structures are continuously emerging, disrupted, and reconfigured. How are things built around us, under us, between us, and through us? When it falls away, what are we left with?

$15
Tickets + info in bio.

05/22/2026

05/07/2026

Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Readings, next Saturday, 5/16 from 12-7pm. This is a durational performance, live reading, and space to gather and honor the life and legacy of Bob Flanagan (1952-1996). Curated and produced by Sheree Rose and Mae Howard, the event brings together artists, poets, disabled folks, and leather freaks across generations to uplift Flanagan 30 years after his passing.

Attendees can join in person at Human Resources and on YouTube Live. ASL Interpretation and captions will be available on the live stream. Please visit Human Resources’ website for the YouTube live link on May 15th. It will also be shared on Instagram on the 15th and 16th.

This event is made possible by the generosity of Human Resources Los Angeles and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. To make space for disabled and chronically ill readers and attendees, we strongly request that in-person guests mask unless physically unable to do so. Masks will be provided. HRLA is wheelchair accessible, with a variety of seating options available. Limited edition screen-printed shirts made by Kate Mosher Hall available for purchase at Human Resources Los Angeles day of $40-50 sliding scale

In conjunction with the Memorial and Marathon Readings, on May 14th from 7-8:30pm at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, join NEED ME, or, (de)mystifying the myth of the modern primitive curator Quetzal Arévalo on a tour of the exhibition. This tour will include a special focus on performance artists Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. Masks are required for this tour.

05/02/2026

Happy Birthday HR!

Thank you to all the artists, everyone who came out, and Ron for making drinks! 🎂 Human Resources would not be what it is without the support of thousands of people, and the gratitude for/from everyone was immense last night.

04/29/2026

This Saturday (May 2nd) ✨ Songs to Quell the Monster | Program 1: A Mother’s lullaby

Trailer for “Milisuthando” by .bd :

Our story exists on two parallel planes.
the plane of the tangible and the plane of the intangible.
myth and fact are husband and wife.
tale and memory, siblings.
and history, the bed they can’t wake up from.
*
we begin and end in an embrace with The Ancestors.
and in between, traverse the liminal spaces
between sky and ground
being and race
other and self
linear and nonlinear time
life and death
Africa and the west.
*
this is a portrait of me and South Africa,
growing up together
in the aftermath of apartheid
and unfolds over 5 acts and
3 universes spanning 3 decades.
at times using the medium of cinema as a tool to perform ritual.
*
driven by my narrative voice,
Honed in the hearth of uBuntu,
in pursuit of the anatomy of race in this place,
with a view of my own fragile personhood,
the film is concerned with the notion that:
something was done, to all of us.
and meditates on difficult questions about power, intimacy, fear, refusal, duty, repair and love.
this pursuit is at times observational,
at times vérité, traversing
happened-upon environments that take the viewer
into the interiors of the new South Africa,
via the histories that inconveniently bond us
to one another.

Performance by lm
Programmed by &

🎟️ Ticket link in bio!

04/25/2026

Tuesday, April 28 8:00pm - LOCAL OCCURRENCE, is a project that I, Henryk Golden, am starting together with the violinist Myra Hinrichs and the percussionist Corey Fogel, performing written and improvised music. The goal is to work with a set group of artists based in Southern California, including the trio itself, Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío and Daniel Allas and experiment with what is possible with our trio over a series of OCCURRENCES. We use our instruments as tools to shape the sound and space the audience experiences. This includes the use of amplification, distortionation and the physical dislocation within the space.

We hope to be in dialogue with the audience and between ourselves on what directions we can take. Creating a music community that is local to LA, especially in a social sense. Where we as artists are coming together with the audience to create music that is of a place. In honor of one of the greatest creators of a local music community, including the creation of the Scratch Orchestra in the UK, we’ll play Cornelius Cardew’s “autumn 60”, which is a set of instructions for writing a piece. So it is a new improvisation every time it is performed.

We are thrilled to share our music and the start off our project at Human Resources. The night will feature amplified noise tuba, improvisation, creative minds and a hunger for experimentation. Please share your thoughts with us during and after the show, we’d love to hear them. The show will feature Kathleen Kim on violin and Michael Matsuno on flute as special guests.

So excited to be part of music together with everyone at the show.

Ticket link in bio