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NAVEL Located in Downtown Los Angeles, NAVEL is a Test Site for Kinship.

10/26/2022

Registration is stillopen for "Touching Theory (at a distance)" with instructors Selwa Sweidan and Nina Sarnelle! In partnership with

“In Touching Theory (at a distance) we work with touch as a time-based medium and a form of co-creative knowledge. Pairing creative touch prompts with reading-out-loud and discussion, we will feel/touch our way through short text excerpts from q***r theory, racial and disability justice, quantum physics, critical tech, and ecology.”

Thursdays, 8–10pm
October 27– November 17
Ages 18 and up
This class will be held virtually.
BIPOC sliding scale available

Learn about all workshop offerings and register at the link in their bio. 🔗

😈 olvídate de tus problemas en la DISCOTECA 🪩TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT– slide on over for the music video premiere party of 's...
07/22/2022

😈 olvídate de tus problemas en la DISCOTECA 🪩

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT– slide on over for the music video premiere party of 's very own + LANGOSTA .shakira 🌟

Friday, July 22, 8PM–2AM

🎶 DJ SETS BY
Hydragen .coats_
Six Inch Snails
Langosta .shakira
Xayn .naz

1. SOLTERA + Tapatío by 💞
2. flyer by
3. LANGOSTA by .online
4. XAYN by
5. HYDRAGEN by
6. 6 INCH SNAILS by

💕 Thank you to all of the performers & for making 's LYLEX 1.0 PHASE II: DOSE opening so incredible, and to every one...
07/22/2022

💕 Thank you to all of the performers & for making 's LYLEX 1.0 PHASE II: DOSE opening so incredible, and to every one of our beautiful guests for bringing their magic ✨

🗓 You can visit the exhibit until August 7, Sat-Mon, noon-6pm and by appointment .la

📸 Photos by .georgie

Peep thee sizzling DJ lineupfor for Saturday— do you have tickets yet? Head to our bio link!INSTALLATION: LINEUP: + +...
07/14/2022

Peep thee sizzling DJ lineupfor for Saturday— do you have tickets yet? Head to our bio link!

INSTALLATION:
LINEUP: + +
PERFORMANCES from:

🔥 Join Us! 🔥

LYLEX 1.0 PHASE II: DOSE
NAVEL: 1611 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
Saturday, July 16th, 8pm–2am

LYLEX 1.0 PHASE II: DOSE by PHILTH HAUS @ NAVEL ✨ is pleased to present LYLEX 1.0 by , a collective of 6 member-clients...
07/12/2022

LYLEX 1.0 PHASE II: DOSE by PHILTH HAUS @ NAVEL ✨

is pleased to present LYLEX 1.0 by , a collective of 6 member-clients currently represented by ANDRA, curated by FCCW's Programming Director, Mandy Harris Williams ().

The opening reception has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 16th, 8pm-2am, with the exhibition itself having a home at NAVEL until August 7th, which you can view by appointment only.

Featuring DJ sets by and IdealBlackFemale, and with dance performances by .

Opening: Saturday July 16th, 2022
Doors at 8pm, Program from 9pm-2am
Tickets: Please consider purchasing at our $25 tier, and upwards if you are able. Base pricing is $5–$20. Please contact us at [email protected] if this remains cost prohibitive.

We are a Family, We are an Economy
Please consider your intersecting demographic, circumstantial, and relational privileges and/or disprivileges when selecting your ticket donation. Demographic privileges/disprivileges might include gender, race, skin color, phenotype, familial support, sexuality and income. Circumstantial privileges might include employment, profession, cost of living, or unique personal economic status. Relational privilege/disprivilege considerations include how you, we, the artist, performers, organizers, etc. relate to one another in this vulnerable and creative space.

*Given the nature and recent history of the exhibition, we have hired extra (culturally competent) security so that everyone may celebrate this amazing show, artist and event safely and confidently.

1. Shirts created by Amber Ibarreche (2022). Installation view at Human Resources. Photo by Gilda Davidian via

CultureHub LA presents Symbiosis: Sculpting the Art of Living TogetherIn Symbiosis, seven Los Angeles-based artists expl...
07/06/2022

CultureHub LA presents Symbiosis: Sculpting the Art of Living Together

In Symbiosis, seven Los Angeles-based artists explore the relationship between distant mediums: art and biological sciences. These artists take inspiration from sources such as the ocean, animal exoskeletons, and the human body to challenge the way these disciplines intersect and unite through technology.

The exhibition will feature a performance by Ivana Dama (.dama) at 11:30am and a workshop with Sasha Fishman (.fishman) at 12:00pm.

July 9th 11AM-5PMla – Los Angeles
Entry is FREE, with RSVP suggested but not required.
Donations are welcome.

This event is presented by CultureHub in partnership with NAVEL, SUPERCOLLIDER, and UCLA ArtSci Center.

As artist and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs reminds us, “The future is soft enough that my living shapes it.”*Over the pas...
07/03/2022

As artist and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs reminds us, “The future is soft enough that my living shapes it.”*

Over the past few months, we have been exploring how we might live into the caring, creative, kinful worlds we want to see–understanding that this requires repair and attention to historical wounds continuing to impact us today.

Just as our current national design was imagined and shaped to serve the well-being of Western Empire, we can also choose to imagine and shape world designs that nourish our collective well-being. Join us for a conversation with youth and practicing elders designing and building loving futures.

The Future is Soft
Tuesday, July 5th
6 - 8 PM Pacific | Zoom

*Check out Alexis’ Stardust & Salt Daily Creative Practice course for more on their daily sky meditations.

🚨 SHOW UPDATE 🚨 MATÍAS ANAYA & LU COY: LA TRANSCENDENCIA AN L.A. HOMECOMING SHOW RESCHEDULED FOR FRI, JUNE 17th––Due to ...
06/08/2022

🚨 SHOW UPDATE 🚨

MATÍAS ANAYA & LU COY: LA TRANSCENDENCIA
AN L.A. HOMECOMING SHOW RESCHEDULED FOR FRI, JUNE 17th

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Due to a bout of tour induced covid, we have had to push thee homecoming extravaganza out a week to give the girls enough time to quarantine! SAFETY FIRST! ⛑

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Coming in hot from their inaugural West Coast tour, virtuosic trans super duo Matías Anaya & Lu Coy celebrate their triumphant homecoming at NAVEL, with additional performances by LA
trans legends Davia Spain & Michati, featuring special guest Habuibah Layla Nour and iconic DJ sets by URAGAY all night long.
A message from the artists, "b there or b square qunts."

Performances by:
Matías Anaya (.matias )
Lu Coy ( )
Davia Spain ( )
Michati( )
with Special Guest: Habibah Layla Nour
(.layla.nour )

DJ sets by:

DJ URAGAY (.uragay )

Friday, June 17th 2022
10PM - 2AM
NAVEL (.la)
1611 S Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90015

Thank you to everyone who attended the first installment of our ASSEMBLIES: Art Into Action Public Programming last Tues...
04/21/2022

Thank you to everyone who attended the first installment of our ASSEMBLIES: Art Into Action Public Programming last Tuesday! We were grateful to be in conversation with three powerful storytellers from L.A. City 🌆 ➰ 🖥

We are inspired by Sandra de la Loza’s playful but critical questioning of our current, dominant, extractive/colonial world set-up. As the founder of the Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, de la Loza inserts (un)official historical markers to interrupt a historical amnesia, trigger memory, and interrogate the present as a part of a systemic investigation of discourses of place and displacement.

During our conversation, Sandra shared about her performative archivist practice through questioning the “Archive”– who is and who is not included in History and the power dynamics that shape those decisions.

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As the founder of the Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, de la Loza “...is evocative of critical cartography that “situates maps within specific relations of power and not as neutral scientific documents.” De la Loza’s use of the historical marker–which is, after all, the mapping of social space through pedagogical encounters–challenges official histories by claiming “the power of the map to achieve ends other than the social reproduction of the status quo.” In this case, De la Loza’s aim is to use the (un)official markers to make “absence palpable.”

(to tell the stories that are often left out of colonial histories).

From the foreword to The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A.: Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories
Sandra de la Loza
2011

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🗓 Save the date for the next platicá.

Shaping The Culture Wars
Tuesday, April 12th
6 - 8 PM Pacific | Zoom

RSVP for all Main Track conversations here:
https://bit.ly/artintoactionplaticas

Public Programming is open to the general public with closed-captioning, ASL + Spanish interpretation provided.



ImageCredits:
Lead: Pochx Research Society, Operation Invisible Monument, 2002. Photo by Dolores Rivera. Image courtesy by Sandra de la Loza
Slides: from PRS' Field Guide to LA, 2011.

“In this system, there is a need to be organized in our care for each other.”⁣🖇 Join us in exploring designing and build...
04/19/2022

“In this system, there is a need to be organized in our care for each other.”⁣

🖇 Join us in exploring designing and building for care–participants will share knowledge and participate in design exercises centered on responding to the collective care of our communities as artists and cultural workers.

🏠 For the first cohort of this pod, we will dive deeply into looking at housing as care. This pod is designed for artists and cultural workers wanting to integrate community-centered design strategies into their current practices.

Practicing Care Design: Designing for Collective Power
Every other Wednesday, 6 - 8 PM Pacific
Zoom/Virtual
Max # of participants: 10 people
Facilitated by Aldo Puicon

Learn more about this pod & sign up via the link in bio 🔗⁠

[Image Credit: “Collective Care Is Our Best Protection,” Silkscreen Prints by Favianna Rodriguez, 2020]
[Image Credit: “Need to be Organized in our Care,” BIPOC Healers Network, Oct. 2020]

Image IDs:
Slide 1: Collage of linoleum block prints with “collective care is our best protection” over an arrangement of colorful shapes.
Slide 2: The quote “In this system, there is a need to be organized in our care for each other,” attributed to Mariella Saba over a purple backdrop located above a photo of yellow daisies and tulips.

Co-Creating a Regenerative Cultural Economy: Investing in Care is a learning and practice pod where participants will sh...
04/18/2022

Co-Creating a Regenerative Cultural Economy: Investing in Care is a learning and practice pod where participants will share knowledge and map experiments centered around co-creating caring and regenerative cultural economies in Los Angeles.

➰As part of our commitment to support artists and cultural workers seeking to move from extraction to care–this pod will study current Just Transition and anti-capitalist experiments in our local, regional, and transnational contexts in order to create a blueprint for a regenerative cultural economy within NAVEL and our larger Los Angeles arts ecology.

📂 We encourage anyone with experience incubating co-ops and collectives: technologists of all kinds exploring decentralized autonomous organizations and building tools to empower the future of work.

Co-Creating a Regenerative Cultural Economy: Investing in Care
Every other Tuesday, 6 - 8 PM Pacific
Zoom/Virtual/IRL
Max # of participants: 12 people
Facilitated by Irina Contreras and Michael Holt.

Learn more about this pod & sign up via the link in bio 🔗⁠

[Image Credit: Corey Ford, 2013]

Image ID: Photo of five Portuguese Man O' War at sea within a backdrop of green and blue gradient hues.

Artists and cultural workers play a crucial role in meaning-making and storytelling that shape the lenses from which we ...
04/18/2022

Artists and cultural workers play a crucial role in meaning-making and storytelling that shape the lenses from which we see our world(s) and ultimately, our lived experiences.

📹 Explore the cultural worker lineage as you create your own (audio/visual) propaganda to name (y)our vision of creative, caring worlds.

💽 Sign up to participate in Making Our Liberation Irresistible: Shaping The Culture Wars, an ASSEMBLY learning pod beginning Tuesday, April 19.
Learn more via the link in our bio.

Making Our Liberation Irresistible: Shaping The Culture Wars
*meeting date tbd by pod participants
Facilitated by Jay Are, Cesia Domínguez López, Esther Moreño

[Image: Las Soldaderas, James Clifford, Gene Youngblood]

Image ID: Blue gradient overlay over an image of an image of Las Soldaderas, a group of rebel women and girls wearing traditional dress practice their shooting skills for the Mexican Revolution in 1911 with James Clifford’s Art-Culture System diagram (1988) and Gene Youngblood excerpt from Radical Software (1970).

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A Test Site for Kinship

NAVEL is a non-profit cultural organization and multipurpose community space with a central location in downtown Los Angeles. We empower a range of creative projects and practices that ignite our collective imaginaries and expand our capacity to cooperate in holistic, pleasurable and emergent ways. Through membership, programs and events, we bring people together and create opportunities to engage and experiment with caring and collaborative ways of thinking, being, organizing and making.