{"id":403399,"date":"2026-07-18T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:50:38","slug":"free-events-planned-year-round-at-macarthur-park-bandshell-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403399\/","title":{"rendered":"Free events planned year-round at MacArthur Park Bandshell \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles City officials on Friday announced a year-round series of free arts, music and cultural events at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2026\/07\/02\/los-angeles-takes-next-step-in-reconnecting-macarthur-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacArthur Park<\/a> as part of ongoing efforts to revitalize the space.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners on Thursday approved a partnership with the Music\/Arts\/Community Los Angeles, formerly known as Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles, to produce and manage the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The year-round programming is supported by a $250,000 investment, consisting of $150,000 from City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and $100,000 from the California Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership will transform the MacArthur Park Bandshell into a year-round gathering place where families, young people, elders, artists and neighbors from all walks of life can celebrate culture, build community and create memories together,\u201d said Hernandez, whose district includes MacArthur Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety is built through connection. When our public spaces are active, welcoming and filled with community, they become places where people feel they belong and look out for one another,\u201d Hernandez added.<\/p>\n<p>The board choose MAC-LA to lead the program following a request for proposals process, according to city officials. Programming is expected to involve free live concerns, visual art exhibits and interactive community art experiences, indigenous cultural programming, arts education and entertainment industry workshops and family-friendly community festivals.<\/p>\n<p>MAC-LA will also oversee artist recruitment, event production, community outreach, multilingual marketing, public safety planning and the creation of a community advisory board to have residents help shape programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMacArthur Park has always been one of Los Angeles\u2019 most treasured public spaces, and this partnership represents an exciting new chapter for the park,\u201d Jimmy Kim, general manager of the Department of Recreation and Parks, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Programming is expected to begin in September, with a full calendar of free and low-cost events announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles City officials on Friday announced a year-round series of free arts, music and cultural events at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5282,8,48,52,51,205,47,5436,50,49,100,13],"class_list":["post-403399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arts","tag-california-news","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-local-politics","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city-council","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}