LASA celebrates and offers a heartfelt thank-you to Metabolic Studio for its support for the 2017-2018 program. LASA looks forward to starting the new session in August and is grateful for Metabolic’s assistance to serve such a terrific class of incoming high school juniors.
LASA digs into the Port of Los Angeles
LASA ventured farther in April than usual with a day at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. Juan – our terrific bus driver for the day – ushered us from the Huntington to pick up Geraldine Knatz and the rest of our group at Ports O’Call in San Pedro. Geraldine is the port expert – having started …
Urban Nature: From Frogtown to the Future
March left like a lamb. We had perfect weather for our LASA gathering at the end of the month. We began at The Huntington, where Bill Deverell gave us a “mini college lecture” on the history of the Los Angeles River. Temperamental, tiny, and sometimes ferocious, the little river ran dry most summers but could flood in winter rains and …
LASA Goes Behind the Screen
LASA celebrated the television and motion picture arts on Oscar-weekend by exploring and wondering about LA’s stories and storytellers of the future. Gathering at the Huntington, we set off to KCET studios to explore the long local tradition of public television. Filled with cameras, desks upon desks of people dedicated to sharing LA stories to the broadest audience, editing equipment, and …
LASA Volunteers at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Our day on January 7th started early. Though not as early as our bus driver’s! Mistakenly informed by her company that she needed to meet us at 6:30 in downtown Los Angeles, our driver had been curbside already for more than an hour before anyone showed up. She took it all in stride, though, and, by 8:00 or so, the LASA …
LASA Receives Grant from the Francis Bacon Foundation
We are honored and thrilled to announce that the Francis Bacon Foundation has granted LASA $10,000 to continue our work unpacking the puzzle of Los Angeles with civic-minded high schoolers. We are filled with gratitude for the Foundation’s support and look forward to serve students from across the County with their generous assistance.
LASA Learns Public Safety
On November 12, LASA explored justice and public safety in LA via two thought-provoking field trips with law enforcement. We met in the courtyard of the Huntington and boarded our bus to visit Pasadena police. Lt. Tracey Ibarra greeted us and Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez provided us with helpful thoughts on the education background his is looking for in …
Athletics and Angelenos: LASA explores sports and archives in Los Angeles
On October 15, LASA explored sports in Los Angeles (as an industry, as a force reshaping the landscape, and as a cultural experience). We met inside USC Gate 1 and were joined by Anne-Marie Jones of LA84. Her energy for non-profit work in LA guided us to think about the wide range of possibilities for future work in non-profits but …
Doing Business in L.A.: LASA visits Glenair
LASA kicked off our Saturday sessions on September 10 with a focus on Doing Business in LA. Gathering at the Huntington, our teams of students brainstormed their visions for “doing business” on the whiteboards. Colorful pitches for companies and cross-industry strategies for success impressed everyone. The restaurants and t-shirt manufacturing of tomorrow’s LA prove to be innovative! We then boarded …
LASA Kicks Off Our 5th Year!
The first week of August we kicked off LASA 2016-2017 by mapping, scavenger-hunting, touring, and floating! On Monday, August 1, we welcomed this terrific class and created maps of our Los Angeles(es). Check out our varied and creative renderings of Los Angeles here. We devoted Monday to thinking about the scale of Los Angeles – geographically and demographically. After searching …