Human Resources

We’re 13 days out from our “Who Makes Chinatown?” gallery event @humanresourcesla on Wednesday, May 27th from 4-8 PM! Hear directly from our YLPs (aka the artists) why you should come :) We welcome families, siblings, high school students from @downtownmagnets and @lincolnhightigers , and community members to come support our Youth Leaders! Learn about the issues facing Chinatown and enjoy food, a photobooth, and a print table run by @shg1970 . Word has it we’ll raffle off free T-shirts… To RSVP, go to our Eventbrite in our Linktree. #seaca #chinatownla #youthart

L.A.! I’m coming back for two very special nights at @humanresourcesla ! June 5 + 6! Bringing you intimate reimaginings of music from Canto de Todes and our queridísimo Juan Gabriel! Get your tickets now! Link in bio!!! 💖✨🔥✨💖 Dorian Wood returns to Human Resources for two nights only with an immersive performance that interweaves music from her newly-released album Canto de Todes (@newamrecords ) 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.

IN THE DRAWING AS IT IS ON THE DANCE FLOOR Collective Choreographies exhibits thirty-six labanotational ink drawings of line dances. Using a taxonomy of tiny and precise lines, each notation corresponds to a movement within standard line dance choreography. These movements are typically specified by “stepsheets,” written instructions popularly circulated through open-source websites to learn and teach line dances. Each drawing shows 121 “dancers” in a grid of 11 x 11 “dancing” simultaneously. Each hand-drawn depiction highlights the tension between coordinated, identical movements and each unique and idiosyncratic instance. The representation of repetitive, rhythmic sameness reveals itself to be, in fact, a representation of multiplicity and difference, in the drawing as it is on the dance floor. As a meditation on coordinated movement, the drawings seek to depict the muscle memory and propulsion of group movement that directs our physical bodies more than any coherent thought when moving together. A project by Maura Chen @chenmaur Organized by @chrisevargas Opening Reception Thursday, May 14, 5-9pm Dance Lessons & Parties ($15 NOTAFLOF) ▪️Sunday May 17th 3-7pm Sugar Honey IT and Fake ID w/@abadocious00 of @bootleg_dance & @coreylubo ▪️Friday May 22nd 7-11pm Mucara Walk and Cherry Bottom Boom w/ @kkmiracle & @shitflix of @stud.country ▪️Sunday May 24th 3-7pm Play That Sax and Easy Rider (Contra Dance!) w/ @dandelion.dealer & @parishelena of @dosidontcha Print orders for select dances will be available to place opening night for pickup on closing night!!

tired music concert residency @humanresourcesla With @germanhemingway @dylankurtmarx Big thanks to @realityshopping

SHORTER THAN A TUNNEL, LONGER THAN A BRIDGE a performance by Amelia Charter + Sam Wentz Human Resources LA @humanresourcesla 410 Cottage Home Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 May 29th and 30th, 7pm  May 31st, 4pm  $15  graphic design by @studio.hirons photos by @gema.galiana sound by @dylankurtmarx technical support by @wildbonesjones thank you to @elowah @jacobxolff @realityshopping for your contributions to the work ! ticket link in bio

JOIN US, MAY 10 7:30PM AT HUMAN RESOURCES LA FOR A NIGHT OF PALESTINIAN FILM & RAFFLE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR JOURNALISTS IN GAZA. Curious about the items up for raffle this Sunday? Check them out! Every ticket holder will also be entered into the raffle for a chance to win books, gift cards, posters, and other prizes from local authors and our friends at LA literary institutions. Each payment of $12 is equal to one raffle ticket—more tickets will be available to purchase at the door. Those interested in participating in the raffle but unable to attend can send their payment to our Venmo: @LA_Wawog with a pizza emoji. Entries close at at 7pm PST on 5/10. Winners will be announced shortly after the screening on Sunday night.

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.

MIRRORS OF RESISTANCE WHERE: Human Resources 410 Cottage Home St. Los Angeles CA 90012 WHEN: 7:30 PM, May 10 COST: $12 Tickets sold at door or through venmo (LA_Wawog) And No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds! Masks required and provided. Space is wheelchair accessible. Join us for a night of Palestinian film to raise funds for journalists in Gaza! We will screen THE LAST SUPPER dir. Issa Freij and JAMILA'S MIRROR dir. Arab Loutfi. Films will have English subtitles. Every ticket holder is entered into the raffle for a chance to win BOOKS, GIFT CARDS, POSTERS, and other prizes from local authors and our friends at Los Angeles literary institutions. Each payment of $12 is equal to one raffle ticket. Those who cannot attend in person can still send in a donation to be entered into the raffle.

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.

This Saturday (May 2nd) ✨ Songs to Quell the Monster | Program 1: A Mother’s lullaby Trailer for “Milisuthando” by @milisuthando.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 @jono_haff Programmed by @advikbeni & @nehalvyas 🎟️ Ticket link in bio!

Thursday night at Human Resources, an intimate concert with two crucial figures in contemporary sound - Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and Charles Curtis - exploring microtonality, electroacoustics, and a repertoire of minimalism. Bassoonist Vicente-Sandoval, accompanied by cellist Charles Curtis, will premiere a new version of “Witness,” written for her by @tashiwada Curtis will also perform a selection of works for cello. Vicente-Sandoval will also present “Minos Circuit Rewired” for microphone feedback, voice, and disassembled bassoon. Full details and advance tickets via bio link.

Thursday night, bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis perform @humanresourcesla live-in-concert via @upend.la , premiering a new version of Tashi Wada’s 2017 “Witness.” Originally written for Vicente-Sandoval on bassoon, this new rendition includes accompaniment by Curtis on cello. In “Witness,” a series of microtonally inflected scales and tetrachords are explored through repetition, variation, and improvisation. At this intimate concert, Curtis will also present brief solo cello pieces, possibly including music by Tashi Wada, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, and/or other works in progress. Vicente-Sandoval’s own Minos Circuit Rewired, for microphone feedback, voice, and disassembled bassoon, will close the evening. Doors at 7pm. 🎟️Advance tickets available via the bio link. 🔗 Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (b. 1979, Paris) works at the intersection of bassoon acoustics, resonant spaces, and amplification. Charles Curtis (b. 1960, Laguna Beach) explores classical cello performance, precise tuning, and sustained sound. Together, they have carved out a distinctive perspective on contemporary experimental music. Having worked collectively with composers like Alvin Lucier, Tashi Wada, and Éliane Radigue, as well as individually with Jakob Ullmann, Phill Niblock, Peter Ablinger, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, and Christian Wolff, Vicente-Sandoval and Curtis present a shared concert of works made for them, alongside original sound pieces. #dafnevicentesandoval #charlescurtis #tashiwada @tashiwada #upend2026