Image from the The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Announces the Release of
The 2025 Summer Fun Guide
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For those inevitable moments this summer when parents hear, “I’m bored,” we suggest checking out the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) 2025 Summer Fun Guide.
The guide features multiple family-friendly activities, experiences, fairs, and festivals produced by Los Angeles’s diverse arts, events, and cultural organizations. Happenings take place throughout the summer, many are free or very low cost.
In addition, DCA Arts Centers and Performing Arts Centers have launched their summer programming, featuring a wide repertoire of classes, exhibitions, art workshops, and camps. Discover DCA Arts Centers programming below:
• Barnsdall Arts Center hosts Summer Session 2025 (Adults), 5-week sessions, July 15 through August 16. Registration opens Monday, June 23, at 10:00 a.m., and closes Friday, July 11, at 4:30 p.m. Register here.
• Barnsdall Junior Arts Center hosts Summer Session 2025 (Ages 2 – 17), 6 week sessions, July 6 through August 9, 2025. Registration.
• Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery presents Re-envisioning Resilience: Reflections on the LA Wildfires, featuring works by 30 artists that serve as reflections, responses, and an envisioning of the future transformation of our communities and habitats in Los Angeles. Gallery Reception, June 7, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., the exhibition is on view June 7 through August 2, 2025. Click here for more information.
• Canoga Park Youth Art Center presents Summer Arts Camp, July 8 through August 7, 2025, registration begins June 8, and After School Classes, July 7 through August 9, 2025. For more information, click here.
• Center for the Arts Eagle Rock hosts five week-long Summer Arts Camps for ages 6 – 12; weeks one through three are full. Registration is open for week 4, July 28 to August 1, and week 5, August 4 through August 8, details at cfaer.org.
• Hollyhock House presents Puppets in the Park with Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Barnsdall Park, free Sunday shows, June 8, September 21, and October 19, 2025, performance times: 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. (gates open at 9:00 a.m.) Family art activities: 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Please visit hollyhockhouse.org for more information.
• Lankershim Arts Center presents Young Performing Artist Lab (Summer Camp), 5-Week Session, June 16 through July 18, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To register, please contact [email protected] or call (818) 301-6120.
• Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center hosts its Young Artists Summer Camp (ages 6 – 13), June 30 through August 2, 2025; Monday to Friday (note: August 2, is Saturday culmination). To reserve, click here. Tuition is $150 per child.
• Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park presents Friday Art Nights, a summer evening series featuring artist-led presentations, interactive installations, and programs, offered Fridays from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., June 6 through September 26, 2025.
• McGroarty Arts Center in Tujunga presents Head Heart & Hands, 21st Annual Invitational Ceramics Exhibition and Student Showcase, June 9 through June 12, 2025, gallery hours: 10: 00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., opening reception, Saturday, June 7, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., and Kids Theatre Camps for ages 6 – 8 and 9 – 11, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, July and August, for registration, click here. And for Summer Classes, July 7 through August 30, 2025, registration click here.
• Sun Valley Youth Arts Center presents Summer Art Camp (ages 6 – 17), 5-week session July 8 through August 7, 2025, Tuesdays to Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Registration now open. For more information, click here.
• William Grant Still Arts Center presents CongoSonic: Bantu Beats Across the Americas, exhibition extended. CongoSonic: Bantu Beats Across the Americas isn’t just an exhibition—it’s a cultural movement. Featuring immersive displays, rare musical artifacts, and videos from the Congo, this year’s series traces the powerful journey of Bantu-rooted rhythms across the Atlantic. From Congolese rumba to hip-hop, jazz, cumbia, salsa, and beyond, discover how sounds born of resilience and migration continue to shape the global music scene. On view through August 1, 2025. For more information, click here.
ABOUT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
As a leading, progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’s vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, literary, musical, performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers; preserving historic sites; creating public art; and funding services provided by arts organizations and individual artists.
Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA’s residents and visitors, and ensure LA’s varied cultures are recognized, acknowledged, and experienced. DCA’s mission is to strengthen the quality of life in Los Angeles by stimulating and supporting arts and cultural activities, ensuring public access to the arts for residents and visitors alike.
DCA advances the social and economic impact of arts and culture through grantmaking; public art; community arts; performing arts; and strategic marketing, development, design, and digital research. DCA creates and supports arts programming, maximizing relationships with other city agencies, artists, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to provide excellent service in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles.
For more information, please visit culture.lacity.gov.
