To Live and Dine in L.A.
On Sunday, August 9, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles will bring “To Live and Dine in L.A.” to the stage with hip hop artist Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples), chef Roy Choi, and USC professor Josh Kun for a one-of-a-kind Los Angeles evening, where beats and rhymes (and jarocho and opera) will meet food history and food justice. Through music, video, storytelling, and more, an all-star lineup of very special guests will take us on a DJ-driven, multidimensional journey through the menu collection of the Los Angeles Public Library and shine a light on the issues of food insecurity currently facing the city.
If you remember what happened two summers ago at the Library Foundation’s last big concert, you know this will be an event never to be forgotten…
To Live and Dine in L.A.: A Live Mixtape
Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 7pm
The Regent Theater in Downtown LA
All summer long, the Library Foundation has been exploring the Los Angeles Public Library’s incredible menu collection with a project called “To Live and Dine in L.A.” Through the first-ever book about the history of food and restaurants in Los Angeles, a major exhibition at Central Library, and 50+ programs in libraries across the city, the project has tackled the timely and critically important topic of food justice, showing us how vintage menus can serve as documents that go beyond the table, acting instead as guides to the politics, economics, and sociology of eating.
