Site & Sounds: The Broad
- The Broad Museum, 221 S. Grand Ave., Downtown L.A.
Shred, scream, and make art! Join LAist at The Broad’s Family Weekend Workshops: Punk Family Picnic to celebrate the closing day of Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) in style. Bring a brown bag lunch for a picnic as we rock out to DJ sets by Melissa Scaduto, Joe Dana, and Kash Abdulmalik, and enjoy a live performance by Sorta Kinda. Get inspired by artists Patrick Martinez and John Baldessari as you build a button to highlight an important message or craft a collage to tell your L.A. story, and don’t forget to check out Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) featuring LA-based artists on the first floor of the museum.
Build a button inspired by Patrick Martinez. Get inspired by Martinez's artworks and design a button with a significant message. Incorporate his use of neon signs to amplify the words of past artists and activists that draw attention to today's issues. Use black construction paper and paint markers to trace out the words of a powerful statement that deserves to be heard and complete the neon sign effect with white detail before constructing your button for all to see.
Create a collage inspired by John Baldessari. Using repurposed magazines and newspapers, put together a collage that incorporates your visual experience of Los Angeles. Use the sights, sounds, and stories of your LA as you piece together your creation. Take inspiration from Baldessari’s Overlap, The Intersection, and Junction series and transform your design using paint markers to connect different images into one flowing work. Explore the “joy of discovery” by mixing and matching, working with shape, color, and story to create your take on the city.
Baldessari was a pioneer of conceptual art, an art form that questions our idea of what art is, opening up new possibilities of it by using photographs, text, and color to explore our viewpoints and thought. Through his work, Baldessari tested art, images, and language, noting “one of the purposes of art should be to keep us perceptually off balance.” Think outside the box (or paper) as you connect with LA through Baldessari’s techniques.
Family Weekend Workshops take place outdoors on the East West Bank Plaza at The Broad and offer free activities and workshops to engage with the art on view in the museum. Workshops give families the opportunity to make their own artworks to take home, inspired by the Broad collection. Family Weekend Workshops are free with advance ticket reservations. Walk-ups without reserved tickets may be accommodated, pending capacity.
This Family Weekend Workshop is organized by The Broad with curatorial advisory committee member, Michael Grodner.
This program is intended for children age 3+ and their families.
ACCOMMODATIONS
LAist is committed to providing access and accommodation for individuals with disabilities at our events. For more information, reach out to The Broad at ticketing@thebroad.org.
ABOUT THE BROAD’S FAMILY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
The Broad's Family Weekend Workshops offer free activities and workshops to engage with the art of The Broad. Workshops give families the opportunity to make their own artworks to take home, inspired by the Broad collection. Family Weekend Workshops are free but have limited availability. Entrance is not guaranteed without a reservation. Family Weekend Workshops are presented by Leading Partner East West Bank.
ABOUT MELISSA SCADUTO
Melissa Scaduto has been a music enthusiast and avid record collector since first hearing Nirvana as a child of the ‘90s. Her exposure to subculture came early, going to punk shows since age 12 and later becoming a buyer for NYC record shop Rocks in Your Head that specialized in Post Punk. She currently writes & records in two bands (Sextile & S. Product) and is embarking on a solo venture under her last name Scaduto, to be released in 2024. Melissa Scaduto has DJ’d on radio stations NTS, Dublab, and East Village Radio. She’s made mixes under her band name Sextile for Crack magazine, KCRW & KEXP. Melissa also backs Panther Modern as his live DJ.
ABOUT JOE DANA
Joe Dana has been involved in the Los Angeles music scene in various capacities for over 25 years. He’s produced and been a contributor to punk zines and other publications, booked punk shows for touring acts, and sung for his own band. He is a regular volunteer for Razorcake Magazine (the only bona fide 501(c)(3) non-profit music magazine in the US) and had his first vinyl DJ gig at one of their monthly happy hours in 2012. Since then, he has become the host of Razorcake Magazine's monthly happy hour events at Footsies Bar in Cypress Park. These afternoons concentrate on sharing punk rock music, and sometimes give a "how to" to people DJing for their first time. He regularly DJs at the Mermaid, Footsies, and La Cita. He’s DJed several spots you’ve heard of and even more you haven’t and has even DJed the annual Liarpaloozer pre-party at Liar's Club in Chicago.
ABOUT KASH ABDULMALIK
Originally hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Kash Abdulmalik grew up in the golden age of hip hop in the 1990s. Often one to jump in on a cypher or freestyle battle, it all changed for him one day in high school after hearing Minor Threat. Inspired by the hard work ethic of Black Flag and the razor-sharp musicianship of the Bad Brains, he moved to Los Angeles and started the hardcore punk band, Bad Reaction. The group played out and toured the country with other revival punk outfits while making a name for the new emergence of hardcore in LA. Now a writer and actor, his love of punk hasn’t diminished as he’s half of a DJ group which perform regularly at the arcade Bar 82 in downtown LA. He also is currently working on multiple projects in film and television involving black rock and roll including a biopic on Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and other original works.
ABOUT SORTA KINDA
The band Sorta Kinda started as a bedroom recording project and has now grown into a fully-fledged live force to be reckoned with. Mixing the sounds of legendary bands, such as the Cure and the Strokes, with new bands such as Surf Curse and Together PANGEA — Sorta Kinda has created a sound that is nostalgic and familiar.