“LA230” Runs September 2011 – August 2012, Throughout Southern California
With a history spanning 230 years, Los Angeles will have no trouble finding ways to celebrate its rich heritage over the next 12 months. The LA Heritage Alliance, a network of over 200 heritage organizations throughout Southern California, is coordinating a year-long series of 230 events starting in September to commemorate the City’s founding on September 4, 1781. All LA230 events will be listed on the LA Heritage Alliance Heritage Portal, a partnership with ExperienceLA.com. This portal,at www.experiencela.com/heritage, lists all the participating organizations and their events. To refine the search to these events, use the search term, “LA230.”
From Los Angeles to San Gabriel to Long Beach to The San Fernando Valley and all across Southern California, events will commemorate LA’s birthday by celebrating a specific aspect of its history, be it a person, place, event, culture, or movement.
Other events include a special lecture on “Dinner in the Exploding City” from the Culinary Historians of Southern California at the Central Library (with culinary samples), “Art of the Jonathon Club” at the Pasadena Museum of History, and “Pushing the Boundaries: Adventurers, Pioneers and Unconventional Heroes” living history from West Adams Heritage at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery. New events are being added each day, so check out www.experiencela.com/heritage for all the latest events to celebrate LA230!
About L.A. Heritage Alliance
The Los Angeles Heritage Alliance (LAHA) works to support heritage organizations in Los Angeles to more effectively promote and preserve the region's heritage mainly through increased communication and coordination among the over 200 such organizations in the region. Founded in 2008, LAHA is the host of LA Heritage Day, founder of the LA Heritage Portal, and has hosted dozens of meetings and workshops throughout the region. LAHA is also a member of LA as Subject.
Media contact: John Bwarie, LAHA
213-247-3993
laheritage@gmail.com