With support from the California Arts Council, Active Cultures will launch galaFEST Los Angeles, a public festival of art, food, and ecologies. Developed in collaboration with the Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA), galaFEST will commission and present new artist-led projects in public outdoor sites across Los Angeles that explore climate, culture, and land. CAC funds will support artist fees, production, and staffing to realize this inaugural initiative, culminating in a series of free public programs—including performances, installations, and workshops—that foster collective imagination around ecological futures through the arts.
Active Cultures offers programming in three concentric tiers: Member and Community Programs, Public Projects, and Large-Scale Community Events. Our year-round projects provide opportunities for deep collaborations with artists over time, building public programming that centers broad and diverse artistic practice and prioritizes direct engagement with Los Angeles audiences. We embrace the concept of radical hospitality to inspire curiosity and feed empathy, while gathering communities to experience art accessibly with intention and conviviality. We operate in the public sphere to deepen our relationships to land and food, and we uplift Los Angeles as a vital hub of the international art and food movement. Food is the essential lens through which we examine fundamental questions about power, cultural expression, history, equity, climate futures, and ourselves.

