The Hammer Museum presents Mutant Salon’s Festival De Las Muertas, a performance and art festival that will engage audiences through a mutant beauty parlor, performances, happenings, music, poetry readings, and a selection of zines by members of the extended Mutant Salon community of queer, trans, womyn, POC, and mutant artists and performers. Collectively, these artists are changing the cultural fabric of Los Angeles outside of institutional spaces. In the spirit of openness and expansion, Festival De Las Muertas welcomes diverse audiences at the Hammer Museum to partake in the individual and collective social, political, and aesthetic transformations that this community embodies.
This program is organized by January Parkos Arnall, curatorial associate, Public Engagement.
ALL HAMMER PROGRAMS ARE FREE.
ADDRESS
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Performance location: Annex and Courtyard
Ticketing: This drop-in program is not ticketed.
Parking: Under the museum, $6 flat rate on the weekends. Cash only.
SCHEDULE
Mutant Salon is open Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Annex. Services offered include haircuts, makeup, nails, Tarot reading, bodywork, and a costume station. Zine table and video program will be viewable during open hours.
Saturday
11 a.m.–5 p.m. Haircuts by Marvin Astorga (participants must RSVP here in advance, very limited capacity)
1 p.m. Performance by Ciriza
2 p.m. Poetry Reading: Sarah Gail Armstrong, Jasmine Nyende, Dove A.
3 p.m. Elliot Reed Laboratories
4 p.m. San Cha y Las Sirenas
DJ: Crasslos
Durational performances by: Project Rage Queen & Ijlal
Sunday
11 a.m.–5 p.m. Haircuts by Marvin Astorga (participants must RSVP here in advance, very limited capacity)
1 p.m. Wampum
2 p.m. La Porscha
3 p.m. Jeepneys & White Boy Scream
4 p.m. Jeffzilla Presents Death Became Her
DJ: Oscar Santos
Durational performances by: Project Rage Queen & Kim Ye