Celia Hollander at the Audubon Center
The birds are singing, the skies are blue, and we’ll see you in the shade of our magical peppercorn tree friend within the Audubon Center at Debs Park for a donation-based afternoon of art and ecological attunement featuring our friend Alaï y las Marionetas.
We’ve found Alaï listening to music in the most transportive of moments: at The World Stage, with Carlos Niño in Topanga, adventuring through Santa Barbara, and along the way we’ve pieced together that she’s an artist that we absolutely need to collaborate with. The afternoon should speak for itself, but if transcendent music and experimental puppetry is something you might enjoy then we’d recommend making it a point to share this afternoon together.
Bring a blanket, a friend, a picnic, and pull up with us.
All ages & donation based!
We’ll begin around 12:30p.
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a gentle reminder: please leave your adorable pups at home this afternoon as to not disrupt the Audubon Center’s ongoing habitat restoration efforts.
Alaï is a Latin experimental pop artist known for her ethereal voice and transportive live performances. Blending Latin folklore, surrealist imagery, and emotional storytelling, she creates multi-sensory worlds where sound, movement, and myth converge.
Originally from Panama, she grew up between Central America and California and now calls Topanga home.
On stage, Alaï often collaborates with live performers, puppeteers, and live musicians to craft performances that feel like moving paintings: playful, poetic, and rich with meaning. Each show becomes an immersive journey, leaving audiences with the feeling of having stepped into another realm.
For 20+ years the Audubon Center at Debs Park has been a beacon for how conservation organizations can work within our cities to cultivate a deeper relationship between people and place. Through monthly hikes, restoration days, bird walks, field trips, movie nights, community festivals, and hosting gatherings like these each and every month, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has played an essential role in building a more diverse and inclusive conservation movement here in Los Angeles.
We’re so grateful for the humans of the Audubon Center, the advocacy that they champion in dialogue with local culture and native ecology, and it is an absolute honor to gather here together on the 3rd Saturday of (almost) every month.