Los Angeles, CA
The Music Center's Innovation Social: Reflections on Loss, Hope and Renewal
In January 2025, Los Angeles endured one of the most devastating fire seasons in its recent history. A year later, many Angelenos are still rebuilding – navigating displacement, processing loss and returning to neighborhoods forever changed.
The Music Center’s Innovation Social: Reflection on Loss, Hope and Renewal features immersive work from Arizona State University’s (ASU) Narrative and Emerging Media program under the guidance of founding director Nonny de la Peña. This event will demonstrate how immersive tools can help communities remember, reflect and find meaning after collective events like the Los Angeles wildfires. Guests will explore VR stories, AR moments and interactive stations that capture personal memory and invite reflection on what comes next. Scanning and Gaussian Splat Station Learn how meaningful objects and places can be turned into 3D assets using simple scanning tools. Explore curated objects or try it on your own phone. Augmented Reality Stories Scan a QR code on your own device to view 3D-scanned objects paired with real, intimate stories from people impacted by the wildfires. Virtual Reality Stories Experience excerpts of the work-in-progress VR documentary Out of the Ashes, directed by Nonny de la Peña and Rory Mitchell, capturing personal and environmental stories from the fires. Communal Viewing Watch a short documentary about ASU’s field work documenting the immediate aftermath of the fires through 3D scanning. Audio Soundscape Listen to a sound collage of survivor interviews and songs centered on hope and rebuilding, in the Founders Room. Dream Play Build Join artist James Rojas for a hands-on, sensory-based workshop exploring how we imagine and build resilient, equitable communities. Participants will engage through creative play using their hands and senses. Acorn Giveaway TreePeople will gift attendees acorns to plant as symbols of renewal and hope. Live Performance Evolve Altadena performs powerful original songs by survivors of the Eaton Canyon fire, created through the collective songwriting project Re-Storying Our Future led by Quetzal Flores and Maya Jupiter.
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Ages: All ages
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As one of the nation’s largest performing arts centers, and as a cultural anchor in Los Angeles County, The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of enriching the cultural lives of every resident.