Black History Month Legacy and Unity Festival: A free outdoor festival honoring African American history, culture, and future. The event features live performances, Black-owned businesses, cultural exhibits, wellness resources, and family-friendly activities, bringing the community together to celebrate legacy and unity. Location: Mosaic Promenade, 300 N. Promenade, Long Beach CA 90802
East Village Arts District - Enjoy clothing/toy swaps, live interactive music, and hands-on art activities. Support the small businesses that make the district unique and discover local creatives popping up throughout the neighborhood. Community connection is at the heart of the East Village Arts District. Location: 408 E 1st St. Long Beach, CA 90802
Rooted in the spirit of community-building, this art+design marketplace highlights how Long Beach’s creative community grows stronger together, each participant adding their voice to a larger collective story. The showcase on the Promenade North brings together makers, designers, and visionaries through sales, displays, and interactive experiences that reflect the city’s collaborative energy.
Coulter Jacobs: This Side of Truth brings together painting, sculpture, writing, and performance in a body of work shaped by endurance, memory, and transformation. Drawing from American traditional tattoo culture and abstract expressionism, Jacobs fuses personal mythology with the rhythms of everyday labor. Marked by process, honesty, and emotional resilience, this exhibition reflects an artist […]
Attune a multi-locational art activation produced by NOW Art that is launching as a series, starting with our first iteration on Valentines Day. Placed in parks, viewers are encouraged to bring picnic blankets and chairs and come and relax around a light art sculpture to experience a sound art journey created by local artists that […]
Join us for our new creative meetup series, Design at Dusk, a casual hang for designers and creatives on the third Thursday of every month to meet, mingle, dream, scheme, and spark the collaborations that keep this city buzzing. We’ll gather at Makersville, a makerspace that focuses on supporting your hobbies and learning interests and helping you to realize your ideas, one project […]
Are you an artist, performer, or musician interested in activating your own creative project in the DTLB Design District? Consider applying for a Microgrant. The Arts Council for Long Beach is accepting applications for its next round of Microgrants (up to $1,000). Your A+D Walk proposal could be eligible for funding to help activate Downtown Long Beach. […]
DTLB’s Art + Design Walk is a quarterly celebration of creativity, culture, and community, and we’re inviting artists, designers, makers, and creative businesses to participate in the next one on Saturday, April 11 (2–7 PM). Sign-up deadline: Friday, March 20, 2026 Participation may include popping up in the A+D Village, partnering with a Downtown business, or activating a space […]
Community Repairs by LOT at DTLB Farmers Market First Fridays | Downtown Long Beach Farmers Market, 300 N Promenade 10am-12pm LOT station approaches repair as thinking-through-making. Items brought to the station are first inspected and discussed by the team. Priority is given to vintage objects, heirlooms, items with sentimental value, and repairs that present […]
Projection Mapping Exhibition with Disguise Thursday, March 12 | IDRL @ Mosaic, Downtown Long Beach (290 E. 4TH ST., Long Beach, CA 90802) 6-9pm Stop by on March 12 from 6-9pm for a projection mapping exhibition of IDRL community work (student, faculty, and alumni) with support and training by Disguise. DTLB Instagram DTLB LinkedIn DTLB website
Join us for Design at Dusk, our monthly meetup where ideas flow as easily as the drinks. Happening every third Thursday, this casual hangout is all about meeting new collaborators, sharing bold ideas, and sparking the creative energy that keeps our city buzzing. We’ll gather at Altar Society Brewing & Coffee Co. for great conversation, pizza, and beers. […]
Join Emma Palm for bookbinding workshop at the Library of Technics, Long Beach. Library of Technics invites artists and protectors of craft to the Broadcasting Program, where the signal moves freely between source and receiver, continuing the chain of knowledge. LOT Lab consists of practices in repetition, critical thinking, and manual efficiency that support the formation and repair […]