The Crenshaw Dairy Mart is pleased to present Give Them Their Flowers: A Tribute to Six Decades of Black Arts in Los Angeles. This celebration, to be held at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart on Saturday, May 24th, honors the local legacies of Black artists, artists-founders, artists-administrators of Black-led arts spaces in Los Angeles over six decades. Honorees for this program include artists Jacqueline Alexander-Sykes of St. Elmo Village, Ben Caldwell of KAOS Network, and Charles Dickson of the Watts Towers Arts Center. Each respective multi-hyphenate artists’ legacy in a myriad of roles within the arts economy, from artist-organizers, artist-educators, artist-activists, and artists-administrators, each are testament to the intergenerational conversations between contemporary and historical community arts spaces which have persevered through historical isolation, divestment, and erasure. This celebration is presented in conjunction with the Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s current program workshops for abolitionist toolbox, a series examining intergenerational stewardship of community through built micro-economies as sanctuary spaces for safety, placemaking, skill-sharing, communal learning, archiving, storytelling, and coalition-building. As part of abolitionist toolbox, the Crenshaw Dairy Mart will record and archive a contemporary history of the rapidly gentrifying community of Inglewood in the tradition of oral histories, concurrently mapping a coalition of Black-led-and-founded artists spaces in Los Angeles. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/give-them-their-flowers-tickets-1355798803719?aff=oddtdtcreator