The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA, a celebration of performance art presented as part of the Getty-led initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, will run from Jan. 11-21.

Organized by REDCAT, CalArts’ Center for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with partner organizations throughout the city, the 11-day festival will feature more than 75 works by Latin American and Latino artists, performed at more than 20 indoor and outdoor spaces throughout greater Los Angeles. Supported by a major grant from the Getty Foundation, events will range from large-scale, site-specific performances to multi-artist evenings and will be presented in parks, plazas, galleries, theaters and busy urban settings.

“Over the last two months, art museums, galleries, and performing arts spaces throughout Southern California have presented exhibitions and events as part of PST: LA/LA, inspiring thousands of people to explore works by Latin American, Latino, and Chicano artists,” said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. “Now, with the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA, supported by the Getty Foundation, we will connect artists from more than a dozen countries with communities throughout Los Angeles with vital performances that address a variety of issues relevant to the people of the regions represented throughout PST: LA/LA.”

“We’re enthusiastic about working with our partner organizations to present events ranging from community-based projects in neighborhood parks to industrial-strength performance installations,” said Mark Murphy, executive director of REDCAT, who is organizing the festival with Associate Director Edgar Miramontes and Gallery Director/Curator Ruth Estévez. “Many of these influential artists are confronting urgent topics, building on the traditions of performance art practice in Latin America and Southern California that are deeply rooted in a history of political and social activism, protest, and struggles for human rights and against colonialism.”

Among the notable events in the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA will be an outdoor performance titled “Durango 66” by the multidisciplinary artists of the Mexico City-based collective Teatro Línea de Sombra, who will explore the connections between student protests in Mexico in the 1960s and more recent political confrontations. Los Angeles artist Raul Baltazar will organize a community gathering and picnic in Ascot Hills Park, inspired by traditional worker celebrations and enhanced with ritualized dance movements. Peru’s celebrated Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani will build on its near-50-year history of experiments merging contemporary performance forms with indigenous movement and music traditions in “Discurso de Promoción” (Promotional Speech), which questions the revisionist history implied in official language about Peru’s Bicentennial in 2021.

For a festival schedule and ticketing information, visit pacificstandardtime.org.