This newly commissioned music, visual, and spoken-word performance featuring Indigenous musical artists Lynn Daphne Rudolph and Lazaro Arvizu Jr. invited us to consider the meaning and importance of reconciliation. Drawing upon the Broad’s reforestation project, Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Joseph Beuys’s social sculptures in post–World War II Germany, Tongva educator and musician Lazaro Arvizu Jr. (Los Angeles) and Khoi Khoi violist Lynn Daphne Rudolph (Johannesburg) performed a new work intended to bring viewers closer to the land and the practices of its original caretakers by revealing how their creative practices empower them to reanimate their respective Indigenous cultures. Arvizu and Rudolph invited the audience into a creative call and response and dialogue that engaged what reconciliation means today in Tovaangar—or what we now call Los Angeles.

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