Creative Cultivation Salon 2025

THURSDAY APRIL 24, 2025
6 – 11 PM

The James Irvine Japanese Garden at JACCC
244 San Pedro St
Los Angeles CA 90012

ABOUT

Since 1999, dublab has championed *public access* to sound, art, and culture. On Thursday April 24, 2025, join dublab for an intimate evening of live performances, DJ sets, thought-provoking conversations, immersive video art, and culinary experiences you won’t want to miss.

Proceeds from the Creative Cultivation Salon will go toward supporting dublab’s broader mission in freeform radio and educational initiatives that benefit and enriches our community and the creative ecosystem of Los Angeles and the world.

Featuring a dublab Dialogue with:

Guadalupe Rosales

Artist

Guadalupe Rosales (b.1980 Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community generated archival projects, “Veteranas and Rucas” and Map Pointz, found on social media.

Rosales’s work has been featured by Vogue, i-D Magazine, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, ArtNews, Artsy, and Artforum, Univision and NPR.

Dwight Trible

Jazz Musician

There are two enduring principles that are the reasons that Dwight claims are the reasons for his ability to stay in demand and relevant over his 40 year career, (Stay Humble And Hungry).

He understands that you must never be satisfied with what you have already accomplished, one must always stay thirsty to learn as much as possible about the craft of music and have the humility to recognize the lessons when they show up.

Dwight has been the Executive Artistic Director of the Iconic World Stage Performance Gallery in Leimert Park since 2013. He has 11 recordings under his own name and numerous credits as a side man with many other notable artist.

Noah Klein

Musician and Naturalist

Noah Klein is an arts organizer, flautist and California naturalist born and raised in the Los Angeles Basin. They live for exploring the relationships between soundscape and landscape, histories of interdependent music + arts movements, philosophies of ecomusicology, practices of emancipatory world building, deep time, decentralization, ecological resistance, autonomous zones, and understanding music as a vehicle for paradigmatic change.

Josephine Shetty

Vocalist and Educator

Josephine Shetty is an experimental pop artist and vocalist, best known by the monikers Kohinoorgasm and Girl Debord, and as the lead singer of the electro-pop duo Pride Month Barbie. Since releasing her debut solo album Titalee at the start of 2017, Shetty has performed at SXSW, The Echo, Zebulon, UCLA, Berkeley Art Museum, Sarah Lawrence College, Great American Music Hall, and most notably within California’s experimental underground scene. Her passion for creative collaboration has also led to various roles in music education and audio engineering, including teaching music technology courses at California Institute of the Arts and providing sound design support for local live productions and sound installations.

MUSIC BY

Claire Rousay
Live

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Claire Rousay is a singular artist whose work explores themes of human intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional expression through the creation and manipulation of acoustic and electronic sound.

Sharada Shashidhar
Live

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Sharada Shashidhar is a Los Angeles based vocalist, composer and producer. Her soulful voice takes inspiration from jazz and Indian classical music, which influences her songwriting and productions.

Maral
DJ Set

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Maral’s sonic palette incorporates a collage of Iranian Classical & Folk samples and explores genres of experimental electronic production such as noise, punk/post-punk, and dub. Maral has released two critically acclaimed records, Ground Groove (2022) and Push (2020) on Leaving Records. She has collaborated with artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, Panda Bear, Penny Rimbaud of Crass, Anika, Black Dice and more.