SLEEPLESS: Music Center After Hours Program to Explore Walt Disney Concert Hall

The latest edition of Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours (Sleepless), an immersive multi-sensory event, invites Angelenos to explore the living maze of Walt Disney Concert Hall with all its curious angles and hidden spaces. See the hall transformed by DJs, sonic experiences, projections, dance parties and interactive installations with rare access to the hall's backstage areas and private rooms. The event ** includes:

• A backstage exploration of The Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall curated by the artist collective behind the Griffith Park Teahouse and Petal Drop LA and featuring a strange and surprising view of the city, enhanced by intriguing sights, smells and textures; • The beats of Anthony Valadez and DJ Phatrick hosted by KG Superstar and including artist Jesse Gilbert's real-time video capture of the crowd, distorted and projected in large scale; • A birch tree maze designed by scenic artist Martin Vallejo with an evocative soundscape by Ed Barguiarena and ethereal lighting by Sohail Najafi; • Curious about who comes to Sleepless? A Sleepless census will reveal late night truths about you depicted on larger than life copies of you, curated by artist Ashley Sparks and designed by John Burton. • An electro-industrial dance party in the Founders Room curated by dublab with sounds by Remy Marc, Sarah Toones, and Jamal Sharaf El Deen, and projections and light sculptures by Suzy Poling; • Choose Lost OR Found -- a one-of-a-kind, intimate, up close and personal live performance in the intimacy of the Listening Rooms; artists to be announced. • Nesting in signature Sleepless bean bags amidst the other-worldly sounds of Grace Oh's crystal singing bowls with artists Annik Mendez, Helane Anderson of Sacral Sounds, The Koshi Fairies, Plantwave, and the Sacred Toning Circle.

Friday, June 16, 2017, 11:30 p.m. - Saturday, June 17, 2017, 3:00 a.m.. The Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Tickets on sale Monday, June 11, 2017, at 10:00 a.m.: $20 in advance; $30 at the door;
Online at musiccenter.org/sleepless; at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Box Office, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 until 5:30 p.m. on the night of the event; or at (213) 972-0711. Starting at 5:30 p.m., tickets will be on sale at The Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall box office, 111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Parking is available in the lot under the Walt Disney Concert Hall for $5.00 after 8:00 p.m.

MORE INFO: musiccenter.org/sleepless
**Schedule and artists subject to change