2026 Celia Center Arts Festival

This year’s 5th Celia Center Arts Festival features the works of artists who use their creativity to express their experiences as individuals who were adopted and/or in foster care across many mediums. Entitled “Adopting Resilience, Fostering the Spirit of Creativity: The Voices of the Fostered and Adopted” the festival will feature stories and backgrounds of many, and seeks to bring together the voices that are often left out of the conversation on foster care and adoption. The Festival gives the Foster Care and Adopted a spotlight with the hopes of deepening the foster care and adoption conversation in Los Angeles and worldwide.

2026 Schedule will be posted soon below. Please check back with us again!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2026
7:00pm – 9:30pm | Artist’s Opening Wine Reception

Meet and greet with our featured artists and art installation, as well as enjoy fresh beverages, wine, hors d’oeuvres, poetry, musical performances, and a first glimpse at the exhibit!

This special reception helps support the mission of Celia Center. We thank you for your support, always!

Join us in the EXHIBIT AREA

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026

12:00pm – 8:00pm | Adopting Resilience, Fostering the Spirit of Creativity: The Voices of the Fostered and Adopted Exhibit 

Join us in the EXHIBIT AREA
Admission is FREE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026

11:30am – 1:30pm | Free Face Painting & Glitter Tattoo 

11:30am – 12:00pm | Opening Ceremonies 

11:30am – 12:30pm | Free Creative Awakening & Flow Fam Freestyle for Teens 

1:00 – 4:00pm | Healing Arts Workshops TBD

Join us in the Yoffe Classroom

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026

2:30-4:00pm | HEALING CIRCLE

Ages 18 and up.

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Join us in the Yoffe Classroom

Saturday, NOVEMBER 14, 2026

6:00-7:00pm |  MUSIC & RECEPTION TBD

A musical performance.

Join us in the THEATRE
Admission is FREE

Saturday, NOVEMBER 14, 2026

4:00pm | FILM TBD

This film is about …

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This film…

Ages 16 & up

8:00pm | ONE WOMAN SHOWS 

One Woman Shows TBD

Ages 18 & up

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Featuring an adoptees expression of being adopted.

Featuring a former foster youth expression of being in foster care.