Desert X Community Day

Join Desert X and Palm Springs Art Museum for a day of activities with artists and organizers in architecture, design thinking, and community building.

Through conversations, site activations, and self-guided tours, explore how collaboration can lead to creative solutions for change.

Desert X + Palm Springs Art Museum Family Activities

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Palm Springs Art Museum Meyerman Sculpture Garden

Explore the Desert X Family Guide alongside a family workbook about Phillip K. Smith III, Desert X 2017 alumni artist whose mid-career survey exhibition, LIGHT + CHANGE, is on view at the museum.

Includes a performance by Shanti Lalita at 11:30 am.

Lunch Conversation with Lauren Bon and Gerald Clarke

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Palm Springs Art Museum Meyerman Sculpture Garden
With Food Vendor Pop-Up

Grab a bite from local food vendors’ pop-ups, and join Desert X artists in a casual conversation about their practice as it connects to larger goals for social and environmental change. With an introduction by Mara Gladstone, Deputy Director at Desert X.

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Meet the Changemakers

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Palm Springs Art Museum Meyerman Sculpture Garden

In this fast-paced one-hour event, artists, organizers, and local leaders share the solutions they’ve created in response to problems around climate change, social justice, labor rights, sustainable food, and housing equity. Hosted by Lala Johnson, Public Programming and Special Events Coordinator at Palm Springs Art Museum, and Edwin Ramoran, Curatorial Fellow at Desert X.

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Shanti Lalita Performance

2:00 p.m.
Palm Springs Art Museum Meyerman Sculpture Garden

Cellist and vocalist Shanti Lalita performs poetic soundscaping and live looping in response to the desert landscape.

Speed Friend Dating: Meet Your Neighbors in Change

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Palm Springs Art Museum Annenberg Theater

Spend time getting to know artists, organizers, and local leaders. Guests are invited to share what they do, the organizations they support, and their favorite resources for addressing climate solutions and social justice in the Coachella Valley. Held on the stage of the Annenberg Theater.

BY INVITATION ONLY