Lighting the Stacks - A Central Library Historical Drama & Living History Museum
Sat, Dec 12 2026
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
About the Event
LAPL meets LAUSD in a crossover to end our Central 100 celebration with a glimpse of the past from the voices of the future. Students from 5 LAUSD schools perform a new drama telling the story of Central Library and the figures that made the icon what it is—and ask what the future may hold. Both a traditional theatrical experience and a living museum stationed throughout Central Library.
Central 100 Living Museum
Immerse yourself in a Central 100 "Living Museum" throughout the building, hosted by the students of LAUSD's Young Oak Kim Academy in Koreatown. They will be portraying historical figures who tell the story of how a small reading room above a saloon became one of the most important, cutting-edge, and forward-facing libraries on the planet.
- 12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
- Atrium
- All Ages
Lighting the Stacks - A Central Library Historical Drama
The Los Angeles Public Library is thrilled to host students from the Ramon Cortines Grand Arts, Hollywood High, Roosevelt High School, Mendez High School, and Young Oak Kim Academy Drama Departments as they tell the story of Central Library in the Mark Taper Auditorium. Written by Emmy Award-nominated, New York Times bestselling author Joshua Hale Fialkov, Lighting the Stacks is a "Behind the Library" docudrama that gives insight into the founding of the library system, the fight to build a central library, the bigger fight to save it after the fire, and the questions of just what the future may hold.
- 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Mark Taper Auditorium
- All Ages
For disability-related accommodations, please call (213) 228-7430 at least five business days prior to the event. The City will make every effort to accommodate requests received with less notice.
