Beach Activations is a performance art series on Venice Beach where body, land and water meet through participation and movement. Featuring artists working across performance, choreography, sound and embodied ritual, the series bridges institutionally rooted and local Venice art communities, engaging the ocean as a living site for re-imagining shared experience through presence and exchange.

Upcoming:

CYCLE II, PHASE I

Saturday, February 28, 2026

4:30 PM - Sunset

Featured Artists:

Darling “Shear” Squire

Francisco Letelier

The Activators

Erin Desmond

Milo Gonzalez

Skylar Tang

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Inquiries:

merge@beachactivations.org

Founder & Curator: Erin Desmond

Founding Producer: Shirley Morales

We acknowledge that Venice Beach is the ancestral and unceded land of the Tongva people and we honor their continued connection to the land.

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