THE WORLD STAGE
The World Stage
The World Stage is an educational and performance art gallery in Leimert Park Village, the heart of LA’s African American cultural community. The Stage, as it is affectionately called, was founded by the late world-renowned master jazz drummer Billy Higgins and by poet and community arts activist Kamau Daáood in an attempt to fill a cultural void that existed in the Los Angeles community.
The Stage opened its doors on June 1, 1989, and was initially formed as a loose collective of artists and arts supporters. Since that time, the World Stage has grown to assume a pioneering and pivotal role in the flowering of an art movement in Leimert Park that has been hailed as the black cultural mecca by the Los Angeles Times.