Lummis Day is a signature community arts and music event in the neighborhoods of Northeast Los Angeles, showcasing the community's considerable pool of musicians, poets, artists, dancers and restaurants representing a kaleidoscope of ethnicities and cultural traditions. Since 2014, Occidental College's Institute for the Study of Los Angeles has partnered with the Lummis Day Community Foundation to support cultural programming. For the community, Lummis Day was a party with a purpose, a cultural showcase for the various ethnicities and cultures that share the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods. In 2008, attendance reached 9,000 people – making it into one of the area's biggest annual events. Charles Fletcher Lummis Lummis Day is named for Charles Fletcher Lummis—author, adventurer, early advocate of multiculturalism, and founder of the Southwest Museum. Lummis played a role in the cultural history of Los Angeles of the 1880s-1920s. He settled into Northeast Los Angeles in 1895 and built a home out Arroyo Seco river rock on the borders of the Highland Park and Montecito Heights communities. Celebrated as a city of Los Angeles and state of California Historical Monument, the Lummis Home which he named El Alisal, is included on the National Register of Historic Places, the List of California Historical Landmarks and is owned and maintained by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. Lummis used his home to host gatherings of artists, journalists, and prominent people of his time. In 1907 Lummis opened the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in nearby Mount Washington. It was the first public museum in the city of Los Angeles and operated today by the Autry Museum of the American West. 2015 10th Anniversary Festival June 5,6 and 7 Lummis Day-The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles, marked its 10th anniversary with an expansion to a three-day event at five Northeast L.A. sites on June 5, 6 and 7, featuring music, poetry, dance, art, theater and opera representing a rainbow of cultural traditions. Admission to all events was free. The 2015 program continued the Festival's multi-cultural tradition, with performances ranging from Italian opera to Mexican mariachi, Celtic to cumbia, country to jazz, middle eastern Ghawazi dancers,” hip-hoppers and folkloric dancers, poets and puppets. The three-day festival took place on a variety of sites: § Friday, June 5, Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, 4:00pm–8:00pm (in cooperation with the Boyle Heights Farmers Market). Music, dance, poetry and theater. § Saturday, June 6,