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Arts & Events March 15, 2025 - 3:59 pm

Community engagement event to offer updates, welcome feedback on La Yarda tribute mural

by Lawrence Times

An upcoming event will invite people to learn about and share feedback on a new mural a Lawrence artist is creating in honor of the La Yarda community.

Arts & Events September 8, 2024 - 7:17 pm

Lawrence artist’s public works will honor La Yarda community

by Lawrence Times

Lawrence artist Javy Ortiz will soon create long-lasting original works to honor the people of La Yarda, a neighborhood of Mexican American railroad workers and their families that stood from 1920 through 1951 in East Lawrence.

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Arts & Events July 18, 2024 - 8:41 pm

Immersive art installation on La Yarda housing unit to open next month at Lawrence Arts Center

by Lawrence Times

An art installation reimagining a housing unit where La Yarda community members lived during the 1920s-50s in eastern Lawrence is nearing completion.

Maya Hodison / Lawrence Times
Lawrence news May 27, 2022 - 3:50 pm

Upcoming historic tours of La Yarda to highlight ‘incredible story’ of the Lawrence neighborhood

by Maya Hodison

The Lawrence Preservation Alliance’s upcoming “After La Yarda” historic walking tours will take tourgoers through the La Yarda neighborhood to learn about the past and present of its people.

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Arts & Events May 18, 2022 - 2:00 pm

Reimagining La Yarda: Digital art installation to re-create a room from the Lawrence neighborhood

by Lawrence Times

An immersive art experience called “Finding La Yarda” will re-create a room from the housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers in Lawrence from 1920-51.

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Arts & Events November 11, 2021 - 3:46 pm

Missed ‘La Yarda’ screenings? Here’s a chance to watch on your own time

by Lawrence Times

Good news for those who have missed out so far: the popular short documentary “Searching for La Yarda” is set for a virtual screening, and it will be available online for a while.

Arts & Events October 12, 2021 - 1:22 pm

Date set for third screening of ‘Searching for La Yarda’

by Lawrence Times

The short documentary film “Searching for La Yarda” will be screened for a third time soon.

Marlo Angell / Contributed Photo
Arts & Events October 4, 2021 - 11:22 am

A moment in Lawrence: Former residents of La Yarda and their descendants attend film screening

by Photos by Marlo Angell

Former residents of La Yarda, the East Lawrence housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers from 1920-51, and many of their descendants attended a screening of a film about the neighborhood Saturday evening.

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Arts & Events September 30, 2021 - 8:52 am

Lawrence Arts Center adds encore screening of ‘Searching for La Yarda’

by Lawrence Times

The Lawrence Arts Center has added a second screening of a short film documenting the story of La Yarda, the housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers from 1920-51 in East Lawrence.

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Arts & Events September 17, 2021 - 5:44 pm

‘Searching for La Yarda’ documentary to screen at Lawrence Arts Center in October

by Lawrence Times

A short film documenting the story of La Yarda, the housing unit built for Mexican-American railroad workers from 1920-51 in East Lawrence, is set to screen next month at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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