Culture Bearer Supper Club
A storytelling and art immersion experience and dinner designed to ignite conversation and deepen cultural connection.
The Culture Bearer’s Supper Club is a quarterly, invitation-only talk story experience and dinner designed to ignite conversation, deepen cultural connection, and inspire bold living—right here in coastal Southern California.
Hosted at the oceanfront Hilton Garden Inn, Dana Point, each gathering welcomes an unforgettable evening of storytelling, cuisine, art, and connection. Funds raised from this experience goes toward funding the Doheny State Beach Foundation.
Each dinner features 1-3 handpicked storytellers from across sectors—arts, business, literature, history, sports, film, and community—who share personal, and often, untold stories tied to a central, timely theme. The evening also includes dinner and an interactive art installation that corresponds to the theme.
Rootedness: How Place, Culture, and Story Ground Us in Who We Are
In a region where land and ocean hold deep history and meaning, this evening invites us to reflect on belonging, change, and the ties that connect us across generations. Together, stories invite us to consider how we ground ourselves—in community, in land, in tradition, and in possibility.
Storytelling + Art
Art Root Installation: In addition to this conversation, participants will be invited to participate in a rooting ritual. The installation features a large sculptural root system, a living wallpiece symbolizing the unseen networks of memory, culture, and belonging that hold us steady. Throughout the evening, guests are invited to inscribe and attach their own inherited stories, traditions, and teachings to its branches, building a collective testament to what keeps us rooted
Featured Speakers
The Culture Bearer’s Supper Club is being developed as a signature donor cultivation and talk story platform for the Doheny State Beach Foundation, creating long-term philanthropic momentum for cultural and environmental preservation efforts.
Lazaro Arvizu Jr. is an Indigenous artist, educator, and musician.
Born and raised in The Los Angeles basin, he is knowledgeable of the landscape and history of the first people. Lazaro has worked for over 20 years facilitating creative and meaningful learning experiences to people of all ages and walks of life in many venues.
Michaëla Mohrmann is a Franco-Peruvian American curator and art historian. She holds a BA in art history from Harvard University and a PhD from Columbia University, where she studied modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on Latin American and Latinx art. Since 2022, she has been assistant curator at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Prior to this, she worked as associate curatorial director at Pace Gallery and held curatorial fellowships at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and National Museum of Korea. Her writing has appeared in Arftorum, ArtMargins, ArtAsiaPacific, and publications for The Jewish Museum, Langson Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Kacie Lyn Martinez is an artist whose multimedia landscapes, public art installations, and workshops foster homecoming, collective vulnerability, and shared hope
Featured Artist
Host
Jim Serpa obtained his Associate of Science and Bachelor’s degrees from Grossmont College and SDSU respectively along with further education from obtained from institutions such as Scripps institute of Oceanography, Cal State Long Beach, Monterey Community College, Sea World, San Diego Natural History Museum and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. He worked with California State Parks for over 25 years finishing up with his last thirteen years as the Supervising Ranger at Doheny. Prior to working for State Parks for seven years he assisted in teaching students at San Diego State University in the Recreation Department, was a river guide and lead backpacking trips into Mexico.
- 25300 Dana Point Harbor Drive, Dana Point, CA 92629
- info@dohenystatebeach.org