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In 2020, in celebration of Octavia E. Butler’s birthday, the Octavia Lab began making coloring pages to celebrate lesser-known heroes in California. The Lab's mission was "to bring joy to our communities by celebrating and amplifying unheard voices." In 2021, the Octavia Lab released a follow-up edition to the popular coloring book, both of which BEST Friends of LAPL helped to publish.
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This family-friendly coloring book celebrates fifteen of Los Angeles’s forgotten heroes through coloring pages, biographies, location descriptions, and activities. Its thirty-four pages give readers—whether they are young or old, L.A. history buffs or people just starting to learn about the city—a fun and interactive way to explore.
Our celebrated heroes and locations are:
J. L. Edmonds, Los Angeles City Hall
Yiu Hai Seto Quon, Los Angeles’s Chinatown
Miriam Matthews, Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library
Luisa Moreno, Great Wall of Los Angeles
Gabriel Avedis Injejikian, Holy Martyrs Ferrahian School
Barbara Ann Drake, Tongva Living History Garden
Patricia Era Bath, Powell Library, UCLA
Hashem Ahmad Alshilleh, Wadi-e-Hussain Cemetery
Julia Bogany, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Mark Kostopoulos, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center
Rosary Celaya Castro-Olega, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Edward Howard, Skid Row City Limit Mural
Ignacio “Nacho” Nava Jr., La Cita
Jessica Orozco, California Botanic Garden, and
Octavia E. Butler, Los Angeles Central Library.
Cover art created by Octavia Lab and colored by Tina Lernø.
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