Great Park

We're excited to welcome fans to the U.S. Men's National Team Community Training Session Monday, June 8, at the Great Park Championship Soccer Stadium, but we want to be clear: a valid, claimed ticket is required for entry into the event.

If you do not have a ticket, please do not come to the park Monday hoping to watch practice, see players or training activities, meet players or obtain autographs, or access the stadium or event area.

Please note that ticket screenshots will not be accepted. Tickets cannot be sold, purchased, transferred, or redistributed. Any tickets offered for sale or transfer through another platform or individual are not valid and will be voided.

Don't get any ideas ... drones will not be allowed in the park either. The FAA has designated the Great Park as a Temporary Restricted Area for drones from June 1–July 20.

This event will bring increased traffic to the area surrounding the Great Park Monday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you will be traveling through the area, please allow additional time to reach your destination. You can opt in to receive traffic-related updates by texting GREATPARK to 888777. The system will only be used to communicate critical information. Standard text messaging rates apply.

Honored to be part of the lineup at GAME! Basketball and Contemporary, on view at Great Park Gallery in Irvine, California. The exhibition sits at the intersection of basketball and art, two things that, when done right, build the same thing: community. It anchors around the resurfacing of the Great Park’s four courts, featuring original work by California artist Katy Ann Gilmore. It brings together a selection of contemporary artists from the book Common Practice: Basketball and Contemporary Art alongside a survey of Project Backboard’s court renovations, domestic and international.

The show also marks ten years of Project Backboard. A decade. I started collaborating with them in 2014, when they used photographs from my book Blacktop Memento, fragments of erosion on two backboards at Lester Community Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Courts as canvases. Community spaces as galleries. That was the idea then, and it still is. Today, prints from that same series hang on the walls alongside the work of artists, volunteers, and friends who poured themselves into this non-profit and into basketball’s culture. Proud to be in that room. .couliau

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For more information, visit cityofirvine.gov/arts.


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Thank you to all the exhibiting artists for contributing:
Adrian Kay Wong
Andrea Bergart
Anthony Rianda
Boyang Hou
Brian Lotti
Cheryl Pope
Diego Gaeta
Joseph Sherman
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Kadir Nelson
Katy Ann Gilmore
Madame Fraankie
Madjeen Isaac
Paul Pfeiffer
Paula Henderson
RaMell Ross
Rebekah Andrade
Reuben Gordon
Todd Hebert
Tyrrell Winston

A photograph the size of a building.
A camera the size of an airplane hangar.
A moment in Irvine history captured on an unprecedented scale.

“20 Years Later: The Great Picture” explores the creation of the world’s largest photograph, made in 2006 on the grounds of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station — now the Great Park. The exhibition highlights the process, experimentation, and collaboration behind this monumental project by The Legacy Project.

Join us for the opening reception Thursday, June 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Irvine City Hall.

Plan your visit and learn more at cityofirvine.gov/artatcityhall.

Image Credit: The Legacy Project

🔨We're a step closer to providing new routes between the Great Park and the Spectrum area!

This week at the site, crews are setting temporary structures to support forms necessary to pour the concrete deck of the Marine Way box later this month. The box will form a new rail undercrossing at Marine Way.

Once complete, the project will enhance safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, support walking and biking with new connections, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by cutting down on vehicle trips.

Learn more, read FAQs, and view photo renderings at cityofirvine.org/marineway.