About us
Welcome to Chinatown Los Angeles!
A dynamic community where creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship thrive! Our mission is to bring together creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses in a vibrant space where you can connect, collaborate, and bring your projects to life.
We believe in fostering meaningful relationships through sustainability, inclusiveness, shared resources, and collective care. Whether you're launching a new business, hosting an event, or working on a creative venture, our co-working space is designed to inspire and connect a diverse range of talents across various fields—from business and gastronomy to the arts and beyond.
This year, we’re excited to expand our reach and host more events with other businesses and organizations throughout Chinatown, beyond the walls of Studious Coworking. Join us as we grow, share, and build a strong, supportive community together!
Upcoming events
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Spectacles AR Biz Dev Meetup
Studious Coworking Space, 418 Bamboo Ln A, Los Angeles, CA, USOn May 21st, join the next generation of AR developers and engineers working on the Snap Inc. Spectacles.
The Spectacles are the first true Augmented Reality glasses ever produced and we are giving special demonstrations for business owners and XR developers. From 5:30p to 8:30p we will have enterprise and game studios who have been publishing applications for the last 18 months in preparation for the consumer release of the glasses in 2026.
Please fill out the google form and bring your most creative ideas for your business. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sign up link:
https://forms.gle/TmRjhAxnnEFzQv1j6Video of a game demo:
https://youtu.be/yKnRPi6FvP8Parking info: There is usually street parking or $5 parking in lots nearby
7 attendees- $10.00
Upgrade Your Confidence. Elevate Your Life.
Studious Coworking Space, 418 Bamboo Ln A, Los Angeles, CA, USUpgrade Your Confidence. Elevate Your Life.
Join Certified Life Breakthrough Coach Shakila Stewart for a transformational presentation designed to help artists and creatives step fully into their power.
In this experience, you will learn practical techniques from her signature framework on how to:
• Command every room you enter with confidence and presence
• Clearly and authentically speak about your creative work
• Embody your vision and position your gifts for impact and influence.
This session will empower you to move beyond simply creating — and begin leading with your identity, voice, and purpose.Agenda:
10 am - Check-in and socialize
10:30 am - Speaker presentation begins
11:15 am - Q&A and network
12 pm - Wrap upAbout the Speaker:
Shakila Stewart is a Certified Life Breakthrough Coach, leadership strategist, and founder of the confidence movement Chin Up! You Got This!™. With roots in modeling, musical theater, and arts education, she helps artists and visionaries develop the confidence, presence, and leadership voice needed to bring their work to life in powerful ways.
Through her signature Posture, Presence, and Personality™ framework, Shakila equips creatives with practical tools to command the room, clearly communicate their artistic vision, and position their gifts for influence and opportunity in today’s evolving creative economy.
She is passionate about helping artists move beyond self-doubt and step fully into their identity as leaders, innovators, and cultural change-makers. Her work has been seen on The Steve Harvey Show, ABC's Windy City Live and Black Enterprise.
To learn more about Shakila Stewart visit: www.shakilastewart.comBy attending this event, you'll agree to our Code of Conduct. Our Code of Conduct is under the Content Strategy Los Angeles' Meetup About section.
This event is donation-based with a suggested donation of $10. All proceeds go to Studious Coworking Space for allowing us to use their space.For those interested in LavaCon 2026:
Register for The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference using the referral code CSLA for $100 off in-person tuition: https://lavacon.org2 attendees 
Palabras Literary Salon (May 2026 edition)
Studious Coworking Space, 418 Bamboo Ln A, Los Angeles, CA, USPalabras Literary Salon celebrates BIPOC poets + writers for intercultural community building.
Come enjoy an afternoon with Palabras Literary Salon, a BIPOC-centered literary community event with host Jen Cheng in Chinatown Los Angeles.
Our May edition features acclaimed writer Xuan Juliana Wang to feature her book HOME REMEDIES, and other writing. Our event has a guest readers circle, a curated invited list of diverse BIPOC poets, writers, playwrights, and creatives to read 3-minutes of writing to celebrate this salon's theme of "lust." All are welcome to attend - especially bring your allies and others curious to hear BIPOC voices.More about the theme:
"Lust" can evoke yearning, confusion, and unrequited love.
Our guest readers circle includes award-winning poets and writers in addition to emerging artists: Jia-Rui Cook, Pallavi Dhawan, Jen Cheng, Jose Enrique Medina, and others TBA. Light reception is provided.- This salon series has been around for 4+ years and is volunteer-run + grassroots-driven. If each attendee donated $10 or more, we could cover our costs. We need everyone to pitch in on the honor system. If you can afford more, we would would appreciate your donation to help support other community members. We believe in accessibility, so if you need a scholarship ticket, please privately email the host (JenCvoice@gmail.com) with the subject header "scholarship."
- Please kindly help us with your early RSVP here to attend and join in the facilitated discussion. Previous events have sold out so please join the waitlist if the RSVPs are full - people do cancel! We are asking for RSVPs for priority entry due to limited capacity.
- Everyone is welcome. Drop-ins are welcome.
- Please arrive by 2:45pm as we would like to start at 3pm and finish by 4:30pm to have time for post event mingling, community conversation, and reception.
- Please budget for time to get your street parking in the neighborhood. There is free parking if you take the time to walk several blocks. There is a $5 parking lot across the street on Broadway at Mandarin Plaza and other neighborhood lots.
We are glad to have you celebrate with us on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 3pm at Studious Coworking in Chinatown (418 Bamboo Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90012).
More about Palabras Literary Salon
With a mission to create intercultural community building, Jen Cheng founded Palabras Literary Salon , inspired by our elders of civil rights consciousness raising and Maya Angelou's salons in the Harlem Renaissance. As a facilitator, Jen Cheng, brings home-cooking and light snacks to the event as we build bridges by breaking bread together. We sit in a non-heirarchical circle, without a stage. This is not an open-mic. Talk-story and witnessing are ways we can build better understanding of our humanity. If you are interested in being invited as a guest reader, please attend a salon to see if this format is a fit for your writing. Note: This event is an independent project and not affiliated with Jen's role with the City of West Hollywood. More about the salon on Jen's website: www.jencvoice.com/palabrasMore about our featured writer
XUAN JULIANA WANG is the author of the story collection Home Remedies which was published in 2019 by Hogarth in the U.S. and Atlantic in the U.K.
Her stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Freemans, Narrative, The Cut, Gulfcoast, and The Pushcart Prize and The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. She is a fiction editor at Fence.
Wang received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, and LMCC Workspace. She currently teaches creative writing at UCLA. Find Juliana's social media @boyandgirlaffair.## ===
Graphic: @JenCvoice
Exterior photo is from July 2024 edition of Palabras Literary Salon featuring Sonia Guiñansaca (Nostalgia and Borders). Event graphics by Jen Cheng. Interior photo is from January 2024 edition of Palabras Literary Salon featuring Cassandra Lane (We Are Bridges).6 attendees
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