:: EARTH DAY SOUTH LA – SAT, APRIL 17, 11AM-6PM – please forward this information to anyone who may be interested
SOUTH LOS ANGELES GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE EARTHDAY AND TO EXPLORE THE THEME OF WATER
The 2nd Annual EARTH DAY SOUTH LOS ANGELES EVENT, Saturday April 17th 2010 from 11am to 6pm will be at Normandie Avenue Elementary School, 4505 S. Raymond Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90045. A growing movement in South Los Angeles area has serious momentum and is being expressed through the arts, workshops, and food culture.
Presented by CSU Inc, SOL Foundation and the Normandie Avenue Elementary School, EDSLA over a hundred artists will participate in performances and ceremonies of Music and Dance, Community Mural, Graph Art Pieces, Recycled Art Exhibit and Fashion Show, and an Art Sale. Local food will be showcased with recipe demos, food vendors and produce for sale. Information tables will showcase the work of our partners and other community organizations.
Earth Day South LA (EDSLA) will include performances by Aceyalone of Freestyle Fellowship, Mystic, La Santa Cecilia, Asklyn Atkins, 2Mex, Rifleman, Dyane P, Buyepongo, Caribbean Dynamics, LA Samba Kids and the Normandie Avenue Elementary School Student Orchestra. Dance features the World Famous LA Breakers, Just Wanna Step and Bharata Natyam. The event will begin with a gathering call from the Freedom Sounds Korean Drumming and an opening ceremony by Azteca Dancers. A featured project will be the Southern California Library’s Sounds of Justice presented by Jeremy Sole (KCRW) and Kaos Network Beat Cypher Collective.
Normandie Avenue Elementary will be beautified with live graffiti art by Cre8, Duce, EnkOne, and Jeyd curated in collaboration with I.C.U. Art and a Community Mural, Art Sale, Recycled Art Exhibit and Fashion Show curated in collaboration with Liliflor Collective. A Hip Hop Poetry Room will feature an Open-Mic and workshops from BessKepp, NHS Poetry Club and the Get Lit Players. A mini EDSLA Film Festival will show films that reflect the work for a sustainable community, for example, A Drop of Life and The Power of Community. Workshops include Composting, Fruit Tree Pruning, Yoga, Capoiera, Healing With Herbs, Son Jarocho Dance, Recycled Art, How to Start a Food Not Bombs Chapter, Bike Safety and Maintenance and African Drumming. Also on offer will be activities for kids and a local fruit pick.
“Beyond organic” local produce will be featured in cooking demos by chef Gino Campagna (star of Kitchen Kids on AOL.com), Chef Jason Michaud of Local, Sirena Pellarolo from East Side Café and Lisa Nunez Hancock and youth of U R What U Eat. Produce will be available for purchase at the South Central Farmers booth. Pure fruit smoothies, iced herbal/fruit teas, tamales and salads will be on sale.
Our Partners include Councilmembers Jan Perry and Bernard Parks, Bike Oven, City Year, Caracol Marketplace, Community Build, Eastside Café, Food Not Bombs, Hunger Action Los Angeles, Garden School Foundation, Hip Hop Association, I.C.U. Art, Joe Ellis Foundation, LA Conservation Corps, Kaos Network Beat Cypher Collective, Lilliflor Collective Studios, NAES Environmental Club, SOL Cooperative, South Central Farmers, TreePeople, USC Student Activists for a Beloved Community, Southern California Library, and WORKS USA.
We are proud to offer this high quality event in the community, FREE for the community. There is a suggested donation of $5+ to help cover the costs of the event, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds nor for not making a donation.
Together we envision an annual Earth Day event where community residents in South Central come together in a safe environment to have fun, celebrate our foods and cultures, learn about and participate in sustainable practices, and connect with each other and organizations working to make positive change in our neighborhood.
Media contact: Neelam Sharma
(310) 780 0426, Neelam@csuinc.org
Spanish Media Contact:
Denise Burger, (323) 627-4782, d.burgher@sbcglobal.net
Information: (323) 299 7075 or www.earthdaysouthla.org <https://www.earthdaysouthla.org>
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Earth Day South LA – RECYCLED ART EXHIBIT & FASHION SHOW – CALL FOR ARTISTS & FASHIONISTAS
EXHIBIT DATE: Saturday, April 17, 2010 (ONE DAY EXHIBIT)
WHERE: Normandie Avenue Elementary School, 4505 S. Raymond Ave., and LA CA 90037 (at the corner of Vernon and Normandie).
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: As soon as spaces fill (7 fashion designers and 10 visual artists) all mediums as long as work is made from recycled materials.
SELECTION PROCESS/CRITERIA: Looking for recycled art and fashionistas. Searching for inspiring new ways to reuse and recycle products. The criteria is to be creative, reinventive, imaginative, and to do it. Art Committee will make the final selection. Acceptance will be determined by quality, variety of artistic discipline, and appropriateness for Earth Day South LA. Explain to us what you plan to do.
*Accepted artists for One Day Exhibit and Live Show must be able to drop off artwork the day of the show or before (Place & Time TBA).
*Accepted Artist must be able to pick up art the same day.
*Artist may also submit for both exhibits and/or fashion show.
*Artist will also receive five free pounds of recycled materials donated by TRASH FOR TEACHING (check out www.trashforteaching.org <https://www.trashforteaching.org/> for instructions on open days.)
ACCEPTED GENRES: Painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media and prints. We will also accept outdoor installations. Group installations welcomed.
ARTIST(S) RESPONSIBILITIES: Artist must provide their own easel or display devices. 3-D or installation artist must provide their own stand and/or any other equipment necessary. Additional display or equipment is the artist responsibility. Artists will be responsible for transporting, installing, and displaying their work, on first come first served basis.
PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING:
* Submit 2-5 images representative of your work. Images must be 300dpi and JPEG image, no large images please.
* Please state the title, medium, size
* PLEASE INDICATE if it’s a sample or work in progress
* The committee reserves the right to reject any work that is not representative of EDSLA mission and/or not finished, with wet paint, or work considered unsafe. As you may know this is a community effort. *
CHECKLIST: Incomplete entries will not be processed
• Complete Contact Information (Name, Phone, Address, Email and Website)
• 2-5 images (your work sample)
• Short biography
DELIVER OR MAIL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO:
MAIL: Liliflor Collective PO BOX 33453, Los Angeles, Ca 90033
EMAIL: Liliflor@hotmail.com <https://webmail.solfoundation.org/src/compose.php?send_to=Liliflor%40hotmail.com>
Visit: www.EarthDaySouthLA.org <https://www.earthdaysouthla.org/> , www.csuinc.org <https://www.csuinc.org/> , and www.trashforteaching.org <https://www.trashforteaching.org/>
ALONGSIDE THE RECYCLED ART EXHIBIT & WORKSHOP THERE WILL ALSO BE A LARGER ART SALE WITH SIMILAR CRITIERA BUT NOT LIMITED TO RECYCLED ART. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION. Art Heals.
