Saturday the 29th is a busy ass day for the arts in Pedro
The big fish of art events is the 1st annual Port of Los Angeles Art on the Waterfront festival. The Port is turning over the old Pasha Terminal at 1st and Harbor, and the Promenade along it, to a festival run by Angels Gate Cultural Center and the San Pedro Art Association. I'm way too busy actually getting ready for the thing to write elegant prose about it, but it's a big step forward in the Port's support of the arts in San Pedro, so check it out. Obligitory informative PR text below & lots more images of the container installations at the AGCC blog.
WHEN
Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WHERE
Port of Los Angeles
Harbor Boulevard between Santa Cruz and 3rd Streets, San Pedro
COSTS
everything but the chow and any art you'd like to buy from the artists is free-as-in-beer.
Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WHERE
Port of Los Angeles
Harbor Boulevard between Santa Cruz and 3rd Streets, San Pedro
COSTS
everything but the chow and any art you'd like to buy from the artists is free-as-in-beer.
ACTIVITIES
- Six commissioned art installations in 20-foot cargo containers
Artists Commissioned for Art on the Waterfront 2006:- Edith Abeyta
- Michael Dee
- Adrian de la Peña
- Christine Finley & Tracy Howarth
- Danial Nord & Fran Siegel
- Ian Song & Jon Nakamura
- Edith Abeyta
- 30 artist booth exhibitions
- Live stage featuring cultural dancing groups
- Skateboarding demos organized by the Wicked Wahines
- Artist-lead children's activities
- Chalk artists
Angels Gate Cultural Center
San Pedro Art Association
Port of Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department
Los Angeles City Recreation & Parks Department
Now onto the obligatory Walled City pimping. Sure, there's a lot to see at the Art on the Waterfront festival, but you'd be a stone cold fool to miss your chance to see new works from Eric Medine. Medine makes awesome sculptures using a cauldron of Google Maps searches, cad designs taken from the results of those searches and a rapid prototyping machine to instantiate those designs into the real world. Want to know where "The Place that is 'Inescapable" is? Come down for the opening of Floating Dragon on Saturday, 7-10 PM.Also - since you're in the area anyways... You might want to catch new Pedran Tom Hubbert at his new studio on 6th Street. Tom's a printmaker who left Long Beach to join us on our merry ark here in Pedro, and he's going to be doing a bunch of demos in the coming months. This Saturday, from 1-4 PM, he will be doing a monotype demo in his studio at 317 West 6th Street.
9 Comments:
Ever notice how they (you know, they) always schedule, like, three things you want to do on the exact same day? Miles and miles apart?
This art thing...the LA Times book festival...the planning meeting at the Brown Building. Anybody got a three-sided coin I can borrow?
Speaking of planning. Not to threadjack, but I just wanted to say something real quick about Jane Jacobs, the urbanist author who died today at age 89. Her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a scathing critique of what she called the "solemn nonsense" of 20th century urban planning dogma, is invariably described as influential or even seminal. She would have been, and was, among the first to disagree with that assessment; her ideas about the dangers of urban "renewal," bulldozing of old neighborhoods, massive highway construction, highrise towers surrounded by useless "open space," strict separation of uses, and suburban sprawl were pretty much ignored until very recently.
The Death and Life is still read today not because it changed the course of urban planning, but because it mostly didn't--and most of her dire predictions about the results came true. Look at the aftermath of the Beacon Street massacre. The book also offers the most eloquent defense of the "chaos" (actually a highly complex form of order) of city life that you're ever likely to read anywhere.
So when you go down to William's Bookstore to get your copy of the Reggie book--YES, THERE REALLY IS ONE--ask them to order you a copy of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. You'll thank yourself. Out loud, even!
I know - There are at least six or seven things going on in LA this weekend. Getting an audience this weekend is gonna be damn competitive.
I'm familiar with the book, but I haven't read it. Next time I'm on an urban planning jag, I'll trow it on my list.
Cool event, I just may do the 2 hour drive to get there.
How'dja get that picture in your comment?
Today's Jane Jacobs obituary in the LA Times was very good and seems to have been written by somebody who actually understands what Jacobs was talking about (and possibly has even read the books). Just in case anybody out there who wasn't already a fan was interested in learning more.
You could also check out this brief intro.
SP's a small town, so you can be a part of it all on Saturday (except for the downtown book fest, but save those gas $$$s as authors usually say it best in hard copy anyway). And let us not forget to mention the reception for "Floating Dragon" at 7pm, 309 W. 7th St, which promises a conflation of maps, Google-uppin', obscure questions about places, and architectural chaos (i'm intrigued).
But...but...I've already got my tickets to the Book Festival (which is at UCLA, not downtown). And best of all, none of the panels this year will be moderated by the criminally pretentious gasbag Steve Wasserman.
And it's always full of cute girls who read books, some of whom are even under 75 years of age!
IMBG, you can add a pic to your Blogger profile (if you have one.)
Blogger profile? Blogger profile? What do I look like, some Internet nerd?
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