Echo Park Lake Lotus Festival is back!
This is very exciting for Echo Park… the Lotus Festival has returned!
The 34th Lotus Festival takes place this weekend, July 12 and 13. This year’s host country is the Philippines.
This is not only the first year since the park was closed and renovated, it’s been a few years since there have been actual Lotus flowers blossoming at the lake. There will also be the return of the Dragon Boat races, as well as some delicious food, entertainment, performances, music and dancing.
To kick off the festivities, Council District 13 is hosting Echo Park Night on Friday, July 11 with a film screening and live music. Picnic baskets and blankets encouraged!
Opening ceremony for the festival starts at noon on Saturday, July 12. Check back on this post for schedule updates as we get them!
UPDATE: Lotus Festival Schedule after the jump!
Saturday
11:45a
Immortals Lion Dance Troupe
12:00p
Opening Ceremony
The Republic of the Philippines – Consulate General of the Philippines in Los Angeles
2:00p
Pacific Asian Club
Dance: Graceful, Powerful, and Skilled
2:30p
Na Kapa Ku Hula Halau Kula Nui ‘O Kaleponi
Island Cultural Dances – Hawaii the 50th State
3:15p
Knights Martial Arts
Martial Arts Forms, Self Defense Techniques, & Weapons Demonstration
3:45p
Clear Cosmos – Art Studio
Chinese Classical Dance: Glory Reborn
3:55p
Sharp Three
Musical “Wakonyosai”, Asian and Western jazz-styles with progressive twists and classical reflections
4:25p
Haribol Healing Dance & Sacred Sounds Troupe
Dance: Meditative, Strength, Balance, and Harmony
4:55p
LA Skyline
Dance: Drill Team 1920’s Routine
5:10p
Kawalea Polynesian Dance
Dance: Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan, and New Zealand
5:40p
Mantra Band
Music: Healing, Stress Releasing, Ancient Sacred Sounds
6:10p
Northern Shaolin Kung Fu Association
Chinese Lion & Dragon Dance, plus Kung Fu & Weapons Demonstration
6:40p
The Bigrough
Music: Rock
7:10p
Glastonbury Tor
Music: Soothing, Vivid, Artistic, & Conceptual
7:40p
Elson and the Soul Barkada
Music: 9-piece Soul, Funk, R&B
8:10p
On Time
Music: Latin Jazz & Rock
Sunday
12:00p
Just Friends Jazz
Music: Modern, Straight-Ahead Jazz
1:00p
Muay Thai School USA
Martial Arts Demonstration
1:30p
SIPA Crew
Dance: Hip-Hop
1:45p
Bulldawgs Blues Band
Music: Electric Blues & Blues Rock
2:30p
Tani & Students from LA RAP
Dance: Several Asian Cultures – Indian, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, & Korean
3:00p
Shaolin Temple Kung Fu School
Chinese Martial Arts & Lion Dance
3:30p
Spirit Soul & Friends – A Musical Peace Troupe
Music: World Music featuring Live Instruments, Dancing, and Yoga
4:00p
Hula O Hoaloha
Dance: Traditional Hawaiian Hula
4:30p
Bitter Party (Ku Pai Duei)
Music: “Ghost Pop”
5:00p
Ho’aloha Polynesian Dancers
Dance: Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Maori
5:30p
Ku’uipo ‘O Hula
Dance: “Sweethearts of Hula” – Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Maori
6:00p
Bangla Middle School
Music: Harmonium, Tabla, Sitar
6:30p
Mime By Huda
Dance: Neo Mime and Movement Performance
6:45p
Sami Khan
Music: Singer-Songwriter
7:30p
Double Dosage
Music: Hip-Hop & Rap Duo
Valuable information. Fortunate me I discovered your website unintentionally, and I am surprised why this coincidence didn’t came about in advance!
I bookmarked it.
Excellent post. Keep writing such kind of info on your blog.
Im really impressed by your blog.
Hey there, You have performed a fantastic job. I’ll definitely digg it and for my
part suggest to my friends. I am confident they will be benefited from this
site.
If some one desires expert view about blogging then i recommend him/her
to pay a visit this website, Keep up the nice job.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your info, but great topic.
I needs to spend some time learning more or understanding more.
Thanks for magnificent information I was looking for this information for my mission.
I constantly emailed this weblog post page to all my associates, because
if like to read it next my friends will too.
I visited various blogs but the audio quality for audio songs present at this site is actually excellent.
I have read so many content on the topic of the blogger
lovers however this post is actually a pleasant post, keep it up.
Very good article. I definitely appreciate this website.
Keep writing!
I think this is among the most significant info for me.
And i am glad reading your article. But wanna remark on few
general things, The website style is wonderful, the articles is really great : D.
Good job, cheers
Truly when someone doesn’t know after that its up to other people that they
will assist, so here it occurs.
First off I would like to say excellent blog!
I had a quick question that I’d like to ask if you do not mind.
I was interested to find out how you center yourself
and clear your head before writing. I have had a hard time clearing my thoughts in getting my thoughts
out. I do take pleasure in writing but it just seems like the first
10 to 15 minutes are generally wasted simply just trying to figure out how to
begin. Any suggestions or tips? Kudos!
If you wish for to take much from this piece of writing then you have to
apply these strategies to your won blog.
Hello there! Would you mind if I share your blog with my myspace group?
There’s a lot of people that I think would really appreciate your content.
Please let me know. Thank you
What’s up, just wanted to tell you, I enjoyed this
article. It was helpful. Keep on posting!
Howdy! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering which blog
platform are you using for this website?
I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve had issues with hackers and I’m looking at alternatives for another platform.
I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
This blog was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something that helped me. Thanks!
Hey just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your content seem to
be running off the screen in Internet explorer. I’m not sure if this is a
formatting issue or something to do with browser compatibility
but I thought I’d post to let you know. The style and design look great though!
Hope you get the problem resolved soon. Thanks
Hello there, You’ve done an incredible job. I’ll certainly digg it
and personally recommend to my friends. I am confident they’ll be benefited from this website.
WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for ig
Nice post. I learn something new and challenging on blogs I stumbleupon on a daily basis.
It’s always helpful to read through articles from other
writers and practice a little something from other sites.
I loved as much as you will receive carried out right here.
The sketch is attractive, your authored subject matter stylish.
nonetheless, you command get got an shakiness over that you wish be delivering the following.
unwell unquestionably come more formerly again as exactly the
same nearly a lot often inside case you shield this increase.
My spouse and I absolutely love your blog and find the majority
of your post’s to be just what I’m looking for.
Does one offer guest writers to write content for you? I wouldn’t mind creating a post or elaborating
on a few of the subjects you write in relation to here.
Again, awesome weblog!
I am really grateful to the owner of this site who has shared this fantastic
piece of writing at at this time.
Hi there, all is going nicely here and ofcourse every one is sharing data,
that’s really good, keep up writing.
I am extremely impressed with your writing skills as well as with the layout on your weblog.
Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself?
Anyway keep up the nice quality writing, it is rare to see a great blog like this one today.
Monetary advisors business is individuals enterprise.
It’s difficult to find experienced people in this particular subject, but you seem like you know what you’re
talking about! Thanks
Hey I know this is off topic but I was wondering if you knew of any widgets I could
add to my blog that automatically tweet my newest twitter updates.
I’ve been looking for a plug-in like this for quite some time and was hoping maybe you would have some experience with something like this.
Please let me know if you run into anything. I truly enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to
your new updates.
My developer is trying to persuade me to move to .net from PHP.
I have always disliked the idea because of the costs. But he’s
tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on a number of websites for about a year and am anxious about switching to another platform.
I have heard very good things about blogengine.net.
Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress
posts into it? Any kind of help would be really appreciated!
I’m amazed, I have to admit. Rarely do I encounter a
blog that’s both equally educative and amusing, and let me
tell you, you’ve hit the nail on the head.
The problem is something which not enough folks are speaking intelligently about.
Now i’m very happy that I found this during my hunt for something regarding this.
If you are going for finest contents like I do, just go to see this web site everyday as it presents feature contents, thanks
Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot
of spam remarks? If so how do you prevent it,
any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad
so any support is very much appreciated.
What’s up everyone, it’s my first visit at this web site, and post is really fruitful in favor
of me, keep up posting these posts.
This site was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have
found something that helped me. Thanks!
Excellent pieces. Keep posting such kind of info on your blog.
Im really impressed by it.
Hi there, You have performed an excellent job. I’ll definitely digg it and in my view suggest to
my friends. I’m confident they will be benefited from this site.
Aw, this was an extremely nice post. Taking a
few minutes and actual effort to generate a great article… but what
can I say… I procrastinate a lot and never manage to get
nearly anything done.
Hello! Would you mind if I share your blog with my facebook group?
There’s a lot of folks that I think would really enjoy your content.
Please let me know. Thank you
I always spent my half an hour to read this website’s
posts all the time along with a cup of coffee.
Now I am ready to do my breakfast, when having my breakfast coming yet again to read other news.
hey there and thank you for your info – I have certainly picked up anything new from right here.
I did however expertise a few technical issues using this site, as I experienced to reload the web
site lots of times previous to I could get it to load properly.
I had been wondering if your web host is OK? Not that I’m complaining, but
sluggish loading instances times will sometimes affect
your placement in google and can damage your
high quality score if ads and marketing with Adwords.
Anyway I’m adding this RSS to my email and could look out for a lot more of
your respective interesting content. Make sure you update this again very soon.
Why viewers still use to read news papers when in this technological
globe the whole thing is existing on net?
Woah! I’m really digging the template/theme of this site.
It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s hard to get that “perfect balance” between superb usability and appearance.
I must say you’ve done a amazing job with this.
In addition, the blog loads super quick for me on Chrome.
Superb Blog!
It’s an awesome piece of writing for all the internet people;
they will take advantage from it I am sure.
Hi! I could have sworn I’ve visited this site before but after going
through a few of the posts I realized it’s new to me. Anyhow, I’m certainly pleased I stumbled upon it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back frequently!
I always spent my half an hour to read this website’s articles or
reviews daily along with a mug of coffee.
Appreciating the time and effort you put into your site and detailed information you
present. It’s great to come across a blog every
once in a while that isn’t the same unwanted
rehashed information. Great read! I’ve saved your site and I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google account.
i require some suggestions for a blog site. i currently do rhymes and also surveys on it but i wan na discuss something.
Fantastic site. Plenty of useful information here.
I am sending it to a few pals ans also sharing in delicious.
And naturally, thank you in your sweat!
Greetings I am so grateful I found your blog page,
I really found you by accident, while I was
browsing on Bing for something else, Anyhow I am here now and
would just like to say cheers for a marvelous post
and a all round exciting blog (I also love the theme/design),
I don’t have time to look over it all at the
moment but I have saved it and also added your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be
back to read more, Please do keep up the excellent jo.
I visited multiple blogs but the audio feature for audio songs present at this web page is
genuinely fabulous.