Tonight is a very delicious meeting hosted by the Echo Park Improvement Association (which I am a member of) – it’s the annual potluck!
Bring your favorite dish and join us at Barlow Hospital in Williams Hall, 2000 Stadium Way at 7:00 pm tonight!
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Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 2, 2011) is the 6th annual Echo Park National Night Out. The theme: “Our Community, Our Future, The Power of Choices.” The purpose: To provide a safe community event with the goal of preventing drugs and crime in our neighborhood. From the EP National Night Out website:
The National Night Out is a program promoting neighborhood spirit and police-community partnership in our goal for a safer nation. The annual National Night Out (NNO) event, is unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TOWN WATCH (NATW). The purpose is to promote and strengthen community involvement, partnership with police and community, it is a positive tool used to enchance the quality of life, for a crime and drug free town.
Stop by and say hello from 5:00 – 8:00 pm in the Walgreens parking lot located at 1625 W. Sunset Blvd.
Free entrance, hot dogs, crafts and activities for kids and adults, and free give-aways. There will also be free eye examinations, chart reading and checkup for Glaucoma, along with check-ups for blood pressure, diabetes check-up and oxygen.
Master of Ceremony is Leonel Ledezma, which special appearances and speakers by:
Captain Williams Murphy from Northeast Police Division, Senior Lead Officer Bobby Hill from Northeast Police Station, the office of City Council President and Member Eric Garcetti of District 13, Alana Yanez (deputy for the office of Senator Kevin de Leon), District 1 City Council Member Ed Reyes, and Mitchell Frank (Echo Park Chamber of Commerce President and Owner of the Echo/Echoplex Club, El Prado, and Malo).
Visit the Echo Park National Night Out website for details on participating booths, sponsors, and how to get involved.
Cat burrito.
This is the only event you’ll ever have to go to where admission requires that you’re holding a burrito.
Tonight at The Machine Project – Burritos n Beats (and not the other way around) starting at 8:00 pm in Echo Park.
Since LA is the city of burritos (remember this article?) bring a burrito from one of the many establishments just around the corner (El Flamin’ Taco, Taco Zone, Tacos Arizas, Burrito King, whatever floats your boat) and enjoy “cumbia, Nortec & LA-centric beats” from Julián of Culture Remixed.
And, just to drive this point home (from the event notice): Note: to be admitted to this event you must bring a burrito. Anyone with hamburgers or sandwiches will be turned away at the door.
Machine Project is located at 1200 D North Alvarado.
No lotus flowers in the lake this year, but they are for sale to take home!
We headed down to Echo Park Lake early to get ahold of the Lotus Festival schedule, which is available to anyone at the information booth in the middle of the festival booths. After the jump: Saturday’s schedule and parking tips. You can read about the history of the Lotus Festival by clicking here.
Opening ceremony started at noon, but here’s the rest of the schedule (Sunday’s schedule will be available tomorrow):
2:00 pm: The Muay Thai School
Thai Boxing Demo
2:30 pm: Na Kapa Ku Hual Halau Kula Nui ‘O Kaleponi
Hawaiian and Polynesian music and dance
3:00 pm: Pacific Asian Club
Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Filipino Dances
3:30 pm: Wat Thai Temple of Los Angeles
Thai Rabam Dravat dance Mon style Read more
Another exciting Saturday for Echo Park tomorrow as our community hosts (unofficially, of course) the start of the World Naked Bike Ride. The idea isn’t to just flash Echo Park, downtown, Silver Lake, and the other communities the ride will take the brave bicycle riders through, but to demonstrate “the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against car culture.”
And this is, you guessed it, a world-wide event, not affiliated with similar concepts like CicLAvia, and brings some very creative folks out for the ride. To participate, you aren’t required to be naked – they’re just happy you’re helping spread the word that bicycling is much better than driving.
Yet the biggest question is, wouldn’t that be… uncomfortable? You know, riding naked? The wiki page has an answer for us:
Suprisingly, for both women and men, riding naked isn’t especially less comfortable than riding clothed. When riding with clothes on you’re often rubbing against the seams, so in some ways naked riding is comfier! Ride routes will often be chosen with less experienced cyclists in mind, so will avoid hills and be more leisurely in pace, increasing comfort.
I think I’ll pass, but it looks like it will be fun from the sidelines!
To join a ride, you have to sign up and contact the organizers directly. Check out the World Naked Bike Ride website for more details, and if you have young children and you’re concerned about the extra skin being exposed … maybe avoid the area where they’ll be gathering. Departure time is planned for 2:30 pm from Echo Park (click here for details).
There’s also a Facebook page for the Los Angeles ride, which you can check out here.
If you missed it last year, click here for a slideshow from last year’s bike ride via the LA Weekly.
For the week of Monday, May 16 through Sunday, May 22
Monday
Monday Night Residency: The Bixby Knolls, Tes Elations, LA Font, Queen Kwong, Harlan @ Echo
Brand X Presents LA Unheard, featuring: Airlines, Yoya @ Echoplex
Roses Jade Camellia (Goth Trannies), Penelope Edmund, David Liebe Hart Band, Dream Being @ Pehrspace
Stephen Kellogg, Tift Merritt @ Bootleg Theater
Tuesday
This Will Destroy You, Pure X, Sleepover @ Echo
Check Yo Ponytail 2 with Drop The Lime, Classixx, Mndr, Bosco Delrey, Samo Soundboy @ Echoplex
Cab 20, Moondog Orchestra, Them Howling Bones @ Lot 1 Cafe
The Death Set, Win Win, Hello Girls @ Bootleg Theater
Wednesday
Johnny Flynn & Sussex Wit, Caitlin Rose, James Mathe @ Echo
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Patrick Park, Sara Lov, Vinnie Fera, Swimming in Trees, Nostalghia @ Bootleg Theater
Thursday
Tommy Santee Klaws, Rachel Goodrich, Daniel Ahearn @ Echo
Cody The Band, Count Fleet, Future Dancing @ Lot 1 Cafe
Julie Cain @ Taix Lounge
Friday
Love Inks, Black Elephant, Sister Crayon @ Echo
Bearracuda – One Year Anniversary @ Echoplex
The Lonely Wild, Liz Pappademas, Doña Nicha, Coyote @ Lot 1 Cafe
Art Opening @ Pehrspace
Vicky Hill, Pete Fahey @ Taix Lounge
Saturday
Houses, The One Am Radio @ Ech0
Bootie LA Prom with DJ Paul V. and DJ Shyboy @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Rival Schools, Suedehead, Nations Afire @ Bootleg Theater
The Zermatts, Amanda Jo Williams, The Damn Sons @ Taix Lounge
Sunday
Grand Ole Echo @ Echo
Rhythm & Soul For Relief: Concert For Japan, Haiti & The World featuring: Dilated Peoples, Breakestra, Very Be Careful, Boogaloo Assasins, The Good Times Featuring Black Shakespeare, and more @ Echoplex
Part Time Punks – Krautrock Nite With Neu!, Can, La Dusseldorf cover bands @ Echo
Steve Earle (Reading) @ Bootleg Theater
Dunes (Mexican Summer), Turkks, Cold Showers (Mexican Summer), Night Control @ Bootleg Theater
Big Dick’s Final Show @ Dinner House M
Visit the venue website for more information on the cost and times of shows. This list may not represent all the musical events happening in Echo Park this week – feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time. New events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.
There’s a lot going on this weekend, like A LOT. The Echo Park PDA (Public Displays of Art) Art Walk and the Echo Park Shop Hop on Saturday, lots of Big Sunday events on Sunday, and the first annual Taste of the Eastside also on Sunday.We’ll try to make sense of it all in your following to-do list (of which there are MANY):
Friday:
EPCAP party:
Tonight is the opening party for the Echo Park Community Art Project. Bring your checkbook if you’d like to purchase some awesome artwork made by local high school students and artists, but don’t forget your dancing shoes. In the totally incredible backyard Origami Vinyl is curating the sounds, with DJs Chris Ziegler (LA Record), Mahssa Taghinia (Finders Keepers), Sean Stentz (Origami Vinyl), and Matt Eagleson (Origami Vinyl). See you at Sancho Gallery (1549 Sunset Blvd.) from 7-10:00 pm.
Saturday:
Echo Park PDA Art Walk
When: Saturday, May 14 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm
Where: Echo Park Ave. from Curran St to Sunset, and along Sunset to Alvarado. There’s a PDF map, click here to download.
What it is: A one day sidewalk celebration to connect, inspire, and create community through the arts. Local businesses, galleries, and neighbors of Echo Park are coming together to showcase art, music, performances, workshops, special promotions, and sidewalk chalk art. This is a FREE event, open to the public, for all ages.
Click here for a list of participating vendors, but there are some notable highlights:
Feeding Birds: 1825 Echo Park Ave.
The Eastsider LA is giving out screen-printed shopping bags, and Feeding Birds will be screen-printing your shirt (bring one in) with the “Echo Park” logo or “The Eastsider LA” logo for just $5.00 per shirt.
Music lineup includes: Mo Bel, Hayley Taylor, Soundmasons, Tinylittle, and LA Font
Giveaways, prizes, snacks, drinks, sales and much more going on at Feeding Birds! (PS: Creator of the Echo Park Art Walk, Heather, will be there and she was once a Feeding Birds intern!)
826LA and the Echo Park Time Travel Mart
They are unveiling a brand new interactive window display at 12:00 pm. David Barnes, the art director behind Of Montreal, will be reading from his new book, What’s Weird?, at 4:00 pm at 826LA.
REWIND The Recycled Electronics Store
Live music refreshments, door prizes & discounts all with a neighborhood vibe.
Tavin Boutique
On site machine knitting & spinning wheel, colorful organic knits by Kerry Regan, shear aplaca wool by Anna Schwartz, live piano music by Nathan Stein, and sales on merchandise. From 12:30-6:00 pm.
EPCAP Workshops
Free animation workshops led by Echo Park Film Center on Saturday from 2-5:00 pm
Interactive Exhibit Tours led by Negative Space Curation on Saturday from 1-4:00 pm
Echo Park Shop Hop
Participating businesses will be offering discounts throughout Saturday, including Masa, Two Boots, Origami Vinyl, Stories, and more!
Click here for the flyer!
Sunday:
Big Sunday with GEPENC:
The Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council is partnering with Big Sunday, parents and students of Logan Street Elementary School, along with neighbors and friends, for a day of service at Logan Street Elementary and neighborhood clean up in Echo Park.
The event is scheduled for Sunday, May 15th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
There will be a number of projects at Logan, including the painting of a mural, the building of vegetable gardens, the planting of flowers and landscaping.
Cleanup and garden boxes with Garcetti and friends:
Eric Garcetti’s office has partnered up with Assemblymember Gil Cedillo’s Office, Senator Kevin de Leon’s Office and Kaiser Permanente for some events on both Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers will building small boxed community gardens on Saturday, and delivering them on Sunday to some our neediest families, schools and organizations. They will also be leading a community clean up on Sunday, May 15th around Echo Park Lake.
The box construction project will be taking place Saturday, May 14th and the delivery of the boxes will be taking place Sunday, May 15th.
Meet at El Centro del Pueblo located at 1157 Lemoyne St. Both days will start promptly at 9:00 am and will wrap up at 12 noon. Lunch will be provided.
Taste of the Eastside
Lots of Echo Park restaurants participating in this event on Sunday from 1-5:00 pm at Barnsdall Art Park, located at 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Click here for the full story we published the other day!
EPCAP Workshops
Creative Writing with Contemporay Art with Lauren Strasnick (YA Fiction author) from 1-2:00 pm
Exploring Light and Photography with David Starkopf (official photographer for Mayor Villaraigosa) from 2-3:00 pm
I might be too young to remember when these came out (okay, perhaps I wasn’t born yet), but I’m not unfamiliar with the poster artwork David Edward Byrd – the artist who brought you the original Woodstock poster, the “Tommy” poster for The Who, The Rolling Stones, and many, many more.
Bedrock Studios here in Echo Park is hosting a 70th Birthday Art Show and reception for David Edward Byrd on Saturday, May 7, from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm.
Original works and artist-signed prints will be available at the event, from affordable to collectible ($10 prints, on up to priceless originals). They’ll also be including the artwork on the new Bedrock online store, launching after the event at www.bedrockla.com
Pins & Needles (the vintage pinball arcade next door) are also setting up a “playroom” of vintage rock-themed pinball arcade games. There will also be food and drink, live music, and online specials for the new store.
Bedrock Studios is located at 1623 N. Allesandro Street
For more information, please contact Michael Caldwell at 213-413-7625
This all ages, family dance party is open to everyone, and sounds like a lot of fun for families! According to the event announcement, “An LA venue will be transformed into a kid-friendly environment with a live DJ, dancing, face painting, scarves, hula hoops, bubbles and healthy snacks.”
Family Dance Party takes place on Saturday, February 19, 2011 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
The Echo Center will be hosting the event in the basement of the Echo Park United Methodist Church Building, located at 1226 N. Alvarado Blvd.
Cost is $20.00 per family (cash, check, or charge). No family will be turned away for lack of funds.
Click here to download the event flyer (in English and Spanish).
Learn more about The Echo Center by visiting the website: www.theechocenter.org
Ballard’s Artwork Framing and Gallery is hosting an art opening for artist Leland Bankowski titled “1/2 a Christ, 1/2 a V Meyerhold and 1/2 a Stray Dog.” I’m sure you can expect some libations, snacks, and awesome art. And what a great way to check out Ballard’s – because it is really awesome.
When: Saturday, February 12 from 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: Ballard’s Artwork Framing at 1568 W Sunset Blvd.
Feeding Birds is a cool place, not just because it’s in Echo Park and just down the street from us, but everything in the store is super cute and actually affordable. I’m looking forward to doing some Christmas shopping there along with collecting some trinkets to decorate our house.
They also host some cool events coming up in October, including:
Starting tomorrow (October 26) all sale clothing is $20 in celebration of their 100th week open.