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Re-Imagining the Arts in Long Beach – A Community Television Special

The Creativity Network, in partnership with the Museum of Latin American Art, is presenting a first ever Community Television Special and Town Hall Meeting, Re-Imagining the Arts in Long Beach on Saturday, November 3rd, from 2 – 4 pm. Produced by Really Big Boom Productions in association with Charter Communications, the goals of this two [...]

2nd District Community Forum on Homelessness

Please attend the 2nd District Forum focused on The 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness Wednesday, November 15 6:00-8:00 PM Bixby Park 130 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach The 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness has developed a cohesive series of plans to end homelessness in Long Beach. For the past year and a half, 10-year plan subcommittees [...]

Pic from Homeland Meeting

The Press Telegram covered the meeting between Phil Hester, Director of the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, and the community served by the Homeland Cultural Center. Orlando Greenhill, who teaches an improvised music class at the center, speaks passionately about the impact Zoot Velasco has had on every person at the center. I’m not sure, [...]

Tattoo Art in the East Village? Voice Your Thoughts!

Aleks Figuroa has an admirable goal: To bring an ancient art form to the East Village Arts District. Once viewed as low-brow and unsavory, tattoo art has become part of the zeitgeist, part of popular culture, and has developed a decidedly upscale clientele. Like many Cities, Long Beach has rather strict laws that restrict tattoo [...]

Cultural Master Plan Advocacy Forum Results

As you may already know, a series of forums were held recently to explore the challenges, opportunities, and priorities facing the creative community in Long Beach. These forums arose from a series of informal mixers started by the Creativity Network which was co-founded by Arts Council Executive Board member Antonio Pedro Ruiz. These mixers brought [...]

What is Arts Advocacy?

by Sander Roscoe Wolff We live in a city of nearly half a million people, yet only a small fraction of the residents participate in the most basic form of community advocacy: voting. Long Beach, according to the 2000 census, is home to the sixth highest poverty rate of any city in the country. While [...]

Too-Subjective Impressions of a Candidates’ Forum

By Greggory Moore The last of several forums for candidates running for the Second District City Council seat was put on by the East Village Arts District on May 24 in the Grand Salon of the Cooper Arms building. This piece will not pretend to be any sort of comprehensive coverage. This was my first [...]

“Art Exchange” info

by Sander Roscoe Wolff Executive Director LongBeachCulture.org Plans for development of a number of properties along the East side of Long Beach Blvd between Broadway and 3rd are moving along, and the Redevelopment Agency’s commitment to dedicating a portion to the arts remains strong. They’ve reached out to the community, asking for input about how [...]

Localizing Politics in Long Beach: Getting Street-Level in the Second District

By Greggory Moore If all politics is local (as was once asserted by former House Speaker “Tip” O’Neill), it is the actions on the streets that agglomerate to form the whole of our political reality. With this in mind, on May 6 {open} hosted a screening of Street Fight, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the [...]