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Arts Advocacy Forum

The Creativity Network of Long Beach and LongBeachCulture.org sponsor a community forum to seek answers and solutions BUILDING A MASTER CULTURAL PLAN FOR LONG BEACH‘S CREATIVE COMMUNITY “Building a master cultural plan for the Long Beach creative community” is the continuing theme in the second of a series of community forums organized to spark dialogue. [...]

September Creativity Network Mixer

Host: The Creativity Network, LongBeachCulture.org and Viento y Agua Location: Viento y Agua Gallery/Coffee House 4007 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, CA View Map When: Thursday, September 28, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Phone: 562-434-1182 The Creativity Network and LongBeachCulture.org and Viento y Agua Gallery and Coffee House Present A Very Special Creativity Mixer of Art and [...]

Call To Artists – Book By Authors

Just another exciting opportunity to publish your work, benefit the public library system and employ those brain cells! {…Preface…} …To present an opportunity for young, unpublished or (at the very least) generous writers to submit a short work to be illustrated and published in a professionally bound volume of 49 other selections… {…Requirements…} Formats & [...]

The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter @ LBMA

The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970-2005 October 6 – December 10, 2006 Press Preview Reception with Artist William Hunter, Thursday, October 5, 2006, 5 -6 p.m. Long Beach, CA — Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970-2005 is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of seminal American artist William Hunter, a [...]

State of the Arts Luncheon

The Arts Council for Long Beach Board of Directors cordially invites you to attend the 2006 STATE OF THE ARTS LUNCHEON Heartbeat of Our Culture Tuesday, September 12, 2006 State of the Arts Honorees: James H. Ackerman Arts Philanthropy Award: Honorable Don Knabe, Supervisor 4th District Lifetime Achievement Award: Nini Horn, Community Leader Distinguished Arts [...]

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 [...]

September 6 Forum Seeks Answers and Solutions for the Creative Community

“FIRST THE QUESTIONS, NOW THE ANSWERS ARE NEEDED!” The Long Beach Creativity Network and LongBeachCulture.org sponsor a community forum to seek answers and solutions. “Building a master cultural plan for the Long Beach creative community” is the continuing theme in the second of a series of community forums organized to spark dialogue. The next forum [...]

Building a Master Cultural Plan for the Long Beach Creative Community: A Follow-up

CREATIVITY NETWORK FORUM SUMMARY On Wednesday, July 26, The Long Beach Creativity Network and LongBeachCulture.org co-sponsored a community forum at Koos Art Center. The topic was Building a Master Cultural Plan for Long Beach’s Creative Community. We asked the participants to list three goals, priorities or issues facing the city’s creative community. The following are [...]