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Pico Block Party Spring 2017

by 18th Street Arts Center

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Date and time

Sat, April 29, 2017

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

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18th Street Arts Center

1639 18th St

Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Campus-wide Festival
April 29, 2017 | 1-5 PM
18th Street Arts Center

Join us to celebrate the cultural treasures of our Pico Neighborhood!

We open up our campus to our neighbors, and will launch Culture Mapping 90404, our community-sourced website of Pico neighborhood cultural treasures with an exhibition, celebration, music, food trucks, and open artist studios.

Original Salsa and Latin Music by Flaco
Lowriders taking over the 18th Street parking lot
Cabeza de Vaca Cultural Dance Performance
Rocking Dance Class with the ladies of the Community Corps Zumba Group
Family Art-Making Workshops with Sherin Guirguis and Nina Waisman
The best of Santa Monica Food Trucks
Artist Open Studios
Kids Corner and Bounce House
Tabling by Neighborhood Organizations

PROGRAMS INCLUDE:

Laboratory of Embodied Intelligences: Dialogue with the Public

1-2 PM
18th Street Arts Center

Artists, scientists and microbes swapping skills across bodies

What can we learn from our highly successful microbial planet-mates, and can movement help us do that? Featuring Moh El-Naggar, the USC Robert D. Beyer Early Career Chair in Natural Sciences, working at the forefront of bacterial communication; Fathi Karouia, Senior Research Scientist at NASA, working with microbial behaviors on the space station, in our guts and elsewhere; Christina M. Ford, MD, whose practice focuses on Integrative Psychiatry & Wellness; Anuradha Vikram, Artist Director of 18th Street Arts, a writer, curator, educator, whose research focus is transnational futurism; LEI Founder and Artistic Director, Nina Waisman; and LEI Movement Expert Flora Wiegmann.

Art-Making Workshop

2-4 PM
18th Street Arts Center
Main Gallery

In this family-friendly workshop, participants will work with artist Sherin Guirguis to create sculptural forms out of earthen elements, and discuss materiality, activism, culture, and displacement.

Music by Flaco

2 PM and 3:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center Main Lot

FLACO has been devoted to writing original salsa and Latin music in the studio or on the spot since 2005. Whether on stage or in session, FLACO performs from the heart without question. With band leader Angel Luis Figueroa.

Dance Performances

2:30 – 3:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center Main Lot

The Cabeza de Vaca Cultural Dance School will perform traditional Mexican and Aztec dances, and the Community Corps Zumba group will perform a series of rocking dance moves – everyone is welcome to join in!

Move like a Microbe

3-4 PM
18th Street Arts Center Back Lot

Learn about exo-biology while you move your body like a microbe! Join in this participatory, family-friendly workshop with dance-based artist Nina Waisman and her collaborators at the Laboratory for Embodied Intelligence.

Open Studios

1-5 PM
18th Street Arts Center

Ichiro Irie
David McDonald
Dan Kwong
Continuum Studio (presenting a variety of free movement workshops)
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (presenting recent paintings by Amy Green)
Xochi Maberry-Gaulke
Lauren Vasquez
Jessica Fairfax Hirst
Celia Rocha
Anna Ayeroff

Caption: Photo by Johanna Brown of painting in Pico Youth and Family Center

Date and time

Sat, April 29, 2017

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

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Location

18th Street Arts Center

1639 18th St

Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Organizer 18th Street Arts Center

Organizer of Pico Block Party Spring 2017

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018-2019, 18th Street Arts Center is one of the top 20 artist residency programs in the US, and the largest in Southern California. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public. We strive to provide artists the space and time to take risks, to foster the ideal environment for artists and the public to directly engage, and to create experiences and partnerships that foster positive social change.