Latino Urban ForumHEYA-Forward Thinking (?) Mobility OptionsHEYA, Toyota’s online community of inspiring, innovative young adults, is proud to announce that online guitar lessons four of its members’ visions for the future of transportation have been selected to be brought to life at Quiksilver’s siteLA for a two week residency entitled: “From Here to There: A HEYA Project.” Opening with a kickoff celebration on August 22nd, “From Here to There: A HEYA Project” will be anchored by multimedia artworks that showcase the four HEYA members’ visions, created in collaboration with the Quiksilver siteLA community. The two-week exhibition will also feature a series of workshops, speakers and film screenings as well as transportation-related art and design projects by siteLA’s “Visionaries in Residence.” Guitar LessonsOver the last few weeks taking guitar lessons has really uncovered a great wealth of talent we never new existed! Most students are starting out on acoustic guitar with the hopes of graduating to electric guitar and eventual rock stardom next year. Taking online spanish guitar lessons is recommended as a first step due to the fact that most people can easily learn all the basics themselves without having to fork out the extra expense that private lessons typically cost. We are working hard to find local guitar teachers to teach within the community as discounted rates so stay tuned and keep practicing! Some useful guitar blogs I've found... www.acousticguitarvideolessons.net http://www.beginnersguitarlesson.org/ http://www.onlinebluesguitarlessons.org/
Location: Side LA 2522 Sunset blvd. LA, CA. The design project initiated
by Cal Poly Pomona's Graduate 641 + 642 Design Studio continues
with another crop of students. Save the date for this results
oriented endeavor. If you missed the fab presentation/discussion on Wednesday
at the MAK Institute...you're in for a treat. We will be
bringing it to Gallery 727 on Thursday, August 21th. This one
will have some more offerings, and a different set up. Don't
miss it. SALSA SALSA What: Salsa Salsa, a Celebration of Love Apples LEARN SPANISH A good friend has just turned me onto this video to learn Spanish. I think the approach used for acquiring words using Spanish vocabulary flash cards is very new and interesting. I'll be trying it out for sure! Free to the public Come to SALSA SALSA, a harvest festival for the citizens of Los Angeles – come make and taste tomato salsas while listening and dancing to salsa music. SALSA SALSA is a celebration of public space and the culmination of the LOVE APPLES project in which 72 tomato plants were installed on 12 traffic islands in LA. LOVE APPLES is an experiment in public space in the city of Los Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilized to make our communities more livable and engaged. You can also take blues guitar lessons or fingerstyle guitar lessons too! It is a collaboration with Fallen Fruit that promotes community awareness, sharing, food safety, public resources, organic gardening and the use and exploration of available public space. As part of the event there will be a free Salsa dance class from 3:30 - 4:30 taught by Miguel Candela. This will be followed by a free Salsa concert by recording artists Mestizo L.A. For holidays while you learn try our official booking site paquetes vacacionales a cancun for the best deals of the day and current offers. PLEASE JOIN US from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday August 17th at Farmlab (1745 N. Spring Street, 90012) to make salsa and dance together. Meet new people and talk about the future shape and texture of life in this city. Bring your homegrown or street-picked tomatoes and collaborate with your neighbors on new and remarkable salsas. Bring a friend – this event is free to the public.
Reservations are recommended. Please RSVP for this event by calling 323-651-1510 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 323-651-1510 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, or by email at office@makcenter.org. Please join us on Wednesday, August 13 for PanAmerican Urbanism: From Caracas to East Los Angeles, the second event in an ongoing series, the MAK Urban Future Initiative (UFI) Public Forum. PanAmerican Urbanism will feature Efrén Santana, a MAK UFI fellow and architect with Urban Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela; and James Rojas, an urban planner and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Latino Urban Forum, an organization dedicated to understanding and improving the built environment of Latino communities. Santana and Rojas will present a comparative study of the built environments of their respective cities, and discuss their evolving hypothesis of a PanAmerican Urbanism, which explores how the urban fabric of cities throughout the Americas has been shaped by Hispanic and Latino culture. Santana and Rojas will give special attention to the home as a manifestation of transnational common values, such the importance of extended family and the notion of the front yard as a public space. More about Efrén Santana Santana is an architect with Urban Think Tank (U-TT), a multi-disciplinary design practice based in Caracas, Venezuela, that is dedicated to high-level research and design. U-TT's design practice places the social reality of a site at the forefront of political discussion. Their work is aimed at reversing the top-down hierarchy of governance in the public sphere in favor of bottom-up, locally driven action. More about
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