If you want to experience art out in the streets where it happens every day, check out the 2011 BloomfestLA. This free community festival will be held in the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District where everybody can enjoy eco-friendly fun, good food, arts and crafts, excellent brews by Angel City brewing and Wurstküche and some genuine indie music right on the KCRW stage. BloomFest LA is named in honor of a community activist by the name of Joel Bloom (1948-2007), which celebrates just about everything a”bloomin” in the Downtown Arts District, it could be in the field of music, art and even the environment. The activities in BloomFest LA are so designed to go together with the neighborhood’s revolving outdoor gallery comprised of murals and other forms of artwork by celebrated street artists.
The 2011 Bloomfest LA is a an exciting community event that is organized in partnership with a non-profit organization that is dedicated to promote the Downtown Arts District – the Los Angeles River Artist and Business Association or simply LARABA.
The 2011 Bloomfest LA will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Activities will start at 2 pm and end at 10 pm at the Downtown Arts District in Los Angeles, centered at 3rd Street and Traction Avenue. Admission is absolutely free for all ages.
For more information regarding the event, visit www.bloomfestla.com
For press inquiries, you may call: (310) 403-1720
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Information about the Downtown Arts District:
It was in the 1980s when the Downtown Arts District was founded as an artist enclave comprising of a 52-block neighborhood. This neighborhood is made up of art galleries and artist studios; nightspots and restaurants such as Angel City Brewing, Metropol and Wurstkuche; industrial businesses, nonprofits such as the Art Share Los Angeles and the Cornerstone Theater Company; coffeehouses such as the Novel Café and Urth Café; creative entrepreneurs and government agencies anchored by the SCI-Arc. The Downtown Arts District is situated right at the center of the city’s new Los Angeles CleanTech Corridor where a business campus will soon to raise in order to develop sustainable technologies.
Information about the Los Angeles River Artist and Business Association (LARABA):
The Los Angeles River Artist and Business Association or simply LARABA, a 501© (4) non-profit organization that was established in the year 1991. This organization is aimed at pursuing the improvement of life and improves opportunities in the Downtown Arts District through the promotion of a lively and healthy economic, cultural and social growth and promoting the community as a creative environment for the benefit of all the citizens of Los Angeles. To know more about LARABA, you may visit their official website at www.laraba.org.
