The Coast Art Zone! #Artsamo Get Creative and Build a Connection with Your Fellow Festival-Goers
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Welcome to the Coast Art Zone! #ArtSaMo Get creative and build a connection with your fellow festival-goers. Join an artist-led tour, a group karaoke, add your mark to a collaborative drawing, write something for a stranger and more! INSIDE Sign is a group live action experience by Thorny Games. Players begin without Camera Obscura Tower a shared language and develop the Climb 15 steps to enter the body tools to communicate. An experience of a camera and view the historic in empathy, Sign affords players a brief mechanism’s 360 view. glimpse at how life changes when Printmaking with Zeina Baltagi barriers are broken and what it means Zeina Baltagi has created two postcard for a community to come together. templates inspired by the vintage “Wish thornygames.com You Were Here” design. Pick a design & OUTSIDE color, and come away with original art to commemorate your visit. Santa Monica Community Portraits Sit with your fellow humans and pose for Shannon Freshwater Collab Drawing a family picture, and see if we’re more Help create a group drawing based on different than we know... or more alike the literary “exquisite corpse”. Parts of a than we seem. With City of Santa Monica long paper scroll are unfurled and parts Office of Civic Wellbeing#SaMoWellbeing are hidden. Base your drawing off of the @santamonicafamily parts you can see to make a glorious mashup! Sing-along lounge 11am-1pm: Lounge singer Robby Roberto Benavidez, pinata artist at work Fontana takes requests and leads See a sculpture take shape! On display participatory singing karaoke style is a completed Northern Lapwing and a with a repertoire of favorite oldies and cat from Roberto’s Hieronymous Bosch contemporary pop songs. Garden of Earthly Delights series. Indiecade Game Tasting A Flock of Plein Air Painters + Ron Try out two games - Virtual, Virtual Squared Live Painting Reality and Sign: A Game About Being Peek over the shoulder of a working Understood. VVR is a Google Daydream painter, working as part of a group moving experience that uses humor and around Palisades Park. The day will be surrealism to explore a near future with punctuated by a 2-hr live painting session ubiquitous automation. tenderclaws.com streetside with Ron Libbrecht & Ron Hust. Twenty Minute Treks 11am-4pm: Car-free streets change your perception of who you are in space. Take your new self for a spin in these small group experiences, with tour guides including poets, a public art expert, historians and members of the local community. Tours every fifteen minutes throughout the day. 11am: Arcadia’s Gaze with Maryam 1:15pm: Poetry Activism Tour with Carolina Gamero Carolina Gamero brings Santa Monica into conversation with Hosseinzadeh national issues of immigration and healthcare with heartfelt and Maryam takes participants on an almost funny poems in a tour that promises change is possible. stationary tour, starting with a little time travel back to when Arcadia Bandini sat 1:30pm: Growing up in Santa Monica with Robbie Jones on her porch on Ocean Avenue to take in the view, up to the Camera Obscura’s 360 1:45pm: Spontaneous Poetry Tour with Brian Sonia-Wallace overlook and down to the park to explore 2pm: Down to the Inkwell monument seeing, vision and perspective. (15 steps up to the Camera view) with Alison R. Jefferson & Maryam Hosseinzadeh 11:15am: Native Santa Monica Poetry Tour A walk and overview of history of African- with Linda Ravenswood American beach culture in Santa Monica, Linda brings us back in time through her poetry to the earliest including the historical congregating place inhabitants of Santa Monica in a tour that’s as informative as it is of African Americans during the Jim Crow lyrical, placing us in a contiuum with the past. era (1900s-1965). 11:30am: Growing up in Santa Monica with Robbie Jones 2:15pm: Poetics of Location with Mike Sonksen Downtown from the perspective of a longtime resident. 2:30pm: Native Santa Monica Poetry Tour with Linda Ravenswood 11:45am: Synesthesia Poetry Tour with Nicelle Davis 2:30pm: Poetry Activism Tour with Carolina Gamero Experience Santa Monica in new ways by crossing your senses in an exploration 2:45pm: Spontaneous Poetry Tour with Brian Sonia-Wallace with poet Nicelle Davis that combines 3pm: Poetics of Location with Mike Sonksen a scavenger hunt and poetry writing workshop, with plenty of oceans to taste 3:15pm: Synesthesia Poetry Tour with Nicelle Davis and hearts to touch. 3:30pm: Native Santa Monica Poetry Tour w/ Linda Ravenswood 12pm: Poetics of Location with Mike Sonksen Veteran tour guide and poet Mike the Poet leads a walk in 3:45pm: Poetry Puppet Show Tour with Bobby Gordon Palisades Park up to the Saint Monica statue, incorporating poetry, info on public art, the Wilshire corridor, Spanish history and more. PERFORMANCE 12:15pm: Arcadia’s Gaze with Maryam Hosseinzadeh Rainbow Flower Fun Time! by Beck + Col 12:30pm: The Belmar Triangle with Quinn Research Center 11am & 12pm: The monster Rainbow Face! with its This history tour passes through Tongva cohort of colorful companions (possibly figments of Park and the Courthouse area to discuss the its imagination) arrive to bestow color-coordinated land where the Rand Corporation is now flowers on passersby in honor of the concept of located and the historic African-American neighborhood around Main between Pico inalienable aliens. and Olympic. (25min) Superbroke Marching Band 12:45pm: Spontaneous Poetry Tour with Brian Sonia-Wallace 12:30-2pm: The Superbroke Brass and Tin and Strings RENT Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace guarantees that each of his tours Marching Band Ensemble is an association of musical has never happened before and will never happen again. He superheroes dedicated to liberating the SuperFlow of weaves audience suggestions and Santa Monica facts into his unique blend of improv and poetry, creating a bespoke experience the Universe and defending Her against the Evil Anti- each time. Groove, the bane of all things creative. 12:45pm: Poetry Puppet Show Tour with Bobby Gordon Jay Carlon: Out of Bounds - Reconstruction (excerpt) Ever thought poems could be puppets? 1pm, 2pm & 3pm: Stop by for twenty minute dance UCLA Poetry Lecturer Bobby Gordon brings performances that utilize a cardboard dance floor with words to life in this interactive tour that takes “building dialogue” to a whole new a little sonic twist. Choreographer: Jay Carlon; music: level. Alex Wand; dancers: Christopher Bordenave, Jay Carlon, Isaac Huerta, Samantha Mohr. 1pm: Public Art of Palisades Park with Lesley Elwood Lesley leads a tour of public art and monuments of Palisades Art Zone façade and Parklet design by Johnny Burton Park, ending at the totem pole at Ocean/ and David Offner. San Vicente. (30 min) ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Jay Carlon’s Reconstruction, photo by Stephen Burr Beck + Col Superbroke Zeina Baltagi (Postcard Printing) is a California State University, Northridge graduate with a B.A. in printmaking. Upon graduation, she co-founded the Valley Art Workshop in Woodland Hills. She currently teaches classes at Los Angeles Music and Art School, as well as a variety of workshops at the Camera Obscura Art Lab and throughout Los Angeles, for all ages. She has exhibited at various galleries and academic institutions around Southern California. zeinabaltagi.com Los Angeles-based artists Beck+Col (Rainbow Flower Fun Time!) use humor and chaos to examine the crisis of human exceptionalism. Through costume-based performance and video, their work explores alternate universes populated with monsters who obsess over humanity and emulate its dominant attributes. Within these universes, Beck and Col analyze humanity’s construction of sexualized, racialized and naturalized others. By removing human attributes, they shift focus from hyper- individualism to a post-anthropocentric perspective, rejecting the view of humanity as the bas(ic unit of reference. beckandcol.com Half-breed, South Texan, queer, figurative sculptor Roberto Benavidez (Art Pinata demo) specializes in the piñata form; playing on themes of race, sexuality, art, sin, humor and beauty. Drawn to art at a young age, but raised in rural South Texas with very little access to art education, Benavidez followed a secondary interest into a BFA in acting at Texas State University. After a few years of moderate success Benavidez found himself drawn back to sculpture and headed west, orienting himself through art classes at Pasadena City College. He has worked in abstract figuration and now specializes in sculpturally elegant and fantastical piñatas. robertobenavidez.com Shelley Bloom (Rainbow Flower Fun Time!) has worked closely with Beck and Col for nearly a decade. Punk and dadaism inform her physically demanding performances. Her humor and dedication result in hilariously entertaining works. Christopher Bordenave (Out of Bounds excerpt) was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Upon graduating from high school, Christopher went on to study at the Ailey School and the LINES Ballet School acquiring his BFA in Dance. Christopher has performed the works of Nacho Duato, Stijn Celis, Alonzo King, Idan Sharabi, and Gustavo Ramirez Sansano with numerous companies throughout the States and abroad. In 2014, Christopher founded No)one. Art House, an organization that promotes and produces quality interdisciplinary art such as dance, film, and photography throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Jay Carlon (Out of Bounds excerpt) was born in Santa Barbara County to a migrant working family and attended the University of California, Irvine for his BFA in Dance and the California State University, Long Beach for his MFA; his roots in California are embedded in this soil and are evident in his identity-based work and performance. Carlon’s immersive, interactive, and site-based choreography has been showcased at HomeLA, LA Dance Festival, the 92nd Y in New York, The CURRENT SESSIONS, Electric Lodge, ARC Pasadena, and at Automata Theatre in Chinatown, where he was recently a D+R resident with Los Angeles Performance Practice.