Free Tickets to Tuesday Night Project's 12 Anniversary TNParty!
API Equality - LA
We have TWO free tickets to Tuesday Night Project's TNParty. The event is on July 31st and takes place in Little Tokyo. For more information on the event and this organization, please scroll down. If you're interested in the tickets, please email me back ASAP.
Cheers,
Brian
Downtown Los Angeles Free Public Arts Series Celebrates 12 Years at the TNParty
Tuesday Night Project’s TNParty: Annual Benefit for the Tuesday Night
Project in Little Tokyo on July 31st, 2010
Los Angeles – Hidden gem of Los Angeles Tuesday Night
Project (TNP) celebrates its 12th year of free multidisciplinary arts
programming in Downtown Los Angeles. Since 1999, their flagship series, the
“1st & 3rd Tuesday Night Cafe,” has presented a variety of Asian American
and Los Angeles artists performing music, poetry, visual art, comedy improv,
short films, and performance art. In celebration, TNP presents the
"TNParty: Annual Benefit for the Tuesday Night Project" on July
31st in the JACCC
Plaza at 244 S San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, from 5PM to 11PM. It will be TNP's 2nd annual fundraiser,
featuring DJs, live music, a silent art auction, live painters throughout the
Plaza, and a special “Video-Collider mash-up”/ninety minutes of 60-second
videos from LA artists strung together and projected onstage by partner Visual
Communications to “mash-up” with the DJs that follow the live music
performances. This event is
co-presented by the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
“Last year at TNP's
first-ever annual benefit, we got to see over 500 people come through, from
seniors living in the neighborhood to the kids of long-ago TNC regulars.” says
Narinda Heng, one of the co-producers on the volunteer staff. “It was amazing
seeing how far TNProject's reach went, and how far the TN family has come since
it began, as Resident Host Johneric Concordia says, ‘with just a karaoke
machine.’" Heng refers to the humble beginnings of the “1st & 3rd
Tuesday Night Cafe” having only been equipped with a karaoke machine and a few
chairs.
With free
admission for kids 12 and under, the TNParty will begin with a family hour
featuring Mista Cookie Jar, and taiko with Pro Ta and poongmul (korean drumming) with Freedom Sounds. A full evening of music will also
include performers: Bambu, formerly of the Native Guns; Harlem Lee, winner of 2003 TV show Fame; Rocky Rivera and DJ Roza; and Tuesday Night Project Resident
Artists Durwood (Golda
Inquito and Gertie Meza) collaborating with David Tran a.k.a Applesauce; Dawen; Shin Kawasaki; and Sue Jin with Jenny San Angel. Featured vendors will include
family-owned catering business The Parks Finest, #1 in Yelp Los Angeles, and Good Girl
Dinette, a popular
restaurant in Eagle Rock, along with several independent artisans selling
everything from jewelry (Christine Keiko Agena’s Mango Pop) to painted light switch plates (Los
Switcheros).
Before THE PARTY,
their first fundraising celebration in 2009, TNP primarily relied on small
donations at the live events. Still, Tuesday Night Project, a collective of
community artists and leaders, has consistently presented the “1st & 3rd
Tuesday Night Cafe” on the first and third Tuesday of every month from spring
through fall.
“Our growth since
1999 has been tremendous,” says Tuesday Night Project founder traci
kato-kiriyama, “But our costs are real. We have old light trees that need
replacement, our sound engineer drives from his day job in Irvine for a
generously cut rate. It may be free for everyone else, but it’s not free for us
- and we want to ensure the series stays free to the public while we grow the
capacity of the organization into the next phase of exciting plans and
programming for TNP.”
TNP welcomes everyone from long-time supporters of Tuesday Night Cafe and past performers to newcomers to join them at the TNParty and support one of the longest running free public art spaces in Downtown L.A. Presale and student/senior tickets are $15 and general admission at the door is $20. Tickets are currently on sale and children 12 and under free. Tickets are available online through their website (link provided to Brown Paper Tickets) and in-person at their next “1st & 3rd Tuesday Night Café” show on July 20 at 7:30 pm. The presale for the $15 ticket price ends online on Tuesday, July 27 at 11:59 pm. For more information about Tuesday Night Project, the “1st & 3rd Tuesday Night Café” series or to purchase tickets, visit www.tuesdaynightproject.org.
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