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Pico Block Party: Empowering Youth Voices! at 18th Street Arts Center
Courtesy of 18th Street Arts Center | Posted on April 10, 2018
Where
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA
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When
Sat, May 19, 2018
3:00 pm
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Food trucks, music, open studios, performances, and more.
18th Street Arts Center holds its third major Pico Block Party community festival focused around youth artists and empowering youth voices on Saturday, May 19, 2018 from 3-6 PM. The family-friendly artistic festival will feature youth-led art-making workshops, performances, open studios with resident artists, exhibitions, food trucks, and other creative activities.
The Pico Block Party series grew out of 18th Street Arts Center’s in-depth community outreach programs, including its bilingual neighborhood oral history project, CultureMapping90404.org. That project spurred the creation of a Neighborhood Advisory Council in 2018, who helped shaped the content for this Pico Block Party along the theme of “Empowering Youth Voices.” With this festival, we celebrate the many Santa Monica high school and college-age youth deeply invested in political activism and organizing, and young artists throughout our community and beyond....