3rd Annual Green Long Beach! Festival

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Green Long Beach! hosts the 3rd annual Green Long Beach Festival at the Promenade between Broadway and 3rd street to raise environmental awareness and appreciation for eco-friendly local businesses, non-profits, educators, and the arts on Saturday, June 11th from 10 am to 8 pm. The public is invited to participate in the Celebration of Green [...]

The Art and Diversity of Dance

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Dancing with Long Beach is hosting an evening of dance performances on Saturday, April 9th from 6-10pm at Lyons Art Supply, 441 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90802. Admission is $10 to support continued efforts to bring dance into the city. Featured performances will include Yukiko & Abraham, Bodysport Capoeira, Renaissance High School for [...]

Assembly of the Catalyst Network of Communities

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This Saturday, April 2nd from 3-6pm at the Expo in Bixby Knolls, hundreds of people will gather together for the Assembly of the Catalyst Network of Communities to showcase the impact of creative collaboration. The event commemorates Catalyst’s 5-year anniversary of striving to inspire our city with a greater sense of community, collaboration, and citizenship [...]

Pepsi Refresh Creative Reuse Day

The Long Beach Depot for Creative ReUse is raising awareness about how one can reduce waste by celebrating the re-purposing of items destined for the trash at the first ever Pepsi Refresh Creative ReUse Day on Sunday, February, 27, 2011. This celebration is made possible by a Pepsi Refresh Project grant that was awarded to [...]

Father Boyle in Bixby Knolls

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Last night was a very special meeting of the Literary Society.  The book being discussed was  - Tattoos on the Heart by Father Greg Boyle. Kudos to Blair Cohn for bringing the author to the event to speak. We in the BK forget how lucky we are to have the Cohn duo, Blair and (his) [...]

A Special Yoga Class with Rockstar Bibi McGill

Guitarist and Music Director to pop music artist Beyoncé shares her love of yoga with The Infinite Yoga of Long Beach, a charitable non-profit and donation-based yoga studio We are proud to announce that Bibi McGill will be teaching a special class at The Infinite Yoga of Long Beach on Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:30pm. [...]

Art & Concert Benefit for CANTA

Neighborhood United Methodist church here in Long Beach is having a benefit concert on Sunday February 13 to help raise money for the church and their after school program “Canta”. Canta helps to introduce underprivileged kids to music and the arts. Admission is FREE! There will be some awesome composers who will be performing musical [...]

Tattoos, Art, Music, and Photos from First Fridays

What’s up City Lifers? Here are some photos that I took from last night’s First Fridays event in Bixby Knolls. This was also the first official First Fridays of 2011.   Enjoy and please comment!   Thanks! Find more photos like this on 562 City Life

ArtPeace in Long Beach

Hey everyone, last evening I attended the ArtPeace event at Martin Luther King Park. It was a really cool event for the youth in that area. This is also a program funded through one of Connected Corridor’s grants. I got some footage from the event. Enjoty!

Long Beach Brought Together By The 562City[After]Life Hours Party

Last Friday, Bixby Knolls helped take the 562City[After] Life Hours Party to another level. Guest DJ Nativity (Noel) ripped it on the music and we had a live band that was filled with world class musicians such as City Lifers, Luke Aiono, Tom Terrell, Jairus Mozee, Adam Edwards, Dustin Moore and everyone else who I [...]