Transforming, Connecting and Empowering Community
Please Join Us in a Free Community Event for Harvey Milk Day on Wednesday, May 18th, from 6pm – 8pm. An Art Exhibit & Reception to Commemorate the Legacy and Dream of Harvey Milk Exhibit [A] Gallery, 555 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 Join a collaboration of youth & diverse social justice groups to [...]
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 [...]
LBCreative! is proud to announce that it is once again that time of year. The first mixer of 2011 is upon us and we’ve a huge year ahead of us. In that spirit, we present to you some new faces in the Long Beach art world. Each with a larger than life vision. Jamie Carson, [...]
Reposted from Everything Long Beach: In celebration of Cultural Diversity Month, Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, 6th District Councilman Dee Andrews and the City of Long Beach Human Dignity Program are hosting a Cultural Diversity Festival on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at the Petrolane Boys & Girls Club at Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The [...]
By Craig Watson, reposted from Arts For LA A New Beginning When I arrived at the Arts Council for Long Beach in May of last year, the organization had been without full-time executive leadership for almost 18 months. While good interim leadership and committed board members had held the organization together, it was clear that [...]
Kick off the coming of summer with a series of summer-long free concerts all around downtown Long Beach. Summer and Music 2010 is hosted by the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) and the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency (RDA). This year all concerts will be held on self-contained solar powered stages provided by Sustainable Waves. Here’s [...]
With continued success by FOX’s hit television show GLEE, a new community-based show choir in Long Beach hopes to advance an appreciation of the arts while giving the community a fun artistic outlet for entertainment. Catalyst Community and Harville Vocal Studio have partnered together to launch “Urban Rhythm.” The organizing team recently decided to expand [...]
James Ellroy, creator of powerhouse American crime fiction over the past 30 years, and a literary voice like no other, will visit with the Bixby Knolls Literary Society and friends on Wednesday, June 9. I received the above email notification about the June Literary Society meeting and book selection and thought about it for a [...]
Every last Monday of each month, a variety of diverse artists, musicians, and performers in Long Beach’s creative community gather together for a time of connection at the LBCreative! Mixers. It’s a great way to meet others who care about the arts and even produce Long Beach’s unique arts culture. The LBCreative! community is a [...]
Inspired by FOX’s hit show GLEE, Catalyst Community and Harville Vocal Studio have partnered together to launch an exciting new community urban show choir for Long Beach high school teens. While most show choirs are school-based and more common in the Midwest and East Coast, this new choir, named Urban Rhythm, will be a community-based [...]