Posts Tagged ‘Echo Park’

Angelenos love a good art walk. We hit the pavement for art walks all around town, including downtown, Silverlake, and the Miracle Mile.  And, we walk the art walk down La Cienega and in circles at Bergamot when galleries stay open late for their openings. Not only do we have a chance to get the latest scoop from our friends armed with Tecates, we have a higher chance to run into one of our favorite food trucks. We have a sneaking suspicion that since we keep running into them when we don’t follow their Twitter feeds, they’ve been reading ours…

Right before Valentine’s Day, we’re sure that you are bracing yourself for unexpected PDAs (Public Displays of Affection). Re-think this idea as a group of artists are launching another type of PDA (Public Displays of Art) in art walk form straight through Echo Park.

These PDAs are much more palatable for your art starved tastes. You’ll find: chain link fence galleries, driveway theaters, a hands on crafting station, performance art, intersection musical performances, outdoor movie screenings, sculptures, parking lot mini concerts, and other various creative and mind stimulating public displays of art.

If you tweet about it, food trucks will come.

The Echo Park Art Walk is this Saturday, February 6th, 12 – 6pm, 12–6pm. The Echo Park Art Walk begins at Blue Collar Pet Supplies (1533 Echo Park Ave.) and travels through to FIX coffee shop (2100 Echo Park Ave.) Click here for more info.

We’d be very surprised if this is true of any of our readers, but it seems that some Angelenos are less than familiar with the art scene in Atwater Village.

Okay, so we are admittedly less than familiar with how to even get to Atwater Village not to mention how we’d start exploring it’s art scene.  The problem is that, well, it’s far.  Then, we don’t know where to go once we’re there – what if we miss the best spot? After all that stress, we’ll surely be hungry and we’re at a loss for where to get a good snack in the neighborhood.  Alas, we tend to just stay in our close environs.

This weekend, November 7-8, however, none of us have a good excuse to skip out on the “spaghetti side” of town, so called because once you get over there, the streets are so windy and confusing, they’re akin to driving around a plate of spaghetti.  The 12th Annual Silver Lake Art Crawl is here again to present you with a whole bunch of things you’d likely not do otherwise: spend time scouring the more eastern side of our fair city, try freshly harvested fish tacos as a result of an art/food experiment, and, well, actually walking somewhere.  There’s also a big celebration at Barnsdall Art Park on Sunday at 1pm, which will feature music, art, dancing, and plenty of food trucks like Cool Haus, Let’s Be Frank, Dosa Truck, Tiago Coffee, and a host of others.

To give us a better idea of all that the Silver Lake Art Crawl has to offer, we recently sat down with the festival’s director Drew Baldwin.  Lucky for you, we taped the whole thing.  Check out our video and definitely head east this weekend – you won’t regret coming across some new local artists nor will you be able to forget the deliciousness that is Lamill Coffee or Café Stella.  Turns out, it’s worth braving the eastbound traffic from time to time.

The Silver Lake Art Crawl is this weekend, November 7-8 from 11am to 9pm both days.  For more information, please click here.