Events

Here is an action alert update from a fellow NBA – Francois Bar. If you care about the upcoming transformation of Jefferson Boulevard along the USC campus, you should participate in an important public hearing tomorrow! Tuesday, November 5th at 6 pm Galen Center – 3400 South Figueroa, 90089 This will be your last chance to provide input on plans … Continued

A festival of films showcasing how people around the world are working to make their city a better place. Nov 7-10 at ACME Theater (Full Schedule Below) Produced by Josh Paget and Joel Karahadian Festival Partners: Balcony Press, FORM Magazine, Placemakers, First+Main Media, California Congress for the New Urbanism, National Congress for the New Urbanism, … Continued

 

We’re closing in on ARTCRANK the one night art poster and beer party that will take place on Saturday, November 9 at Space 15 Twenty, 1520 North Cahuenga Blvd from 4-10 pm. We don’t have copies of all of the posters yet, but ARTCRANK just released the official logo for the party which you can see above.

DATE: November 3, 2013

The beautiful Hyperion Bridge between Silverlake and Atwater is threatened by plans to rebuild it as a 55-MPH structure; this iconic bridge would be retrofitted without pedestrian or bike lanes, a change that's absolutely inappropriate for the kind of neighborhood scale we rely on to make Big Parade events happen. This short walk features a Griffith Park segment, where we'll be over the bridge; a half-dozen stairways and passages; and a finish at the bridge with a presentation on this structure's future. It will be a great walk even if you care about none of this—but you do care, right?

The L.A. Provide input for the Union Station and 1st/Central Linkages Study at the upcoming Community Visioning Festival at El Pueblo on Saturday, November 2nd.

Airport2Park.org, the coalition formed to turn Santa Monica Airport into a park, has announced its next event: a potluck picnic in Clover Park (2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, adjacent to the airport, bring your own food, drinks and utensils), Sunday, November 3 from noon to 2 PM. The picnic will be a fun follow-up to Airport2Park’s first highly successful event, its October 3 workshop where 150 members of the public envisioned what it would mean to turn the airport into a great park