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ARTE ES VIDA Annual Feria & Awards Show

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SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART
Feria and Awards Dinner

presented by Lexus

Friday, April 20, 2012 | 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
1300 East 1st Street, Boyle Heights, CA 90033

Business Cocktail Attire. This event is 21 and over.

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FAMILY DAY at LA PLAZA (Mar. 25)

Día de la familia: Family Day

Sunday, March 25, 2012
1pm-4pm

Free Event

Self help Graphics & Art's Mobile Art Program will be offering a free DIY Silkscreen Printing (12PM) workshop conducted by Dewey Tafoya. 

ARTE ES VIDA (Save the Date - Apr. 20)

SAVE THE DATE

ARTE ES VIDA

 

Feria and Awards Dinner benefiting
Self Help Graphics & Art

Friday, April 20, 2012
6 PM - 10 PM

Honoring:

Armando Duron
Castulo de la Rocha
Bank of America

And Artists:
Yolanda Gonzalez
Wayne Healy
Miguel Angel Reyes.

Sponsorship and ticket packages available now.  

Please email events@selfhelpgraphics.com for more information.

ADVANCED DIY SILKSCREEN PRINTING (Mar. 17)

ADVANCED DIY SILKSCREEN PRINTING  

Saturday, March 17th 

10AM to 2PM

$30 per person
(Limit to 10 people)

Please RSVP to:
workshops@selfhelpgraphics.com 

Attendees are required to bring  a transparency copy for each color separation of your original color image. Images should be no bigger than 8 1/2" X 11".

For more information please email workshops@selfhelpgraphics.com

Limited number of screens available for purchase. Bring paper and a blank t-shirt or 2 to print your work of art on!

GROW LA VICTORY GARDEN WORKSHOP (Mar. 24 - Apr. 14)

GROW LA VICTORY GARDEN WORKSHOP 
Become a Certified UC Victory Gardener

March 24, 31, April 7, 14
9:30am- 12:30pm
$15/class or $50 for the series  
Registration: call Melissa Gutierrez at 323-687-0795  
or email: mamahoneybee@yahoo.com  

Note: You are registered only when your fee has been received!

Website: http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/

MUJERES DE MAIZ 15th Ann. Show (Mar. 10)

MUJERES DE MAIZ 15th Anniversary Live Art Show

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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
7pm // All Ages // $15 at door

Special Guests:
Cherrie Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodriguez!

with performance ofrendas by:
members of
Quetzal,
Skim,
Ms. Sho King
In Lak Ech,
Rosa Marta Zarate,
Cuatro Noches de Luna
Critical Mass Dance Company,
Climbing Poetree
and Mare (deske Oaxaca, via Skype)  

STENCIL MAKING with Andi Xoch (Every 2nd Saturday)

STENCIL MAKING with Andi Xoch 

Saturday, March 10th

Every 2nd Saturday of the Month 

10AM to 1PM

FREE for ages 12 to 18 // $10 for Adults
RSVP: workshops@selfhelpgraphics.com

Learn how to create stencils and applying them to various surfaces, so bring your bike helmets, skateboards, t-shirts, backpack or anything you want to apply your custom hand cut stencil too.

Next Month's Date: Apr. 14th

AEROSOL ART WORKSHOP (Saturdays)

AEROSOL ART WORKSHOP
WITH VYAL ONE

Saturdays, Mar. 10th, 17th, 24th & 31st  

And Every Saturday of the Month   

10 AM - 1 PM 

Free for ages 12 - 18
$10 for Adults
RSVP: workshops@selfhelpgraphics.com

Learn various techniques with using spray paint to create works of art. You'll be using low and high pressure spray paint.

HARD N DA PAINT (Fridays)

HARD N DA PAINT

 

Fridays, March 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th       

And Every Friday of the Month 

6PM to 9:00PM

Free with High School ID 

$5.00 at the door

 

HARD N DA PAINT is a music workshop development series at Self Help Graphics & Art. HNDP students work together for 8 consecutive weeks to program their own music event! Work with HNDP instructor P-Flax of ShortySons films, or freestyle with HNDP regulars like Alders aka "Ghin N Guece" and D-Low the "King Darius". Friday sessions @ SHG also include: Freestyling (improvisational music), Live Instrument Jam sessions (Bring your instrument!), Video production - filming, lighting and editing, Music Production - recording and instrumental compositions, and plenty of space for Break Dancing.

GLOBALIZE THIS! (Mar. 17 to Apr. 14)

GLOBALIZE THIS!
INTERNATIONAL GRAPHICS OF RESISTANCE
Featuring work from Self Help Graphics & Art and organized by Carol Wells, Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in partnership with the Otis' Integrated Learning Class Designing the Political

March 17th - April 14th, 2012

BEN MALTZ GALLERY
Otis College of Art and Design
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 29, 5:30-7:30pm 
www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery
Free Admission and Parking   
Press Release
Globalize THIS! is an exhibition of prints that address such topics as racism, AIDS, nuclear proliferation, child labor, genetically modified food, environmental degradation, and the increasing indebtedness of developing nations offer sobering messages. The works in this exhibition remind us of the passions and commitment of the protesters and demand our involvement to make a difference. They are reclaiming the power of art to inspire people to action.

THE APPLE PUSHERS Film Screening (Mar. 29)

THE APPLE PUSHERS Film Screening

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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
7PM // RSVP: rsvp@lurnnetwork.org
$10 Suggested Donation

Self Help Graphics & Art welcomes LURN and their screening of The Apple Pushers, a film about the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors as they try and bring fresh fruits and veggies to the streets of New York City.