Showing posts with label Chinatown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinatown. Show all posts

Friday, 18 April 2014

Brokechella: $10 Coachella alternative (video)

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Alex Cohen, A Martinez (Take Two, scpr.org)
Brokechella: Where Angelenos can get a music fest fix this weekend (brokechella.com)
  
Be sure to wear a flower in your hair! (NME)
Can't make it out to Coachella this weekend or drop $350+? Don't worry. There is still hope for everyone who wants to see a music festival.

Head to downtown Los Angeles for Brokechella (only $10). The one-day event started four years ago as an alternative to Coachella, and has been growing ever since.
 
Negin Singh, Executive Director of cARTel: Collaborative Arts LA is one of Brokechella's organizers.

When Take Two spoke to her yesterday, she began by explaining how Brokechella was born after an event she was throwing happened to land on Coachella weekend. LISTEN

Back for its fourth year! Four MONSTER stages. All new World Initiative. Vendor marketplace with the best of boutique LA shops:
 
cARTel: Collaborative Arts LA, Brownies and Lemonade, and Shifty Rythms, in conjunction with LA Weekly, Eventbrite, and Lagunitas are proud to announce BROKECHELLA 2014 FEST!

Korea Town Night Market (April 18-19)

Wisdom Quarterly; KTownNightMarket.com
FREE admission. Visit the K Town Night Market from the afternoon to midnight.

Korean ceremonial dance on the Buddha's Birthday in Bulguksa (Joonghijung/flickr)

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Buddhist graffiti of San Francisco

Pat Macpherson, Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; photographer Thu Trang Ho
Amazing Buddhist mural on the streets of San Francisco (hothutrang/flickr.com)
  
Japanese samurai (tumblr.com)
Who makes elaborate graffiti in America's original Chinatown, San Francisco, California? It's art filled with the Buddha and Far East Buddhist mythology, Indian legend, and the ever present good luck dragons (naga kings). Religious imagery in an urban street environment is strangely uplifting. On a building, along a road, on a wall, on the side of a house, utilizing architecture for the expression of the USA's fastest growing minority community, this is what graffiti is meant to be. Just ask Banksy or TTH. How far do we need to travel for the exotic East to become an authentic West Coast experience?