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This Magnificent World: An Underground Tunnel Art Walk

Antigua Coffee House
Presents the August Edition of 

"The Cypress Village Tunnel Art Walk"

a one-night-only monthly art exhibit taking place inside a magnificent pedestrian tunnel under magnificent Figueroa in magnificent Cypress Park, surrounded by magnificent local artists!


Join us as we explore
this M A G N I F I C E N T world
...a layer of Los Angeles that exists beyond what we see above...

EVERYTHING you'll ever desire...

MUSIC/
EL-HARU KUROI
http://www.reverbnation.com/elharukuroi

ART/
billy burgos 
cakeshop oddities
dennis cruz
giovanni solis
jason macaya
jason mccormack
renae barnard
tima 

POETRY/
annette cruz
billy burgos
dennis cruz
iris de anda
julio the conga poet
just kibbe & his poetry mobile
rebecca gonzales

CURATED by/ 
jessica ceballos

VIVA LOS CUPCAKES! will be bringing a variety of cupcakes, in Mexico's many flavors!

of course, food and beverages will also be available at ANTIGUA COFFEE HOUSE

10$ raffle ticket for your chance to win a new 2013 Kia Soul! Benefiting Mt. Washington Elementary School.

the art walk is sponsored in part by Fine Art Solutions

6 pm - 10 pm 
Poetry 7pm
Music 8pm 

Also, Flying Pigeon bike shop (next door to Antigua's) will be conducting the monthly Spoke(n) Art Ride touring the NELA Art Walk starting at 6:30pm…if that's your thang

*times subject to change

at the tunnel at 
Figueroa and Loreto Street 
across from Nightengale Middle School
ANTIGUA COFFEE HOUSE
3400 N. Figueroa Street
LA CA 90065

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The story goes like this....

During the 1920's - 1930's automobile accidents were becoming a common occurrence, kids were being hit while crossing busy streets to and from school. The city decided to build these pedestrian tunnels for safety. Fast forward a couple decades, during non-school hours, the tunnels were being used as safe havens for drug users, gangs and the cities homeless population. For some reason the City decided to close a large majority of them, leaving a few open for school children to walk through. 

And now for the first time in Los Angeles history, a coffee roaster - with a gigantic dream for a small community - convinces the city into opening one of these tunnels for a monthly, and one night only, art show! 

Hooray for Yancey Quinones - Coffee Roaster, Entrepreneur, Supporter of Building Sustainable Communities, Dreamer, Do-er....

Come celebrate the beginning of a grassroots project that aims to build sustainable communities…..using art, poetry, food, and music in a familiar but unique setting…

…the way its suppose to be done! 

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