Soup Kitchen 6 ~ Saturday ~ Highland Park

7:38 PM PDT on August 5, 2009

Highland Park ~ CA

This is a FREE event that will be benefiting Avenue 50 Studios Inc. in Highland Park, a non‐profit arts presentation organization grounded in Latin@ Chican@ culture. This event will feature music from Coco O’Connor, The Undead M, Push to Transmit, Evita Freaks, What’s Their Name?, For Blocks, and Hollywood Kill among others. There will also be displayed art from Sebastian Zelepin, Johnny Taylor, Steve Seleska, Hestin Lostwood and other local artist. Soup Kitchen will include three fashion shows of the latest trends from upcoming LA fashion designers. This event will also be running in conjunction with NELAart, which is a free self‐guided tour of the galleries, non‐profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).

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Erich Redson

Former editor of L.A. Taco. I still live in Los Angeles but mainly just hang out at parks and stare off into the distance.

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