We The People Festival Returns November 21
BY NICHOLAS CHUNG, Causecast Writer
The ambitious We the People festival is counting down to its fourth extravaganza on November 21. The homepage for the event gives some sense of the forces that fuel the multimedia festival’s mission to stimulate “social awareness…within the urban community to inspire the involvement and active participation of the conscious youth populous throughout the country." Promoting “non-partisan, non-violent, environmentally, and politically conscious views” through a combination of raw, loud, art, music, and political culture, this mash-up of a festival seeks to have a lot of everything for its revelers. More than thirty artists, including will.i.am, Social Distortion, and Madvillain, to name a few, will perform on two “massive” outdoor stages, sharing the spotlight with speakers Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Kim Barnouin, and Christopher Darden, President and CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, best-selling nutritionist and author of Skinny Bitch, and legal guru cum-best-selling author, respectively.
Then there is the Art is a Hammer Exhibit, which, in looking to the Russian Futurist energies in its title, features compound installations of “hyper-sized smashed up wet-paint loudness, street vandal propaganda pressure, and original counter-culture mess-makers.” Take a social manifesto to empower youth, throw in some street, some grad-school degrees, a crowd of famous artists and performers, and add exclamation points to everything: it’s the 4th annual We the People festival in Los Angeles. Be there.
A limited number of tickets are available now for $40. Doors open at 2:00 p.m. and close at 1am at the L.A. Center Studios, 450 S. Bixel Street.
For more information, visit: http://wethepeoplefestival.com
Photo by nanpalmero, flickr.
- Posted by Causecast
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