Hello All :-)
It's June. We're seguing out of our daily workshops and moving towards Summer Programs. We'll have four arts programs; health and fitness programs going on starting in July. The city of Long Beach, its citizens and leadership have come together to support the vision of Living Love in investing in children through the arts. This is a winning ticket. Period. It's good to be somewhere, to live somewhere and work somewhere where that's understood. It's also very humbling. That's a funny thing to say and people look at me sideways when I say it, but like mom used to say, "things aren't always good, so be thankful when they are."
Things are good right now. There is audible, tangible hope in the air. The conversations amongst peers and colleagues are centered around sustainability and the wealth of investing in meaningful relationships that pay in dividends in real ways. It feels like the world is changing and people will have access, have tapped into their access to creating and making the world a place where we all want to live. Now that it's here, that this time is here, I wouldn't know how to imagine any other way of being...it's electric and these are the times that some really wonderful things happen, seeds are planted, take root and change the game.
Paradigm shifting is never easy, well not for me at least :-) but the impact of the shift, of moving from one way of being to another, especially when it involves creating change on the ground in ways that will create long lasting positive impact makes shifting provocative and necessary. It's like waking up every day wondering like "wow, what great thing is gonna happen today? what great flower is going to emerge from the seeds we planted in winter or in the spring?" That's pure, organic magic.
This summer Living Love is bringing together some of the titans of the on the ground arts scene in Long Beach, and working on an open air arts program in one of the most beautiful parks in the city. We'll be at Bixby Park, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and we'll be doing raw food classes and yoga and recylced arts workshops and have guests like Pedal Movement and LB!Creative and working with professional artists who will take their time to teach hand crocheting and t-shirt printing....hosting workshops for the kids and elders. Maribel will be coming from Ventura to lend her special expertise to the children of this community...we are all very excited.
On July 10th we're having a launch and a fundraiser to invite everyone to sample what we'll be doing and who will be there. Bixby Park...probably start around 11:00 AM...
The program will run two full days out of the week. But check it out...the idea of kids who have had little to no exposure to the arts, on their way to the beach from North LBC or the Westside, the idea of them running into a full-on conservatory quality arts program, FREE...in session twice a week, the idea that it could catch their attention, change their lives, make an impression on them that could last a lifetime...give them some hope and help them make some new connections...there is no way to express how lovely it is to be involved with that experience. That these things have come together here...like this...gorgeous :-)
Glad to be a part of it.
Glad to be a part of something good.
See you at Bixby :-)
Ciao Meow
Kelly
