Arts & Events
This Summer at FIGat7th...
JUNE 3-AUGUST 2
The inaugural FIGat7th Downtown Festival celebrates creativity through music, dance, visual art, theatre and film.
All events are free, no tickets required but reservations suggested through Facebook.com/FIGat7th/events or FIGat7th.Eventbrite.com.
Parking for all events is $5 at the FIGat7th parking structure with retailer validation.
Experience summer treats from FIGat7th’s unique collection of restaurants and eateries! Visit FIGat7th.com/TASTE starting June 3 to download the festival specials.
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VISUAL ART
ANGEL WINGS | COLETTE MILLER
June 3-August 2
TASTE (Lower Level, M1) and Plaza
Artist Colette Miller invites everyone to discover Angel Wings, an Arts Brookfield-commissioned art installation consisting of pairs of beautifully painted, human-scaled wings found throughout FIGat7th. View Work
THEATER
TANGLE | POLYGLOT THEATRE
Friday | June 7 | 5 & 7pm
Saturday | June 8 | 1, 3, & 5pm
Sunday | June 9 | 1 & 3pm
Plaza
Tangle is a huge, messy, fun, interactive elastic weaving event created live by children and their families. It’s part mass visual arts installation, part performance, part playground, part dance party and all chaos. Like a giant peg board, children and families create a landscape together, tangling and weaving colored elastic through giant poles. This innovative work by Australian troupe Polyglot Theatre is a giant experiment where children take control and create a giant abstract tangled artwork by stretching their bodies and their imaginations. View Video
TWELFTH NIGHT | THE INNER CITY SHAKESPEARE PROGRAM
Saturday | July 27 | 1pm & 3pm
Plaza
The Inner City Shakespeare Program engages students in the appreciation of “The Bard” with productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This year students from Los Angeles High School and Washington Preparatory High School will present Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies.
FILM
20th Anniversary
DAZED AND CONFUSED
LA Film Festival Outdoor Screening
Friday | June 14
Pre-screening Event | 7pm
Screening | 8:30pm
Plaza
Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck, Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, and Adam Goldberg.
It’s 1976, the last day of school. It’s Dazed and Confused, one of our favorite high school movies. Come relive the glory and the fear of being a teenager wondering where the party’s at. View Trailer
World Premiere
BRASSLANDS
LA Film Festival Outdoor Screening
Saturday | June 15
Dance Lesson & Live Performance by Rakia Brass Band | 6pm
Live Performances by Inspector Gadje and Rakia Brass Band | 7pm
Screening | 8:30pm
South Figueroa Street and Plaza
Directed by Meerkat Media Collective. The documentary Brasslands captures the fiery sounds and incredible sights of Balkan brass music at the world’s largest trumpet competition in Serbia. Traditional Balkan dance lessons accompanied by music by Inspector Gadje and Rakia Brass Band before the screening. View Trailer
MUSIC & DANCE
THE RED FEATHER DANCE COMPANY
A Celebration of Native American Dance, Music and Artistry
Saturday | July 13 | 1-4pm
Plaza
A not to be missed afternoon of dance, music, and art performed by this extraordinary Native American troupe. Experience interactive performances where skilled dancers use hoops to create various forms of nature and animals. Kupa and Pala tribal members will tell stories, lead children in making traditional bracelets, and create face-painting designs. View Video
MUSIC
LA SANTA CECILIA
The Boogaloo Assassins
Friday | June 21
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
LA-based La Santa Cecilia, fronted by the smoky voiced La Marisoul, exemplifies the modern-day hybrid of Latin culture, rock and world music. View Video
The Boogaloo Assassins are re-creating the boogaloo craze that swept East Harlem, the Latin Caribbean and South America from 1965-1969. The LA-based band incorporates R&B, doo-wop, Afro-Caribbean jazz and salsa fusion. View Video
LUCKY DIAZ AND THE FAMILY JAM BAND
with special guest Mike Klooster
Saturday | June 22 | 1pm
Plaza
Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band plays tunes that make families get up and boogie, with lyrics that speak directly to kids. Mike Klooster of multi-platinum rock band Smash Mouth will join the band on keyboards! View Video
ALLAH-LAS
PRINCE RAMA
Gothic Tropic
Friday | June 28
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
LA-based, psychedelic band, Allah-Las performs with a crystalline guitar and slow-mo drums that recall the way the waves take big bites of the beach at night. View Video
The unpredictable live shows of Brooklyn-based Prince Rama (sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) incorporate elements of psychedelic ceremony, performance art and dance-floor initiation rite. View Video
LA-based Gothic Tropic, the brainchild of Cecila Della Peruti, introduces some hard edges to the playful world of psych-pop, finding inspiration from Afro-Cuban beats, and exuberant guitars. View Video
AKRON/FAMILY
PEAKING LIGHTS
Lonnie Holley
Friday | July 12
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
The sound is propulsive and driven by its physicality. Akron/Family is here, with drums and guitars like divining rods calling on Sonny Sharrock and Link Wray, on Elvin Jones and John Bonham, on Jimmy Garrison and Aston Barrett. View Video
Peaking Lights have maintained a sound distinction all their own fusing influences as wide ranging as Afro beat, disco, psychedelic rock, synth pop, krautrock, reggae and noise into songs that are as smooth, lush and elegant as they are rhythmic and noisy. View Video
American sculptor Lonnie Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. View Video
RED BARAAT
La Chamba
Friday | July 19
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
Formed in 2008, Red Baraat is a pioneering eight-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by Sunny Jain, the group has a singular sound—a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra rhythms with elements of jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop. View Video
La Chamba began with a love for Peruvian Chicha music. They were moved by its personal and social message and the parallels that exist in the barrios across Latino America to create their unique blend of Latin fusion. View Video
NATHALIA PALIS
Saturday | July 20 | 1pm
Plaza
Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, Nathalia Palis, along with her talented ensemble of musicians, introduces a lively bilingual approach to children’s music that incorporates rock, cumbia, and reggaeton beats. View Video
PAPA
NO
LA Font
Friday | July 26
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
There’s a dangerous sexiness to PAPA, and a poetic purity that runs through their songs. Darren Weiss’ earnest vibrato often takes on a Springsteen-like growl crooning reminiscences on “I Am The Lion King.” View Video
LA’s Echo Park has a lot of bands living in its hills, but none of them sound anything like NO. The band pits frontman Bradley Hanan Carter’s baritone against mesmerizing drumming and richly textured guitar, bass and keyboard to create complex and atmospheric melodies. View Video
LA Font (pronounced like “elephant”) is an indie rock band from the Echo Park neighborhood of LA. Danny Bobbe’s sincere but barbed lyrics and sneering performance persona were noted by the L.A. Times which described him as “a frontman worth the cost of admission alone.” View Video
JOSÉ JAMES
Carolyn Malachi
Friday | August 2
Plaza
Doors | 6:30pm
Opener | 7pm
Headliner | 8:15pm
DJ SETS AND CASH BAR AT TASTE LOUNGE
Happy Hour | 5:30pm
After Party | 9:30pm
José James is a forerunner in the fusion of modern jazz and hip-hop. His 2008 debut The Dreamer and its 2010 follow-up, BlackMagic transformed the New York-based singer into an underground sensation in both the Jazz and DJ scene. His recently released third album and Blue Note Records debut No Beginning No End is a seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by the singer’s transcendent voice. View Video
Grammy-nominated Carolyn Malachi’s unique approach to music combines Jazz, Hip Hop and Spoken Word, and lots of imagination. View Video
FIGat7th Kids Club
Complimentary Arts & Crafts
Every 2nd & 4th Saturday | 2-4pm
TASTE Level (Lower Level, M1)
Free & Open to the public
Kids’ Club Art workshops are FREE and held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month from 2pm – 4pm. Children must be accompanied by adult. Art workshops are suitable for all children ages 3 and older.
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May 25, 2013 | Art of Japan – Giant Origami Cranes
Fold a big bird using the art of origami.
June 8, 2013 | Tangle Yarn Art
Create colorful artworks using tangles of yarn and glue to make an artistic, abstract artwork in celebration of TANGLE, Polyglot Theatre’s interactive experience.
June 22, 2013 | Washboard
Construct and decorate this funky, fun, old time instrument and play a tune like Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band.
July 13, 2013 | Angel Wing Art
Learn about Arts Brookfield’s commissioned, interactive paintings of ANGEL WINGS by artist Colette Miller. Create your own angel wing jewelry such as a brooch, hairclip, key fob or necklace.
July 27, 2013 | Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night- Costume Art
Use velvet, faux fur and brocade fabric to create costume sketches of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night characters as acted out by The Inner City Shakespeare Program.
August 10, 2013 | Sea Life Diorama-Create an Underwater World
Color a 3-D ocean environment, and then add fish and sea creatures.
August 24, 2013 | Pacific Island Art- Tiki Sculpture
Make art inspired by the four major Hawaiian Gods that represent the forces of nature.
FIGat7th Certified Gourmet Farmers Market
Every Thursday | 11 am – 2:30pm (Rain or Shine)
Plaza Level
The farmers market at FIGat7th offers an assortment of produce, kettle corn, flowers, honey, breads, olives and more, every Thursday. Presented in Partnership with Raw Inspiration | rawinspiration.org
