Tag Archive: neighborhood councils

Apr
19

@EmpowerLA workshops throughout the city

I was invited to run workshops throughout Los Angeles, encouraging the community to use their own story and vision in strategic communications to benefit both themselves and their neighborhood.  This is the info for tonight, but more can be found on my Workshops Page. Follow via @EmpowerLA or #LeadershipLA . * Empower Yourself Empower Your …

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Jul
26

Summer Nights on the Boulevard

Businesses stay open late. The taco stand holds an ice cream social. Parents try a new daycare that just opened. Live bands and yoga samples all within shouting distance of each other. Neighbors meeting each other. Business owners talking to everyone. People driving through who stop and walk around Atwater Village for the first time. …

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Jul
22

4 Theaters in Atwater Village

Atwater Village a New Arts Destination This is a repost of a Bitter Lemons article I wrote on Dec 19, 2010. More on the Atwater Village Arts Community can be found here. Atwater Village “between the river and the tracks” It’s shaped like a banana and borders the 5 freeway. Neighboring areas include Elysian Valley, …

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Mar
29

Atwater Village Visioning Summit Pics

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Some pictures taken at last week’s Atwater Village Visioning Summit are below. People were asked to suggest tangible ways to help our neighborhood, so that City Council President Eric Garcetti could focus on real improvement  CD13, which involves a good portion of Atwater Village. Do you agree with their ideas? Do you have more? They …

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Jul
14

Bringing art & community to people

Imagine Interaction

When people ask me what I’ve been doing lately, we always come back to it. Yes, I’ve been writing. Yes, I’m teaching and coaching more and loving it. Outreach is what I am most interested in pursuing, though. While trying to explain how my work on the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council is a natural outgrowth …

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